Fest Noz in Pederneg

 FEST NOZ IN PEDERNEG

 After ''Klask an Ton'' left a comment about the LP ''Peron ha Gwennegou'' saying he was quite impressed by Yann Peron's talent I proposed to post some more music by Peron; this recording was made in April 1975 in Brittany in the town of Pederneg during what is called a fest noz.
Fest noz can be found anywhere in Brittany now where people pay for dancing to live music.
Originally a feast to conclude hard works  on a farm with some neighbours it became quite something else around 1955 thanks to Polig Montjarret who wanted to preserve what was left of the Breton singing which was quite declining. He managed to convince some Breton speaking farmers to sing again and take part in small evenings; later it became a kind of show with bands along with traditional musicians attracting hundreds of dancers.

Here only ''sonneurs'' (bombarde and bagpipe players) and singers were present. I recorded some parts of this fest noz where the noise made by the dancers is quite present. But it's part of the event.
Unfortunately there are only two tracks with Yann Peron playing with Yann Le Bars on binioù kozh. The other musicians were Daniel Le Noan on bombarde and Philippe Petitpain on biniou bras (scottish bagpipe). There is a track with unidentified sonneurs and a track with singers Bastard father and son.
The two dances which were danced were the ''fisel'' a variant of the gavotte and the plin and almost nothing else. 
Y. Peron died in October 1975; the three others died recently enough barely in their sixties.
D. Le Noan was also a famous reed maker for bombarde and bagpipe. He was very influenced by Peron as we can easily hear.

Once again the sound quality is almost secondary to the general atmosphere with the music almost drowned in the dancers' noise.
The sets are not complete as they can last for 15 minutes or more.

Track 01 : set : fisel-bal-fisel by Y. Peron and Y. Le Bars
Track 02 : plin (idem)
Track 03 : set : fisel-bal-fisel by anonymous players
Track 04 : fisel by D. Le Noan & P. Petitpain
Track 05 : fisel (idem)
Track 06 : set : fisel-bal-fisel by Bastard tad ha mab
Track 07 : set : plin-bal-plin

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