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Bagad Kemper (using the Breton name for the town of

Quimper Quimper (, ; ; or ) is a Communes of France, commune and Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Finistère Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in northwestern France. Administration Quimper is the ...

) is one of the oldest

bagad A bagad (, ) is a Music of Brittany, Breton band, composed of bagpipes (, ), bombard (music), bombards and drums (including Snare drum, snare, tenor and bass drums). The pipe band tradition in Brittany was inspired by the Pipe Band, Scottish exa ...

Breton Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally **Breton people **Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany ** Breton (horse), a breed **Gale ...

pipe band A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers. The term pipes and drums, used by military pipe bands is also common. The most common form of pipe band consists of a section of pipers playing the Great Highland bagpipe, ...

s. Formed in 1949, its first president was none other than Loeïz Ropars, renovator of the Fest Noz (dance party) and kan ha diskan singer (Breton traditional vocal dancing). This ensemble holds the record for the most national Championship title wins.''Celtic Music for Dummies'', 2009, p. 21 Over time, this bagad has gradually reoriented itself toward collaborations with musicians from other traditions, like the Galician Susana Seivane and Carlos Núñez or South-African

Johnny Clegg Jonathan Paul Clegg, (7 June 195316 July 2019) was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist. He first performed as part of a duo - ''Johnny & Sipho'' - ...

. Bagad Kemper were also a main feature of the very successful Heritage des Celtes (Heritage of the Celts) series of concerts, which brought together musicians from all horizons of the Celtic world. They celebrated their 60th anniversary with ''Breizh Balkanik'', a show blending Balkan and Breton music worlds, with the Breton singer Erik Marchand. Except

Dan Ar Braz Daniel Le Bras (born 15 January 1949), known by his stage name Dan Ar Braz (), is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of L'Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band. As a leading guitarist in Celtic music band, he recorde ...

, the bagad also accompanied on stage the band

Red Cardell Red Cardell is a French, Breton people, Breton Rock music, rock musical ensemble, band, that mixes Music of Brittany, Breton music with rock, folk, blues, world music and chanson réaliste. The group was formed in 1992 by Jean-Pierre Riou (vocal ...

History

Discography

* Toniou war an Dachenn I (1976) * Toniou war an Dachenn II (1979) * Toniou war an Dachenn III (1984) * Tonioù war an Dachenn IV (1989) * The Best of (1992) * Lip Ar Maout (1995) * Hep Diskrog (1999) * Azeliz Iza (2001) * Sud Ar Su (2004) * Collection 1995 - 2005 (2006) * Best of Gwi@derien (2009) * Live au Cornouaille (2010) * Breizh Balkanik (2011) * Fest-rock (2013) with

* Nerzh (2019) with

* KAS (2021)

References

* Gérard Classe, ''Bagad Kemper, 50 ans sans relâche, hep diskrog'', Blanc Silex, 2000 * Armel Morgant and Jean-Michel Roignant, ''Bagad : vers une nouvelle tradition'', Coop Breizh, 2005

External links

Official site
{{Authority control People from Quimper Musical groups established in 1949 Bagad French Celtic music groups 1949 establishments in France