JOA… This simple name already appeals to pleasure and exchange ! It invites to gather with happiness and to share what is most precious in music : emotion. And it is through the traditional music of Brittany, every kind of it, that JOA trio invites us to this emotion, to all this emotions...

Armel an Héjer (vocals) , Malo Carvou (wooden flute), Ronan Bléjean (accordion) and Soïg Sibéril (guitar) mixe their voices to make us penetrate deep into this popular music, at the heart of its melodies out of time, and to deliver us all its emotional richness.

Armel an Héjer : vocals

Malo Carvou : wooden flute

Ronan Bléjean : box

Soig Siberil : guitar

Armel an Héjer combines the brilliance and depth of his singing with the so particular sounds of the Fender Rhodes piano of J.C. Normant. The melodies then adorn themselves with infinite variations, tribal, jazzy or funky, from ethereal and airy notes to the toughest and wild chords. Jérôme Kerihuel, on percussions, elegantly completes this trio with his light touch, imbuing it with rhythm and beat in unison with the accents of the Breton language.

With this unique sound, SA[ƒ]AR develops a unique personality and a singular universe where today Breton words meet and marry ancient chants, universal poetry and world vibrations, with a very contemporary sensibility.

Armel an Héjer : vocals

J.C. Normant : electro-acoustic piano Fender-Rhodes & keyboards

Jérôme Kerihuel : percussions

Artists invited for the quintet :

Denis Colin : bass clarinet

Jochen Vogel : celtic harp "clársach"

ARS'YS is a collective of musicians from different backgrounds at the edge of tradition (Celtic, but much more), jazz, classical, baroque and contemporary compositions, gathered around Hervé Lesvenan.

ARS'YS takes its name from the Greek term for arsis opposed to thesis, the first part of a musical phrase, momentum, inspiration, rise up in the movement of the dance. The writing "y" instead of "i" is a wink to the legend of the city of Ys, famous in Brittany.

ARS'YS is also a land of exchanges, discussions and experiments on ways to design and imagine the music.

Bro-Oadow Project:

Hervé Lesvenan : piano, organ, composition & artistic direction

Armel an Héjer : vocals & poetry

Loïc Bléjean :uilleann-pipes & low whistle

Ronan Baudry : saxophon

If there's one guitarist in Brittany who don't need any introduction anymore, Soïg Sibéril is this one ! During his many collaborations and musical experiences, within different bands (Sked, Kornog, Gwerz, Pennoù-Skoulm, Den, Trio Kemia, Les Ours du Scorff…)  as well as a solo performer, he was able to give the acoustic guitar acclaim in Breton music.

Soïg and Armel now marry their talent for our delight, combining the subtle dynamics and inexhaustible energy of the "master of the open tuning" to the haunting sensitivity of the "Breton crooner" . A duo with musical finesse, where emotion moves you with only two chords and three words !

Armel an Héjer : vocals

Soïg Sibéril : guitar

Former pupil of Emmanuel « Manu » Kerjean and Basti’n Guern, Alain Le Clère is one of the undisputed great masters of Breton singing from the « fisel » country. Collecting the memory of the traditional singers, which he untiringly transmeets since the beginning, he sang for many years with no less deserving singers as Denez Prigent, Jean-Claude Talec, Ifig Troadeg or Érik Marchand.

Awarded many times, Alain Le Clère and Armel an Héjer show a remarkable great mastery of the traditional singing. During "festoù-noz" (popular Breton music and dance evenings) or gigs, they bring us since many years energy, dynamism and emotion for the greatest pleasure of the audience and the dancers. They also work to promote the richness of the "kan ha-diskan" and the Breton ballads across the borders, especially in Ireland or in the USA (NY, Chicago, Cleveland, ABQ, Santa Fe...), where they went singing several times , collaborating among other projects with Caribbean Garifuna drummers and singers for the first BREIZH AMERIKA COLLECTIVE band.

Armel an Héjer : vocals

Alain Le Clère : vocals