The singers in the round of “Kant a gan“start walking! Initiated in 2017 by Louis-Jacques Suignard, singer of Cavan (22), Kant a gan (100 who sing), they are singer-dancers from all over Brittany who work for a year on a repertoire of dance songs and meet at major festivals.
Añjela Broustal, singer of kan-ha-diskan, is one of the people in charge of “Kant a gan”. She transmits to Bannalec (29) the song to the children of the Diwan school and to the adults of a singing workshop of “Rouedad Stalioù Kan“, a network which has 54 structures in Brittany and which serves as a support for” Kant a gan “.
Imagine communion when you sing and dance with your arm under each other’s shoulders with 200 people you don’t know!
“Kant a gan” had the opportunity to respond by singing in dance to Marcel Guillou, Ronan Gueblez, Loeroù ruz or Mathieu Hamon at the Interceltic Festival in Lorient or at the Fisel Festival in Rostrenen. There were even 225 dancers at the Printemps de Chateauneuf-du-Faou creating an incredible communion by singing the gavotte in the round “Son an amerik” And they were to meet in May 2020 for the final of Kan ar bobl in Pontivy (56).
Give pleasure and mud to all the singers who find themselves with their beaks in the water
But in the uncertainty of joining hands, holding festivals and festoù-noz during this pandemic period, “Kant a gan” has decided for 2021 to propose a repertoire of songs to respond to the march of the 4 corners of Brittany, less publicized than the gwerz or the song to dance.
The goal of “Kant a gan”: the pleasure of singing, the transmission of a rich and varied heritage that dasti has collected for 50 years, the discovery of a little-known repertoire: the airs on the march. 6 arias were chosen including 3 in Breton and as many in French. “Ar milinerig fin” from the Mountain country, of which there is a recording in Scrignac (29) in 1949. “Ar mezvier”, a song from Trégor close to lamentation. “Tonieu de gerhat” from the Vannes region. But also “Shepherdess of these campaigns” that Joséphine Billy sang at the Bogue d’or competition in Redon in 1975. “Over there in the meadow” sung in the Penthièvre (22) or “Enfant petit” sung by Janig Juteau at the Chapelle des marais (44) in 2002. Texts to find and learn on the site “Rouedad Stalioù Kan“.
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