Gwerz (Breton: [ɡʷɛ̞ʀz], "ballad", "lament", plural gwerzioù) is a type of folk song of Brittany. In Breton music, the gwerz tells a story which can be...

Yscolan", from The Four Ancient Books of Wales, by W. F. Skene, 1868 "Gwerz Skolan" is a gwerz with a long tradition in Lower Brittany, especially Léon-Trégor...

February 1966 in Santec, Finistère) is a Breton folk singer-songwriter of the gwerz and kan ha diskan styles of Breton music. From his debut at the age of 16...

The Gwerz an Aotrou Nann (French:Gwerz du Seigneur Nann et la Fée English:The Ballad of Lord Nann) is a gwerz in the Barzaz Breiz, previously entitled...

Lyrics and sheet music for the Breton gwerz "Ar Roue Gralon ha Kear Is" ("King Gradlon and the City of Ys", 1850). This uses the archaic spelling Kear...

The Gwerz Santes Enori is a Breton gwerz, a type of folk song that combines literary with musical characteristics. The song, which is preserved in many...

both types are usually by a soloist. A gwerz is a lament characterized by a gloomy tone and subject matter. A Gwerz typically describes tragic events such...

Breton singing, including the gwerz, a traditional lament. In the 1980s he helped form a traditional music group called Gwerz (band) [fr] which released...

"Marv Pontkalleg" (The Death of Pontcallec) is a traditional gwerz, included as no. XLVI in Barzaz Breiz, a book of traditional Breton songs collected...

and roll in his works and influenced 1970s Breton bands such as Kornog, Gwerz (band) [fr] and Tri Yann, who revived traditional songs and made them popular...

skaoñv" "Ar verjelen" "Gwerz an aksidan" (Prigent) "Dañs" "Ti Eliz Iza" "Eur vag neves a Vountroules" "Gwerz Penmarc’h" "Gwerz ar vezhinerien" (Denez...

Lyrics and sheet music for the Breton gwerz "Ar Roue Gralon ha Kear Is" ("King Gradlon and the City of Ys", 1850)...

He plays violin, fiddle, guitar and bass. He is or has been a member of Gwerz (band) [fr], Pennoù Skoulm, the Jacky Molard Acoustic Quartet, and has also...

diskan. Unaccompanied call and response singing was interspersed with the gwerz, a form of ballad. Probably the most popular form of Breton folk is the...

year a Chansonnier dedicated to Laure de Sade. The Breton lament song (Gwerz) titled Loiza ac Abalard sings of the ancient druidess picking 'golden grass'...

1972: Breton Ball 1974: Breton Ball vol. 2 1976: Sonerien Du vol. 3 1978: Gwerz Penmarc'h 1980: Feunteun an aod 1982: Ten Years 1984: Roue marc' h 1986:...

for it to fit into. Since its debut by Mr. Le Bihan with groups such as Gwerz and Skolvan, use of the pistoñ has slowly expanded in popularity in traditional...

Vretoned 'zo tud kalet ha kreñv. N'eus pobl ken kalonek a-zindan an neñv. Gwerz trist, son dudius a ziwan enno. O! pegen kaer ez out, ma bro! Chorus IV...

published in 1996. The book includes examples of the Breton ballad known as the gwerz, and follows their history, and that of scholarship on the genre, into the...

The Verses of the Graves Kyntaw geir (a penitential poem on pilgrimage) Gwerz Skolan In 2002, it was announced that the Black Book had been scanned, and...

told during his childhood and after, traditional oral tales in the poetic gwerz tradition. Two of his collections were published, in Breton; he is hailed...

traditional Breton songs, either for dancing (kan ha diskan) or for listening (gwerz). Ebrel was born at Treffrin in the Côtes-du-Nord (the present Côtes d'Armor)...

war an douar, as is also the case in Le pain que tu nous donnes (D83) (Gwerz ar vezventi), O viens, sagesse éternelle (E35) (O êlez ar baradoz), En toi...

band) chant de marin (sea shanty) couples de sonneurs (sonner par couple) gwerz (gwerzioù) kan a boz kan ha diskan kantik (hymn) kost ar c'hoat quête sôn...

traditional Breton singer of traditional Kan ha diskan (dance songs) and Gwerz (ballads). Annie Ebrel was born in 1969 in the village of Lohuec, near Callac...

d'Orphée – poetry – Foreword by Salah Stétié – Editions L'Eveilleur (2012) Gwerz – poetry – Editions L'Eveilleur (2013) Les Belles Choses – poetry – Editions...

tracks 1, 11 & 17 Nina Macchi – recorder in track 12 Christoph Pelgen – gwerz vocals in track 6 Fredy Schnyder – hammered dulcimer in tracks 4 & 7 Sarah...

Capercaillie Scotland "Urnuigh a Bhan Thigreach" 1986 Kristen Nicolas Britanny "Gwerz Maro Paotr Anst" 1987 Eryr Wen Wales "Gloria Tyrd Adre" Gloria come home...

illiterate, but endowed with a prodigious memory; she knew about 150 songs ("gwerz") and a large quantity of tales and stories of all kinds, which she had...

Nürnberg' 18 Oct 2009 Ian Rankin Alan Stivell Ys (Excerpt - Var On Folk Theme Gwerz Kér-Ys) Bach Prelude And Fugue No 1 In C Major Bwv 846 From The Well Tempered...