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    Kan ha diskan is probably the most common type of traditional music of Brittany. It is a vocal tradition (kan ha diskan translates from Breton as, roughly...
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  • influential, and was partially responsible for preserving Breton traditions. Kan ha diskan (roughly translated as call and response singing) is probably the most...
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    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, he was known...
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    in French as Jean-François Louis Quémener. He took part in reviving Kan ha diskan (French: chant et contre-chant) in the 1970s and 1980s, especially with...
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    In addition to his career as a farmer, he was active in the world of kan ha diskan and modern fest noz. Born in Lanrivain on 8 October 1930, Guilloux was...
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  • drummer 11 Enchanting, 26, American rapper Marcel Guilloux, 93, French kan ha diskan singer and storyteller. Françoise Hardy, 80, French pop and yé-yé singer-songwriter...
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    main types of Breton music are a choral a cappella tradition called kan ha diskan, and music involving instruments, including purely instrumental music...
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    sings a counter melody over a harp melody. Waulking song Puirt à beul Kan ha diskan Sean-nós singing Celtic hip hop Celtic rock Celtic metal Celtic punk...
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  • later developed into calypso music. Kalamatianó – Greek folk music. Kan ha diskan – Breton folk music. Kanikapila – Hawaiian music. Kansas City blues...
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    Annie Ebrel (born 1969) is a traditional Breton singer of traditional Kan ha diskan (dance songs) and Gwerz (ballads). Annie Ebrel was born in 1969 in the...
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  • Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Sean-nós singing from Ireland and Kan ha diskan from Brittany. Other traditional unaccompanied styles sung currently...
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    competitions. Celtic harp is also common, as are vocals and dances. The Kan ha diskan is the most common type of singing. The performers sing calls and responses...
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    Brittany's Folk revival began in the 1950s with the "bagadoù" and the "kan-ha-diskan" before growing to world fame through Alan Stivell's work since the...
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    principally two types of music at these festivals: music sung a cappella (kan ha diskan), accompanied with music or purely instrumental. Before the invention...
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  • It is swift dance music and has an older vocal counterpart called kan ha diskan. Unaccompanied call and response singing was interspersed with the gwerz...
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  • l’athlète Mansour Guettaya (in French) Marcel Le Guilloux, une voix du kan ha diskan s'est éteinte (in French) Françoise Hardy, Influential French Singer...
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    singing to dance and developed a new form of call and response singing (kan ha diskan). The Breton revival, Celtic rock and the popularity of Folk music put...
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    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...
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    Carhaix, Brittany, where they practised the traditional singing style kan ha diskan. The name "Ahez" comes from Ker Ahez, a popular etymology for the Breton...
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    repertoire was composed of traditional Breton songs, either for dancing (kan ha diskan) or for listening (gwerz). Ebrel was born at Treffrin in the Côtes-du-Nord...
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  • (born 1957 as Jean-François Quémener) French traditional singer of Kan ha diskan Perrig Quéméneur (born 1984), French road bicycle racer Pierre Quéméneur [fr]...
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    Spézet, éd. Coop Breizh, 1997 Xavier Grall in memoriam, Babel, 2000 Kan ha diskan, Correspondences Grall-Glenmor, Spézet, Coop Breizh, 2007 John Thomas...
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  • techno-sciences (in French) Yann-Fañch Kemener, voix de la gwerz et du kan-ha-diskan est décédé (in French) Sad News: Amos Kloner Has Died Princeton's Krueger...
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  • shanty) couples de sonneurs (sonner par couple) gwerz (gwerzioù) kan a boz kan ha diskan kantik (hymn) kost ar c'hoat quête sôn (sonioù) an dros (an dro)...
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    Ar vreudeur Morvan 1999 : Les frères Morvan 2009 : Un demi-siècle de kan ha diskan Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Officiers (2013) Les frères Morvan faits...
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  • Retrieved 13 March 2019. Yann-Fañch Kemener, voix de la gwerz et du kan-ha-diskan est décédé (in French) Умерла Юлия Началова (in Russian) Le chef d'orchestre...
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  • April 2019 – via Le Monde. "Yann-Fañch Kemener, voix de la gwerz et du kan-ha-diskan est décédé". France 3 Bretagne. Archived from the original on 30 March...
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