Angus MacKenzie & Ross Martin (Daimh) with Yann-Fanch Kemener and Arnaud Ciapolino at the Sunart Centre on 2 July 2011.

The first Scottish concert from a band combining two duos in an exciting new musical collaboration.  Already well known from their work with Daimh, Highland musicians Angus MacKenzie (pipes/whistle) and Ross Martin (guitar) team up with two Breton stars for a night of top international music.

Hailing from Brittany in the north west of France Yann-Fanch Kemener is one of the best loved singers and collectors of songs in his native Breton tongue, Breizh which is related to Scottish Gaelic. Still mainly sung at dances, or fest noz, the reportoire that Yann Fanch draws on contains many up beat dance numbers with some slower ballads concentrating on many of the same themes as old Gaelic songs such as the sea, emigration and unrequited love.

Fellow Breton Arnaud Ciapolino is widely regarded as one of the finest flautist exponents of Breton and Celtic music. The newly formed quartet sets the hypnotic vocal rhythms of Yann-Franch with the powerful and rich tones of Arnaud Ciapolino on the wooden flute and the driving west coast pipes and guitar of Angus MacKenzie and Ross Martin.

This is a world premiere of what could become a very well known and popular quartet. Don’t miss the chance to be there!

Start time 8:00pm, tickets £10 (under 18s £6) available online at thebooth.co.uk and from all our usual local outlets.