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Breton and Irish tunes, for dancing.

I play flutes, the transverse flute (fleüt a dreuz in Breton) and the low whistle, in Dour Laouen. I also write tunes in the forms dancers know.

Dour Laouen.

Dour Laouen

Dour Laouen is a musical round trip between the smoke of old Dublin and the mists of the Porzay. It started in the lanes and ostalerioù (pubs) of Locronan, and takes its name from the hamlet of Dour Laouen in Pouldergat, at the gates of the Douarnenez country and its sunken city of Ys.

Dour Laouen means happy water: the memory of an dro journeys from Cornouaille to Auvergne and its bourrées, and beyond. Fest-noz and Irish music, to dance to.

Duo, trio or quartet

Alaric
voice, banjos, bouzouki, flutes
Des
guitar and voice
Erwan
flutes
The hamlet that gave the band its name.
The hamlet that gave the band its name.

Listen and watch

Set lists and dances Photo gallery SoundCloud

Recent dates

  • 21 March 2026PlougastelSt Patrick’s night
  • 2024PloévenBal folk
  • 17 March 2024LanvéocSt Patrick’s night
  • 16 July 2023PlomodiernArts Bourg festival
Dour Laouen as a duo: flute and guitar.
Dour Laouen as a duo, flutes and guitar.

Book Dour Laouen

For a fest-noz, a fest-deiz, a St Patrick’s session or a bal folk, as a duo, trio or quartet.

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Sklerijenn trio

2017 – 2019

Klervi Monfort Perrin
harp
Olier Bodiguel
guitar
Erwan
flutes

A fest-noz trio of harp, guitar and flutes. We played across Cornouaille: Diwan’s 40th birthday in Quimper, the Festig Noz at Moulin Vert, a kig-ha-farz and fest-noz for the Diwan school in Saint-Hernot, Crozon, and a benefit night for the Téléthon in Gouesnac’h.

The Sklerijenn trio on stage: flute, harp and guitar.
Sklerijenn at Diwan’s 40th birthday, Quimper, 2018.

Posters

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Original tunes

I compose in the forms we play for dancers: an dro and hanter dro, plinn, waltzes, mazurkas, jigs and reels. A new tune is tested where it belongs, on the dance floor, before it finds its place in a Dour Laouen set.

Two recordings to start with: a hanter dro, and two gavottes in ton simple played with Olivier Louvel in Reuz Boutou. Scores and more recordings will follow.

A dancer in front of the musicians, St Patrick’s 2023.
St Patrick’s night, March 2023.

Other bands and sessions

Before and beside Dour Laouen and Sklerijenn.

2001 – 2017

Reuz Boutou

Duo with Olivier Louvel on mandola

We met in the Irish sessions of the Cuckoo Fleadh in Kinvara, near Galway, met again on the roads of the Crozon peninsula in 2001, and started the sessions at Ti Jos in Locronan.

Still on stage in 2017, at the fest-noz of the Preskil en musiques festival in Camaret-sur-Mer.

Reuz Boutou playing at the Le Guilvinec market, 2001.
Le Guilvinec market, 2001.
The Ruz Botou logo: Olivier Louvel, mandola; Erwan Pianezza, flutes.
The duo’s logo.
Poster: Preskil en musiques festival, Camaret-sur-Mer, 22 July 2017, fest-noz with Kameled ar Son and Reuz Botou.
Camaret-sur-Mer, 22 July 2017.

2017 – 2018

Kristen Nikolaz

With Kristen, Kelenn, Didier Dreo and Andrea Seki

Kristen Nikolaz, in a turban, with a flute player, 2018.
Kristen Nikolaz, 2018.

Sessions and stages

Irish and Breton sessions, at Ti Jos in Locronan and around the Crozon peninsula, and a jig on the twelve-string guitar.

An Irish session at Ti Jos.
An Irish session at Ti Jos, Locronan.
Three musicians on stage at La Carène, Brest, 2017.
La Carène, Brest, 2017.