The area will hopefully be changed every six months, so please check back often. Song Location T ravelling as far west in France as you can, you come to a peninsula whose north coast is just across the English Channel from Cornwall. Wales, the Isle of Man, Ireland and ultimately, Scotland are not very far away. The Breton people are close cousins of the Welsh and Cornish, having emigrated to Brittany from Britain during the 4th through 7th centuries. In their migration to the far western peninsula of what today is France, the Bretons returned a Celtic heritage which had once stretched across the European continent, before Roman and Germanic expensions.
Departments are government-defined administrative regions which often cut across cultural borders.
It is still spoken by approximately 350,000 people as their everyday language. First are the oldest dances which are often performed as a three-part suite. These are most commonly dances in lines or circles, and include dances such as the gavotte, an dro, hanter dro, larid or rid e, or da s plinn. The second category of dances is made up of more recent figure dances influenced by British dances of the 17th century or French contredances of the 18th century. Included here are the jabadao, pach-pi and bals.