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France Bleu Breizh Izel, also known as ici Lower Brittany and ici Breizh Izel, is a public service generalist radio station located in Lower Brittany, where Breton is traditionally spoken. The station broadcasts in Finistère , parts of western Côtes-d'Armor and western Morbihan .
However, the French word "bas" is often understood as carrying negative connotations, implying "inferior in status". The Breton name of Lower Brittany, "Breizh Izel", is used in many Breton songs sung in French of the 19th and 20th centuries, perhaps because the Breton word "Izel" has no such negative connotations.
Ar Gouilh was born in Pluguffan on 13 July 1935. Her father, from a line of fishermen from Poulgoazec, a teacher for a time, was a gendarme.Her mother, born in Pluguffan in 1909, sang and her grandmother Marijan Arzul, a dressmaker who runs a village hall, is known to sing all the time, as is her uncle Bili, singer and bugle player. [1]
Breton is spoken in Lower Brittany (Breton: Breizh-Izel), roughly to the west of a line linking Plouha (west of Saint-Brieuc) and La Roche-Bernard (east of Vannes).It comes from a Brittonic language community that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica (present-day Brittany) and had even established a toehold in Galicia (in present-day Spain).
Celtic Wedding is an album of traditional Breton music performed by the Irish band The Chieftains.The album features guest performances by Breton artists Nolwen Monjarret, Bernard Pichard, Alain Guerton and Michel Bertae.
TV Breizh (Breizh is Breton for Brittany) is a French pay television channel owned by Groupe TF1, which was initially set as a regional station for the Brittany region.
Breton Liberty (Breton: Frankiz Breizh, French: Liberté Bretagne) was a leftist national liberation movement in Brittany, France. It split off from the Breton Democratic Union, though the two parties' political stances were similar. Breton Liberty frequently worked within the Régions et Peuples Solidaires federation.
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