Erwan Keravec

Erwan Keravec (* 1974 in Auray ) is a French improvisation musician who plays the Breton bagpipes .

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Keravec started playing the bagpipes with his brother Guénolé. He belonged first to the bagpipe ensemble of Pluneret , later to the Bagad of Locoal-Mendon . In 1997 this ensemble invited the Association à la Recherche d'un Folklore Imaginaire from Lyon to a concert. Keravec had to improvise for the first time. Further concerts with the musicians from ARFI followed, also in Brazil.

Keravec began to develop new forms and formed the band Urban Pipes ; Their debut album in 2007 was followed by another album in 2011. Then he founded the band Les Niou Bardophones , which dealt with Breton music and released an album in 2013. The decisive factor for him was the encounter with the Basque singer Beñat Achiary , whose voice fits perfectly into the drone tones of the bagpipe (album Vox 2015). He also commissioned composers such as François Rossé, Susumu Yoshida and Heiner Goebbels to write compositions for him. In the Trio Vox, Nu Piping # 2 he worked with the singer Donatienne Michel-Dansac and the baritone Vincent Bouchon. He also played to the dance of Mickaël Phelippeau. He also recorded duo albums with Jean-Luc Cappozzo and Mats Gustafsson and can be heard on an album by Didier Squiban .

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SURNAME	Keravec, Erwan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French improvisation musician (bagpipes)
DATE OF BIRTH	1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Auray