Festival Interceltique de Lorient

Fèis Rois is delighted to be returning to Festival Interceltique de Lorient in 2025. 

Accordionist, Emile Dauphin has been nominated by the festival to participate in the Fèis Rois Ceilidh Trail for four weeks this summer and, after two weeks in Scotland, the Ceilidh Trail will travel to Brittany to perform in the The Stade du Moustoir (the football stadium located in the city centre of Lorient) as well as on the Place des Pays Celtes stage at the festival. 

Fèis Rois is also hosting the Scotland Stand at the Place des Pays Celtes and you are all invited to join us for performances, workshops, gin tasting and more!

You can view, and download, the full programme below.

Fèis Rois has hosted the Scottish Pavilion twice (2018 and 2019) at the renowned Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany. The festival, which attracts an audience of 750,000, is widely regarded as the largest Celtic music festival in Europe. This is a great opportunity for up and coming bands, including our own Ceilidh Trail, to perform on an international stage.

As well as giving European audiences the opportunity to hear outstanding Scottish and Gaelic language music, it has been fantastic to see new collaborations and opportunities emerging from Fèis Rois on the Scottish Pavilion in Lorient.

In 2019, six musicians from Scotland played alongside six musicians from Brittany in a new collaboration organised by Fèis Rois in association with Festival Interceltique de Lorient. The Gaelic band Sian, whose members are Eilidh Cormack, Ellen Macdonald and Ceitlin Lilidh, worked together with three singers from Brittany. The group was joined by musicians from Brittany and Scotland to form a band of twelve.

In 2024, we worked with the Scottish Government’s France Office and Showcase Scotland Expo, to promote Scotland at Lorient. Young musicians from Fèis Rois took part in a cross-cultural collaboration where two young musicians from each of the eight Celtic nations spent a week collaborating before sharing new music at the festival. Fèis Rois Ceilidh Trail musicians performed on the Place des Pays Celtes stage several times throughout the week and Fèis Rois Gaelic Officer, Sophie Stephenson, led a number of workshops.