Toulouse bagad

It is totally possible to play the bombard or the bagpipe in Toulouse...

What is a bagad?

A bagad is a Breton band, composed of biniou (bagpipes in Breton language), bombardes and snare drums. The pipe-band tradition in Brittany was inspired by the Scottish and was developed from the first half of the 20^th century. A bagad plays mainly Breton music.

The plural for bagad is unusual in that many are referred to as bagadoù but for two, three or any other specified number they are simply referred to as bagad.

Creating the bagad

For the time being, we have constituted a group of 6 bagpipes and 14 bombards, training twice a week. A few months ago came the idea and strong will of creating a real bagad. This goal has almost been reached: one more step and not the least needs to be taken, we need to build up a drums section.

If you are interested and you would like more info, you can read this page.

Rehearsals

We meet every Friday, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at the Domaine de Candie, 17, chemin de la Saudrune, 31100 Toulouse (Direction Seysses, zone de Francazal and Alcatel)
Map here.

We do not have any teachers but the trained musicians do their best to help the beginners. In addition to these weekly meetings, we usually hire teachers from Brittany to come down to Toulouse once or twice a year for longer training sessions.

Repertoire

We try to get an as wide as possible repertoire. Together, we play various music tunes such as kas abarh, gavotte des montagnes, rond de Saint-Vincent, march, an dro, etc.

We also have pairs of musicians (1 bagpipe + 1 bombard) who complete the repertoire with some suite plinn, suite bigouden, gavotte Tinduff, dans Keff, suite de l'Aven, gavotte d'honneur de Plougastel and so on.

Trained musician or motivated beginner, inveterate talabarder or only admirers of those who get all red to offer your ears these melodious sounds, pipe-bands lovers or bagpipe amateur in Toulouse, do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested.