Ronan Le Bars and Nicolas Quemener
2009 lineup

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin & Mel Mercier with Iarla Ó Lionáird and special guests

Mozaik featuring Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny

Brian Finnegan Band

Jerry O'Sullivan

Alboka

Ronan Le Bars and Nicolas Quemener

Kieran O'Hare & Liz Knowles

Roncos do Diabo

Loïc and Ronan Bléjean

Cillian Vallely & Kevin Crawford

Andrew Carlisle

Edelmiro Fernández

Fraser Fifield & Ali Hutton

Griogair Labhruidh & Síle Denvir

Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn & Paul O'Shaughnessy

Marc Pollier

Eliot Grasso

Anna Murray

Lorcán Mac Mathúna & Maitiú Ó Casaide

Jarlath Henderson

Peter Browne

Cormac Breatnach

Ronan Browne

Ken McLeod

Armagh Pipers Club

Ronan Le Bars and Nicolas Quemener
Brittany - uilleann pipes, guitar, flute
14/11/09 - 1pm - The Stage Bar & Bistro
15/11/09 - 3pm - The Studio Theatre

Ronan Le Bars began his piping career on the Scottish bagpipes after taking lessons from Patrick Molard. He quickly applied his technique to the sensitivity of the Irish bagpipes, the uilleann pipes. He plays in many formations including Didier Squiban, Gilles Servat, Dan Ar Braz, Boclé brothers, Perry Rose, Stephan Eicher, Claude Nougaro and Yann Tiersen.

Nicolas Quemener, a master open-tuning guitarist, grew up in Angers, France and studied percussion in the National School of Music. Emigrating to Ireland in 1990, he joined Arcady, remaining with the group until 1994 when he joined the Belgian band, Orion. Relocating to Brittany in 1993, he co-founded the traditional Breton dance band, Skeduz. In 1997 and 1998, Quemener toured with Dan Ar Braz' fifty-piece group, Heritage Des Celtes. In addition to working with Kornog, he continues to play in a duo that he shares with uillean piper Ronan Le Bars, and, joined by Lemaitre, in a trio that backs Celtic vocalist Gilles Servat.