LORIENT INTERCELTIC FESTIVAL- Kyriad 3-star hotel

Asturias in the spotlight at the 54th Lorient Interceltic Festival for 10 days

Le Lorient Interceltic Festival offers you 10 days and 10 nights of shows and events from 1 to 10 August 2025, not to be missed during your stay at thehotel Kyriad Vannes centre-ville in Vannes.

Escape to Lorient and meet the regulars at the Interceltic Festival: the Interceltic Nights, the grand parade, the pavilion of honour...

What is the Lorient Interceltic Festival?

10 days of shows and events in early August
4500 musicians, singers, dancers, visual artists, academics and film-makers from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Galicia, Asturias, Brittany, the USA, Canada, Australia, etc...
A huge parade attracting over 60,000 spectators on the first Sunday
Some 80,000 paying spectators
750,000 visitors and spectators
120 live shows, 60 of which % are free.
Honouring a Celtic nation every year with a wide range of activities: a Breton weekend (bagadoù championship, big parade broadcast on television, triumph of the ringers, Brittany dances), etc.
Free fest noziou, music workshops, lectures, concerts every day on the town's stages and in its bars, free master classes in Celtic instruments, daily parades, bagpipe, gaita, accordion, Celtic harp, drum and pipe band competitions, an arts and luthiers' garden, a Paroles et solidaire (Words and solidarity) area, etc.
Sport and exhibitions...

Shows and events not to be missed at the Lorient Interceltic Festival in 2025

At Quai de la Bretagne, the concerts are one after the other at Lorient Interceltic Festival :

Friday 1 August 2025:

Breizh Amerika Collective; Brieg Guerveno - Plantec - DJ Miss Blue; Colloque Les Diasporas, une chance pour les pays celtiques; Cotriade, Breton dinner-concert; Fest-Noz; Soirée des Cousins d'Amérique; Tulua - Taff Rapids

Saturday 2 August :

38th MacCrimmon Trophy for Gaïta soloists; Bagad de Lann-Bihoué, " Odyssée "; Fest-Noz; Grand spectacle des Bagadoù 1re catégorie, Trophée FIL Polig Monjarret; Horizons Celtiques; Krenadenn - Laureate Concours Interlycées 2025 - KAOLILA, " Pilhoù "; Marisa Valle Roso - Dominique Dupuis - Breizh Amerika Collective; Master Class : GAÏTA; Celtic Music and Dance; Irish Song Evening; Galicia Dinner Concert; The Friel Sisters - Taff Rapids - DJ Miss Blue; Tulua - War-Sav - Carré Manchot

Sunday 3 August 2025:

43rd MacCrimmon Highland Bagpipe Trophy; Alan Stivell, "Liberté"; Alana - 'Ndiaz - DJ Miss Blue; Brittany dances and costumes; Fest-Noz; Grand spectacle des Bagadoù 2e catégorie, Trophée Hubert Raud; Grande Parade des Nations Celtes; Guieldu; Horizons Celtiques; Soirée Irlande, dîner-concert; Tarran - Eben - Ampouailh; Triomphe des sonneurs et des danseurs.

Monday 4 August 2025:

19th FIL Young Ringers' Trophy; 27th Pibroc'h International Competition; Alana - Arvest - Talec / Noguet Quartet; Amarre & Basse; Fest-Noz; Kelt Duo - Sova! - Kavaz; Luz Casal; Celtic Music and Dance; Asturias Evening, dinner-concert; Celtic Legends Evening; Tarran; Loïc Raison Celtic Music Trophy

Tuesday 5 August 2025:

Alienda - Huartan - Çheumooie; Amarre & Basse; Amarre & Basse ; Eva Tejedor & Les Pandereteres - Planchée - Safar ; Fest-Noz ; Grande Nuit Irlando-américaine; Horizons Celtiques; Litha - Inorzen- Nolwenn Korbell; Mari Mathias Band; Master Class : TIN WHISTLE; Music and Dance from Celtic Lands; Scottish Evening, dinner concert; On the Roads of Scotland; Loïc Raison Celtic Music Trophy; Celtic Voices: Zoë Conway and John McIntyre - TRIP

Wednesday 6 August 2025:

Amarre & Basse ; Brise-Glace - Alienda ; Concours Kitchen Music Lancelot ; Fall Foen - Fagon / Hellard - La Belle Équipe ; Fest-Noz; Horizons Celtiques ; Le Vent du Nord Symphonique; Red Cardell - Talisk - Çheumooie ; Smooinaght Mie - ZOÑJ - Ital Express; Soirée Pays de Galles, dîner-concert; Sur les routes des Celtes du Sud ; Trophée de musique celtique Loïc Raison ; Voix celtes : Annie Baylis band - VRï

Thursday 7 August 2025:

Celtic Odyssée #4 ; Fest-Noz l; Gloaguen / Le Hénaff - La Mézanj - Brise-Glace ; Horizons Celtiques ; Lynda Lemay ;

Mari Mathias Band - Segal - Sonerien Du ; Master Class: KANOMP BREIZH ; Celtic Music and Dance; Scottish Fish - Cala - Çheumooie ; Isle of Man evening, dinner concert; Treorchy Male Choir - Kanomp Breizh - Paul McKenna - Du Glas - Katia Rock ; Loïc Raison Celtic Music Trophy

Friday 8 August 2025:

18th Castagnari / Loric Accordion Competition; Cotriade, Breton dinner concert; Dalla Duo - Eris - Storvan;

Du Glas - Startijenn - Krismenn & Shamoniks; Fest-Noz; Grande Nuit de l'Ecosse; Master Class: FIDDLE;

Musiques et Danses des Pays Celtes; Smooinaght Mie - Scottish Fish - Claymore; Soirée Bouge ton Celte !; Strak - Descofar - Jean-Charles Guichen; Loïc Raison Celtic Music Trophy

Saturday 9 August 2025:

16th Trophée Camac de Harpe Celtique; Amzer ar vugale - la parade des enfants; Aziliz Manrow - Astro Bloc - Krismenn & Shamoniks; Bláth - Cuas; Claymore - MADÈN - Hamon Martin Quintet; Fest-Noz, Spécial Jeunes; Winner Kan Ar Bobl 2025 - Neizh - Iskis; Cornouailles evening, dinner-concert; ElectroFIL evening; On the roads of the islands; Friendly Gaelic football tournament, Lorient GAC; Loïc Raison Celtic music trophy.

Sunday 10 August 2025:

32nd Trophée Matilin an Dall, Pair ringing competition; Celtic Brunch; Kenavo An Distro; Lorient Chante - Dalla Dua - The Chair - Astro Bloc; Interceltic Mass in Breton; Music and Dance of the Lorient region

To find out more about the programme, visit the Interceltic Festival 2022.

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