Cornwall takes centre stage at the 55th Lorient Interceltic Festival for 10 days
Le Lorient Interceltic Festival offers you 10 days and 10 nights of shows and events from 31 July to 9 August 2026, not to be missed during your stay at the’hotel 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 2026
At Quai de la Bretagne, the concerts are one after the other at Lorient Interceltic Festival :
Friday 31 July 2026:
Launch of the 55th Lorient Interceltic Festival, presentation of the Celtic flags; An Abhain, Manon Guyot, Taol Lañs 2025 winner; Baliskis - Bob duo; Aoife Smyth & Liam Roudil - Korollerien Ar Skorv (Scottish dance entertainment) - Moher (Irish music); An Corran; Shane McKay - Aoife Smyth & Liam Roudil ; Collage Trad - Frances Morton band - Bwncath ; An Abhain, Manon Guyot, Winner of the Taol Lañs 2025 ; Cotriade, Breton dinner-concert ; Shane McKay - Aoife Smyth & Liam Roudil ; Concert Chœur d'hommes Kanerion Pleuigner ; Fest-Noz on the 31st ; Plouz & Foen - Digresk - Submarine Prøject ; Cornouailles «Kernowcopia» opening night ; Prix Musical Produit en Bretagne evening.
Saturday 1 August :
Championnat national des Bagadoù : 2nd category ; Brunch-concert Celtique ; Bagad Plijadur Sonerien An Oriant - Interceltic Music Camp 1 ; Les Mat'lots du Vent - Plijadur Sonerien An Oriant couple ; Championnat national des Bagadoù : 1re catégorie ; Interceltic Music Camp (interceltic creations) ; Danses du Monde celte ; Nozicaä - Youl ; Pascal Jaouen défilé - Métamorphoses, une deuxième vie - Metamorfoz, un eil buhez ; Moher ; Fest-Noz le 01, La Nuit des Champions ; Old Blind Dogs, Soirée Chants d'Écosse ; Frances Morton band - MADÈN - Alambig Electrik & The Piston Crew ; Disklaer
Sunday 2 August 2026:
Grand Parade of Celtic Nations; Brunch-concert; 2nd Soïg Siberil Trophy, Sponsored Guitar Competition; 44th Highland Bagpipe MacCrimmon Trophy; Show of dances and costumes from Brittany 1000 artists from the Kenleur Confederation ; Pascal Jaouen fashion show « Métamorphoses, une deuxième vie - Metamorfoz, un eil buhez » ; Isle of Man evening, dinner concert ; Denez «Toenn-vor, Chants des sept mers» « Horizons Celtiques » The Festival's big night show
Monday 3 August 2026:
Celtic Brunch Concert; 28th Pibroc'h International Competition; Asturias Evening, dinner concert; Bagad Cap Caval invites Modkozmik Galactik, «CAP KOZMIK»; Celtic Legends Evening: Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening (UK) Opening act: Desi Wilkinson & Gilles Le Bigot (Ireland-Britain)
Tuesday 4 August 2026:
Celtic Brunch Concert; Music and Dance from Celtic Lands Down Academy Pipes & Drums (Ireland), Grupo de baile Tequexetéldere (Galicia) and Interceltic Scottish Pipe Band (Scotland); Cécile Corbel «Le Vent M'emporte»; Galicia Evening, dinner concert; Agnes Obel; On the Roads of the Southern Celts: Susana Seivane (Galicia) Opening act: Rubén Alba (Asturias); «Celtic Horizons» The Festival's big night-time show
Wednesday 5 August 2026:
Celtic music and dance Grupu Etnográficu L'Oriente, Llacin (Asturias), Kekezza (Cornwall) and Bagad de Lann Bihoué; Celtic voices Neear Nesañ (Isle of Man-Brittany), Carreg Lafar (Wales); Ireland Evening, dinner concert; THEATRE Symphonic Ireland The Festival Symphony Orchestra performs The Brendan Voyage and The Pilgrim by Shaun Davey; Yann Tiersen : Solo + Electronics Performance; On the Roads of Scotland Malin Lewis Trio, Mànran; «Celtic Horizons» The Festival's big night-time show
Celtic music and dance Kintyre Schools Pipe Band (Scotland), Banda de gaitas Estivada (Galicia) and Rinceoirí Cois Laoi (Ireland); (Quebec) «Sur ces eaux»; Welsh evening, dinner concert; Irish evening: Dervish First part: Leonard Barry Trio; Eluveitie First part: Tanork (Laureate Taol-Lañs, Gouel Broadel ar Brezhoneg); Sur les routes d'Acadie La Famille Leblanc, Moyenne Rig «Horizons Celtiques» The Festival's big night-time show.
19th Castagnari / Loric Accordion Competition; Carlos Núñez «Celtic Sea» (Galicia); Scotland Evening, dinner concert; Move your Celtic! The Manky Melters, CelKilt, Sons of O'Flaherty; Luar Na Lubre, 40th anniversary concert
17th Camac Celtic Harp Trophy; Cotriade, Breton dinner concert; Scotland's Big Night: Capercaillie Opening act: LÉDA; Breton voices Jérémy Kerno Ézë Trio, Clarisse Lavanant; ElectroFIL evening Perceval, Fleuves, NOON, DJ Miss Blue
Celtic; Matilin an Dall Trophy, Pair ringing competition; Rugby demonstration and initiation; Breton athletic sports championship; Falasgair - An Dannsa Dub - Salt & Sky; Blaved Mad - Dedennpapa - Poppy Seeds
To find out more about the programme, visit the Interceltic Festival 2026.
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