_{Philippe Cousin}

Celtic music is very popular all over Europe. Today we are interested in the Basque Country, a region where the band Briganthya was born in 2000, when eight young people from the music school of Beasain in Guipuzcoa met around the traditional Irish, Scottish, Galician, Asturian and Basque music.

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Here there are brilliant young musicians. Nicole Ní Dhubhshláine and Kyle Macaulay are both students in the music section of Cork University and they offer us an album reflecting their talent, Barra Taoide (High Tide).

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Two years after a remarkable album, Alterum, the Hebrides singer Julie Fowlis is back. But this time it is within a quartet that we find her, alongside her husband Éamon Doorley on bouzouki, fiddle and singing and another couple, fiddler and singer Zoë Conway and guitarist and pianist John Mc Intyre.

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Since he left the band Altan, the accordion player Dermot Byrne has not been inactive. Let us quote the excellent album he had made with harpist Florian Blancke in 2012.