Dan Ar Braz

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One of the most melodic guitarists in Celtic music, Dan Ar Bras has recorded as a soloist and with innovative Celtic harp, bagpipe and flute player <a href="spotify:artist:5qEhKFhIXtSGi9Gw449LKX">Alan Stivell</a>. A pioneer of electric folk in the early 1970s, Ar Bras has continued to explore the textural possibilities of electric and acoustic guitar. Ar Bras hooked up with <a href="spotify:artist:5qEhKFhIXtSGi9Gw449LKX">Stivell</a> in 1967, shortly after moving to Brittany, a region in western France. He remained an essential element of Stivell's sound for more than a decade and made important contributions to nine of Stivell's albums, including the influential Renaissance of the Celtic Harp in 1972, and the reunion album Again in 1994. After <a href="spotify:artist:5qEhKFhIXtSGi9Gw449LKX">Stivell</a> broke up the band in 1976, Ar Bras spent six months as a member of <a href="spotify:artist:2LIdnZDzySb04oH40be1fR">Fairport Convention</a>, leaving before recording with the group. Although he assembled his own tradition-rooted band, they were equally skilled at electric music and recorded a rock version of <a href="spotify:artist:4x1nvY2FN8jxqAFA0DA02H">Lennon</a> and McCartney's "Rain." Ar Bras switched to a Celtic style of playing acoustic guitar in the mid-1980s and recorded a heavily atmospheric album, Music for Silences to Come, in 1985. In the 1990s, Ar Bras assembled a 50-piece band, L'Heritage Des Celtes. A self-titled studio album was released in 1994 with a live recording, En Concert, following a year later. Ar Bras continues to be involved with <a href="spotify:artist:2LIdnZDzySb04oH40be1fR">Fairport Convention</a>, recording in <a href="spotify:artist:5pPWoZpctR8GXFsvW9JHEi">Dave Pegg's</a> Woodworm studios near Banbury, Oxfordshire and performing regularly at Fairport's annual festival in Cropedy. ~ Craig Harris, Rovi