Héritage des Celtes is a folk-rock album by Dan Ar Braz

Dan Ar Braz

Dan Ar Braz, born Daniel Le Bras , is a French guitarist and the founder of Héritage des Celtes.- The apprenticeship years :...

, released in 1994 by Columbia France, catalogue number COL 477763 2.

The album was produced by ex-Bothy Band and Moving Hearts leader Dónal Lunny

Dónal Lunny

Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician. Lunny has been at the forefront of the evolution of traditional Irish music for more than thirty-five years and has participated within the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period...

. It was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin by Brian Masterson and Alastair McMillan, and mixed by Brian Masterson and Rob Kirwan.

A live version of this material as played by Ar Braz and a large ensemble (recorded in Rennes

Rennes

Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.-History:...

 the following year) appears on the album Et les 50 musiciens de l'Héritage des Celtes.

Track listing

1. "Borders of Salt" (Traditional; arranged by Ar Braz)
2. "Spike Island Lasses" (Traditional; arranged by Casey and Dónal Lunny)
3. "Language of the Gaels" (Murdo Macfarlane
   Murdo Macfarlane
   Murdo Macfarlane known as 'Bàrd Mhealboist' he was a published poet and campaigner for Scottish Gaelic, especially during the 1970s, when the ceartas movement was gaining strength.Born and brought up in Melbost, Isle of Lewis, he was taught Latin, English and French but received no education in...
   
   )
4. "Green Lands" (Ar Braz)
5. "Maro Eo Ma Mestrez" (Traditional; arranged by Ar Braz)
6. "April The 3rd" (Dónal Lunny)
7. "Eliziza" (Traditional; arranged by Ar Braz)
8. "King of Laois" (Traditional; arranged by Ar Braz)
9. "The Island" (Paul Brady
   Paul Brady
   Paul Joseph Brady is an Irish singer-songwriter, whose work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age...
   
   )
10. "Scottish Suite" (Ar Braz)
11. "Me Zo Ganet E Kreiz Ar Mor" (Yann Ber Calloc'h, Jef Le Penven)
12. "Call to The Dance" (Ar Braz)

Personnel

• Dan Ar Braz
  Dan Ar Braz
  Dan Ar Braz, born Daniel Le Bras , is a French guitarist and the founder of Héritage des Celtes.- The apprenticeship years :...
  
  
• Dónal Lunny
  Dónal Lunny
  Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician. Lunny has been at the forefront of the evolution of traditional Irish music for more than thirty-five years and has participated within the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period...
  
   - bouzouki, vocals, bodhran
• Noel Bridgeman - percussion
• Ronan Browne
  Ronan Browne
  Ronan Browne is an Irish musician and composer who plays the uilleann pipes. He is the grandson of Delia Murphy. He is the Uilleann Piper and Singer with CRAN. He plays in a duet with Peter O'Loughlin...
  
   - uilleann pipes
  Uilleann pipes
  The uilleann pipes or //; ) are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland, their current name, earlier known in English as "union pipes", is a part translation of the Irish-language term píobaí uilleann , from their method of inflation.The bag of the uilleann pipes is inflated by means of a...
  
  , flute, low whistle, tin whistle
• Nollaig Casey - violin
• Ray Fean - drums
• Jean-Louis Henaff - bombard
• Olivier Lecuyer - bombard
• Patrig Molard - bagpipes
• Eoghan O'Neill - bass
• Jacques Pellen - acoustic guitar
• Erwan Ropars - bagpipes
• Donald Shaw
  Donald Shaw (musician)
  Donald Shaw is a Scottish musician, composer, producer, and one of the founding members of the group Capercaillie. His sister is fiddler Eilidh Shaw....
  
   - keyboards, vocals
• Jean-Michel Veillon - flute
• Karen Matheson
  Karen Matheson
  Karen Matheson OBE is a Scottish folk singer, who frequently sings in Scottish Gaelic. She is lead singer of the group Capercaillie and was a member of Dan Ar Braz's group L'Heritage des Celtes, with whom she often sang lead vocals, either alone or jointly with Elaine Morgan...
  
   - vocals
• Elaine Morgan
  Elaine Morgan (singer)
  thumb|Elaine Morgan in concert with [[Dan Ar Braz]], 2008Elaine Morgan is a Welsh folk singer born in Cardiff in 1960. She was a member of Dan Ar Braz's group L'Heritage des Celtes, and often sang lead vocals, either alone or jointly with Karen Matheson...
  
   - vocals
• Yann Fanch Kemener - vocals
• Gilles Servat
  Gilles Servat
  Gilles Servat is a French singer, born in Tarbes in southern France in 1945, into a family whose roots lay in the Nantes region of Brittany.He spent his early childhood around Nantes and Cholet. His music evoques the Isle of Groix, off the coast of Morbihan.His music was originally inspired by the...
  
  - vocals

with

• Bagad Kemper (pipe band)
• Shotts Pipe Band