Ré Majeure

Ré Majeure is held in La Couarde-sur-Mer, on the Île de Ré. The festival stands out for its rare focus on eighteenth-century Irish and Scottish popular music, combining vocal pieces sung in Gaelic with instrumental traditional dance tunes such as strathspeys, slip jigs and hornpipes. It offers an immersion into Gaelic and Celtic musical culture, bridging scholarly heritage and popular dance repertoire.