What do you get when you mix a bagpiper who is an ex member of the 16 time world champion Shotts & Dykehead pipe band, a jazz fusion drummer who has toured with the likes of Jean-Luc Ponty, Joe Beck and Liza Fisher, a classically trained pianist/organist/choral director turned rock star who tours with Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and two graduates from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland?
Jesse Ofgang and the Diaspora
Combining Scottish & Irish music with rock, jazz, funk and fusion to create a sound unlike anything you've ever heard.
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Bagad New York is a New-York based instrumental music ensemble presenting traditional Breton music in the format of a Bagad, or Breton pipe-band. Pretty similar to the traditional pipe band (Scottish Bagpipe + snare drums) but with an extra section, made of bombards (breton oboe). It start developing in Brittany after the second world war, and never stop its development.
The band consists of over a dozen musicians from across New York and New England as well as North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, and Louisiana.
A particularity of Bagad New York, is that we give a high value to the dancing music. Because breton dance is so much fun that we are eager to shre with the community!
Bagad New York is the only Bagad based in the United States, the first ever created outside of France and one of only a handful outside of Brittany.
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