Language, Culture, and a Call for Celtic Music Recs?

[kiki_eng]

I'm working on a bunch of mixtapes right now and was doing a sort of youtube crawl and found J't'emmène au vent by Louise Attaque which is amazingly 90s and also has a very obvious celtic influence. It sounds a lot like stuff I grew up around and stuff I listen to; it sounds very Canadian to me because of that, but it's French. So, it got me thinking about similar accents that are divided by language - how there's a set of Quebecois and Ontario accents that sound pretty similar, and some accents in Northern France that sound pretty English, and some accents in Southern France that are maybe more similar to some Spanish accents than to other areas of France in some ways - and about how cultures and technologies develop and spread.

It is very, very cool to me that I can listen to 20th century French celtic-inspired pop music and 20th century English Canadian celtic-inspired pop music, that people with a similar heritage are making this music in the same sort of genre an ocean and a language apart.

I am interested in exploring the shared culture of (French and English) Canada, France, and the UK and Ireland through music. I'm really interested in folk songs, which I really don't have a good background in, and celtic and celtic-influenced music.

I found La jument de Michao (here, have Nolwenn Leroy's version so that I can point out that she released an album titled Bretonne) and I could swear that I've heard that tune before but I do not know where. I mean, I'm tentatively prepared to blame Great Big Sea, but I would really like to find that song.

I asked for recs in mix_tape and have a pretty lengthy list now from glinda that I am still working my way through, but am absolutely interested in more recs. Any suggestions would be fantastic. (I'm trying to finish this mix in the next couple of days, but am not sure that I'll get there, given the theme.)

Comments

[sophia_sol]

The first things that come to my mind are a couple of east coast of Canada folk bands, because there is lots of Celtic influence over there. So: The Rankin Family, and The Barra Macneils, are what pop into my head. But it's my bedtime so I don't have time to keep thinking right now. I'll try to come back tomorrow with more suggestions

[kiki_eng]

I had forgotten that The Rankin Family existed and I'm not sure that I was aware The Barra Macneils existed at all, so that is awesome. :) Thank you.

[sophia_sol]

A celtic band that is less on the folk side and also isn't canadian: Runrig.

I notice you have mentioned Great Big Sea so I don't need to rec them.

I think Rallion counts as Celtic-ish. They're a scottish folk band and they're great.

In terms of stuff with French....sigh, I'm not actually good at identifying by ear what counts as celtic influence (...I'm bad at musical genres in general) so I have a bunch of folk music that involves French (generally French Canadian) but idk if any of it is what you're going for. Perhaps try Genticorum? And Bon Débarras?

[kiki_eng]

That is awesome and useful and generally great and thank you so much.

(I need to go to bed and then I'm going to be super busy and I just wanted to say thank you now before it is suddenly a week later.)