Festival Interceltique de Lorient

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Festival Interceltique de Lorient
Kevrenn Alre, a Breton musical group
Genre	Celtic
Dates	First week of August
Location(s)	Lorient, France
Years active	1970–present
Website	www.festival-interceltique.bzh

The Festival interceltique de Lorient (French), Emvod Ar Gelted An Oriant (Breton) or Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient in English, is an annual Celtic festival, located in the city of Lorient, Brittany, France. It was founded in 1971 by Polig Monjarret [fr].

This annual festival takes place in the heart of the city every August and is dedicated to the cultural traditions of the Celtic nations (pays celtes in French), highlighting Celtic music and dance and also including other arts such as painting, photography, theatre, sculpture, traditional artisanry as well as sport and gastronomy.

Participants come from Brittany, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Cumbria, the Isle of Man, Cape Breton Island, Galicia, Asturias, Acadia, and the entire Celtic diaspora.