Georges Cadoudal
Bombarde and bagpipe player
Georges Cadoudal is a bombarde and Scottish bagpipe (biniou-braz) player born in Magoar (Côtes-d'Armor) in 1929.
He comes from a family of musicians. With Étienne Rivoallan, they formed a couple of music players who actively participated in the revival of Breton music after the war. A founding member of the bagad Bourbriac, he was its chief sonneur ( penn-soner ) from 1953 to 1964. In 1966, he created the Rostrenen fisel competition and founded the group Re an Are in 1994.
A farmer (sheep breeder, among other things), he is involved as much in the musical life of the Monts d'Arrée as in social and political life (defense of peasant agriculture, ecological struggles).
(Photo: Georges Cadoudal, Pascal Coz and Joël Kerné during a meal at the Botmeur village hall, 2007. Credits: Hervé Kéré.)