Queen Amann est un phénomène inhabituel dans le monde de
la musique bretonne. Depuis la musique bretonne n'est pas bien connu en Amérique, les quelques groupes qui font l'exécuter normalement le faire comme un bibelot. Queen Amann effectue la musique au sérieux, avec des arrangements sophistiqués et puissants. Nous pensons que la musique bretonne est aussi importante et distincte que bien d'autres genres musicaux d'intérêt universel comme le rock ou jazz.
is a musical group based in Seattle, WA that presents a bold, imaginative take on contemporary Fest Noz (Night Party) music from Brittany, France. Queen Amann is passionate about creating intense, beautiful, challenging, and engaging music. The group uses powerful instrumentation, thoughtful arrangements and a generous serving of original material.
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Facebook is absurd but we maintain a page:
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NEWS / NEVEZIOÙ
NAME CHANGE: Recently an interested party asked us what our band’s name meant and our complex explanation made them glaze over… “Explanation is the joke killer”. Our original favorite proposed band name was Queen Amann, which we’ve since been using for duo gigs. It’s fun and easy to understand, so now we’re going with it full time.
WE’RE VERY INTERESTED IN EXPANDING THE BAND
Mission Statement: We create intense, beautiful, challenging and touching music using the wide-ranging Fest Noz genre as our aesthetic framework.
We/you are: a solid musician, stable, friendly, relatively disciplined, interested in performing and recording, fully vaccinated, politically progressive. Jazz and/or rock chops are a plus!
What instruments: Saxophone, trumpet, drum-kit, violin, guitar, cello, biniou, etc. You’ll be playing with accordion and woodwinds.
Unfamiliar with Breton music? If you’re interested in genres like Balkan music or older jazz, or enjoy modes such as Locrian and Phrygian, you might well like what we do. We place an emphasis on beautiful melodies and finely-developed arrangements and harmonies.
Process: We provide scores and sound files using MuseScore, which is free and available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Rehearsals start in our woodwind player’s south Seattle home. You’d typically begin as a guest and see how it goes from there.
Contact us if you are interested or have questions.
SONA GREENBERG
ABOUT US / AR STROLLAD
Queen Amann performs Breton music at full tempo and full volume, with daring and imagination. We believe that Fest Noz music is as significant and distinctive as other great musical genres of universal appeal such as tango or jazz.
‘Queen Amann’ is a light-hearted pun on the delicious Breton pastry ‘kouign amann’ (butter cake), inspired by a humorous ad for a Breton language class.
RON REED
DANIEL CASADO
MUSIC / SONEREZH
Samples from unmixed, test recording sessions.
Take 6 - Laridenn 6 temps
An Deiziou Kaer - Hanter Dro
Kerzh Ba’n’ Dañs - Andro
Percolateur - Ronds de Landéda
SONA GREENBERG
Sona (Chromatic Accordion, Fender Rhodes Piano) spent years as a jazz pianist and symphonic oboe player but found the accordion in her group The Splendour Girls. Her musicianship and phenomenal talent with composition and arrangement are essential ingredients in our sound.
RON REED
Ron (Woodwinds) soaked his brain in Breton music to an unnatural degree starting in adolescence. He is a bombard (Breton oboe) player with a sound inspired by masters such as Youenn Le Bihan, Christian Faucheur, and Jean-Claude Petit. He has also focused on the tarogato, an oboe-like single-reed instrument, and the sopranino sax, which falls perfectly into the bombard role but with a unique, round sound.