LOTRO Sting Server Welcome Party - "An Hani A Garan" (Traditional Breton)

This video is the LOTRO music band Amarth Cartel performing an traditional Breton song. This video was shot by the character on the steps in front of the band. The event was a 9 hour concert featuring 9 bands for the people on the LOTRO Sting server that had recently gone into service. The audience you see are made up of people who play the game on that server. The location was chosen for having steps on each side of an aisle in which bands could be staged and play with few setup delays. The audience could dance or stand on the middle and at the ends of the aisle. The event was planned, promoted and conducted by the Sting Entertainment Alliance. They requested that any bands on the server request to precipitate and preferred time slot.

Bretons are the Celtic people of Brittany in northwestern France. They are descended from Celtic refugees who migrated from Britain to what is now France between the 5th and 6th centuries. The song has been arranged and performed by many Celtic/Breton musicians (Alan Stivell, Denez Prigent...). My first encounter with the song was Alan Stivell's arrangement recorded on his album "Chemins de Terre" released in 1973.

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