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Biography


	1949:	Born in Quimper (Brittany).
	1960:	Dan played in dance-bands in Brittany where rock and roll was mainly the base of the music.
	1968:	Dan Ar Braz (whose name was then spelled Dan Ar Bras) joins Alan Stivell’s group with whom he'll tour for 8 years. He laid down his guitar sound and style on those early Stivell’s albums "Olympia", "Chemins de Terre" et "Live à Dublin". This was the very first revival of Celtic music that followed what was happening in Pop Music after Bob Dylan, the Byrds and the Beatles amongst many others… Brittany was then and again leading the federation in Celtic countries.
	1975:	Dan was considered by the Melody Maker amongst the best guitarists around the world
	1976:	Dan leaves Stivell to join the legendary English folk group Fairport Convention for a year.
	1977:	Dan leaves Stivell for good, release his first and acclaimed solo album "Douar Nevez", most of the music was composed while his stay in England with Fairport
	1978:	Dan’s new album " Allez dire à la ville ", sung in French, strikes the Breton microcosm like a thunderbolt. That same year, he spearheads a collective album to help raise funds for the Amoco Cadiz oil spill victims and their families. He also features on a Malicorne album.
	1979:	His new instrumental album " The Earth's Lament " is a true electric symphony: Dan even manages to make his guitar sound like bagpipes at times.
	1980-90:	The somewhat indifferent reception Breton music gets in France sends Dan touring abroad, all around Europe especially in Scottland, Wales, England and then, in the eighties, in the US. During these struggling years, he produced himself :
	1984:	" Musiques pour les silences à venir " instrumental music.
	1985:	" Acoustic " (Green Linnet records”) Instrumental and songs.
	1986:	"Irish reels, jigs, airs and horpipes". Along with Dave Evans, Duck Baker and the legendary composer of that tune played by Paul Simon and Bert Jansh “ANGIE”, an album for an acoustic visit of Irish music produced by Stefan Grossman.
	1988:	"Septembre bleu" instrumental music.
	1990:	"Songs". As it says just songs of his and other favorites.
	1991:	"Borders of salt / frontière de sel ". Sang in French and English, the title track became lately on of the title tracks for the Heritage of the Celts.
	1992:	"Les Iles de la mémoire". Instrumental album some tracks re recorded from is first album Douar Nevez.
	1992:	"Rêve de Siam", A sound track.
	1992:	"Xavier Grall chanté par Dan Ar Braz" Acoustic tribute to Breton poet Xavier Grall, some of the songs where already part of his second album but Dan wanted to make it as one and acoustic to give space to the words.
	1994:	“ Theme for the green lands". Acclaimed instrumental album, a unique “suite for pipes and guitars” with Patrick Molard on Irish and Scottish pipes. In that album feature the tune “Green lands”, that would become a bravery theme for the Heritage of the Celts later in 1993.
	1993:	Festival de Cornouaille in Quimper, he performs with 70 musicians, thus forming the group 'L'Héritage des Celtes' (Celtic Heritage). A year later in Rennes, Dan and his group are so successful that they are signed on by Columbia / Sony. Recorded in April, "Dan Ar Braz " Héritage des Celtes " is mixed in May/June at the mythical Dublin Windmill Lane studio where U2 and Sinead O'Connor also work.
	1995:	The CD reaches a wide audience, far beyond the geographical limits of Brittany, and leads to a long tour, culminating in a blaze of glory at the Zenith in Paris.
	1996:	Recorded in Rennes, the "Dan ar Braz et les 50 musiciens de l'Héritage des Celtes en concert " album another smashing success is awarded a "Victoire de la Musique" (World Music Category).
	1997:	New studio album, "Finisterres" with the Celtic Heritage group. Another tour with a grand sold-out finale at the Zenith, and another Award "Victoire de la Musique".
	1998:	Double live CD and live video recorded at the Zenith.
	1999:	French tour Dan takes part in " Bretagnes ", together with Alan Stivell, Tri Yann, Gilles Servat and Armens. The venue of this mammoth St.Patrick's Day concert is Bercy. A live CD " Bretagnes " follows shortly afterwards.
	2000:	Concerts in Brittany (at the Lorient Interceltic Festival More 20 000 people in the venue )
	2000:	Then, after more than 1.000.000 copies sold, Dan takes a break with what he called the “dream comes true album "La mémoire des volets blancs", a beautiful instrumental pictures and also a solitary promenade on the shores of his youth in Brittany and elsewhere after all these busy years spent more to federate than to play is guitar. The guitar expresses just the colors needed by the music, no chattering, just people and sceneries from Brittany. Album recorded in Dublin once again. Another heritage direct from what he heard in 1962 when Hank Marvin and the Shadows hit the musical stage !
	2002:	March Stade de France in Paris 100 000 people for the show.
	2003:	"Made in Breizh" a compilation, and "A toi et ceux" the new album.
	2006:	"Frontière de Sel " a CD and DVD package.