The aim of the Zef & Mer festival is to create a platform, a springboard and a sounding board for Breton bands who innovate, take risks and take creative chances. The guest artists are often young, steeped in tradition but also fully open to other influences and musical styles. This Sunday, the artists will be presenting their creations to the public. For the festival, it’s also a way of convincing professionals in the entertainment industry to take up these new ideas and share them with a wider audience. This year, in the Salle de la Cité, discover :

• With Drache, it’s raining cats and dogs! Eva Cloteau and Morgane Labbe take on the Haut-Breton repertoire for an organic and intoxicating duo of Breton music to dance to and listen to, tinged with Occitan influences.

• Ivarh (Breton for “path between two hedges”, where people run into each other and meet) brings a contemporary artistic touch, with powerful electric textures that collide with the vocals and melodies of Lower Brittany.

• With her seventh album, Ar preñv glas (glow worms in English), singer Nolwenn Korbell takes us on a whirlwind adventure of rock and raucous accents. Alongside her sidekicks, she mixes poetry with electric guitars and bass, and synthetic, acoustic or vintage keyboards over machine rhythms.

• Spearheading the new Breton music scene, Plouz & Foen are a high-energy rap duo. They’re tracing their own path, offering up powerful-sounding house compositions and eclectic productions that underpin fun and sometimes scathing lyrics.

• Florence Pavie on piano and Aldo Ripoche on cello have created Un violoncelle en Bretagne, bringing together around fifteen classical Breton composers, including Paul le Flem, Ropartz, Cras, Le Penven, Duhamel and Langlais, to name but a few.

• Zaïek harnesses the power of folk dancing in its simplest musical form. One female singer and two male singers bring to life the sound of kan ha diskan (a sort of call and response) from Central Brittany in all its simplicity and effectiveness. It’s an example of how our stories, sung in the language of our ancestors, can transport an entire room between heaven and earth.

• Ludovic Plestan will be the Baz-Valan of the day, the MC, connecting the different musical performances. He’s an actor and director, and co-founder of the Quai Ouest company in Saint-Brieuc and the Théâtre de Poche de Saint-Brieuc. This man of the stage is always searching for something new.