Red Cardell

Red Cardell
Red Cardell 2016 with Jean-Michel Moal and Jean-Pierre Riou
Background information
Origin	Quimper, Brittany, France
Genres	Rock, Celtic rock, world music, chanson réaliste
Years active	1992
Labels	Kas Ha Bar, Keltia Musique
Associated acts	Dan Ar Braz, Dave Pegg, Jimme O'Neill, Stéphane Mellino, Dr Das, Bagad Kemper
Website	redcardell.com
Members	Jean-Pierre Riou Jean-Michel Moal Pierre Sangra Hibu Corbel
Past members	Manu Masko Mathieu Péquériau Ian Proêrer Patrick Goyat Christophe Poignant

Red Cardell is a Breton Rock band that mixes Breton music with rock, folk, blues, world music and chanson réaliste.

The group was formed in 1992 by Jean-Pierre Riou (vocals, guitars), Jean-Michel Moal (accordion) and Ian Proërer (drums). With the departure of the latter in 2001, Manu Masko became the drummer. He left in 2015.

In 2011 the band incorporated Mathieu Péquériau (harmonica, washboard) as a new member, some months before Jean-Michel Moal had to take a break from the group due to health problems. He returned in 2015.

From 2012 to 2015, the band was joined on stage by two additional musicians : Ronan Le Bars (bagpipes, whistles), (Dan Ar Braz / Héritage des Celtes) and Pierre Stéphan (fiddle), and had a joint show with Bagad Kemper. During that same time period, the five band members were involved in The Celtic Social Club, alongside Jimme O'Neill, leader of (The Silencers) and bassman Richard Puaud.

In December 2015, Jean-Pierre Riou and Jean-Michel Moal, the 1992 co-founders of the group, joined forces again after four years of separation. In this new collective, they are accompanied by the multi-instrumentalist Pierre Sangra, partner of the band since the album Naître, and drummer Hibu Corbel.

They are considered by music critics as one of the best Breton bands of this time, on the footsteps of Alan Stivell and Dan Ar Braz, precursors of the Celtic wave of the seventies, having learned to combine rock and contemporary music with traditional music.

Red Cardell, one of the most famous bands from Brittany, (the peninsula of Celtic identity in north-western France), is essentially a live band. Formed in Quimper in 1992, since then has recorded sixteen albums including five live and played at nearly two thousand concerts all over Europe and North America, including famous stages in France such as: Vieilles Charrues Festival, Eurockéennes, Les Francofolies de La Rochelle, Printemps de Bourges, Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Le Zénith Nantes Métropole and Paris-Bercy Arena. They also played in Ukraine,Finland, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, West Indies, United States and Canada.