Nadege La Borgne, Bernard's daughter, has sent me an email giving the sad news that Bernard died in May 2008.

Bernard, who lived in a house called Lanthenac, just outside the village of La Cheze, about 10km east of the town of Loudeac, Ille Et Villaine, Brittany, was a Breton true and proud. He was an expert in Gallo, a romance language of East Brittany, - he called himself "Buernard", which is Gallo for Bernard. He loved the Fest Noz tradition and Breton folk song. Calennig made a trip to the festival in La Cheze - Bernard was the organiser, and he was also on the committee of a Breton traditional festival which corresponded to the local Welsh eisteddfodau.

Bernard was a mover and a shaker. Mike James (of Jacal, Twm Twp and Mike James and Yves Leblanc) saw him at a festival last spring, when he was a judge of traditional singing - Mike said that Bernard had difficulty walking, but Mike didn't realise he was far from well.

Another one gone to the Great Fest Noz in the sky.

Mick Tems