When Idir the Kabyle felt the Celtic soul in Brittany…
headlined the Breton newspaper. An extract from the interview he gave in 2008 when he came to the Lorient Interceltic Festival.
“I feel close to the Bretons because, like them, I felt scorned at one time. I consider myself a ‘plouc du bled’, a shepherd’s son, born 59 years ago in the mountains of Kabylia. Back then, there was no high school back home, so I came to Algiers to continue my studies. And that’s when I was first teased by my classmates. They laughed at me because I rolled the “r “s.
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