Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent - IRISH RENDEZ VOUS
jigs: An Grianan (Frankie Kennedy) / Peter Byrne’s Fancy / Coppers and Brass

Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, low whistles
Tad Sargent: bouzouki guitar, bodhrán, vocals
From the album LOIC BLEJEAN TAD SARGENT
Recorded by Sylvain Barou at Astrolab Studio, Le Faouët, Brittany, 
Additional recording by Sam Proctor, London, and Jean-Baptiste Boclé, Brooklyn NY.
Mixing: Sylvain Barou
Mastering: Sylvain Barou & Jacques-Yves Lafontaine
Photos: Sylvain Rocaboy
Guest musicians:
Sylvain Barou: flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jean-Baptiste Boclé: Hammond organ (tracks 7 & 8)
Ben Somers: double bass (track 2)
Produced by Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
@2016 Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
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IRISH RENDEZ VOUS

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent - MISSING YOU (Jimmy MacCarthy)

Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, low whistles
Tad Sargent: bouzouki guitar, bodhrán, vocals
From the album LOIC BLEJEAN TAD SARGENT
Recorded by Sylvain Barou at Astrolab Studio, Le Faouët, Brittany, 
Additional recording by Sam Proctor, London, and Jean-Baptiste Boclé, Brooklyn NY.
Mixing: Sylvain Barou
Mastering: Sylvain Barou & Jacques-Yves Lafontaine
Photos: Sylvain Rocaboy
Guest musicians:
Sylvain Barou: flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jean-Baptiste Boclé: Hammond organ (tracks 7 & 8)
Ben Somers: double bass (track 2)
Produced by Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
©2016 Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
loicblejean.com/blejeansargent/

MISSING YOU

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent - FAÑCH’S CIDER
Bo Mhin Na Toitean / Ormond Sound (Paddy O’Brien) / Trip to (Michael McGoldrick)

Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, low whistles
Tad Sargent: bouzouki guitar, bodhrán, vocals
From the album LOIC BLEJEAN TAD SARGENT
Recorded by Sylvain Barou at Astrolab Studio, Le Faouët, Brittany, 
Additional recording by Sam Proctor, London, and Jean-Baptiste Boclé, Brooklyn NY.
Mixing: Sylvain Barou
Mastering: Sylvain Barou & Jacques-Yves Lafontaine
Photos: Sylvain Rocaboy
Guest musicians:
Sylvain Barou: flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jean-Baptiste Boclé: Hammond organ (tracks 7 & 8)
Ben Somers: double bass (track 2)
Produced by Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
©2016 Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
loicblejean.com/blejeansargent/

FANCH'S CIDER

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent - BEESWING (Richard Thompson)

Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, low whistles
Tad Sargent: bouzouki guitar, bodhrán, vocals
From the album LOIC BLEJEAN TAD SARGENT
Recorded by Sylvain Barou at Astrolab Studio, Le Faouët, Brittany, 
Additional recording by Sam Proctor, London, and Jean-Baptiste Boclé, Brooklyn NY.
Mixing: Sylvain Barou
Mastering: Sylvain Barou & Jacques-Yves Lafontaine
Photos: Sylvain Rocaboy
Guest musicians:
Sylvain Barou: flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jean-Baptiste Boclé: Hammond organ (tracks 7 & 8)
Ben Somers: double bass (track 2)
Produced by Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
©2016 Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
loicblejean.com/blejeansargent/

BEESWING

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent - FROMAGE ANTICS
Australian Waters / Atlantic Bridge (Davy Spillane) / Humours of Bandon

Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, low whistles
Tad Sargent: bouzouki guitar, bodhrán, vocals
From the album LOIC BLEJEAN TAD SARGENT
Recorded by Sylvain Barou at Astrolab Studio, Le Faouët, Brittany, 
Additional recording by Sam Proctor, London, and Jean-Baptiste Boclé, Brooklyn NY.
Mixing: Sylvain Barou
Mastering: Sylvain Barou & Jacques-Yves Lafontaine
Photos: Sylvain Rocaboy
Guest musicians:
Sylvain Barou: flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jean-Baptiste Boclé: Hammond organ (tracks 7 & 8)
Ben Somers: double bass (track 2)
Produced by Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
©2016 Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
loicblejean.com/blejeansargent/

FROMAGE ANTICS

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent - SET FOR BIDDY
Antara (Paddy Keenan) / Phyllis's Birthday (Josephine Marsh) / Helvic Head

Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, low whistles
Tad Sargent: bouzouki guitar, bodhrán, vocals
From the album LOIC BLEJEAN TAD SARGENT
Recorded by Sylvain Barou at Astrolab Studio, Le Faouët, Brittany, 
Additional recording by Sam Proctor, London, and Jean-Baptiste Boclé, Brooklyn NY.
Mixing: Sylvain Barou
Mastering: Sylvain Barou & Jacques-Yves Lafontaine
Photos: Sylvain Rocaboy
Guest musicians:
Sylvain Barou: flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jean-Baptiste Boclé: Hammond organ (tracks 7 & 8)
Ben Somers: double bass (track 2)
Produced by Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
©2016 Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
loicblejean.com/blejeansargent/

SET FOR BIDDY

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent - SLIABH NA MBAN

Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, low whistles
Tad Sargent: bouzouki guitar, bodhrán, vocals
From the album LOIC BLEJEAN TAD SARGENT
Recorded by Sylvain Barou at Astrolab Studio, Le Faouët, Brittany, 
Additional recording by Sam Proctor, London, and Jean-Baptiste Boclé, Brooklyn NY.
Mixing: Sylvain Barou
Mastering: Sylvain Barou & Jacques-Yves Lafontaine
Photos: Sylvain Rocaboy
Guest musicians:
Sylvain Barou: flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jean-Baptiste Boclé: Hammond organ (tracks 7 & 8)
Ben Somers: double bass (track 2)
Produced by Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
©2016 Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
loicblejean.com/blejeansargent/

SLIABH NA MBAN

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent - DUNNES STORE GIRL (John Spillane)

Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, low whistles
Tad Sargent: bouzouki guitar, bodhrán, vocals
From the album LOIC BLEJEAN TAD SARGENT
Recorded by Sylvain Barou at Astrolab Studio, Le Faouët, Brittany, 
Additional recording by Sam Proctor, London, and Jean-Baptiste Boclé, Brooklyn NY.
Mixing: Sylvain Barou
Mastering: Sylvain Barou & Jacques-Yves Lafontaine
Photos: Sylvain Rocaboy
Guest musicians:
Sylvain Barou: flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jean-Baptiste Boclé: Hammond organ (tracks 7 & 8)
Ben Somers: double bass (track 2)
Produced by Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
©2016 Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
loicblejean.com/blejeansargent/

DUNNES STORES GIRL

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent - REELING IN COLMAN
Reels: The Noon Lasses / Jenny Picking Cockles

Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, low whistles
Tad Sargent: bouzouki guitar, bodhrán, vocals
From the album LOIC BLEJEAN TAD SARGENT
Recorded by Sylvain Barou at Astrolab Studio, Le Faouët, Brittany, 
Additional recording by Sam Proctor, London, and Jean-Baptiste Boclé, Brooklyn NY.
Mixing: Sylvain Barou
Mastering: Sylvain Barou & Jacques-Yves Lafontaine
Photos: Sylvain Rocaboy
Guest musicians:
Sylvain Barou: flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jean-Baptiste Boclé: Hammond organ (tracks 7 & 8)
Ben Somers: double bass (track 2)
Produced by Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
©2016 Tad Sargent & Loic Bléjean
loicblejean.com/blejeansargent/

REELING IN COLMAN

Dan Breen's/Donald Blue (reels)
Loïc Bléjean: uilleann pipes, bouzouki, programming
Recorded in Dec. 2005

Dan Breens 05'

Loïc Bléjean (uilleann pipes) & Jean-Baptiste Boclé (Hammond organ)
Unique combination of uilleann pipes' chanter, drones & regs, with Hammond B3, arranged & recorded in NYC by JB Boclé.

Loic Blejean & Tad Sargent

JB Boclé & Loïc Bléjean /// Sliabh na mBan

Loïc Bléjean is from Brittany, that ancient land in the north-west of modern France, first settled by humans thousands of years ago, steeped in history and tradition and whilst his music is informed by his native culture, his love, if not that over-used word ‘passion’, is for the Irish tradition – he is a uilleann piper and low whistle player of high renown. One Breton website describes him as piper étoilé, a just and entirely fair description!
Loïc is technically brilliant and supremely musical on both instruments. His playing is characterised by a crisp clean style, with wonderful clarity in the separation of the notes; on the other hand he can pull from them the evocative, almost mournful and eerie sounds so loved by aficionados. And he is a perfectionist – the uilleann pipes are notoriously moody in their tuning, but his intonation is always flawless, a delight to hear.
He started playing the pipes in 1989, under the tuition of Alain Le Hegarat and then travelled extensively in Ireland, where he met many wonderful musicians, in particular piper Brendan Ring. Since those early days he has developed an extraordinary versatility and adaptability which has enabled him collaborate and work with a wide variety of musicians and in many different styles; with fiddler Paul Flynn and singer/guitarist David Muldrew, membership of influential bands, pop-rock Glaz, and the French-Canadian Gwazigan. Notable work in Ireland includes the “Session with the Pipers” concert series at the Cobblestone in Dublin and the William Kennedy Piping Festival in Armagh, invited to do both in 2009 and again in 2013, the first time with his younger brother Ronan on the button accordion, the second with Louisa Bennion, the noted New York concertina player.
His ability to grasp and understand other genres has led to performances with the progressive rock band Children in Paradise and with the exciting jazz band the Boclé Brothers, with whom he recorded the album ‘Rock The Boat’, released in 2015. Their new opus, recorded in New Jersey in 2019 should be released soon…
During the summer of 2016 he was one of the four musicians integral to the massively acclaimed production of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, directed by Caroline Byrne and part of Emma Rice’s triumphant first season as Artistic Director. 
He joined Belfast-based supergroup Réalta right before their first U.S. tour in February 2019, he has been touring with this band (which features two uilleann pipers!) all over the USA and Ireland since.

He also performs as a solo artist, in concerts, workshops, masterclasses, or with close musical partners, as a trio with brother Ronan & long-time friend Nicolas Quémener, duo with Louisa Bennion, and many more…

Loïc Bléjean

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