Overview
Les Voix Côtieres (“Coastal Voices”) Port Louis (Brittany) is an annual festival of shanties and sea songs organised by the local sea song group Les Mat’lots du Vent.
Entry to the festival is free and it ends with a finale by all the participating groups and followed by the opportunity to enjoy a meal together at reasonable cost while being further entertained with sea songs.
Note: This festival is in addition to “Lorient Oceans,” which is also held annually in the area each July.
The most recent event, the 6th so far, took place June 8th 2025.
For this 6th edition, the association has put together an afternoon of sailors’ songs. The groups will perform in the heart of the city, scattered around street corners, on the esplanade de la Pointe or on the forecourt of the church of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption, enhancing the architectural or maritime heritage of the small maritime city. Our coastline is a true witness of maritime heritage and this event is an opportunity to celebrate and pay tribute to those who have made the sea their life and their profession. The sea is vast, but it is also a link between cultures and between peoples. Today, in the current context, it is good to remember this, “said Daniel Martin, mayor of Port-Louis, a partner city of the event.
Port-Louis (Morbihan / Brittany) is a small maritime city that traded with the Orient in the 17th Century, before being taken over and the area developed by the French Government as a naval port and arsenal.