The three bridges

Music : Yves Blanchard, and Jean-Jacques Manac’h for musical arrangement (mandolin)

 B/C accordion, guitar, keyboard : Yves. Mandolin, : Jean-Jacques

Recorded in Le Forum Studio, in Nivillac, april 2018

In La Roche-Bernard, nowadays, we can see two bridges, the suspension bridge and the Morbihan bridge, put in service in respectively 1960 and 1996. There are also the vestiges of the old bridge, the history of which could be extended in several histories because of reconstructions made necessary after different accidents and storms during the 19th century.

The first of these three tunes, that are intended to sound like irish reels, represents the old bridge. The second part of the tune could look like an arc of circle, as the shape that this bridge has had during a period.

The second tune could feature the La Roche-Bernard bridge entered in service in 1960. Usually, the second part of a reel is in a higher tone than the first one. Here, it is lower, as for evoking the depht of the bridge pier.

The third tune could feature the Morbihan bridge (the more recent one). It bypasses La Roche-Bernard, in continuity of the road from Nantes to Le Relecq-Kerhuon (near Brest). This tune, in the major mode, could evoke the fluidity of this road which links the departments of south of Brittany, but also the jerky movement of walking in the lower part of the bridge reserved for pedestrians.