Gascony is a region of France that has produced several well-known performers and composers of classical, folk and popular music.
[1] Gascon folk music is known for a kind of small pipes called boha,[2] which have a rectangular chanter and drone combination, (this form is unique to Gascony), and are made out of sheepskin with the fleece showing.
[3] The beginning of this trend in Gascony can be traced to the release of Musique Traditionelle de Gascogne by Perlinpinpin Folc, a band formed in 1972 and led by Christian Lamau.
Some twenty years later, this genre was revived with the repopularization of pastorales, an ancient form of musical theater.
Modern traditionally-styled bands from Gascony include Verd e Blu and Joan Francés Tisnèr.