Brìghde Chaimbeul

Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of Celtic experimentalism and a master ofthe Scottish small-pipes - the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousinto the famous Highland bagpipes - and she’s taken them to the global stage. Anative Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde roots her music in herlanguage and culture. She rose to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music,but has since begun a journey to take the small-pipes into uncharted territory. She has devised a completely unique way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates atrance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity.She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, and herrecent work brings in influence from ambient, avant garde and electronic music –not least All the Light in the World, a new collaborative album with frequent musicalpartner Colin Stetson. One can talk about Brìghde’s awards (BBC Young FolkAward; BBC Horizons Award; SAY Award nominee), her wide array of collaborators(Caroline Polachek; Colin Stetson; GruffRhys; Aidan O'Rourke...), a summer spentsupporting Ethel Cain on tour across Europe, or her commission for the ScottishEnsemble, premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival - but after it all, her music speaks for itself -“simultaneously ancient and modern, profound and direct”, as The Guardian put it. Haunting, entrancing, breathtaking, beautiful – this open-eared, understatedlyvirtuosic performer is transforming and creating new definitions for Scottish folk in the 21st century.“Someofthemostsatisfyingandcompletemusictobefoundanywhereintheseislands”- The Quietus“musicbothofitstimeandoutoftime”- The Guardian

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