Brighde Chaimbeul: Momentum
UK tour 2020/2021
Winner of the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award, and 2016 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk award Brìghde Chaimbeul is one of Scotland’s most exciting young musicians. A native Gaelic speaker, her style is rooted in her indigenous language and culture, but draws inspiration from a variety of piping traditions such as from Cape Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland.
This funding will help support Brighde Chaimbeul’s upcoming UK tours with fiddle player Aidan O’Rourke (LAU) – the first together since the release of her highly acclaimed debut album, The Reeling. They will play at venues across the UK from the Isle of Skye to Bristol and even a brief visit to Ireland. Working closely with Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a completely new way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like quality in the tunes.