Drawing inspiration from traditional piping, ambient, avant garde and electronic music, Brìghde Chaimbeul’s skills and imagination know no bounds.

Brìghde Chaimbeul (Breech-uh Campbell) is a leading purveyor of Celtic experimentalism and a doyen of the Scottish smallpipes; a bellows-blown, mellower cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes.

A native Gaelic speaker, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. She rose to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music but has since begun to take the smallpipes into unchartered territory, devising a unique way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument. Trance-like, mesmerising musicianship from a young woman making headlines worldwide, and on her Australian debut tour.

“Unforgettable deep atmostphere” — The Guardian

“Exciting, unique, gorgeous” — Songlines Magazine

Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes – the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes – and she’s taken them to the global stage. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. She rose toprominence as a prodigy of traditional music, but has since begun a journey to take the smallpipes 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 ofsound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity.

She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, and her most recentalbum brings in influence from ambient, avant garde and electronic music. One can talk about Brìghde’s awards (BBC Young Folk Award; BBC Horizons Award; SAY Award nominee) and her wide array of collaborators (Caroline Polachek; Colin Stetson; Gruff Rhys; Aidan O’Rourke…) but after it all, her music speaks for itself. Haunting, entrancing, breathtaking, beautiful – this open-eared, understatedly virtuosic performer is transforming and creating new definitions for Scottish folk in the 21st century.

Program

Dùsgadh
A Chailleach
She went astray
Sguabag/the sweeper
Piobaireachd nan eun
707
Bog an Lochan