Brìghde Chaimbeul is a Scottish bagpipe player who 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. Growing up in a musical family in Sleat on the Isle of Skye, she was no stranger to the sound of the pipes, and indeed the sound of music at home. She is a winner of the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award, and 2016 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk award. A native Gaelic speaker, her style is rooted in her native language and culture. Her debut album ‘The Reeling’ was named as Folk Album Of The Month by The Guardian, given five star reviews in both fRoots and Songlines with praise by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and listed as The Quietus’s Albums Of The Year, voted one of the 20 Scottish Albums Of The Year by the Say Awards.
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