Brìghde Chaimbeul

Brìghde Chaimbeul’s first Tiny Desk Concert for NPR has already clocked over 340k views. Shahzad Ismaily joins her on synths, which lend the performance a stronger experimental feel. The set has tracks from “Sunwise” and “Carry Them with Us”. We look back at her time on KLOF since 2016, starting with the Radio 2 Young Folk Award.

While Brìghde Chaimbeul has already established a distinctive musical voice, on Sunwise, she utilises it in new and unfettered ways; she treats experimentation and tradition with equal respect, always with an overriding sense that music is meant to be enjoyed.

Scottish smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul shares her latest single from her forthcoming album, Sunwise. An old vocal dance song dating from 1934 ‘She Went Astray’ “is all about the rhythm of the language.”

Brìghde Chaimbeul announces her third solo album ‘Sunwise’ (out June 27th on tak:til/ Glitterbeat) and shares lead single ‘Bog an Lochan’. Watch the accompanying video filmed by Jonny Ashworth and John Smith.

Owen Spafford announces live installation ‘Welcome Here, Kind Stranger’, exploring memory, culture and community through the traditional music Session. It features Owen, Sam Amidon, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Méabh Begley, Mikey Kenney, Louis Campbell and artist Annabelle Blott.

The innovative Scottish smallpipes player and experimental music purveyor Brìghde Chaimbeul has a busy few months ahead. She’ll be making plenty of festival appearances, delivering both solo and collaborative performances. We take a look back at her album releases to date.

Today marks the release of Brìghde Chaimbeul’s ‘Carry Them with Us’ which features Colin Stetson. Watch her new video for ‘Pìobaireachd Nan Eun | The Birds’, filmed on the Isle of Skye.

Brìghde Chaimbeul’s ‘Carry Them with Us’, is an extraordinary experience that has slowly begun to resemble a series of strange, beautiful dream-stories, told with flair, nuance and incredible technical proficiency, but more importantly, with a real sense of ambition and innovation.

Our Tune of the Day comes from Scottish smallpipes player and experimental music purveyor Brìghde Chaimbeul, who announces her new album ‘Carry Them With Us’ (out 14 April) and shares her first single & video “Tha Fonn Gun Bhi Trom (I Am Disposed of Mirth)”.

With LAS, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie and Steven Byrnes have delivered a highly accomplished album that, probably more than any other you’ll hear this year, unifies innovation and tradition.

Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie and Steven Byrnes Haberlin have teamed up on the collaborative album LAS. The album is out Friday 2 September, the self-penned instrumental album is the first album of double C smallpipes to be released in the world.

Starting in July, James Yorkston’s Tae Sup Wi’ A Fifer takes to the road again featuring Gruff Rhys, Salena Godden, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Josie Long, Jeffrey Lewis and Kathryn Joseph.

Our Tune of the Day is The Green Light Set, performed by Ross Ainslie, Brìghde Chaimbeul and Steven Byrnes. It opens to three tunes by Ross and ends on a tune by Damien O’Kane called Castlerock Road.

Sruth is a new BBC Alba series about traditional music in the here and now, it’s a debt to the past masters, known and unknown, and to the bright future flowing ahead of us.

Thanks to the generosity of Creative Scotland, we have a series of online episodes of James Yorkston’s Tae Sup wi’ a Fifer to ease us through the winter – Each episode features three or more varied and complementary talents. Enjoy!

River Lea is a record label run by Geoff Travis & Jeannette Lee of Rough Trade along with music journalist Tim Chipping. We chat with Tim about how the label came to be which features Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds and Brìghde Chaimbeul, all of whom have picked up BBC Folk Award nominations this year.

Brìghde Chaimbeul’s debut album The Reeling, released on the new River Lea label, is every bit as special in its own atmospheric way as its recent launch at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections.

Brighde Chaimbeul has announced that she will be launching her debut album ‘The Reeling’ at Celtic Connections 2019. It features Aidan O Rourke (Lau), Radie Peat (Lankum) and Rona MacDonald Lightfoot of South Uist.