Smallpipes Workshop with Bríghde Chaimbeul

About the show

Suitable for intermediate & advanced musicians with two years instrument experience. Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes with a wealth of experience both teaching and performing. She rose to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music, but has since begun a journey to take the smallpipes into unchartered territory with technique that is led by melody and musicality. Her mesmerising musicianship has won her many awards and media recognition, including BBC Young Folk Award, BBC Horizon Award, SAY Award nomination and a wide array of collaborators include Caroline Polachek, Colin Stetson, Gruff Rhys, Radie Peat. Brìghde has devised a unique way or arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity. She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, but her most recent album brings in influence from ambient, avant garde and electronic music.