Brìghde Chaimbeul, Aidan O'Rourke

River Lea Presents: Brighde Chaimbeul & Aidan O'Rourke

Winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Horizon Award 2019, Skye piper Brìghde Chaimbeul is one of Scotland's fastest rising stars. River Lea Records and Kings Place are delighted to welcome her back for another intimate show in Hall Two, once again accompanied by Lau's Aidan O'Rourke, who produced Chaimbeul's critically-acclaimed debut album The Reeling.

A native Gaelic speaker, Chaimbeul's 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. 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. Inspired by hearing the playing of Rona Lightfoot she began learning at the age of 7 with local tutor and award-winning piper Niall Stewart.

Working closely with O'Rourke, Chaimbeul 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.