BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL ft. AIDAN O’ROURKE

Soundhouse Organisation

Event Details

Winner of the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, and 2017 Scots Trad
Music Awards ‘Up and Coming’ nominee, Skye musician and piper Brighde
Chaimbeul is one of Scotland’s fastest rising stars. A native Gaelic
speaker, her style is rooted in her indigenous language and culture, but
draws inspiration from a variety of piping traditions from Cape Breton,
Eastern Europe and Ireland. Recent performance highlights include
Cambridge Folk Festival, Celtic Connections, Fairport’s Cropredy
Convention, Piping Live and Wickham Festival, as well as TV features on
Port, Seirm and the BBC Alba Hogmanay show. For Tradfest Brighde will be
joined by fiddler Aidan O’Rourke (Lau).

TRACS (Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland, SCIO SC043009) is a co-operative network which champions our shared traditions of music, song, storytelling, dance, crafts, customs and local languages. TRACS brings together the Traditional Music Forum (SCIO SC042867), the Scottish Storytelling Forum (SCIO SC052330) and the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland (SCIO SC045085). Together we celebrate the local distinctiveness of Scotland’s places: our intangible cultural heritage. TRACS and the Forums have their registered office at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR. The Storytelling Centre is a partnership project between the Storytelling Forum and The Church of Scotland (SC011353).