Awards for Artists

Brìghde Chaimbeul

Brìghde Chaimbeul (born 1998) is a Gaelic musician established as one of the leading experimental purveyors of celtic music. Chaimbeul plays the Scottish smallpipes, a bellows-powered set of bagpipes with a double-note drone, and her style is rooted in her native language and culture with inspiration from a variety of global forms.

Winner of the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award, and of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, Chaimbeul has devised a unique way of arranging and composing for pipes that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like quality in the music. In 2021 she performed on the smallpipes to world leaders and listeners across the globe at the opening ceremony of COP 26.

Her 2019 debut album, The Reeling, won her major media plaudits, five-star reviews and a BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award, for its fresh reading of traditional Gaelic tunes and outward looking assimilation of influences, played with an enticing virtuosic liquidity. It was named as Folk Album of the Month by The Guardian and was voted one of the 20 Scottish Albums of the Year by the Say Awards. Chaimbeul has recently collaborated with fellow musicians James Yorkston and Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys, touring with Yorkston’s club night Tae Sup Wi’ A Fifer.

I am absolutely delighted to have received the Paul Hamlyn Award. It is a gift that is hard to describe in words, but it gives me the opportunity and freedom to pursue exciting and fulfilling collaborations, as well as the validation and space to dream, create and compose.

Brìghde Chaimbeul

Examples of work

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O CHIADAIN AN LO

Smallpipes and harmonium (Brìghde Chaimbeul), violin (Aidan O’Rourke). Arranged by Brìghde Chaimbeul. 5 minutes duration. From the album The Reeling, 2019.

THA'N OIDHCH' ANN 'SAN DORCH' ANN

Solo smallpipes (Brìghde Chaimbeul). Arranged by Brìghde Chaimbeul. 2 minutes duration. Based on material from the School of Scottish Studies, from the album The Reeling, 2019.

TALADH NAN CEARC

Smallpipes (Brìghde Chaimbeul), voice (Rona Lightfoot). Arranged by Brìghde Chaimbeul and Rona Lightfoot. 2 minutes duration. Based on material from the School of Scottish Studies, from the album The Reeling, 2019.

AN LEIMRAS/HARRIS DANCE

</Smallpipes (Brighde Chaimbeul), concertina (Radie Peat), violin (Aidan O’Rourke). Arranged by Brighde Chaimbeul and Aidan O’Rourke. 4 minutes duration. From the album ‘The Reeling’. </p> <p>

Smallpipes (Brìghde Chaimbeul), concertina (Radie Peat), violin (Aidan O’Rourke). Arranged by Brìghde Chaimbeul and Aidan O’Rourke. 4 minutes duration. From the album The Reeling, 2019.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Awards for Artists

Brìghde Chaimbeul

Examples of work

O CHIADAIN AN LO

THA'N OIDHCH' ANN 'SAN DORCH' ANN

TALADH NAN CEARC

AN LEIMRAS/HARRIS DANCE