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Brìghde Chaimbeul

Brìghde Chaimbeul has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 26 July 2019. Brìghde Chaimbeul's music has been featured on 19 episodes.

Brìghde Chaimbeul (born in 1998) is a Scottish piper who plays the traditional Great Highland bagpipe and the revived Scottish smallpipes. She won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2016, and the "Horizon Award" in the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Chaimbeul learned the fiddle and piano before taking up the pipes at the age of seven, having been inspired to learn the pipes after hearing Rona Lightfoot at the age of four. She received tuition from Niall Stewart, and competed successfully in solo competitions on the Great Highland bagpipe from a young age. She attended St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh, where she received tuition from Iain Speirs.

In 2014, Chaimbeul took up the Scottish smallpipes being gifted a set of pipes by Hamish Moore, and received tuition on the smallpipes from his son Fin Moore.

Chaimbeul won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2016, and the "Horizon Award" in the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Her debut album The Reeling was recorded in 2019 in the Cromarty East Church, featuring Aidan O'Rourke, Radie Peat from Lankum, and Rona Lightfoot.

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Brìghde Chaimbeul

Brìghde Chaimbeul has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 26 July 2019. Brìghde Chaimbeul's music has been featured on 19 episodes.

Brìghde Chaimbeul (born in 1998) is a Scottish piper who plays the traditional Great Highland bagpipe and the revived Scottish smallpipes. She won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2016, and the "Horizon Award" in the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Chaimbeul learned the fiddle and piano before taking up the pipes at the age of seven, having been inspired to learn the pipes after hearing Rona Lightfoot at the age of four. She received tuition from Niall Stewart, and competed successfully in solo competitions on the Great Highland bagpipe from a young age. She attended St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh, where she received tuition from Iain Speirs.

In 2014, Chaimbeul took up the Scottish smallpipes being gifted a set of pipes by Hamish Moore, and received tuition on the smallpipes from his son Fin Moore.

Chaimbeul won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2016, and the "Horizon Award" in the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Her debut album The Reeling was recorded in 2019 in the Cromarty East Church, featuring Aidan O'Rourke, Radie Peat from Lankum, and Rona Lightfoot.

Original source: Last.fm

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