OTL - Brìghde Chaimbeul & Aidan O’Rourke

Winner of the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019 – Brìghde 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 such as from Cape Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland.



Her debut album The Reeling has had an extraordinary response since its launch at a sold out Celtic Connections show at the start of 2019. It was named as Folk Album Of The Month by The Guardian and given five star reviews in both fRoots and Songlines.



She was joined on the recording by violinist Aidan O’Rourke from experimental folk trio Lau, who also produced the album, Radie Peat from Lankum on concertina, and the pioneering 82-year-old singer and piper Rona Lightfoot contributing canntaireachd (a phonetic singing tradition used to teach pipe tunes – the word means “chanting” in Gaelic).