TIMINGS
Doors and Bar Open: 7pm
Loula Yorke: 7:45
Brighde: 8:45
This is a fully seated show with unallocated seating. There will be a full bar for drinks and snacks.
Brìghde Chaimbeul
Brìghde Chaimbeul (pronounced Bree-chu Chaym-bul)) is one of the most exciting musical minds in the world of Celtic folk today. She’s a master of the Scottish smallpipes – the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousin to the famous Great Highland bagpipes – and she’s taken them to the global stage. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. She rose to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music, but has since begun a journey to take the smallpipes into uncharted territory.
Her third album “Sunwise”, to be released in June this year, includes guests on uilleann pipes and organ, as well as Canadian composer Colin Stetson (saxophone) and her father Aonghas Phàdraig (spoken word) and brother Eòsaph (vocals). Extending the fearless, experimental ethos of her lauded 2023 album "Carry Them With Us,” Brìghde Chaimbeul's new music continues to push the boundaries and expectations of both experimental and traditional sonics.
Brìghde Chaimbeul's previous album “Carry Them With Us" was featured on several year-end lists for 2023, including The Quietus "Best albums of 2023" (#13) and The Guardian's "Best Folk
Albums of 2023"(#7). Over the past two years Chaimbeul has appeared at Roskilde, Le Guess Who?, Rewire and other major festivals.
One can talk about Brìghde’s awards (BBC Young Folk Award; BBC Horizons Award; Songlines Top of the World...) and her wide array of collaborators (Caroline Polachek; Colin Stetson; Gruff Rhys; Aidan O'Rourke) but after it all, her music speaks for itself. Haunting, entrancing, breathtaking, beautiful – this open-eared, understatedly virtuosic performer is transforming and creating new definitions for Scottish folk in the 21st century.
"Arresting, hypnotic compositions...with dissonance often stuttering next to moments of deep beauty. Both of its time and out of time." -- The Guardian
"Unique, exciting and forward-looking. Some of the most satisfying and complete music to be found anywhere in these islands." -- The Quietus
“Simultaneously ancient and modern, profound and direct” – The Guardian
“Enchanting ... Chaimbeul has an ability to bring a strangely modern, almost electronic, sound from this most traditional of instruments.” The Wire
NEWS! Shahzad Ismaily will be joining Brighde!!!
Over the past thirty years, Ismaily has worked with countless internationally renowned artists including Yoko Ono, Bob Dylan, Laura Veirs, Beth Orton, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Marianne Faithfull, Faun Fables, Maya Hawke, Feist, Aaron Dessner, Secret Chiefs 3, Sam Amidon, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and many more.
Ismaily has worked for dance and theatre pieces, including the Oscar-nominated film “Frozen River” and “Inkboat” (with a Butoh crew from California and Switzerland).
“I’m sort of in the role that I’m often placed in [at] sessions, which is to ‘Bring the spirit’ on whatever instrument that makes sense.”
“That [mathematical] side of music always made a lot of easy sense – the forms and the structures, the crystals, the cubes. What was always more esoteric and challenging was ‘How is it that you make sound and then a person outside of you feels something or feels transported, or the room feels different?’”
“Ismaily has become one of music’s most in-demand collaborators, flitting like a mischievous butterfly through genres as diverse as honeyed folk, rambunctious free jazz and spectral meditations sung in Urdu.” – New York Times
Support Set from
Loula Yorke
Loula Yorke is a UK-based composer, sound artist and modular synthesist. Debuting with YSMYSMYSM on Detroit label Junted back in 2019, she’s become increasingly prolific over the years, and in 2024 alone dropped the hypnotically looping Volta album on Truxalis to critical acclaim, completed a long-form ambient excursion speak, thou vast and venerable head for quiet details and issued a new vinyl version of her A Man On a Galloping Horse Wouldn’t See It LP via Castles in Space.
But Yorke didn’t stop there, launching a monthly mixtape series documenting her ever-evolving creative process in her Cottage Studio, which has picked up a dedicated following. She marked its first anniversary with the C60 The Book of Commonplace, followed swiftly by Time is a Succession of Such Shapes, both albums of music and sound created during the lifetime of the project which have been well-received by critics and listeners.