Celtic Connections 2025: Brìghde Chaimbeul and Assynt

Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2025 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.

The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: Brìghde Chaimbeul (Breech-huh Campbell)  is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes; a bellows-blown, mellower cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes. A native Gaelic speaker, 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 unchartered territory. She has devised a unique way or arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument;  the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity.

Award winning instrumental folk trio Assynt are former BBC Radio Scotland Young Musician of the Year finalists, Graham Mackenzie (fiddle) and David Shedden (pipes/whistles) alongside BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winner Innes White (guitar). 2018 saw the official launch of the band, the release of their debut album The Road to the North and were awarded ‘Up and Coming Artist of the Year’ at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.