Brìghde Chaimbeul Concert and Workshop

Name: Brìghde Chaimbeul Concert and Workshop
Start: 2025-11-09T13:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-09T20:30:00-08:00
Location: 1124 Cleveland Ave, Mount Vernon, WA, United States, Washington 98273

Schedule

Sun Nov 09 2025 at 01:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

1124 Cleveland Ave, Mount Vernon, WA, United States, Washington 98273 | Mount Vernon, WA

Brìghde Chaimbeul Concert and Workshop
Sunday, November 9th
Workshop 1:30-3:30pm
Concert 6:30-8:30pm
Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes – the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousin to the famous 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. She has devised a completely unique way of arranging for pipe music that emphasizes the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity. She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, and her most recent album brings in influence from ambient, avant-garde and electronic music. One can talk about Brìghde’s awards (BBC Young Folk Award; BBC Horizons Award; SAY Award nominee) 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.
Workshop: $40 - Mixed Melody Instruments (smallpipes, fiddles, etc.) Doors open at 1pm, workshop from 1:30pm-3:30pm.
Concert: $30/$25- Doors open at 6:00pm, music at 6:30pm, refreshments will be available for purchase.
Members receive a discount on tickets to this show. To become a Celtic Arts Foundation member, please visit www.celticarts.org or call 360-416-4934.
Concert goers can take advantage of 15% off of the best available rate at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Burlington–just mention the Celtic Arts Foundation when booking.
Tickets are final sale and cannot be refunded.
https://www.celticarts.org/event/brighde-chaimbeul-concert-and-workshop