Brìghde Chaimbeul + Hoverdonkey | Brighton
Schedule
Fri Sep 19 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Komedia Brighton | Brighton, EN
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Brìghde Chaimbeul BrightonBrìghde Chaimbeul live in Brighton at Komedia on Friday 19th September ! Get tickets above, or from SeeTickets.
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. http://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/
“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
+ Hoverdonkey: After a number of years playing in bands more aligned with psyche and noise rock, a chance conversation revealed a shared love of accoustic folk guitar picking and Hoverdonkey was born. Taking inspiration from both older 70’s folk revival masters such as Jon Renbourne and amazing contemporary players they spent 2023 writing and playing anywhere that would let them. They released their first single on Gardener’s Delight Records in June 2024 which quickly sold out. In June 2025 they took part in a project celebrating the anniversary of the release of GBV’s Bee Thousand collaborating with THouse (Sweet Williams) on a cover of Demons are Real. They are currently working on an album due for release in early 2025. Hoverdonkey aim is to send listeners into a reflective state of relaxation with their music. As Gardener’s delight records put it, ‘Hoverdonkey conjure the vibe of meanderingly complex walks that always seem to end up with a superbly poured pint in a more than decent country pub’
About the single HOVERDONKEY – “Stratus Crow” b/w “Superspreader” are two wonderfully meandering tracks of acoustic guitar, with a flowingly dissonant violin accompianment, packaged in the most exquisite, hand numbered screen printed sleeve with art insert. https://hoverdonkey1.bandcamp.com/album/hoverdonkey-single
Accessibility: Lift access to venue. If the show is in the small room downstairs, there is wheelchair access at the back. Wheelchair accessible toilets. If you require a carer at the venue, please contact us at [email protected] for guestlist, with evidence such as a blue badge or access card. If strobe lighting is an issue or if standing for long periods of time is an issue, please contact us in advance. Would be possible to place a chair near the stage. Full information: https://www.komedia.co.uk/brighton/visit/accessibility/
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Where is it happening?
Komedia Brighton, 44 Gardner Street,Brighton, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
