Brìghde Chaimbeul • Stadhuis Leuven (sold out)

Welsh musician Brìghde Chaimbeul is a master of the Scottish smallpipes – the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes. With her celtic experimentalism she’s taken them to the global stage, won several awards (like the BBC Young Folk Award), collaborated with a.o. Caroline Polachek and Colin Stetson. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. Her rich textural drones and trance-like atmosphere draw inspiration from ambient, avant garde and electronic music. Haunting, entrancing, breathtaking, beautiful – this open-eared, understatedly virtuosic performer is transforming and creating new definitions for Scottish folk in the 21st century.