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17 year old Br\u00ecghde Chaimbeul is from Skye has won BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award Award 2016. She was brought up in Sleat but has lived with her family in Kyle for the past few years. She is a native Gaelic speaker and comes from a family of musicians and artists. Her mother Liondsaidh Chaimbeul is a sculptor, born and brought up in Edinburgh and her father, Angus Peter Campbell, is from South Uist and is a writer and actor.<\/p>\n
She has four sisters and a brother, all of whom play music. Her two older sisters, M\u00e0iri and Steaphanaidh Chaimbeul have previously been individual Finalists in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician competition as well as being Finalists, as a duo, in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards.<\/p>\n
Br\u00ecghde was introduced to the chanter as a child by a neighbour in Skye, Konstantin Kosmidis, from Greece. While at Bun-Sgoil Shl\u00e8ite (Sleat Primary School) she was taught piping by Niall Stewart. At age twelve she was given a scholarship to attend St Mary\u2019s Music School in Edinburgh where her teacher on the Highland Bagpipes is award-winning piper Iain Speirs. Br\u00ecghde also plays the piano.<\/p>\n
She was gifted a set of Hamish Moore smallpipes three years ago by Hamish (a set his father made) and since then has been taught on the smallpipes by Fin Moore. She was one of hundreds of entrants to the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards and was selected alongside nine other acts to the semi-finals weekend in Kendal. Cumbria, at the end of January. All the musicians had workshops led by James Fagan and Nancy Kerr. They then all played a ten minute selection at a public concert on the Saturday evening. Four of them were then nominated as Finalists, which took place at a glittering ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, when Br\u00ecghde was selected as the winner, and given her prize by the great Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell.<\/p>\n
Brighde says \u201cI\u2019m delighted to have won this wonderful award. It was completely unexpected and I can only thank everyone who has taught me and helped me.\u201d As part of her prize Br\u00ecghde is now invited to perform at the Cambridge Folk Festival, the Towersley Festival, the Cropredy Festival\u00a0and\u00a0gets a recording session on BBC Radio 2’s folk programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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