Doors at 7:30, music at 8:00. All ages allowed.
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Brìghde Chaimbeul
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 emphasises 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.
JW Bird’s: Celestial Dream Vortex
Jack Bird is an instrumentalist, composer, improviser, producer, and educator based in Nashville, TN. He is a prolific solo artist and collaborator, having released four full-length solo albums in the past three years under the name J.W. Bird, and has also produced two releases for the old-time jazz and blues collective the Mudbug Stompers, with which he also performs. His solo performances feature various stringed instruments, performed with and without live electronics, in a style that blends free jazz, American old-time music, 20th century European concert music, and noise textures. He also performs and records with Trio SBH (Stangroom, Bird, Hunt), an ensemble which explores a wide range of intensities and frameworks within a free jazz context featuring strings and percussion.
Celestial Dream Vortex is Jack Bird (violin), Randy Hunt (upright bass), Tommy Stangroom (drumset), Marc Greenspon (keyboard) and Jayve Montgomery (winds). It is the first ensemble performance of a conglomeration of longtime Nashville creative artists and improvisers with individual relationships going back over a decade in some cases, now finally collaborating as a unit.