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Bagpipe player bridge jumping5/8/2023 Since joining he has been on six deployments on four warships as part of their embarked air detachments. In 2004, he moved from the Reserve Force to the Regular Force, joining as an Aviation Systems Technician. His most memorable trip was to Scotland when his band participated in the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the largest military show of its kind in the world. He fondly recalls touring the United States and going to Europe. With this unit he toured the world as part of the Regimental Band. In 1994, at 17, he transitioned from cadet to an Infantry Reservist in the Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Primary Reserve infantry unit out of the Bay Street Armoury in Victoria. So, he joined the 2136 Canadian Scottish Cadet Corps and learned the bagpipes, rounding out his cadet experience as he had already been in Sea Cadets and Air Cadets (Rainbow Sea Cadet Corps and 89 Pacific Air Cadets). HMCS Calgary’s Sgt Steven Drinkwalter grew up in Esquimalt where his father worked down the road at CFB Esquimalt.Īt age 12, while watching the Victoria Day parade, his mother pointed to the pipe band as it marched by and said to him, “You’re doing that.” Photo by Cpl Lynette Ai Dang, HMCS Calgary Imagery Technician Retrieved 1 February 2021.Sergeant Steven Drinkwalter played the bag pipes during the Battle of the Atlantic ceremony on May 2 in the Arabian Sea while the ship was on Operation Artemis and part of Combined Task Force 150. "Brìghde Chaimbeul: The Reeling review – ancient gothic drones". ^ "Brìghde Chaimbeul with Aidan O'Rourke".Retrieved 22 August 2020 – via PressReader. ^ "12-year-old makes it talented trio of sisters hitting high notes at music school".^ a b "Brighde Chaimbeul makes BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award final".^ a b c "Congratulations to Brìghde Chaimbeul, BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award Award Winner 2016"."Brìghde Chaimbeul – Biography & History". Scotland: Lowland and Border Pipers' Society. Her older sisters Màiri and Steaphanaidh are harpists, her father Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul is a writer and broadcaster, and her mother Liondsaidh Chaimbeul is a sculptor. She has played at events including Celtic Colours, Celtic Connections, and Piping Live. Her debut album The Reeling was recorded in 2019 in the Cromarty East Church, featuring Aidan O'Rourke, Radie Peat from Lankum, and Rona Lightfoot. Ĭhaimbeul won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2016, and the "Horizon Award" in the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Chaimbeul has worked extensively with Aidan O'Rourke, as well as Ross Ainslie, John McSherry, Paul Meehan, Martin Green, Carlos Núñez and Allan MacDonald. Ī bursary from the Saltire Society allowed her to visit Bulgaria to study the piping tradition there, and her music has been influenced by Bulgarian, Irish, Scandinavian and Cape Breton traditions. In 2014, Chaimbeul took up the Scottish smallpipes being gifted a set of pipes by Hamish Moore, and received tuition on the smallpipes from his son Fin Moore. Īlong with her four siblings, she attended St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh, where she received tuition from Iain Speirs. She received tuition from Niall Stewart, and competed successfully in solo competitions on the Great Highland bagpipe from a young age. She learned the fiddle and piano before taking up the pipes at the age of seven, having been inspired to learn the pipes after hearing Rona Lightfoot at the age of four. Brìghde Chaimbeul ( Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: born 1998) is a Scottish bagpipe player, who plays the traditional Great Highland bagpipe and the revived Scottish smallpipes.Ĭhaimbeul was born in 1998 and brought up in Sleat on the Isle of Skye, and is a native Gaelic speaker.
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