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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 09 E 20 LBPS Tune Share Sessions Follow UpTunes:
James Aird: The Miller’s Rant, Quickstep of the 37th Regiment, The Wrights Rant
William Dixon (Seattle): The Stool of Repentance
William Vickers: Parth Inch, A Mile to Ride,
John Peacock* Note that I say Francis Peacock in te : A Mile to Ride, Bonny Lad, Welcome to the Town Again
Bruce and Stoke: Dorrington Lads
Jeremy Kingsbury ? Maybe?: The Generous Fox,
Come share some tunes and chat, July 31 at 6:30 PM US Central time:
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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 09 E 15 Robert Miller's 1838 Highland Bagpipe Manuscript with tune from DàimhTunes:
Miller: Bundle and Go, The Highlandmen come over the Hill, The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens, Glengary’s Strathspey, MacLeod Fencibles Quick March, The Bonniest Wife this side of Lord Reay’s Country, Gather and Go, Kiss and Come Again, The Piper he died cauld in a barn, As I was Kissd yestreen, MacLeod’s March,
Jeremy Kingsbury: When the King Enjoys His Own Again/The World Turned Upside Down,
Simon Fraser: The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens,
Dàimh: Harris Dance (track).
Andy M. Stewart...2025-06-141h 01
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 09 E 14 Listener Submitted Special Rerun and ReminderTunes:
Dan Nolan: Un Canadien Errant, the wandering Canadian, A La Claire Fontaine, by the clear Spring
Jon Schurlock: Playing Highland Laddie from William Dixon
Ryan G Kirk: Mary Scott (From Oswald)
Jeremy Kingsbury: She Rose and Let Me In
Dave Rowlands: 'La Bernardina' by Josquin des Pres
Jeremy Kingsbury: The Carle He Came O’Er the Craft, Jim Harding’s Waltz (from Dave Rowlands, and Waltzish from Nicholas Konradsen)
Charlie Rutan: Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle
Benjamin Elzerman: Jacks Gone-a-Shearing From William Vickers/Matt Seattle
Jeremy Kingsbury: Taladh, Bundle and Go...2025-06-071h 19
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 09 E 09 Paddy Whack Revisited, Erin Go Braugh and Fitzmaurice Volume VTunes:
James Reay (Courtesy of Rick Lines): Paddy “Wake”, Paddy Whack,
Adam Christie: Erin Go Braugh
O’Farrell: Erin Go Braugh
Hannam: Savournah Deelish
Thomas Campbell (poem): Exile of Erin
Fitzmaurice: Gerrald Hasset’s Compliments to the Knight of Glen, Miss Ross of Rossy Castle’s Jigg, The Humours of Aberdeen, Jigg
From Rowly Powly: German Waltz, Rogara Duff (the Black Rogue), The Unfortunate Rake, Mrs. Dungannon’s Jigg, The Ladies Lesson
John Anderson: The Bonny Links of Aberdeen
Jeremy Kingsbury: The Foul links of Aberdeen
Sources:
1790: Padd...2025-04-2050 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 09 E 01 New Intro Music and Season 5 MixTape RerunTunes:
Preston Howard Wilde - Good Natured Man: An Chailín Dubh Doar, King of the Cannibal Islands, Jockey to the Fair, The Ship Returns Home
Inveraray & District Pipe Band - Ascension: Mad Hornpipes,Catherine's Lament
Lowp - Drive Away Dull Care: Rusty Gully-Duns Dings A'-Wee Totum Fogg, Long Lankin
Ryan Molloy - tempered:Bourrée from Suite in E minor by J.S. Bach (BWV996) & The Return from Fingal (march) – Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, The Unspoken Words (march) & An Evening on Doughmore Beach (reel) – Tara Howley
Jamie MacDonald & Christian Gamauf...2025-01-121h 13
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 08 E 28 Season 8 Mix Tape part 2Brendan Taffee: Shady Grove
Jim Sanders/Jeremy Kingsbury: Shady Grove
John Charles Bauschatz: Spoon Carver, Reels from Eliza Ross: Nighean bhàn a' Mhuilleir (the miller's fair-haired girl), Dòmhnall Àlainn a' Tighinn (elegant Donald coming)
Jeremy Kingsbury: Angus MacKay: MacKay’s Rant, Eliza Ross: Elegant Donald is Coming
Pete Stewart: Twa Corbies, Saw Ye not my Maggy, Curds and Way
Kat Eggleston: 49 Rooms
Gordon Mooney: The Bonnie Mill Dams O’Norham, O’Er the Border
Frankie Archer: Fair Mabel of Wallington Hall, Peacock Followed the Hen
Society of Sound: Paint Your Worl...2024-12-211h 18
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 08 E 25 Donald MacDonald Playthrough Part 4 Dunrobin Castle and Bung Your EyeTunes:
Jeremy: Such a Parcel of Rogues in the Nation, The Surprise
Donald MacDonald: Taymouth House, My Woer be Merry, The Perewig, Bung Your Eye, Bruce of Kenaird’s Reel, Drive Home the Mainlanders, The Trippers, Dunrobin Castle, Herd of the Glen, Skye Reel, Mr. Mackinnon of Corry, Tar awa’ Wedding, The Shaggy Buck, Jamie Roy, Humours of Dublin, Cripple Malcom in the Glen,
Robert Ross: Bung Your Eye,
William Gunn: Dunrobin Castle,
J&R Glen: Dunrobin Castle,
David Glen: Dunrobin Castle,
Niel Dickie: Patti
Logan: Dunrobin Castle
John and Will...2024-11-161h 14
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 08 E 22 Witch Treatises Halloween Special Part 1Tunes:
William Dixon: Adam A Bell
Lament of a Druid
Watlen: Soldier’s Dance
David Young: Tom Come Tickle Me
James Moyar: Picardy
Jeremy Kingsbury: J'ai Vu Le Loup
Special Thanks to James Moyar for recording a new take of Picardy for me to use as a background.
Check out James’ Podcast Droning On and his stellar albums. You can hear Picardy on this album:
https://heritagebagpipes.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-smallpipes-vol-iv
Sources:
Reading about
1324: Trial of Dame Alice Kyteler printed in Brian P. Levack’s The Wi...2024-10-191h 03
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 08 E 21 John Bell, Byker Hill and Dorrington Lads with songs from Frankie Archer, Cork Sacred Harp and many othersTunes:
Kingsbury: Hey Johnny Cock up Your Beaver
John Bell: Walker Pits, Elsie Marley, My Hinny Sits O’er Late up, My Laddie,
William Litten: Off she goes
Father Son and Friends: Byker Hill
David Walker/Cork Sacred Harp: Hebrew Children
The Young Tradition: Byker Hill
Elsie Marley (John Bell’s Rhymes of the Northern Bards
Walter Rainstorp: Eley Molly
Joseph Ritson: Alice Marley
Cuthbert Sharp: Elsie Marley
Frankie Archer: Elsie Marley
Bruce & Stoke: Elsie Marley, My Dearie Sits Ower Late Up, My Bonnie Bay Mare and...2024-10-061h 21
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 08 E 15 70,000 Downloads Listener Submitted SpecialTunes:
Rod Nevin: Maids in the Morning
Benjamin Elzerman: Dance to Your Daddy
Robin Kingsbury: Song
Preston Wilde: Mazurka on Flemish Pipes in G
Robert Edwards: Añada Pa Gael, Mill Mill O
Andrew O’Sullivan: Rothiemurchus Rant, Devil in the Kitchen, Editor’s Favourite , Ruidhleadh na Coilich Dubha (The Black Grouse Reel), Cuir sa chiste mhòir mi (Put me in the big chest), Cota Mòr Ealasaid (Elizabeth’s Big Coat), High Road to Linton, Jenny Dang the Weaver
Stephen McNally: (Three David Young Triple Hornpipes) Lady Christian Montgomery’s Hornpipe, R...2024-07-131h 11
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 8 E 14 First Three Days with Colin Ross BagpipesTunes:
March of King Laois, The Dawning of the Day, O'Er the Water to Charlie, Ae Fond Kiss, Lads of Alnwick, Ye Banks and Braes, The Eagle Whistle, Improvisation, Johnny Cope,
John Bell: Wet Weary
Jeremy Kingsbury (Maybe?): Generous Fox
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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS08 E 01 My Approach to a Historical RepertoireTunes:
O’Farrell: Humours of Toddy
Niel Dicke: Patti
Donald MacDonald: Dunrobin Castle
Jeremy Kingsbury: The Pretty Sporran
Angus MacKay: The Pretty Dirk
Patrick MacDonald: Lord Reay’s Jig
Straight and Skillern: Miss Fowler’s Delight, The Nabob, Pantheon, The Oak Tree,
James Aird: Rondo
Tunes:
1804: Humours of Toddy from O’Farrell’s Tutor, available as ABC notation here:
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=53&mediaId=5523
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1983: Patti from Niel Dickie’s “First Book” available to purchase here and other places:
https://www.thep...2024-02-101h 05
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcasts7 E24 Halloween Special Episode With Guest Host John Charles, and contributions from Jenna Bagpipes, Leslie Anne Harrison, ChristianWandzala, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin and Eileen BuddTunes:
William Campbell: Halloween, Smith’s Orange and Fork
William Campbell: The Crown Prince, Lord St. Orville, Arabella, The Royal Visitors,
John Sutherland: Alas Poor Soul, The Devil’s Dream,
Abraham MacIntosh: The Witches Hill
Joseph Lowe: The Warlocks, The Witches
Jenna Dennison: Devil’s in the Corners
Leslie Anne Harrison: Da Trowie Burn
Christian Wandzala: Bonnie Susie Cleland
Cassandre Balosso-Bardin: Water Nymph aka “Vittrans polska” by Emelius Lundberg
Eileen Budd: Stories of Scottish Arthurian Legends
John Charles: Am Bròn Binn
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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS7 E19 24 Hours with Quietpiper Small PipesTunes:
Seattle: Appletrees is Meickle Better
William Vickers: Strike the Bell, Bonny Miller, Old Wagon Way, Cotillon La Pierfitoise, Get Her Boo, Well Dane Jack, Joyful Days is Coming.
William Dixon: Little Wee Winking Thing, Golden Locks
Unknown: Badger and the Weasel, Banks of Sicily
Jeremy Kingsbury: Robin’s Roly Poly
Patrick MacDonald: To Me Comfortable in Repose, Western Isles Dane, Skye Dance 27 &29, Harris Dance 31 & 32, Oscar’s Ghost
Robert Bremner: Cuzzle Together
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This episode, and many in the future would not be possibly without the gene...2023-08-121h 02
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS7 E13 50K Download Special with so many guest musiciansTunes:
Dan Nolan: Un Canadien Errant, the wandering Canadian, A La Claire Fontaine, by the clear Spring
Jon Schurlock: Playing Highland Laddie from William Dixon
Ryan G Kirk: Mary Scott (From Oswald)
Jeremy Kingsbury: She Rose and Let Me In
Dave Rowlands: 'La Bernardina' by Josquin des Pres
Jeremy Kingsbury: The Carle He Came O’Er the Craft, Jim Harding’s Waltz (from Dave Rowlands, and Waltzish from Nicholas Konradsen)
Charlie Rutan: Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle
Benjamin Elzerman: Jacks Gone-a-Shearing From William Vickers/Matt Seattle
Jeremy Kingsbury: Taladh, Bundle and Go...2023-06-031h 17
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS7 E08 John Charles Guest Host Singer Spotlight: Kenneth MacIver of Lewis with guest tracks from Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie, Allan MacDonald, Julie Fowlis and Jeremy KingsburyS7 E08 John Charles Guest Host Singer Spotlight: Kenneth MacIver of Lewis with guest tracks from Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie, Allan MacDonald, Julie Fowlis and Jeremy Kingsbury
Featuring musical guests:
Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie
Allan MacDonald
Julie Fowlis
Jeremy Kingsbury
Episode notes:
On this episode we celebrate the recordings of Kenneth MacIver of Lewis (1924-1978).
Kenneth's recordings are available from the School of Scottish Studies, via Tobar an Dualchais here: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/person/7570?l=en
Tunes
Tha M'inntinn a-raoir a-nochd 's...2023-04-0842 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS6 Halloween Episode With Tunes by James MoyarS6 2022 Halloween Episode With Tunes by James Moyar
Tunes:
From James Moyar: She Moved Through The Fair, At My Wake,
1791: From The Celebrated Circus Tunes Performed at Edinburgh this season, With the additions of some new reels and strathspeys set for the piano forte or violin and bass:
John Watlen: The Milliner’s House in the Pantomime “The Fairy’s Triumph”, Seige of Belgrade by the Little Devil
From Barry Shears: The Mermaid and the Sea Monster, I Can’t Get a Grant Rant, John G. Dally, Mrs. Evelyn Shears, Cuir ‘sa Chiste Mhoir Mi (Pu...2022-10-231h 12
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS6 E11 New Pipes, New Books, New AlbumPete Stewart: La Muse au Gros Bourdon, Hunts Up, The Buffens, Bransle d’Escosse I, Salt Fish and Dumplings, Softly Robin.
Iain Gelston: The Seagulls’ March, Renee O’Brien’s
Traditional?: An Dro
Straight and Skillern: The Cave Enchantment
Jeremy Kingsbury: Mio and the Land Far Away, John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes,
William Dixon: Minuet Edward the second.
LBPS Blue Book: I’ll Gang Nae Mair Tae Yon Toon, The Mill, the Mill O’, Wee Totum Fogg, Ye Banks and Breas of Bonnie Doon, My Love, She’s but a Lassie yet
Aird: Bannocks of Barl...2022-05-211h 07
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS6E5 Tripping up the StairsS6E5 Tripping up the Stairs
Tunes:
Rutherford: A Trip Up Stairs
Thompson: Trip Up Stairs
O’Farrell: Trip Up Stairs
Goodman: Trip it up Stairs, Trip it Up Stairs
Stewart: A Trip up Stairs
Robins: Swallow-Tail, Champion
McNulty: Syriacus
William Dixon: Dick’s Away
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If you would like to see the actual notes to these episodes with the ease downloading a PDF rather than following all of these links I ha...2022-03-1940 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS6 E4 A Chat with John Charles BauschatzS6 E4 A Chat with John Charles Bauschatz
Tunes:
James Horner: The Legend Spreads
From John Charles Bauschatz: Bhon Chuir Mo Leannan Cùlaibh Rium – Since My Love Turned His Back on Me
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You’ll be able to hear John Charles on the feed in the future, but to follow his regularly updating blog go here:
Bhon Chuir Mo Leannan Cùlaibh Rium – Since My Love Turned His Back on Me
https://asantobar.wordpress.com/
Here are six ways you can support the show:
You ca...2022-03-121h 16
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS6 E3 Tha Mi Sgith, Buain na Rainich, Cutting Bracken, Drummond Castle, Loch Ness With Guests Ian Crane, Jessica (@thehighlandharper) and Anna Seda (@doescellothingz)S6 E3 Tha Mi Sgith, Buain na Rainich, Cutting Bracken, Drummond Castle, Loch Ness With Guests Ian Crane, Jessica (@thehighlandharper) and Anna Seda (@doescellothingz)
So it turns out my worries about the historical accuracy of cutting bracken was way off.
Tunes:
David Young: New Bigging, Drummond Castle
Robert Bremner: Loch Ness
Aird: Loch Ness
Buttrey: Loch Ness
Niel Gow & Sons: Drummond Castle
Edinburgh Repository of Music: Drummond Castle
Albyn’s Anthology: Why Should I Sit and Sigh?
Roud: Sovay
Ross: Drummond Castle Reel
Donald MacDonald: Th...2022-02-2657 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS6E02: Valentine's Day TunesTunes:
Donald MacDonald: Now Jenny Lass My Bonny Bird, Coutie’s Wedding, Flirty Brown Maid,
Straight and Skillern: Kiss your Partner, Island of Love.
Thompson: Cupid’s Frolick
Eliza Ross: Will you Take a Wife Donald?
Sources:
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Country Dance Books
1775: Kiss Your Partner, From Straight and Skillern’s 204 Country Dances
https://imslp.org/wiki/204_Favourite_Country_Dances_(Various)
1775: Island of Love From Straight and Skillern’s 204 Country Dances
https://imslp.org/wiki/204_Favourite_Country_Dances_(Various)
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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS6 E 01: Bagpipe Myths and History, A chat with Keith SangerTunes:
Angus Cumming: Arndilly’s Reel, Sir Harry Innes’s Reel
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Thanks again Keith for using up a Friday evening chatting with me, you can
You can Keith’s Article: “Patronage of the price of the piper’s bag” here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XCrS_bwDBwLq4Ifq4oZrOCUGDoukfcB3/view?usp=sharing
You can also look at the rest of the issue of common stock it appeared in here:
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/common-stock/archive-issues/366-december-2009
Here is a paper Keith delive...2022-02-122h 06
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastWelcome to Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast: Introduction and Review of SourcesWelcome To Wetootwaag’s Bagpipe and History Podcast: Introduction and Review of Sources
Tunes:
Original: Improvisation at St. Clement’s Church on the Isle of Harris
Thomas Marsden: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe
Straigh & Skillern: Miss Fowler’s Delight, The Nabob, Pantheon, The Oak Tree.
Patrick MacDonald: Mermaid, Fisherman's Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph McDonald's Jig, Tune 6 & 7 (Lord Reay's Jig, and The Goatherd)
You can buy physical copies of Oyster Wives Rant and Pay the Pipemaker now here:
https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528
You can also buy digital copies o...2022-01-221h 14
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5 E35: Season Finale Cape Breton Tunes and Eliza Ross ManuscriptS5 E35: Season Finale Cape Breton Tunes and Eliza Ross Manuscript
From Gathering of the Clans:
Brenda Stubbert, Colonel MacBain’s Fancy, The Dun Petticoat, Go Immediately, The Sound of Mull, Mary Jane Kelly, The Night We had the Goats, The Grey Old Lady of Raasay.
Eliza Ross: Dun Coloured Tailor, The Night We Had the Goats, The Grey Hag of Raasay, Big Foot of the Deceitful One.
My Setting: Reel of Tulloch, Mio’s Tune.
Straight and Skillern: Cave of Enchantment, Exeter Change.
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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5 E34: Cape Breton Piping Chat with Barry ShearsSeason 5 Episode 34: Cape Breton Piping and Chat with Barry Shears
Tunes:
Sets from Barry:
Welcome to the Trossacks, Father Eugene’s Welcome to Cape North.
My Daughters Lullaby, Siobhan’s Reel, Alison’s Port Beag, and Angus Maclean Shears.
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Be sure to check out Barry’s excellent website for books, cds, archival recordings and photos of antique sets of pipes (as well as parts for sale).
https://capebretonpiper.com/
Here is a picture of Major Baillie’s Uilleann Pipes, take note of the sliding closure on the bottom of...2021-12-181h 28
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5 E 33: 8 Months in, High B and C on Highland Pipes Tips and Tricks with a Tune from Malin Lewis and Bob CameronTunes:
Bob Cameron: The Lark in the Clear Air
Traditional/My Settings: Braveheart, Frere Jacques, When the King Enjoys his Own Again, Ye Banks and Braes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes, Greensleeves
Aird: Tam Glen
Malin Lewis: In Tune with Nature
Rutherford: Strip Me Naked, Jacks A Live, Tom Edwards
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On December 3rd at 6 PM US Central time I’m going to have a Livestream to celebrate the release of Pay the Pipemaker, come hangout if you can!
https://fb.me/e/vVKCbv4Pn 2021-12-0354 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5 E32 Wetootwaag’s Mix Tape of Other people’s MusicWetootwaag’s Mix Tape of Other people’s Music
Tunes:
Preston Howard Wilde - Good Natured Man: An Chailín Dubh Doar, King of the Cannibal Islands, Jockey to the Fair, The Ship Returns Home
Inveraray & District Pipe Band - Ascension: Mad Hornpipes,Catherine's Lament
Lowp - Drive Away Dull Care: Rusty Gully-Duns Dings A'-Wee Totum Fogg, Long Lankin
Ryan Molloy - tempered:Bourrée from Suite in E minor by J.S. Bach (BWV996) & The Return from Fingal (march) – Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, The Unspoken Words (march) & An Evening on Doughmore Beach (reel) – Tara Howley2021-11-201h 10
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5 E31 International Uilleann Piping Day: Hibernian Muse, John Murphy and a Song from Pat D’ArcyHibernian Muse: Planxty Connor, Hugar mu Fean, Ballinamona Oro, The Lads of Dunse, the Lasses of Dunse
O’Farrell: Planxty Connor
Goodman: Planxty Connor
Burke Thumoth: Hugar mu Fean,
John Walsh: Lads of Dunce
Thompson: Lads of Dunse
James Aird: Lads of Dunce, Lasses of Dunse
Caledonian Muse: I made Love to Kate
Pat D’Arcy: The Whistling Thief, The Rocky Road to Dublin
John Murphy: Pat What are you Doing?, Pat in a Passion, O’Connoly’s Jigg & Jackson’s Rattle, Murphy’s Jigg.
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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E30 Fitzmaurice's Spooky Gold Ring with Tune from Blackie O'ConnellTunes:
William McGibbon: Halloween
Walsh: Gold Ring
Nixon: Gold Ring
William Vickers: Gold Ring
John Rook: Gold Ring Paddy
Fitzmaurice: The Tore Retreat, Kick the World Before You, Fitzmaurice’s Hornpipe,
David Young: Kick The World Before You
Killoran: The Gold Ring Goodman: Five Pound Jig
Seamus Ennis: The Gold Ring
O’Farrell: Lasses of Limerick
Fitzmaurice: Mrs. Garden Campbell’s Jig
Edward Bunting: Pharoh Or the War March
Grier: The Golden Ring
Patsy Touhey: The Gold Ring
O’Neill: The Gold Ring
Blac...2021-10-291h 10
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast5e29: Caledonian and Hibernian Muse Audiobook and TunesCaledonian and Hibernian Muse Audiobook and Tunes
Tunes:
Caledonian Muse: Posodh Peathar, Muirland Willie, He Hirpled Tille Her, Polworth Green
Hibernian Muse: Carolan’s Receipt, Port Patrick, Coulin, Irish Hoboy
Book Club Announcement
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On October, 27 at 7PM US Central time I’ll be hosting a zoom for folks to share tunes, listen and chat about Caledonian and Hibernian Muse.
Caledonian Muse:
https://archive.org/details/nd497041687/page/n1/mode/2up
Hibernian Muse:
https://archive.org/details/imslp-hibernian-muse-a-collection-of-irish-airs-various/mode/1up
He...2021-10-161h 01
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcasts5e28 The Gravel Walk To Kiss Mother with Tunes from Frankie Kennedy & Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tim BrittonTunes (Order…cause they are mostly the same haha):
William Litten: The Highland Man, Jigg Poltage
Robert Bremner: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
James Aird: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
Caledonian Muse: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
Donald MacPhee: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
David Glen: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
Rook Manuscript: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
Matt Seattle: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
Rutherford: Jackie Stewart’s New Reel
From Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh & Frankie Kennedy: The Highlandman / The Cliffs Of Glencolumbkille...2021-10-111h 10
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E27: Brian Howard and Sean Lally Interview with tunes from Finbar Furey and Steven DockeryTunes:
The Fureys and Bob Stewart: Tomorrow we Part, Regulation, and The Volta
Steven Dockery: The Blarney Pilgrim, and Joy of My Life
Thanks to Finbar Furey for the audio tracks on this episode, we included three tracks from the 1979 album Tomorrow we Part by The Fureys and Bob Stewart
Tomorrow we Part, Regulation, and The Volta.
Check out Finbar’s website for more information:
https://www.finbarfurey.com/
Courtesy of Steven Dockery we here The Blarney Pilgrim, and Joy of My Life.
If you want to se...2021-10-021h 07Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E26 20,000 Download Special and UpdateS5E26 20,000 Download Special and update
Tunes…Quite a few, but mostly chat.
Thanks for listening and subscribing everyone!
New intro tune is Bannocks Of Barley Meal, I’m using Aird/MacFadyen’s setting:
https://archive.org/stream/selectionofscotc00rugg#page/n69/mode/1up
I’m getting new Jon Swayne Bagpipes, if you aren’t familiar with his work and are curious you can check it out here:
https://www.jonswayne.com/
The Pipe makers I mentioned on the show you should check out if you are in the sho...2021-09-2226 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E25: General Leslie's Highland March from Oscar and MalvinaTunes:
Johnson and Ritson and Ramsay: General Lesly’s March To Longmaston Moor
Wright: Lashley’s March
James Aird: Leslie’s March
James Oswald: Lasly’s March
O’Farrell: Highland March from Oscar and Malvina
Edward Bunting: Dirty James
Cannon James Goodman: Unnamed (Shitty James who Lost Ireland)
J & R Glen: Leslie’s March
William Ross: All the Blue Bonnets over the Border
McFadyen: Lads Wi’ The Kilts
Logan: All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border
John Johnson: The Knife Grinder, Eye for Shame
Donald MacDonald: The...2021-09-1152 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcasts5e24 Hymns and Mackintoshs Lament with James Moyar and Chris GrayTunes:
From James Moyar: Windsor, Conditor Alme Siderum, Cheshire, Llangloffan, Bereden Vag for Herran, Detroit
Alexander Campbell: In the Breach of the Garden (Mackintosh’s Lament)
Kilberry Ceol Mor: Mackintosh’s Lament
From Chris Gray: MacKintosh’s Lament/ Cumha Mhic an Toisich.
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This episode wouldn’t be possible without the contributions of James Moyar and Chris Gray.
Check out all of Chris Gray’s Music projects and social media links here:
And Special thanks to Chris Gray:
https://linktr.ee/chrisagray
James Moyar kindl...2021-08-3055 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E23: Tunes from the Patrick McDonald Discussion with guest tune from Ronan BrowneTunes:
From Ronan Browne: Lady in the Desert
John and William Neal: Da mihi manum (Give Me Your Hand)
Daniel Dow: Lads Wi The Kilts, Luinnag ferramh Bata (The Boatman’s Song), Thainig a ntuisga beatha (The Whisky).
Patrick McDonald: Tune 179 A St. Kilda Girl’s Lamentation on the Death of her Lover, Tune 180 Tha Guillan agam fhin, A St. Kilda Song and Dance, Tune 181 Ciod e bhiodh tu ‘g iarraidh, A St. Kilda Song and Dance, Tune Number 78 Dh’eirich mi moch, Tune Number 77 Port na maighdinn Chuain The Mermaid Song, North Highland Reels of Count...2021-08-141h 01
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E22: Discussion of The Patrick McDonald Collection With Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete StewartTunes:
From Joe Hughie McIntyre courtesy of the Barry Shears Collection: Tulloch Gorum, Sandy Cameron, Eight Men of Moidart, Miss Proud.
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This episode is a discussion between myself, Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart with Patrick McDonald's Collection of Vocal Airs as the starting point.
email me at wetootwaag@gmail.com if you'd like to participate in a book club discussion of the Patrick McDonald Collection Book on Wednesday August 11th at 7 PM US Central Time US.
My Guests:
Keith Sanger doesn’t ha...2021-08-071h 20
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5 E21: Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs AudiobookThe Preface and Article were Read by Anthony Smith.
Get in touch with him about any voiceover projects via email:
2acanthonysmith@gmail.com
You can watch his excelent Bodhran Videos on his Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/smithpercussions/
If you would like to see the Patrick McDonald Original book you can read it here:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_Highland_Vocal_Airs_To_w/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=0
You can buy the annotated print of the book with tune titles filled in here:2021-07-311h 25
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastBonus Episode 2This is basically a mini album. I've been listening to old episodes and wanted all the tunes in Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes in one place.
What do you think of the new fonts and background? The font is as close as I could find for Robert Bremner's font in his printed collection. But I'm not sure the History nerd-ness of Marble paper and eighteenth century font outweighs the readability of a Sans Serif font and white space.
If you want to see any of these tunes they are all on NPU's website, or Cape Irish:2021-07-2530 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E20 Lament of a Druid and William Litten's Manuscript With Guest Music from David BarrettTunes:
Litten: Prince of Wales Minuet, The Goose’s Minuet, Kissing and Flirting, Kissing and Drinking, The Royal Hunt, They Royal Review, St. Catherine’s Lane at Five, Duke Gordon’s Reel, Cotillion.
Fox: Lament of a Druid
Neal: I’m asleep and Don’t waken me
Set from Dave Barret: Red Haired Boy, and Paddy’s Leather Breeches.
Piobaireachd: The Vaunting
Special Thanks to David Barrett for sending in a track from his Starting to See Album,
To pick up a copy to support Blinded Veterans of America you can see it on Ba...2021-07-1752 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 19 A Chat with Joey Abarta about Pat Sky and American Uilleann PipingTunes:
Patrick Sky: Many A Mile
Joey Abarta: Eibhli Gheal Chiuin Ni CHearbhaill (Fair Gentle Eily OCarroll)
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Huge thank you to Joey Abarta for Chatting with me.
You can Buy the Album Copley Street on Bandcamp here:
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I also recommend looking over the gorgeous website for Copley Street here:
http://www.copleystreet.com/
As of the time of this...2021-07-031h 13
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 18: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe & I am Asleep Don’t Wake Me with Music from Pete Stewart, Rob Turner and Simon ChadwickTunes:
Thomas Marsden: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe
Fitzmaurice: I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me, Mount the Stage, Donald Bran, Loose the Belt, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle
Walsh: Petticoat Loose, Petticoat Tight
Nixon: Petticoat Loose
Allan Ramsay (Stuart): Cha mi ma chattle
Wright: Past One O’Clock
McGibbon: Cold Frosty Morning
Oswald: Cold Frostie Morning (performed by Rob Turner)
Milligan-Fox (Joyce): Lament of a Druid
O’Farrell: Past One O’Clock
Edward Bunting (Higgins): Tá Mé Mo Chodladh (I’m Asleep Don’t Waken Me) (Performed by Si...2021-06-261h 16
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 17: New To me Books PreviewTunes:
Patrick MacDonald: Fisherman’s Song For Attracting Seals, Sister of Loves, Chiu-ri-ruo, Wet is this night and cold.
Iain Gelston: Hop Pole, Shields Bar, St. Mary’s Hornpipe, Pegwhistle Barn
Niel Gow & Sons: The Highland Watch, Now the 42nd Regt or Royal Highlanders
O’Neill: Wind That Shakes the Barley
Harrison: Largo’s Fairy Dance
Litten: The Woodford Ship
My Setting: Auld Lang Syne, Wind That Shakes the Barley
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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 16: Colclough Geoghegan, O’Farrell and SkyTunes:
Colclough: Colclough’s Hornpipe, Rakes of Westmeath, Llewellyn
Burke Thumoth: Rakes of Westmeath
O’Farrell: Waterford’s Waltz, O’Farrell’s Hornpipe,
Gahagan: Gahagan’s Frisk, Humours of Westmeath, Ravencroft’s Fancy, The Chocolate Pot
William Dixon: How She Will Never Be Guided
Robert Riddell: How She’ll ne’er be guided
William Bingley: The Ash Grove (Llwyn On)
Wilson: Rakes of Westmeath
Francis O’Neill: Rakes of Westmeath
McFadyen: Rakes of Westmeath
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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 15: John Murphy’s Collection & Have a Care of Her JohnnyTunes:
William Dixon: Have a Care of Her Johnny
Daniel Dow: Sandy Gow’s Three Pints
John Machlachlan: Sandy Gow’s Three Pints
O’Farrell: The Douraling, The Gobbyo,
Murphy: Kate Martin, Mrs. Boswell’s Jigg, That’s My Way
Edward Bunting: The Beardless Boy
John Rook: Kate Kearney
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Here is a link to one of Keith Sanger’s recent articles on Fitzmaurice and John Murphy:
https://bagpipe.news/2019/10/13/irish-pipers-and-scotland/
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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 14: Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No. 1 with Tune from Chris Norman and David GreenbergTunes:
Fitzmaurice: A Connaught Air, Spatter the Dew, Moggy Will you Come Again, Billy O’Rourke.
Francis O’Neill: Spatter the Dew
Goodman: Spatter the Dew
Roche: Spatter the Dew
William Vickers: Why Did you Promise to Marry?
Bruce and Stoke: Jockey up in the Hayloft
William Dixon: Hacky Honey
From David Greenberg and Chris Norman: a John Reid Piece, Garb of the old Gaul and Hacky Honey
Please consider joining all the cool kids and start supporting the Podcast by Joining the Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/weto...2021-05-1644 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 13: The Campbells are Coming with a Tune From Xavier BoderiouTunes:
Angus MacKay: The Campbells are Coming
James Aird: The Campbells are Coming
Thompson: Hob and Nob
Vickers: Hob a Nob
O’Farrell: The Cambles are Coming, Mrs. McLeod
Goodman: Miss McCleod’s Reel
N. Stewart: Kelso Lasses
Gunn: Inundation
Patrick McDonald: North Highland Country Dances and Reels #8 and #10.
Howe: Pig Town Fling
Unknown: Clan Campbell’s Gathering
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Thanks to Xavier Boderiou’s inerterpretation of Clan Campbell’s Gathering, you can check out his music over on Bandcamp:
https://xavierboderiou.bandcamp.com/album/more...2021-05-081h 15
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 12 Under Named GHB Tunes From James Aird and Guest Track from Brìghde ChaimbeulTunes:
James Aird: Three 6/8s called North Highland Reel, Three Tunes called Highland Dance, A skye Dance, three tunes called “A Jig”, A Western Isle Air.
Robert Miller: Two Highland Dances one Western Highland Dance and a Highland Jigg from Ross’s Music Page and North Highland Jigg (9/8) From Keith Sanger
Reverend R Harrison: Western Isles Air
My “Setting”: Braes of Mellinish
Thanks For Listening! Please Consider Supporting the Show on Patreon:
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All the James Aird Tunes come from the 1801 Publication of Volume 5
Miller Tunes Are...2021-05-0249 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 11 Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes ConclusionO’Farrell: Jackson’s Lake, Maids in the Morning, Sheelina Gra Will You Be Mine
Broadside: The Price of My Pig
Goodman: Jackson Over the Water
Jackson: Jackson Over the Water, Humours to Listivain, Maids in the Morning, Jackson’s Turret, Bouner Bougher
Dixon: Cut and Dry Dolly New Way
Sutherland: Jackson’s Lake
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R.D. Cannon, English Bagpipe Music:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4521898
John Burgess Playing his Walking...2021-04-1841 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 10 Jackson playthrough part 2 & Drops of Brandy Deep DiveWilliam Dixon: Apprentice Lads of Alnwick
Jackson: Jackson Over the Water, Jackson’s Dream, Jackson’s Night Cap, Jackson’s Morning Brush, Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Cummilum, Jackson’s Dream
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Dream, Cummalum with variations
Angus MacKay’s Drops of Brandy, The Isle of Skye Local Militia’s March
David Young: Drops of Brandy
John Sutherland: Cummilum an Irish Tune
Donald MacDonald: The Far Away Wedding
Matt Seattle: Old Drops of Brandy
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https://www.patreon.com/weto...2021-04-1047 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 09 Pinched Notes On Highland Pipes and TunesTunes:
Trad: (Feels absurd to use “trad” on this podcast as a source, these are both just versions I’m playing from memory: When the King Enjoys His Own Again, Auld Lang Syne, A conversation with Death.
Matt Seattle: Green Brackin, Small Drink Won’t Comfort Me
William Dixon: Cock on the Midden
James Aird: The Feathers, Dribbles of Brandy, Grace’s Farewell
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https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag
Thanks to Bob Cameron for Cluing me into the High Notes, and Abe Zettek for directing me to Sutherl...2021-04-0441 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E08 One Year Anniversary from the Reboot! And my new Koehler & Quinn Chanter plays loads of O’Farrell tunesTunes:
William Dixon: Cuddy Claw’d Her
O’Farrell: Blush of Aurora, St. Patrick’s Day, Princess Royal (Air by Carolan), Hen’s Concert, Carolan’s Farewell to Music, Fall of Paris, Quck-Step, Gobyo,The Happy Mistake, Pay the Reckoning, Carolan’s Concerto
Hibernian Muse: St. Patrick’s Day
Ennis: Bucks of Oranmore
Order:
1806: O’Farrell’s Quick Step: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779906
1806: O’Farrell’s Gobyo:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779858
1806: O’Farrell’s Hen’s Concert:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-print...2021-03-2051 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 07 Lowland Pipes! And Season IntermissionTunes:
James Aird: Mucking Geordies Byre, Lads Wi the Kilts
William Dixon: Hey for Newbiggin, Stool of Repentance, Minuet: Edward the Second, Over the Dyke and Till Her Laddy,
David Young: Border Reel
David Rowlands: Jim Harding’s Waltz
Billy Pigg: Skye Crofters
David Glen: Dr. Bett’s Super
If you want to listen to the Dungeons and Dragons podcast I contribute music to (very) occasionally before it is off the air check it out here:
https://www.thevgat.com/
I first heard Jim Harding’s Waltz from David...2021-03-0657 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 6: Kilts, Bagpipers and Living History. A Chat with Isaac WaltersOn this week’s Episode I drink a bit of whisky and have a chat with Isaac Walters about kilts, tartan and a bit of myth busting about the Acts of Proscription. We also chat about the value of living history interpretation in general, and the material culture of great highland bagpipers of the 1790s specifically.
Tunes:
William Dixon: The New Way to Morpeth
James Aird: Johnny MacGill (Come under my Plaidy)
Donald MacDonald: Buckskin Kilt, The Wren’s Death, The Kilt is my Delight, Jenny Dang the Weaver
You can Find...2021-02-271h 15
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E05 Chippewa Valley Irish Immigration, Canon Goodman, with guest musicians Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní BhriainTUNES:
William Dixon: The New Way to Bowden (Athol Braes) (though I say Morpeth in the Podcast)
Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Morning Brush
Martin Freeman: One Tree Vale. I Ngleaun A Chruing
Canon James Goodman: Jackson’s Snack, The Bright Dawn of Day
James Aird: The Dawning of the Day
Canon Goodman, Courtesy of Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain: Ceann Dubh Dileas (My dark-haired darling), Pádruig, Píobaire (Patrick the Piper) / Quadrille, Humours of Glynn.
Huge Thank you to Mick, Emer and Aoife for letting my play a few tra...2021-02-211h 03
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle ManuscriptSeason 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle Manuscript
Tunes:
David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript: Athol Braes, Kiss’d Yestereen, New Bigging, The Malt Man, Kick the World Before You
William Napier: Braes of Athol
Neil Gow & Sons: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
James Rook: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
William Gunn: Oh How I was Kiss’d Yestreen
Donald MacDonald: Kick the Rogues Out
Elizabeth Ross: You Silly Fool
Here is a link to the Gordon Mooney Article on Border/Lowland Pipe Revival I was referencing.
https...2021-02-1345 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 3 Play Through of Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Part 1Tunes:
Anderson: Mail Coach
Jackson: The Figure 3, The Cossey Jig, Pither in Enough
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Maid at the Fair, Jackson’s Punch Bowl
Angus MacKay: The Braes of Tullymet
William Dixon: Hit her between the legs
Sutherland MS: Whip her and Gird Her
Be Sure to Check out Oyster Wives Rant Released on Bandcamp today!
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes
And I’ll be Doing a bit of a get tother at 7 PM US Central time on Facebook:
https://fb.me/e/3niVO7YJp ...2021-02-0536 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 5 Episode 2 Dixon and Fitzmaurice Travel to Roslin Castle looking for a Bonny LassTunes:
William Dixon: Saw ye Never a Bonny lass
Vickers Manuscript: Kiss’d her under the Coverlet
Fitzmaurice: Loose the Belt
Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book: The Berlin Waltz
Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle
William McGibbon: Rosline Castle
James Manson (David Glen): Roslin Picnic
Donald MacDonald: Roslin Castle, MacPharlane’s lilt
Angus MacKay: Roslin Castle
O’Farrell: Pay The Reckoning (Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy, Bobbing for Eels
To Sign Up for the Livestream for the Album Launch follow this link. At 7pm Friday February 5th I’m going to...2021-01-3045 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS5E01 Uilleann Pipes and Strathspeys with Tunes from Jarlath Henderson & Innes Watson and Paul AndersonTunes:
James Aird: Irish Hautboy
Jar and Innes: Top Gallantsail (Comp Innes Watson), John Stephen Of Chance Inn (Comp Angus Fitchet),
Travers Jig (trad), Gustys Frolics (trad: Mick Dohertys Version)
O’Farrell: Roys Wife of Aldivalock
O’Farrell: Rothemurchus’s Rant
Paul Anderson Playing: The Rothiemurchus Rant (Bremner) , Dogs Bite Chapmen (Traditional he Says) and The Fairy Dance (Nataniel Gow)
From Sutherland: Haughs of Cromdale and Merry Maid’s Wedding
O’Farrell: Ewe with the Crooked Horn
George MacLellan: The Little Cascade
Neil Gow: Lady Baird’s Strathspey
Drummond Cas...2021-01-2259 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E37: Jackson's Tweedside Season FinaleS4 E 37: Jackson’s Tweedside Season Finale!
Tunes:
1828 Donald MacDonald: The Celtic Society Quickstep, The Weaver
1800s O’Farrell: Marinda
1744 John Johnson: The Skimmer
1775 Straight and Skillern: The Cave of Enchantment, The Exeter Change
1770s Thompson: Jackson’s Morning Brush
1796 Cooke: Jackson’s Bottle of Claret
1790 Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Morning Brush, Jackson’s Turret
1790s Thomas Calvert: Kelso Bowling Green
1750s Robert Bremner: Tweedside (With Ryan Kirk).
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Thanks for Contributing another tune to the Podcast Ryan! Be sure to give him a follow over...2020-12-2846 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E36: Some Holiday Tunes and Bodachan a Gharidh (The Merry old Gardener)Tunes:
O’Farrell: Lewellynn, A Piper o’er the Meadows Straying, Black Joke
John Parry: Nos Calan
Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning
My Setting?: Mill Mill o, Baloo Lammy
Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh (The Jolly Old gardener)
Aird: Bodachan a garidh (The Merry old gardener)
Be Sure to Head over to Ryan Kirk’s Youtube Channel to catch some stellar tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7jY3tVICOSthOfESS8MjNA
Here’s a Link to the Newgrange Winter Solstice Livestream which will begin shortly after this epi...2020-12-1941 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E35: Bremner Part 3: Bremner’s Guitar Tutor with Special Thanks to Ryan Kirk and Rob TurnerTunes:
Robert Bremner: Stadholders Minuet, Moorish Tunes, Mill Mill O, Willy was a Wanton Wag, and Black Joke.
William McGibbon: Mill Mill O, Willie Was a Wanton Wag
James Oswald: Burlesque on a Black Joak:
Miscellaneous: Clare Dragoons, Braes a Mar
Big Thanks To Ryan Kirk for the performance and write up. Head over to the Facebook page to tell him thanks!
Thanks to Rob Turner for his Playing of James Oswald’s Burlesque on Black Joke. You can watch his youtube upoload of the tune, along with some stellar ba...2020-12-1253 minWetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 Bandamp Friday ReminderS4 Bandamp Friday Reminder
Tunes: Straight & Skillern: The Nabob
Quick late reminder that you should buy people’s music on Bandcamp today! Friday December 4th.
You can Check out my favorite Bandcamp purchases by looking at my profile. (Note I don’t do most of my listening on Bandcamp so it is a pretty small list that has really only started growing with the Bandcamp Friday promotions.)
https://bandcamp.com/wetootwaag
Specifically the Following artists have been kind enough to share music recently on the Podcast, so Please Check them out:
2020-12-0506 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E34 Robert Bremner Part 2: Robert & James Bremner and the Declaration of IndependenceTunes:
Robert Bremner, Loch Ness, Feg for a kiss, The Cross Well of Edinburgh & Watermen’s Rant, Open the Door to Three & Invercaul’s Reel, Straglass House.
James Bremner (By Way of Francis Hopkinson), Lady Coventry’s Minuett
Robert Millar: Lady Coventry’s Minuett, St. Paul’s.
Misc: Wha Saw the Forty Twa
Kerr: Wha’ Widna Fecht
Levey: Milk the Churn/ Gliogar an Mheadair (Fig for a Kiss)
Artwork for this Episode from David Allan “An Edinburgh Watercarrier with a Woman Standing at a Fountain” From the National Galleries of Scotland: https...2020-11-2848 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E33: Robert Bremner Part 1.5 and Jack Lattin RevisitedBe sure to check out the Phenomenal Video from ITMA about The Story of Jack Lattin For Their Drawing from the Well Series.
https://youtu.be/V_QMFkdSFuo
You can also Check Out Edwina Guckian’s Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfPuMrLhWjXydtXJnqss5QA
1750s Bremner’s The Grant’s Rant:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002999
Bremner’s The Carle he Came O’er the Craft:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002625
Bremner’s Miss Blair’s Reel:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002350
1733: William Dixon’s Manuscript is av...2020-11-2120 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E32 Robert Bremner Part 1: Vibratto, Church Music, Allan Ramsay and William McGibbonTunes:
Bremner: Elgin, Aberdeen Or St. Paul’s, Grant’s Rant, The Carle Came over the Craft, Blue Britches, Miss Blair’s Reel, Mary Scott, Blue Britches, Cuzzle Together.
McGibbon: She Rose and Let me in, Cumbernauld House, Bottom of the Punch Bowl
Daniel Wright: She Rose and let me in
Tune Order:
Elgin… Aberdeen…Mary Scott…She Rose and Let me In….She Rose and Let me In…Cumbernauld House, Bottom of the Punch Bowl… Blue Britches, Oyster Wive’s Rant….The Carle Came o’er the Craft…Cuzzle Together… Miss Blair’s Reel
Cover Art is a...2020-11-141h 00
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastHappy International Uilleann Piping Day!Tunes:
Charles and Samuel Thompson: Trip to Paris, The Breast Knot
Charles and Samuel Thompson 24 Country Dances for the Year 1771:
https://imslp.org/wiki/24_Country_Dances_for_the_Year_1771_(Various)
Check out Jimmy’s Gift presented by the Celitc Piper’s Club on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/ENzIxbMEo2c
Or via the Facebook Event for More details:
https://fb.me/e/3nMzSeBcY
You can watch my Country Dance Presentation: “Many Thanks for your Country Dance Book”~John Askin, 1778. Concert and Chat
on Youtube here:
https://youtu.be/z3GiS...2020-11-0710 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E31: Halloween Edition! Fairies, Ghosts and Devilish Pipers Special Halloween EpisodeRobert Burns: Tam O’Shanter
Bremner: Jenny Nettle, What the De’il Ales you?
Vickers: Deval Stick the Minister
John Sutherland: Devil Stick the Minister, The Devil’s Dream
William Gunn: Jenny Nettles
Bland And Weller: The Fairies Revel
Thompson: Love Sick Polly
Padraic Ganly: The Fairy’s Bagpipe
Seamus Ennis: Queen of the Fairies
Cover Art from This 1775 Political Cartoon: Three noblemen dance round a tall thistle as the devil plays the bagpipes; representing Scottish influence on the British policy towards American independence. Engraving, 1775.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/kd...2020-10-3154 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastCountry Dance Live Stream Announcement November 1st at 3:30 pmLivestream Announcement: “Many thanks for your country dance book” -John Askin
John Askin’s Borrowed Country Dance Book
A livestream Discussion and Concert of tunes from likely Country Dance Music Collections Performed on bagpipes and whistles at 3:30 US Central Time on November 1st,
A live stream Discussion and Concert of tunes from several Country Dance Music collection that John Askin may have borrowed From Detroit's Sampson Flemming in 1778.
Performed on Various Bagpipes and Whistles by Jeremy Kingsbury
Lasting More than Thirty minutes, but hopefully no longer than an Hour.
You can Find i...2020-10-2710 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E30: John Walsh's 1750 Caledonia Country Dances With Hare in the Corn and other tunesMatt Seattle: Lady McIntosh’s Reel of O’er the Hills For A’ That
Walsh: Hare in the Corn, My Ain Kind Deary, Turnbridge Frisk, Country Bumkin
James Aird, Bab at the Bowster
O’Farrell: Hare in the Corn, My ain kind Deary, “Handle’s Minuett”
Matt Seattle’s Setting for Lady McIntosh’s Reel can be found in Geordie Syme's Paircel o Tunes https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/geordie-syme-s-parcel-o-tunes
Scots Musical Museum: For a' that an' a' that
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94551444
Walsh’s Hare In the Corn:
https://digital...2020-10-2440 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E29: Cooke's 1796 Country Dances and a Discussion of Barrington's "Waking the Piper"Tunes:
Cooke: Jackson’s Bottle of Claret, Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself, The Lug of the Spade (Jackson), Miss Duval’s Reel
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Silver Mines
Bremner: Lady MacIntosh’s Reel
Logan (John McColl): Lady Mackintosh’s Reel
Goodman: Box The Monkey
Cooke’s Country Dances for the 1796 Season: Jackson’s Bottle of Claret, Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself, The Lug of the Spade, The Silver Mines, Miss Duval’s Reel
https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/text/cookes-country-dances-1796/
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Silver Mines (I still haven’t...2020-10-1740 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E28: Hey Johnny Cock up thy Beaver and A brief History of SlangTunes:
John Playford: Johnny Cock thy Beaver
O’Carolan: Cock up thy Beaver Variations
Dixon: Watty’s Away
Oswald: Johnny Cock-up thy Beaver
Robert Bremner: Scots Bonnet
O’Farrell: The Blue Bonnett
A.L. Lloyd: The Bonny Black Hare
Cover Art from David Allan’s Lead Processing at Leadhills: Weighing the Lead Bars from the 1780s showing a Blue Bonnet and a Cocked hat.
Courtesy of National Galleries Scotland: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/99127/lead-processing-leadhills-weighing-lead-bars
1686: John Playford, Dancing Master rendition of Johnny Cock thy Beaver here:
https...2020-10-101h 05
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E27 Oscar & Malivina A Chat with Nicolas BrownTunes: By Nicolas Brown from new album "Good Enough Music for them who Love it" https://nicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/releases
O’Farrell (et.al) Oscar & Malvina Set for the Pipes
Aird (et. al) Battle from Oscar And Malvina
You can see when you look at the sheet music how much work and craft Nicolas put into creating these renditions of tunes. His performances borrow from many of the known material we have of Oscar and Malvina into some beautiful descriptive and emotive pieces of music. Still, you can find the bones he used below: Head ov...2020-10-031h 08
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E26: Keep The Country Bonny Lassie and Jackson's Welcome HomeTunes:
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Welcome Home
Aria Di Camera: Let’s Shak her well
Bremner: Keep the Country Bonny Lassie
Donald MacDonald: Keep the Country Bonny Lassie
Jackson’s Welcome Home From O’Farrell:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780410
1727 English Dance Setting for Let’s Shak her well (Keep the country Bonny Lassie)
https://archive.org/details/AriaDiCamera1727/page/n71/mode/2up?q=shak+her
Bremner’s Setting for Keep the Country Bonny Lassie (Seems also to be a highland Pipe Setting)
https://digital.nls.uk/special...2020-09-2620 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E25: Dorrington Lads A Conversation with Donald WG LindsayTunes:
William Dixon: Dorrington Lads by Donald WG Lindsay & Richard Youngs
This episode is a track from Donald Lindsay and Richard Youngs' new album The History of Sleep and a conversation about Dorrington Lads, Dixon tunes, Bagpiping on Ascension Island in the Time of Covid and several other things with Donald and Hannah all the way from Ascension Island.
You can and should check out the additional tracks by buying Donald and Richard’s excellent album “History of Sleep” here: https://goodenergy.bandcamp.com/
If you don’t have it yet, I really e...2020-09-191h 23
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E24: Descriptive Pieces The Irish Fox Hunt, Oscar and Malvina, The Desperate Battle and The Stool of RepentanceTunes:
O’Farrell: Oscar and Malvina, Irish Fox Hunt
Piobaireachd: The Desperate Battle
Dixon: The Stool of Repentance
Bremner: Wright’s Rant
Gunn: The Piper’s Son
O’Farrell’s Irish Fox Hunt:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781370
If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend watching this clip of Liam O’Flynn talking about and playing the Fox Chase:
https://youtu.be/EQU84O8xZlE
O’Farrell’s Oscar & Malvina Set for the Pipes:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781238
Angus MacKay’s Man...2020-09-1252 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E23: Maggie Cameron AKA The Lasses Pisses Brandy and O’Farrell original Waterford WaltzTunes:
Dixon: The Lasses Bushes Brawly
William Vickers: Lassess Pisses Brandy
Gunn: William Roy’s Loomhouse
James Scott Skinner: Maggie Cameron
O’Farrell: Waterford Waltz,
Bremner: The Lady’s Breast Knot
The Lasses Bushes Brawly:
From William Dixon’s Manuscript:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
Lasses Pisses Brandy From William Vickers' Manuscript:
http://www.farnearchive.com/browse_by_collection.asp It seems like this awesome Archive hasn’t been updated in nearly 20 years, and there are some issues with dead links, but if you search around you...2020-09-0534 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E22: Hoop her and Gird HerTunes:
Dixon: Hit Her Between the Legs
Geoghegean: Jigg call’d Whip her & Gird Her
Gow: Hoop Her and Gird Her
O’Farrell: Bridget my Treasure
Dixon’s Hit Her Between the Legs: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
John Geoghegan’s Setting for “Jigg call’d Whip her & Gird Her”: (it is on Page 10)
https://books.google.com/books?id=2WAhy_kbUmQC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false
Gow’s Setting for Hoop Her and Gird Her: (it is on page 12)
https://books.google.com/books?id=MMOivIC...2020-08-2937 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E21: Clean Pease Straw, Robert Bremner and John Sutherland CollectionsTunes:
Donald MacDonald: Pease Straw
O’Farrell: Short and Sweet
Robert Bremner: Clean Pease Straw, Pudding Maggie
John Sutherland: Jack Latone, Clean Pease Straw
Pudding Maggie From Robert Bremner:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002845
Clean Pease Straw From Robert Bremner:
https://digital.nls.uk/105003010
John Sutherland’s Clean Pease Straw: (PDF download link again, page 106)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-81-120.pdf
Donald MacDonald’s Pease Straw:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682616
John Suther...2020-08-2228 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E20 Edward Bunting Revisited, Bonny Portmore, Have You Seen My Valentine with guest Simon ChadwickOnce again Big thanks to Simon Chadwick to agreeing to be on the Podcast this week! Check Simon’s current projects out here: http://simonchadwick.net/
Bunting’s The Chanter’s Tune: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104979293
Clarke’s Setting for “The Song of the Chanter” I forgot to mention it has a different title I just got it off of Tune Archive: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Chanter%27s_Tune
Bunting’s Have you Seen My Valentine? https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105814783
Simon Chadwick’s Youtube Video if you want to see him play: ht...2020-08-1552 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E19: Love and a Pipe, Highland Harry Back Again, with guests Ryan Behnke and Unwelcome VisitorsTunes:
O’Farrell: Love and a Pipe Duet, Humours of Ardmore
Donald MacDonald, Highland Harry Back Again
Angus MacKay: Highland Harry Back Again
Robert Burns: My Harry was a Gallant Gay
Guest Track from Unwelcome Visitors: Young Tom Ennis, Jimmy Neary’s, The White Petticoat.
Big thanks to Ryan Behnke for Bagpipe Friendship and collaboration! Listen to his tunes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bagpipebinky/ and check out his website: https://www.ryanbehnkeirishpiper.com/
You can check out Unwelcome Visitors here: https://www.facebook.com/unwelcomevisitors/
I bought their albu...2020-08-0827 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastLive Stream Announcement for August 8 Bagpipes and the North West CompanyCheckout the Facebook page here:
https://facebook.com//Wetootwaags-Bagpipe-and-History-Podcast-105980514479825/
LIVE STREAM 1 PM Saturday August 8th, 2020 (US Central Time GMT -5:00)
Generally this would be the weekend of the Rendezvous Days Pow Wow at Grand Portage
Since we are not meeting in person I’ll be doing a live stream
Music program
Tune in to the Wetootwaag’s Bagpipes and History Podcast Facebook Page or the North American Voyageur Council Facebook Page (and likely some other places) for you to enjoy!
Thanks!
Saturday at 1 PM for a Live...2020-08-0706 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E18: Over the Water to Charlie, Greig’s Pipes, John Walsh Dance MusicJohn Walsh The Puff: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248231
John Walsh: The Laundry (Hot Pot): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90246647
John Walsh: Pot Stick or Shamboy (Over the water to Charlie): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248183
James Oswald’s Over the Water to Charlie: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94596980
Angus MacKay’s Over the Water to Charlie: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007025
O’Farrell’s Setting for Shaun Bee: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780422
I got the Obituary for the Composed of Greig...2020-08-0137 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E17 A Rock and a Wi Pickle Tow, Harp Tunes with Special Guest performance by Simon Chadwick Introduction Edward Bunting and William McGibbon collectionBig thanks to Simon Chadwick to agreeing to be on the Podcast this week! Check Simon’s current projects out here: http://simonchadwick.net/
Donald MacDonald Setting of Dogs Bite Chapmen: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683232
Donald MacDonald Setting of The Rock and the wee Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683078
James Oswald’s Setting of A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94595720
William McGibbon Setting of A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105870582
Will...2020-07-2552 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E16 Napoleonic Fur Trade Pipers, Downfall of Paris, Up and a Warr em a Willie and many moreBe Sure to Hunt down the Podcast on your Favorite Podcast listening service!
If I’m not available on your podcast player of choice send me an email: wetootwaag@gmail.com
Here’s a link to the podcast on Apple Podcasts/Itunes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677
The image for the episode is me dressed as my interpretation of George McKay when he piped for the North West Company at Grand Portage, with my reproduction George McKay Waterloo Pipes (thanks to Chris Black and Janet LaFrance for the image!)
I...2020-07-181h 03
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS 4 E 15 When The King Enjoys His Own again the World will be Turned Upside DownUnfortunately I’m having a hard time finding sheet music for the Bard’s Legacy, I still haven’t found the additional volumes of O’Farrell that I have in printed form.
Donald MacDonald’s The Perewig: https://digital.nls.uk/105682803
Donald MacDonald’s Cuir’s Chiste Moir Me & c. https://digital.nls.uk/105683166
Definitely losing Historian Points for this, but this Wikipedia article was a good background starting place for When the King Enjoys his Own Again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_king_enjoys_his_own_again
See Moll in the Wad from O...2020-07-1138 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 4 Episode 14 Many 98s I Hae a Wife of My Ain with Guest Tim MacDonald and Jeremy WardHoly cow did I include a lot of tunes on this episode! Don’t get used to that!
Big thank you to Tim and Jeremy for letting me play a track off their album “The Wilds” you can buy it here:
https://timandjeremy.com/wilds/
You can also check out there stellar Youtube series “The Neil Gow Sessions” here: https://youtu.be/1qne-ly24Oo
In Chronological order for the Episode:
Gordon Duncan’s 98 Jig can be bought in this awesome collection: https://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/product/gordon-duncans-tunes/
Sall’s Delight From O’Farrell...2020-07-0433 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 4 Episode 13: Robin Power’s Fancy, My Woer Be Merry, Sir J.M. Mackenzie’s Reel, Earl Marischal Reel, Hills of Glenorchy, Humours of Last Night.O’Farrell’s Setting for Robin Power’s Fancy: https://digital.nls.uk/87780650
Donald MacDonald’s My Woer Be Merry: https://digital.nls.uk/105682792
Both Angus MacKay tune settings are on the same page: Sir J.M. MacKenzie’s Reel.
https://digital.nls.uk/105007069
Donald MacDonald’s Earl Marischal: https://digital.nls.uk/105682561
Well I recorded A couple O’Farrell tunes, then Decided I play O’Farrell stuff way too fast and re-recorded it…then it was too slow I think! Ultimately, I decided to scrap that and go back to the fast version of my play...2020-06-2734 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E12 MacKay, MacDonald, O'Farrell tunes with Special guest Carrie DlutowskiSince I’m in a new House…seems like the time to play the tune I “Composed” for my friend’s Ric and Berit when they finalized some messy business with their Cabin: Squatter’s Hame
Since we did the first tune in MacKay’s book here’s the first in O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion, Humours of the Glen. Read it here: https://digital.nls.uk/87779642
And Another MacKay tune I quite liked, “The Bride has a Bonny Thing” You can see it here:
https://digital.nls.uk/105006948
I went back to my house at the last...2020-06-2134 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E11 Amazing Grace, John Newton & The KKK, The Little Spree and MacKay's Rant (With Chris McMullan)Big thanks to Chris McMullan’s for sharing his music with us, you can and should check out his youtube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0sMSmOTrAxO8Yox_rUYi1Q
and buy his album: https://chrismcmullan.bandcamp.com/releases
Thanks as well to the Bob Dunsire discussion board.
If you want to read John Newton’s Account “Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade: http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=21874801;view=image;seq=1
Some Further Reading about the Lumbee and the KKK: https://web.archive.org/web/20120309032929/http://www.learnn...2020-06-1545 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4 E10 Donald MacDonald Corrections to previous Episodes, every old Dance tune was Donald MacDonald.Black Lives Matter Notes:
Here are some good resources and places to donate funds to support the Black Lives Matter Protests:
I found this website really helpful for figuring out how to help, and how to understand what defunding the police means, and why it is a good idea.
https://www.mpd150.com/how-can-you-help-mpls-june-2020/
“The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the id...2020-06-0838 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 4 Episode 9 Hebrides Episode- Improv at St.Clement’s Church on Harris, The Three Girls from Portree, Skye Boat Song, To Daunton Me and Corrienessan’s Salute.Theme is pretty lose this episode, did some recordings in an awesome setting on the Isle of Harris a year ago, and they all sorta spill off from there.
The Three Girls from Portree written by Angus McKay, Skye Boat Song first transcribed by Anne Campbelle MacLeod, To Daunton Me from O'Farrell's Setting and Robert Burns song and Corrienessan’s Salute composed by Roderick Dall Mackay Support Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast2020-05-3144 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastS4E08 Lindsay System Chanter, Donald Lindsay, Cam St. Louis, We’ll Gang nae mair to yon townI have a lot of thank yous again for this album! Thanks to my buddy Dave for printing the chanter and thanks to Donald Lindsay and Zexuan Qiao for their work on the print and play chanter! I also appreciate the Musicians that agreed to share their tunes for the episode:
Check out Cam’s Sound Cloud https://soundcloud.com/ravencake/sets/cam-st-louis-sampler and his Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/camstlouis
Check out Lindstrument’s Page: https://lindstruments.com/
And the Lindsay System Chanter Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LindsaySystemChanter/
To incl...2020-05-2535 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastEpisode 7: Cairngorms and Hamish NapierHuge thanks to Hamish Napier! Check out his Bandcamp Page! We listened to tracks from The River, and The Woods Album.
https://hamishnapier.bandcamp.com/
Open up with a clip of me playing a Pibroch I wrote for Grand Portage on the side of the road in the Cairngorms National Park. Then I play a tune from James Aird’s collection “The Braes of Angus”.
Then three glorious tracks from Hamish Napier:
From the River: The May Fly
Woods: The Tree of Life/Lightning
Woods: The Highest Willows
And Conclu...2020-05-2037 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 4 Episode 5 Bog an Lochan, Carolan's Concerto, Glasgow City Police, Noran Keeshna, Coosey JigHighland Pipes: Bog an Lochan (Angus MacKay 19th Century Tune)
Glasgow City Police (modern tune
Uilleann Pipes:
O'Carolan's Concerto (Eighteenth Century)
Noran Keeshna and Coosey Jig (From O'Farrell's Pocket Companion Early 19th Century)
I made an over dubbed recording for the last set. Really hoping to find a good private place to record inside again!
Please leave a review on your litener of choice. If you have any questions or comments feel free to message me at wetootwaag@gmail.com.
Thanks for Listening!Support Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast2020-05-0426 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 4 Episode 4 Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastIn this episode, possibly original tune on Whistle, "Nurse's Song" if you recognize it as something else please email me! wetootwaag@gmail.com
Then we have another fun tune out of James Aird's Eighteenth Century Collection the Moon and the Seven Stars.
Moving onto the Nineteenth Century O'Farrell pocket companion tune Darby Carey on a Chieftain Low Whistle.
Finally Glassy Reflections by me on Highland Pipes.
be sure to check out https://www.thevgat.com/ for a fun DND Let's Play Podcast!Support Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast2020-04-2616 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastEpisode 6: Season 4 Episode 3, New name, new Tune Collection! Welcome to James Aird's CollectionEpisode Notes:
First tune is a Piobaireachead I wrote for my grandparents and Family, called John and Mary Blair Salute. It was recorded on a hillside in Scotland on the shores of Loch Mor, (a bit south of the Falls of Foyers). I misspoke in the beginning here, I meant Ethnostate, not Eurostate, Europe is allowed to have states :)
Next track is two Hornpipes, The Eric Rigler album in question was from 1997, and the Hornpipes were Plains of Boyle and Boys of Blue Hill.
The O'Farrell Waltz's are The Salamanca and the Copenhagen Waltz.
The...2020-04-1431 min
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastSeason 4 Episode 2Let me Know you are listening!
wetootwaag@gmail.com any hold outs from last round of posting episodes or are you all new listeners?
Tunes Played on this episode:
Highland Pipes set: Jigs from Angus MacKay's collection, and maybe some from Donald McDonald's collection too...not sure.
Original Uilleann pipe tune (maybe) The Jared Wicks Let me know if you recognize this as a pre-existing tune!
Highland Pipe Recording from Simon McTavish's Birthplace, Garthbeg, In Scotland, a bit South of Loch Ness, These tunes are: Dunrobin Castle, Wren's Death, Jenny Dang the...2020-03-2928 minWetootwaag's Bagpipe and History PodcastWetootwaag's Podcast Of Bagpipe Power Covid Season Episode 1So...It has been a while. I realized I have hours and hours of recordings of me playing since I last put up an episode and I need to get a handle on how to do a podcast again for my Dissertation research, so here's some piping!
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