Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Original Compositions, Historic Tunes and Popular Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries

About the show

This show is (mostly) a bi-weekly podcast that explores the likely repertoire of eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers, using historic music collections (written for bagpipes or not), performed on Uilleann pipes, Highland pipes and whistles. Every episodes notes include links to the historic sheet music when available. For information about my Albums Oyster Wives Rant, and Pay the Pipemaker go here:

https://www.wetootwaag.com/albums

For information about Jeremy and the instruments played on the show go here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/about

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Episodes

  • S5 E35: Season Finale Cape Breton Tunes and Eliza Ross Manuscript

    December 31st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  57 mins 54 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    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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  • S5 E34: Cape Breton Piping Chat with Barry Shears

    December 18th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 28 mins
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    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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  • S5 E 33: 8 Months in, High B and C on Highland Pipes Tips and Tricks with a Tune from Malin Lewis and Bob Cameron

    December 3rd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  54 mins 26 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    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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  • S5 E32 Wetootwaag’s Mix Tape of Other people’s Music

    November 20th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 10 mins
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    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 Howley
    Jamie MacDonald & Christian Gamauf - The Pipe Slang:Asturian, Mo Nighean Donn à Cornaig
    Fraser Fifield, Piobaireachd Pipe Music:Where Rivers Meet, The MacDougall's Gathering
    Iain Gelston - Soundcloud: Leshly's March, Cotting Burn
    Jeremy Kingsbury: John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes.

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  • S5 E31 International Uilleann Piping Day: Hibernian Muse, John Murphy and a Song from Pat D’Arcy

    November 6th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  57 mins 19 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    Hibernian 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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    Huge thank you to Patrick D’Arcy for sharing a track with us. You should check out Pat’s Albums here:
    http://www.patrickdarcymusic.com/store.html
    And His Important website here:
    https://www.uilleannobsession.com/
    and His excellent Youtube channel here:
    https://www.youtube.com/PDarcy

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    Here are some links to things happening on International Uilleann Piping Day:
    https://www.facebook.com/uilleannpipingday/
    https://pipers.ie/event-single/international-uilleann-piping-day-iupd-2021/

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  • S5E30 Fitzmaurice's Spooky Gold Ring with Tune from Blackie O'Connell

    October 29th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 10 mins
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    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
    Blackie O’Connell and Siobhán Peoples: The Gold Ring & The Dawn Chorus

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  • 5e29: Caledonian and Hibernian Muse Audiobook and Tunes

    October 16th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 1 min
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    Caledonian Muse: Posodh Peathar, Muirland Willie, He Hirpled Tille Her, Polworth Green
    Hibernian Muse: Carolan’s Receipt, Port Patrick, Coulin, Irish Hoboy

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  • s5e28 The Gravel Walk To Kiss Mother with Tunes from Frankie Kennedy & Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tim Britton

    October 11th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 10 mins
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes (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 / Old Cuffe Street
    Hime: Ryan’s Rant
    McFadyen: Rayan’s Rant
    John Clinton: Paddy Cary
    Ryan Mammoth: Around The World (or is it Mammoth as in Huge?)
    O’Neill: Jolly Seven, Tie The Bonnet/Rambler’s Rest, The Fairy Hurlers
    Traditional Tune Archive: Galway Rambler
    Stephen Grier: Lord Wellington, Maid In the Cherry Tree/Curragh Races/Untitled)
    Kerr: Ryan’s Rant
    From Tim Britton: The Gravel Walk

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  • S5E27: Brian Howard and Sean Lally Interview with tunes from Finbar Furey and Steven Dockery

    October 2nd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 7 mins
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    The Fureys and Bob Stewart: Tomorrow we Part, Regulation, and The Volta
    Steven Dockery: The Blarney Pilgrim, and Joy of My Life
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  • S5E26 20,000 Download Special and Update

    September 21st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  26 mins 50 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    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 shopping mood:

    Robert Felsburg:

    https://www.thequietpiper.com/

    He is a great follow on Instagram and occasionally posts a video or a live of himself playing William Dixon tunes, so obviously I am a fan!
    https://www.instagram.com/thequietpiper/

    Ross Calderwood

    You can Check out Ross’s Page Here:
    https://www.lochalshpipes.co.uk/

    He also has some great clips of himself playing Dixon tunes on his Youtube channel worth watching but this is the video I referenced about the various tunings with his drone configuration, besides you get to see his impressive shop set up behind him😊 :
    https://youtu.be/deOGkXiiPCE

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  • S5E25: General Leslie's Highland March from Oscar and Malvina

    September 11th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  52 mins 7 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    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 Far Away Wedding, The Grinder, I have a Wife of My Ain, Brose and Butter & An Irish Jig

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  • s5e24 Hymns and Mackintoshs Lament with James Moyar and Chris Gray

    August 29th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  55 mins 42 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    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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  • S5E23: Tunes from the Patrick McDonald Discussion with guest tune from Ronan Browne

    August 14th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 1 min
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, ronan browne, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    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 Country Dances: Tune number 1, 2, 3, 5, 13 (Joseph MacDonald’s Jig, Whip her and Gird Her, The Far Away Wedding, Reel of Stumpie, The Lochaber Dance).
    Eliza Ross: A chaorain A chaorain (Little peat, Little Peat), Dòmhnall Àlainn a’ tighinn (Elegant Donald is coming).
    Celtic Melodies: Pipe Reel, Tha Goal again air an nighinn (I love the Lassie).
    Alexander Campbell: I Bid my Heart be Still, It Was O’er in Yon Soa.
    Special Thanks to Ronan Browne for letting me play his tunes.
    You can buy his music here:
    People can buy CDs from www.ronanbrownemusic.com
    Ronan let me know about a series of video’s he has been working which are hosted by The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre. I highly recommend this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4gVm8PoF1U
    There are new ones being released, and old ones being hidden from view pretty regularly, so be sure to subscribe to the youtube channel:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVtIFrH7-r2I5rRS-K8F9UA

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  • S5E22: Discussion of The Patrick McDonald Collection With Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart

    August 7th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 20 mins
    aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

    Tunes:
    From Joe Hughie McIntyre courtesy of the Barry Shears Collection: Tulloch Gorum, Sandy Cameron, Eight Men of Moidart, Miss Proud.
    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.

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  • S5 E21: Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs Audiobook

    July 31st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 25 mins
    anthony smith, archive, audiobook, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, celtic music, david young, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, harp, highland, highland vocal airs, history, irish music, joseph mcdonald, macpherson, music, ossian, pastoral pipes, patrick mcdonald, primary source, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walter young

    This episode Functions mostly as an Audiobook style reading of Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs.
    The Preface and Article were Read by Anthony Smith.
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    https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

  • Bonus Episode 2

    July 25th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  30 mins 19 secs
    bagpipes, border pipes, celtic music, eighteenth century, flagolet, history, ireland, irish music, irish traditional music, jaw harp, music, nineteenth century, scottish smallpipes, uilleann, uilleann pipes, walker jackson, whistle

    Jackson's Celebrated Irish tunes Play through, all tunes, minimal discussion.