Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

176 episodes of Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast since the first episode, which aired on March 20th, 2020.

  • S 09 E 15 Robert Miller's 1838 Highland Bagpipe Manuscript with tune from Dàimh

    June 14th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 1 min
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, great 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:
    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: Dinny The Piper
    William Ross: MacLeod’s March
    George S. MacLennan: The MacLeod’s March

    Thank you to Keith Sanger for sending me the Manuscript to look over and play from.

    Big thank you to Dàimh! Check out their album here:
    https://daimh.bandcamp.com/album/the-hebridean-sessions

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  • S 09 E 14 Listener Submitted Special Rerun and Reminder

    June 7th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 19 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

    The T-Shirt Sale I talk about in the episode was from years ago….but it’s back!
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    https://www.bagpipeswag.com/product-page/wetootwaag-boxy-t

    Send in your own submissions to bagpipehistory@gmail.com for the new Season 9 Listener Submitted Special
    Tunes:
    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, You Silly Fool, Mr. Mackay’s Jig, The Piper’s Maggot, Woo’ed and Married an’ a (From Donald Macdonald and Eliza Ross)
    James Moyar: Battle of Waterloo
    Jim Sanders: Napoleon Crossing the Rhine

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  • S 09 E 13 Fitzmaurice's New Collection of Irish Tunes Vol VI and Irish Washerwoman with tunes from Rod Nevin

    May 31st, 2025  |  Season 9  |  59 mins 23 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:
    Tunes:
    Fitzmaurice (1807): Rossy Castle, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle, Miss Ann Robinson’s Jigg, Miss Duff’s Jigg, O’Falvey’s Hornpipe, Miss Smollett’s Favorite.
    From Rod Nevin: Rossy Castle, Miss Smollet’s Favorite.
    Rook (1840): Paddy O’Carrol, Irish Washerwoman,
    John Murphy (1810): Paddy O Carroll, The Irish Washerwoman
    Ravenscroft/ Chappel (1609): Oft have I Ridden upon my Grey Nag
    Playford (1651): Dargason,
    Jones (1784): Mwynen Cynwyd,
    Jackson (1774): Jackson’s Humours of Panteen,
    O’Farrell (1807): The Humour of Ballinamult,
    Goodman (1861,63): The Humours of Jug, Tumble the Jug,

    Big thank you to Rod Nevin for an incredibly quick turn around after I requested a couple bass line performances from him. Seriously, I asked and he had them to me in less than 12 hours. You Rock Rod!

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    Check Out Rod Nevin’s Website here:
    https://www.rodericknevin.com/
    Also his band’s album:
    https://fireintheglen.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-bracken

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  • S 09 E 12 Don't Forget to send me some Tunes for the Listener Submitted Special!

    May 22nd, 2025  |  Season 9  |  4 mins 37 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:
    Me: Irish Washerwoman
    Send me your tunes to bagpipehistory@gmail.com

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  • S 09 E 11 Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes Nos. 1-4 revisited

    May 17th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  40 mins 46 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:
    Fitzmaurice: A Connaught Air, Spatter the Dew, Moggy Will you Come Again, Billy O’Rourke, I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me, Mount the Stage, Donald Bran, Loose the Belt, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle, The Munster Lassie, The Lads of Fingall, Turn the Pig from the Tea Pot, Jigg, Mrs. Garden Campbell’s Jigg, The Tore Retreat, Kick the World Before You, Fitzmaurice’s Hornpipe,

    Hamilton: Berlin Waltz
    O’Farrell: Pay the Reckoning

    For my earlier playthroughs which include a lot of concordances check out:

    No. 1: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e14
    No. 2: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e18
    No. 3: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e30
    No. 4: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s6e06

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    1807: A Connaught Air, Spatter the Dew, Moggy Will you Come Again, Billy O’Rourke, I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me, Mount the Stage, Donald Bran, Loose the Belt, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle, The Munster Lassie, The Lads of Fingall, Turn the Pig from the Tea Pot, Jigg, Mrs. Garden Campbell’s Jigg, The Tore Retreat, Kick the World Before You, Fitzmaurice’s Hornpipe, from Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes nos. 1-4
    https://books.google.com/books?id=vq4Fb5TyTK4C&newbks=0&pg=PP2#v=onepage&q&f=false

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  • S 09 E 10 Happy Bandcamp Friday

    May 2nd, 2025  |  Season 9  |  28 mins 15 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:
    Bremner: The Carle He Came o'er the Craft, Ravenscroft's Fancy
    Skinner: The Cradle Song
    Straight and Skillern: The Morning Post
    Eliza Ross: Will You Take a Wife Donald, Dark Girl of the Sheep,
    Donald MacDonald: Tail Toddle, Keep the Country Bonny Lassie, Earl Marischal’s Reel, Old Rusty Gun, The Whimsical, Jingling Johnie, The Miller’s Fair Daughter, Marion & Donald, A Mulinn Dubh, Bodachan a Ghairdh
    Litten: Fa La La, The Nymph

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  • S 09 E 09 Paddy Whack Revisited, Erin Go Braugh and Fitzmaurice Volume V

    April 20th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  50 mins 16 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:
    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

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  • S 09 E 08 A Selkie's Progress with Song by Berit Allison and others

    April 5th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 39 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:
    From A Selkie's Progress: (available Monday, April 7: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/a-selkies-progress
    The Traveler to the Forest, “Cha ‘n ‘eil Cailleach agam fhein” (I am Alone Since my Wife Died), The Storm Rescue, Lord Bateman, Corrienessan's Salute, Selkie's Lament, Resolve, Dundee, Clark Colven, Fa La La, Shoals of Herring, Robin Hood's Preferment (The Noble Fisherman)
    Ewan MacColl: The Shoals or Herring
    Berit Allison: Selkie's Lament
    Arthur Knevett: Lord Bateman,
    Sung Ballad by Me: Clark Colven, Robin Hood's Preferment,

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  • S 09 E 07 Mini Episode Check Out Droning On Podcast this week

    March 29th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  9 mins 43 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:
    William Dixon: Stool of Repentance

    Check out Droning On Episode 120 wherever you get your podcasts or Here:
    https://rss.com/podcasts/droning-on/1924252/
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  • S 09 E 06 Paddy Whack With a Song from Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer

    March 23rd, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 23 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:
    Straight and Skillern: Paddy Whack
    Robert Ross: Paddy Whack
    Sutherland: Paddy Whack
    Gordon Mooney: Black Hen’s Egg
    Alex MacKay: Black Hen’s Egg
    John MacPherson Mulhollan: Paddy Whack, Jackson’s Cassock
    Peacock: Paddy Whack
    O’Farrell: Paddy Whack, The Black Joke
    Hannam: Paddy Whack
    Steele: Green Joke
    Riley: While History’s Muse
    Millar: Paddy Whack
    Roddy Cannon: Paddy Whack (from Millar)
    Ballad: Polly Oliver
    Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer: Sweet Peggy Oliver
    Goodman: The Pig Under the Pot
    Alexander Glen: Paddy Whack
    David Glen: Paddy Whack

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  • S 09 E 05 The Advocate’s Manuscript New Chanter, Ghost Notes and also I’m the new President of Lowland and Border Piping Society! with tunes from Fionnllagh MacA’Phiocar and Donald Lindsay

    March 9th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 12 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:
    Gutch, Rimbault Et. Al: Robin Hood’s Preferment
    Me: Dynamic Theme, Storm Theme,
    Fionnllagh MacA’Phiocar: Ghost Notes
    Donald Lindsay: Invocation of the Corn Mother, Two Boats Under the Moon
    Advocates Manuscript: Tune 58, 1, A Scots Measure, Jamies Reel (Oyster Wives Rant), The Britches Loose, The Island of Love, The White Jock
    O’Farrell: The Shepherds Hornpipe
    Walsh: Petticoat Tight, Petticoat Loose,
    Fitzmaurice: Loose the Belt
    Straight and Skillern: Cupid’s Frolick, Cox’s Museum, Naples Dance, Black Dance, Island of Love
    James Horner: The Legend Spreads

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  • S 9 E 04 Celtic Melodies Mail Coach and Angus MacKay's High B Manuscript

    February 23rd, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 20 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:
    Anderson: The Mail Coach
    Highlander: “Gu’n d’thug mi suil air an trupa ghlas.” “I cast an eye on the grey troop”, “Chaidh mi thun na traigh.” “I wen to the Ebb”, “Gur Trom, tom a tha mi” Sad, Sad am I,
    Angus MacKay: Wha’ll be King but Charlie, Lilla’s A Lady, Lilla’s a Lady, Voulez vous danser Madamoiselle or the Portuguese, Paddy Rafferty’s With Variations, Fowler’s Rant, Lady Ellinor Campbell, No. XIII Pipe Reel, “Gur mise tha suncach” “Tis me that’s Happy”, No. 22 Pipe Reel “Lochiel’s Awa To France”
    Hamilton: Lilla’s a Lady
    Alexander MacKay: Lady Ellinor Campbell’s Reel, Miss Catherine Campbell Ardmore’s Strathspey,
    Andrew O’Sullivan: Black Grouse
    William Vickers: Lochail’s Real

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  • Season 9 E 03 Celtic Melodies with new article from Roddy Cannon & Keith Sanger and tunes from Rod Nevin

    February 8th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 20 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:
    “Highlander” (Maybe Alexander MacKay): Biodh mid subhach (Let us Be Merry), Falb orra, ho! (Ho away she goes) and Pipe Reel (Smith of Killiechassie), Latha dhomhsa ‘s mi siubhal garbhlaich (One day as I was traversing mountains), Cha ‘n ‘eil Cailleach agam fhein (I am Alone since my wife died), Pipe Reel (The Black Hen’s Egg), Cainntearachd (As is played on the pipe!), A Jacobite Air.
    If you have some thoughts about the collection of tunes, or want to send me a recording of you playing some of the tunes get in touch at bagpipehistory@gmail.com

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  • S 09 E 02 Rerun of a Conversation about Bagpipe Myths and History with Keith Sanger

    January 25th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  2 hrs 9 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:
    Angus Cumming: Arndilly’s Reel, Sir Harry Innes’s Reel

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  • S 09 E 01 New Intro Music and Season 5 MixTape Rerun

    January 12th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 13 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:
    Straight And Skillern: Raspberry Blossoms

    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: 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 – Pay The Pipemaker: John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes

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  • S 08 E 29 Season Finale MacDonald Drone Regulator with Song from Adam Sanderson

    December 28th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 30 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 Doors: The End
    My Setting: Macrimmon Shall Never Return, John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes,
    Kilberry(ish): Macrimmon Will Never Return, Corrienessan’s Salute, Lord Lovat’s Lament, The Pretty Dirk, Battle of Auldearn, Piper’s Warning To His Master,
    Rainstorp: Jack Latine
    Angus MacKay: The Pretty Dirk
    Donald MacDonald: Reel of Tulloch, Brose and Butter, The Green Hillock (Tulloch Ghorum), The Cock Crowing (Cock of the North),
    Adam Sanderson: Auntie Mary

    Thank you so much to Vince Ayub for sending me the Donald MacDonald Drone Regulators and bass drone reed.
    Special thanks to Adam Sanderson for sending me his singing of Auntie Mary
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