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 08 E 28 Season 8 Mix Tape part 2

    December 21st, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 18 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:
    Brendan 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 World Green
    Andy May Trio: Hambo Eric
    Triton: The Creek Beneath the Snow
    Iain MacHarg: Green Knight Title Sequence
    Sean Reidy: Wahoo Tree

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  • S 08 E 27 Season 8 Mix Tape part 1

    December 14th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  53 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:
    Simon Pfisterer: Super Mario
    Dan Whelan/Crooked Penny: Saros
    Air: La Femme d’Argent
    Circulus: Dragon’s Dance
    Bagad Brieg: Bourrée du val d'amour
    Brendan Taaffe: The Eagle’s Whistle
    Aaron Jonah Lewis: Egyptian Princess
    Benjamin Elzerman: Idumea
    James Moyar: So Treibeb Wir

    (Notes to come)
    Check Out Simon’s Album here:
    https://simonpfisterer.com/product/another-way-to-go-cd/

    Check Out “Crooked Penny’s” album Eclipse here:
    https://crookedpenny.bandcamp.com/album/eclipse

    Check out Air here:
    https://www.airfrenchband.com/

    Check out Circulus here:
    https://circulus.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-dingwalls-2005

    Check out Bagad Brieg Here:
    https://www.bagadbrieg.bzh/

    Check Out Aaron Jonah Lewis Here:
    https://aaronjonahlewis.com/recordings/
    https://aaronjonahlewis.bandcamp.com/album/mozart-of-the-banjo-the-joe-morley-project

    Check Out Brendan Taaffe here:
    https://brendantaaffe.bandcamp.com/album/heap-of-horseshoes

    Check Out Benjamin Elzerman’s Track on Pipes for Peace here:
    https://droningon.bandcamp.com/album/pipes-for-peace

    Start getting Pumped for the return of James Moyar’s Droning On Podcast!
    https://www.facebook.com/DroningOnPodcast/

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  • S 08 E 26 180 year old Tunes on a 180 Year old Chanter Angus MacKay playthrough on Donald MacKay Chanter (maybe)

    November 30th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 5 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 MacKay: MacKay’s Rant, The Smith’s Daughter, Roryson’s Breeks, The Kilt’s My Delight, The Bride has a Bonny Thing, The Athole Plaid, Rob Roy MacGregor O, Bog An Lochan, The Minister’s Mare, The Herd of the Glen, The Muckin’ o’ Geordie’s Byre,
    JS Bach: Bouree in E Minor
    Ryan Canning: Double F Dilemma
    My setting: Chim chim cher-ee, Paddy’s Leather Breeches,
    Rufus Harley: Chim Chim Cher-ee
    Patrick McDonald: G# tune
    William McGibbon: Duncan Gray
    William Vickers: A Hornpipe the Dunkin Gray,
    Scots Musical Museum: Duncan Gray
    Crosby: Duncan Gray, The Mucking of Geordie’s Gyre, Tam Glen
    Aird: Rondo, MacFarlane’s Strathspey, Mucking of Geordie’s Byre, Tam Glen,
    Andy Stewart: The Mucking O’ Geordie’s Byre
    Oliver & Co.: The Mucking Of Geordie’s Byre

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  • S 08 E 25 Donald MacDonald Playthrough Part 4 Dunrobin Castle and Bung Your Eye

    November 16th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 14 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:
    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 William Neal: The Humours of Dublin

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  • Season 8 Episode 24: Halloween Special Cemetery Piping

    October 31st, 2024  |  Season 8  |  55 mins 58 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:
    Jeremy Kingsbury: Gichi Onigaming, Lazarus Gunn, Tibby Fowler, Jenny Nettles, Macrimmon Shall Never Return, O'er the Hills and Far Away, The Little Spree, Eagles Whistle,

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  • S 08 E 23 Witch Treatises Halloween Special with Tunes from Patrick Hutchinson and Autorickshaw Part 2

    October 25th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  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:
    Autorickshaw: J'entends le Moulin
    Patrick Hutchinson: The Driver's March, Darby the Driver
    Thompson: A Cock Laird fu' Caigie
    John Bell: Little Wat ye who's coming
    William Vickers: Well Dane Jack
    Genevan Psalster/Tim Cummings: Genevan 65
    McGibbon: She Rose and Let Me in
    Glen: The Witch's Stane
    Albyn's Anthology?: Twa Corbies
    Atkinson: Saw ye not my Meggy

    Thank you to Autorickshaw for the use of J'entends le Moulin off their Album Meter, check it out on Bandcamp:
    https://autorickshaw.bandcamp.com/album/meter

    Thanks to Patrick Hutchinson for his track The Driver’s March and Darby the Driver.
    He is currently taking students at Boston Irish Music School and around.
    https://bostonirishmusicschool.com/

    +X+X+X+

    I highly recommend the Witches of Scotland Podcast:
    https://www.witchesofscotland.com/podcast

    I particularly reference the first several episodes featuring a conversation with Dr. Julian Goodare

    Check out the excellent resource on Scottish Witchcraft trials:
    The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
    http://witches.hca.ed.ac.uk/home/

    Check out Hans Peter Broedel’s Book (Who’s Library I’ve been borrowing):
    The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft Theology and Popular Belief
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/35002

    I also Rather enjoyed Gordon Mooney’s articles for background reading and some potential threads to pull at.
    https://www.oddscotland.com/pipers-tales-the-devil-and-piping

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  • S 08 E 22 Witch Treatises Halloween Special Part 1

    October 19th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 3 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 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

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  • S 08 E 21 John Bell, Byker Hill and Dorrington Lads with songs from Frankie Archer, Cork Sacred Harp and many others

    October 6th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 21 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:
    Notes will be a little bit late this episode,
    Tunes:

    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 I, Dorrington Lads,
    William Vickers: Alcy Marly
    Robert Topliff: Elsie Marley
    Tom Clough: Elslie Marley
    O’Neill: the Humours of trim
    Willie Clancy: The Rolling Wave
    Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick: Byker Hill & My Dearie Sits O’er Late Uup
    Peacock: Bonny Bay Mare, My Dearie Sit Over Late Up
    Winship: Dorrington Laddie
    Melodies Committee: Dorrington lads
    William Dixon: Dorrington lads
    John Rook: Dorrington Lads
    Pat Sky: Luang Prabang

    Special thanks to:
    Frankie Archer
    Check her new Album
    Pressure and Persuasion: https://frankiearcher.bandcamp.com/album/pressure-and-persuasion

    Cork Sacred Harp Singers
    Check out their recordings on Bandcamp:
    https://corksacredharp.bandcamp.com/album/the-tenth-ireland-convention-2020-saturday

    Father Son & Friends:
    Check Out Father Son & Friends Music on Streaming Platforms and Here:
    https://www.fathersonandfriends.com/download-music

    Listen to John Dally’s Radio Show, The Rolling Wave:
    https://voiceofvashon.org/the-rolling-wave-1/

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  • S 08 E 20 Wetootwaag's Summer Rambles with tunes from Jim Sanders, Robert Edwards, Abe Zettek, Daniel Laxer, Cory Rudell and more

    September 21st, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 14 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:
    Me: Eagle’s Whistle, Mermaid Set, The Lilting Banshee, Fettercairn’s Reel
    Jim Sanders: Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, St. Anne’s Reel, Red Haired Boy, Shady Grove
    Robert Edwards: Fano Island Folk Song
    Abe Zettek: Tulloch Gorum
    Daniel Laxer: Bacon Ridge Jig
    Corey Rudell: MacPhearson’s Rant, Am I born to Die?

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  • S 08 E 19 Cold and Raw Album Discussion

    September 5th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  58 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:
    David Young: Tibby Fowler of the Glen, Old Wife Beyond the Fire, Tom Come Tickle Me,
    Johnson: A Trip to the Laundry,
    Watlen: Soldier's Dance, Miss Watson's Favorite, Honorable David Ruthven's Birthday, Pony Races, L'abbe'
    Eliza Ross: Miss Mary___, Eliza Ross's Unnamed Jig
    William Vickers: Old Wagon Way,
    James Oswald: The Souters of Selkirk, Larry Grogan,
    Thompson: The High Road to Dublin,
    Smollet Holden: Paddy the Pipers
    Donald MacDonald: The Buckskin Kilt, The Wren's Death, The Kilt is My Delight, Jenny Dang the Weaver,

    Check out Cold and Raw on Bandcamp: Link goes live Friday, September 6 (California timezone) https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/cold-and-raw

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  • S 08 E 18 Music of the John Sutherland Manuscript

    August 24th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 22 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:
    John Sutherland: Clean Pease Straw, Jocky is a Bonny Lad, Jacks Alive, The Hare in the Corn, The Pantheon, Johnny McGill, Jenny Nettles, Ranting Roaring Highlandman, Trip it up Stairs, The Cock and the Hen, Barm,
    Donald MacDonald: Pease Straw,
    David Young: Fettercairn’s Reel,
    Robert Bremner: Clean Pease Straw, Jenny Nettles,

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  • S 08 E 17 The Sutherland Manuscript (article by Ross Anderson)

    August 10th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  35 mins 20 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:
    This episode is a read through of Ross Anderson's article about the Sutherland Manuscript that he published with NPU.
    You can read it yourself on Ross's Music Page:
    https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
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  • S 08 E 16 Getting Pumped for Pipers' Gathering 2024

    July 27th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 22 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:
    James Oswald: Over the Hills and Far Away
    William Vickers: Galloway Tom, Nancy Dawson, Shilanagary
    O’Farrell: Galloway Tom
    A Trip to the Laundry
    David Young: Tibby Fowler, Corby Reel, O’er Bogie
    Patrick MacDonald: Oscar’s Ghost,
    Hibernean Muse: High Road to Dublin
    Smollett Holden: Paddy the Piper
    James Oswald: Larry Grogan
    Patrick Hutchinson: Sheela O'Gara
    O’Farrell: Sheeling O Guira with new Variations
    Colleen Shanks: The Maid in the Meadow, Rolling in the Rye Grass
    Dan Houghton: Fear nan Casan Caola (the rejected suitor) Jenny’s picking cockles, the swallows tail
    Ian Crane: Burning the Pipers’ Hut
    Chris Gray, Jim Gray, and Heather McLeod (Scottish Minuet She's Sweetest, Castle Kelly, Back to Belfast, The Butcher's March (Turkish)

    Attend the Pipers’ Gathering!!
    https://www.pipersgathering.org/

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  • S 08 E 15 70,000 Downloads Listener Submitted Special

    July 13th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 11 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:
    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, Rob Shore In Harvest, Lady Susan Montgomery’s Hornpipe
    Jeremy Kingsbury: Rob Shore in Harvest, The Birth of Kisses, One Evening as I lost my Way,
    Barry Shears: SSP- Gaelic reels: The Old Woman’s Dress; MacAlister’ Dirk : The Red Rooster; More Rum for the Piper; Thompson’s Dirk; the Mi’kmaq Reel; Beat the Red Coats at Culloden (Cameronian Rant) followed by : “Recorded at a house party around 2011… Robert Rennie on Guitar and Barry Shears SSP Tunes I’ll Get a soldier for a shilling, Drunken Piper, Abercairney Highlanders (old sett), The MacDonald’s March.”
    James Moyer: Pottsfield C.M.
    Greyson Leybourne: Suile Shuibhne (Sweeney’s Eyes)

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  • S 8 E 14 First Three Days with Colin Ross Bagpipes

    June 30th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  46 mins 25 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:
    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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  • S 08 E 13 Small Small Pipe Episode Sutherland Tunes on Quiet Piper pipes

    June 22nd, 2024  |  Season 8  |  15 mins 38 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:
    Sutherland: Boys on The Mall,
    Chappell: Poor Robin's Maggot
    O'Farrell: Merry old Woman
    James Goodman: Lord Mayo
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