Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

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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S 08 E 12 Saw a Lassie of Fifteen in the Mines at Wicklow: John Sutherland Manuscript Part 2

June 15th, 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:
John Sutherland: The Witches, The Boys of the Mall, Boys Avoid of all Care, Peggy Kelly
Fitzmaurice: Turn the Pig from the Teapot Jigg
O’Farrell: The Gay Lass, Saw Ye a Lassie of Fifteen, The Merry old Woman, Old Women’s Money, Tiarnnan Mayo, Lord Mayo,
Playford: Wou’d you Have a young Virgin or Poor Robin’s Maggot,
Thomas D’Urfrey: Would ye have a young virgin of fifteen years
Chappell: Poor Robin’s Maggot
John Gay: If the Heart of a Man is Distrest with Cares (Scene III The Beggar’s Opera)
Alan Ramsay: Would you have a young Virgin of fifteen Years,
Chetwood: Wou’d you court a young Virgin
Oswald: Saw Ye a Lassie of fifteen Years
James Aird: Miners of Wicklow, Miners of Wicklow
Thompson: Tiagharna Mhaighe-co
James Goodman: Lord Mayo

Cover Art From William Hogarth’s Marriage A La Mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marriage_A-la-Mode_4,_The_Toilette_-_William_Hogarth.jpg

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S 08 E 11 Exploring Key Signatures from Walker Jackson Part 2 with tunes from Frank Claudy and Patrick Hutchinson

June 1st, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 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:
Walker Jackson: Cossey’s Jigg, Jackson’s Morning Brush, Jackson’s Night Cap, Jackson’s Dream, Humours of Listivain, The maids in the Morning
Niel Gow: The Cossy Jigg
James Aird: Casseys Jig, The Humours of Listivain,
O’Farrell: The Cosey Jigg, Jerry’s Rambles,
Francis O’Neill: Jimmy O’Brien’s Jig
John Clinton: Copey’s Jigg,
John Bowie: Humours of Listivain, Pither in Enough
O’Farrell: Jerry’s Rambles, Sally McGee, Sheelina Gra Will You Be Mine,
Henry Hudson: Jolly Old Woman
Richard Levey: The Humours of Bandon
Patrick Hutchinson: Humours of Listivain
Frank Cloudy: Humours of Listivain
Many thanks to Patrick Hutchinson and Frank Cloudy for supplying me with their takes of Humours of Listivain.

Patrick and Frank both mentioned Kieran Jordan’s Sean-nós dance choreography to the tune
Kieran kindly sent me a link to a video of the dance, which begins around fifteen minutes in (with a solo slow air)
https://youtu.be/mVxeGJIaDaY?si=2y23oW2oAGoNMfkZ&t=1031

If you’d like to get a copy of the Album Frank Cloudy sent me (and I highly recommend it) send Frank an email (and $12 to claudyf@msn.com )
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S 08 E 10 Tunes from the William Litten Manuscript

May 25th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 59 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:
You can look at the ABC notation of these tunes here:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html

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S08 E09 Exploring the Key Signatures in Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes

May 18th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 2 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

S08 E09 Exploring the Key Signatures in Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes

Tunes:
Ewan MacColl: Jamie Raeburn’s Farewell
Walker Jackson: Humours of Panteen, Jackson's Bouner Bougher (3 Ways), Jackson over the Water,Jackson’s Turret, The Figure of 3,
John Bowie: The Humours of Panteen, Pither in Enough
James Aird: Pither in Enough, Jackson Over the Water,
John Murphy: Jackson Over the Water
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Lake, Jacksons Punch Bowl, Jacksons Bottle of Punch
Sutherland: Jackson’s Lake,
Francis O’Neill: The Figure of Three
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S 08 E 08 John Peacock’s Collection Part 1 (aka 5 days with a Northumbrian Small pipe Chanter)

May 4th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  46 mins 12 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:
Peacock: Frisky, Welcome to the Town Again, A Mile to Ride, Niel Gows Wife, New Drops of Brandy, Bonny Lad, Niel Gow, Money Musk, Lady Coventry’s Minuet
Donald MacDonald: We’ll Gang Nae Mair to Yon Town
Alexander MacKay: A mile to Ride
Niel Gow: Niel Gow’s Wife
Walker Jackson: Cummilum
James Aird: Niel Gow
James Bremner (and Frances Hopkinson): Lady Coventry’s Minuet

Special thanks to Benjamin Elzerman for the chanter and Reed!

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S 08 E07 George MacLeod's 1784 Repertoire part 2 (Patrick MacDonald's Piper)

April 20th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 4 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 Vickers: Strike The Bell
Johnson: Simon Pure
Straight and Skillern: Stage Chace
Menzies: Taste Life’s Glad Moments
Patrick MacDonald: Tune 7 (The Goat Herd), Tune 8 (Spoigan/The Innundation), Tune 9 (The Drover Lads), Tune 10 (The Unfortunate Jock), Tune 11 (Behind the Bush in the Garden), Tune 12
Donald MacDonald: The Goat Herd
William Gunn: The Goat and Sheep Herd, The Inundation, The Drover Lads, Behind the Bush in the Garden
Angus MacKay: The Goat Herd
David Glen: The Goat Herd
Robert Ross: Spoigan
David Young: Unfortunate Jock

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