Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
170 episodes of Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast since the first episode, which aired on March 20th, 2020.
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Season 5 Episode 18: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe & I am Asleep Don’t Wake Me with Music from Pete Stewart, Rob Turner and Simon Chadwick
June 26th, 2021 | Season 5 | 1 hr 16 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
Season 5 Episode 18: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe & I am Asleep Don’t Wake Me with Music from Pete Stewart, Rob Turner and Simon Chadwick
Tunes:
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 Simon Chadwick)Special Thanks to Pete Stewart, Rob Turner and Simon Chadwick for being On the Episode this week.
Pete Stewart has some great videos uploaded to his Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbihXksKCthLa2FGmI-piBQ
He Sells three of his books on his website:
http://www.hornpipemusic.co.uk/
He is also the editor of the Common Stock Journal from the LBPS which you can read even if not a member (apart from the most recent issues):
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/common-stockRob Turner has glorioius renditions of many tunes from the same collections I have to rip apart and adjust to play, hear them how they were intended by subscribing to Rob’s Youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMNv7YozytBYTZHjyMGxO1ASimon Chadwick also is a must follow on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/simonmchadwick
Simon’s Website is filled with valuable articles and comments on a huge variety of topics, but also many of the printed music sources I play on the podcast:
http://simonchadwick.net/Please Consider Joining the Patreon to support the show!
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Season 5 Episode 17: New To me Books Preview
June 12th, 2021 | Season 5 | 32 mins 35 secs
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:
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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Season 5 Episode 16: Colclough Geoghegan, O’Farrell and Sky
June 7th, 2021 | Season 5 | 1 hr 6 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:
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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Season 5 Episode 15: John Murphy’s Collection & Have a Care of Her Johnny
May 23rd, 2021 | Season 5 | 26 mins 38 secs
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:
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 KearneyPlease consider joining the Patreon to support the show: https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag
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Season 5 Episode 14: Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No. 1 with Tune from Chris Norman and David Greenberg
May 15th, 2021 | Season 5 | 44 mins 10 secs
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:
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
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Season 5 Episode 13: The Campbells are Coming with a Tune From Xavier Boderiou
May 8th, 2021 | Season 5 | 1 hr 15 mins
bagpipes, baroque, celtic, clan campbell, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, inveraray, irish music, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, the campbell's are coming, uilleann pipes, union pipes, xavier boderious
Tunes:
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
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Season 5 Episode 12 Under Named GHB Tunes From James Aird and Guest Track from Brìghde Chaimbeul
May 2nd, 2021 | Season 5 | 49 mins 39 secs
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:
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
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Season 5 Episode 11 Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Conclusion
April 17th, 2021 | Season 5 | 41 mins 34 secs
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
O’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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Season 5 Episode 10 Jackson playthrough part 2 & Drops of Brandy Deep Dive
April 10th, 2021 | Season 5 | 47 mins 2 secs
bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walker jackson
William 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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Season 5 Episode 09 Pinched Notes On Highland Pipes and Tunes
April 4th, 2021 | Season 5 | 41 mins 27 secs
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:
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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S5E08 One Year Anniversary from the Reboot! And my new Koehler & Quinn Chanter plays loads of O’Farrell tunes
March 20th, 2021 | Season 5 | 51 mins 29 secs
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:
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
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Season 5 Episode 07 Lowland Pipes! And Season Intermission
March 6th, 2021 | Season 5 | 57 mins 55 secs
bagpipes, baroque, bellows, border pipes, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, lowland pipes, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes
Tunes:
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 -
Season 5 Episode 6: Kilts, Bagpipers and Living History. A Chat with Isaac Walters
February 27th, 2021 | Season 5 | 1 hr 15 mins
bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, jacobite, kilt, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, tartan, uilleann pipes, union pipes
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 -
S5E05 Chippewa Valley Irish Immigration, Canon Goodman, with guest musicians Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain
February 21st, 2021 | Season 5 | 1 hr 3 mins
bagpipes, baroque, canon goodman, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, emmigration, famine, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, immigration, irish music, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes
TUNES:
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. -
Season 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle Manuscript
February 13th, 2021 | Season 5 | 45 mins 43 secs
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:
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 -
Season 5 Episode 3 Play Through of Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Part 1
February 5th, 2021 | Season 5 | 36 mins 54 secs
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:
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