Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

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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