Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Original Compositions, Historic Tunes and Popular Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries

About the show

This show is (mostly) a bi-weekly podcast that explores the likely repertoire of eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers, using historic music collections (written for bagpipes or not), performed on Uilleann pipes, Highland pipes, Border pipes, Lowland Pipes, Northumbrian Smallpipes and whistles. Every episodes notes include links to the historic sheet music when available. For information about my Albums go here:

https://www.wetootwaag.com/albums

For information about Jeremy and the instruments played on the show go here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/about

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Episodes

  • 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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  • 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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