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:

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Episodes

  • 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
    Unknown: Clan Campbell’s Gathering

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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
    My “Setting”: Braes of Mellinish

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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
    Ennis: Bucks of Oranmore

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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

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    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

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    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.

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    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

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    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

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    Season 5 Episode 2 Dixon and Fitzmaurice Travel to Roslin Castle looking for a Bonny Lass

    January 30th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  45 mins 7 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: Saw ye Never a Bonny lass
    Vickers Manuscript: Kiss’d her under the Coverlet
    Fitzmaurice: Loose the Belt
    Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book: The Berlin Waltz
    Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle
    William McGibbon: Rosline Castle
    James Manson (David Glen): Roslin Picnic
    Donald MacDonald: Roslin Castle, MacPharlane’s lilt
    Angus MacKay: Roslin Castle
    O’Farrell: Pay The Reckoning (Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy, Bobbing for Eels)

  • S5E01 Uilleann Pipes and Strathspeys with Tunes from Jarlath Henderson & Innes Watson and Paul Anderson

    January 22nd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  59 mins 1 sec
    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: Irish Hautboy
    Jar and Innes: Top Gallantsail (Comp Innes Watson), John Stephen Of Chance Inn (Comp Angus Fitchet),
    Travers Jig (trad), Gustys Frolics (trad: Mick Dohertys Version)
    O’Farrell: Roys Wife of Aldivalock
    O’Farrell: Rothemurchus’s Rant
    Paul Anderson Playing: The Rothiemurchus Rant (Bremner) , Dogs Bite Chapmen (Traditional he Says) and The Fairy Dance (Nataniel Gow)
    From Sutherland: Haughs of Cromdale and Merry Maid’s Wedding
    O’Farrell: Ewe with the Crooked Horn
    George MacLellan: The Little Cascade
    Neil Gow: Lady Baird’s Strathspey
    Drummond Castle MS: Allastor
    Joseph Dales: Jenny Sutton

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    S4E37: Jackson's Tweedside Season Finale

    December 28th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  46 mins 3 secs
    celtic society, country dance, donald macdonald, duet, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, o'farrell, robert bremner, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walker jackson

    Tunes:
    1828 Donald MacDonald: The Celtic Society Quickstep, The Weaver
    1800s O’Farrell: Marinda
    1744 John Johnson: The Skimmer
    1775 Straight and Skillern: The Cave of Enchantment, The Exeter Change
    1770s Thompson: Jackson’s Morning Brush

    1796 Cooke: Jackson’s Bottle of Claret
    1790 Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Morning Brush, Jackson’s Turret
    1790s Thomas Calvert: Kelso Bowling Green
    1750s Robert Bremner: Tweedside (With Ryan Kirk).

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    S4E36: Some Holiday Tunes and Bodachan a Gharidh (The Merry old Gardener)

    December 19th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  41 mins 18 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:
    O’Farrell: Lewellynn, A Piper o’er the Meadows Straying, Black Joke
    John Parry: Nos Calan
    Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning
    My Setting?: Mill Mill o, Baloo Lammy
    Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh (The Jolly Old gardener)
    Aird: Bodachan a garidh (The Merry old gardener)