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 and whistles. Every episodes notes include links to the historic sheet music when available. For information about my Albums Oyster Wives Rant, and Pay the Pipemaker 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

  • S7 E22 Baltioura and Souters of Selkirk

    September 23rd, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 6 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:
    David Young: Because I was a Bonny Lad
    Willie Ross: It was Early in the Morning My Love Left Me
    Michael Roddy: It was Early in the Morning My Love Left Me
    John Sutherland: Balty Hora,
    James Aird: Baltioura
    Smollet Holden: Baltioura
    O’Farrell: Baulthy Oura
    Edward Bunting: Baltiorum
    Cannon Goodman: Bailtídhe mhóra (Na)
    Daniel Wright: The Sulters of Selkerke
    William Dixon: The Souters of Selkirk
    William McGibbon: The Suitors of Selkirk
    James Oswald: The Souters of Selkirk
    Walsh: Sulters of Selkerke
    John McLachlan: Souters o’ Selkirk

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  • S7 E21 John Sutherland's Manuscript Part 1

    September 10th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  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:
    Sutherland: Cameronian Rant, this wants to be turn’d, The Lady’s Favourite, Paddy Whack, Kiss about the Hay Stacks, Salt Beef and Dumplings, The Peasant’s Dance, The Nosegay, Duncan Davison, Nancy Larson, Balty Horah, Trip it Up Stairs, Fanny’s Fancy

    I'm happy to be supported by The Quietpiper AKA Robert Felsburg, check out his work here:
    https://www.thequietpiper.com/

    All of the tunes this week come from John Sutherland’s Manuscript available on Ross’s Music Page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html

    John Sutherland was a Piper from Aberdeenshire in the late eighteenth century.
    His manuscript was hand written and likely from around 1785.

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    I highly Recommend Ross Anderson’s Introduction to Sutherland:
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/Sutherland-Manuscript.pdf

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    1785: GHB Fingering Chart, Cameronian Rant and “this wants to be turn’d” are all available here:
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-fm.pdf

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    1785: The Lady’s Favourite, Paddy Whack, Kiss about the Hay Stacks, Salt Beef and Dumplings, The Peasant’s Dance, The Nosegay, Duncan Davison, Nancy Larson, Balty Horah, Trip it Up Stairs, Fanny’s Fancy
    Are all available in this PDF:
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf

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    You can Listen to my Trip it up the stairs episode here:
    https://www.wetootwaag.com/s6e05

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  • S7 E20 Pipers' Gathering Sessions

    August 26th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  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:
    Iain Gelston: St. Mary’s Hornpipe
    Jenny Nettles, Drops of Brandy, Braes of Mellenish (And Many more)

    Check Out Iain’s Tunebook here:
    https://iaingelston.wordpress.com/documents/
    For the episode where I play through several of Iain’s Tunes go here:
    https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e17

    For Pipers’ Gathering Information Check out their Website:
    https://www.pipersgathering.org/gathering22/
    and their Social Media sites:
    https://www.facebook.com/pipersgathering
    https://www.instagram.com/thepipersgathering/

    For Information about the Scholarship go here:
    https://www.pipersgathering.org/scholarships-2/

    I talk a bit about Cassandre “Balbar” which is how I know her on Facebook, but I see she goes by Balosso-Bardin as well online, so apologies if I got the name wrong.
    Anyway, here is her website:
    http://www.cassandrebalossobardin.com/
    And you can check out the MET Bagpipe Collection here:
    https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2023/3/hidden-bagpipes
    and International Bagpipe day here:
    https://www.internationalbagpipeorganisation.com/international-bagpipe-day.html

    This episode is largely me talking about my time at Pipers’ Gathering and playing some tracks from the impromptu sessions that happened there.
    You can hear many pipers playing, but specifically John Charles Bauschatz, Benjamin Elzerman, Robert Mitchell, Rod Nevin, Patrick Hutchinson, Casandre Balosso-Bardin, Mike MacNintch, Thomas Deneuville, and too many more to list.

    You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

  • S7 E19 24 Hours with Quietpiper Small Pipes

    August 12th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  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

    Tunes:
    Seattle: Appletrees is Meickle Better
    William Vickers: Strike the Bell, Bonny Miller, Old Wagon Way, Cotillon La Pierfitoise, Get Her Boo, Well Dane Jack, Joyful Days is Coming.
    William Dixon: Little Wee Winking Thing, Golden Locks
    Unknown: Badger and the Weasel, Banks of Sicily
    Jeremy Kingsbury: Robin’s Roly Poly
    Patrick MacDonald: To Me Comfortable in Repose, Western Isles Dane, Skye Dance 27 &29, Harris Dance 31 & 32, Oscar’s Ghost
    Robert Bremner: Cuzzle Together

    This episode, and many in the future would not be possibly without the generosity of Robert Felsburg or The Quietpiper
    https://www.thequietpiper.com/
    Check out his socials as well.
    https://www.instagram.com/thequietpiper/
    https://www.facebook.com/QuietpiperSmallpipes
    https://www.youtube.com/user/TheQuietpiper

    You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

  • S7 E18 Rowly Powly Album Announcement

    August 3rd, 2023  |  Season 7  |  8 mins 29 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:
    Straight and Skillern: Cupid's Frolick, Cox's Museum, Naples Dance, the Black Dance, The Island of Love

    Here is a Link to the Livestream, which should start at 7 PM US Central time on the Podcast's Facebook Page:
    https://fb.me/e/3FaWh0d4Y

    When the Album Goes Live on Friday It will be available here on Bandcamp:
    https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/rowly-powly

    You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

  • S7 E17 Wetootwaag In the Wild Trying Other People's Bagpipes with Rob Edwards

    July 29th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 10 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: The Bonny Miller,
    Terry Tully: Ass in the Graveyard
    Patrick MacDonald: The Mermaid Song, Fisherman's Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph McDonald's Jig, Tune 6 & 7 (Lord Reay's Jig, and The Goatherd) and Flowers of the Forest
    Johnny Cock up thy Beaver
    Robert Bremner: Cuzle Together
    Donald MacDonald: Taladh, Bundle and Go, Rusty Old Gun, Earl Marischal's Reel, Tail Toddle,
    William Dixon: An Thou Were my Ain Thing,
    Will You take a Wife Donald, Dark Girl of the Sheep, Tail Toddle, Early Marischal’s Reel
    Gordon Mooney: Linkumdoddie
    Rob Edward: Is This Yours?
    Setting a Course for Lewis
    David Young: Jolly Robin
    If you're interested in buying the set of Herriot and Allen Smallpipes I played at the beginning of the episode, Email Rob Edwards here. He’s also making excellent bellows and furniture presently, and likely small pipes soon as well!
    rcedward@gmail.com

    Of the several makers who’s instruments I was able to play for this episode, Robert Felsburg is I believe the only one actively taking orders.
    https://www.thequietpiper.com/

    You may still technically be able to get on Fin Moore’s wait list, but I’m not sure how you’d go about it.

    You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

  • Season 7 Episode 16 Piping on Madeline Island, Lake Superior (Wetootwaag In the Wild)

    July 15th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  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: Cullen Bay, Jenny Nettles, Farewell to the Creeks, Grand Portage Piobaireachd, Carey Baxter’s Three Waves, Drimandoo, Lament of a Druid, March from Oscar and Malvina, and many more.

    If you ever make it to Madeline Island be sure to hit up the Madeline Island Museum (You can buy my CDs there too!
    https://madelineislandmuseum.wisconsinhistory.org/

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    To Read More From and About John Johnston Check out these Sources:
    Masson (The Statistical Account Knock off Printed format)
    https://archive.org/details/P000159/page/135/mode/1up?view=theater

    You can look at Johnston’s Original contribution and letter I read by navigating this website:
    https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/nwc/toolbar_1.htm

    I also found these website entries helpful and interesting while planning the episode:

    http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnston_john_6E.html
    https://www.dib.ie/biography/johnston-john-a4306
    http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/todd_isaac_5E.html

    For Physical Copies of Bannocks of Barley Meal go here:
    https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1

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  • S7 E15 Exploring the Sources for Larry Grogan

    July 1st, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 17 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:
    (1730s)Johnson: Jack Latine, Fiddle Faddle, Steward’s Rant, The Hermitage, A Trip to the Laundry,
    (1748) John Walsh: Pray Be Civil, The Bush, The Mouse Trap, Swab the Decks,

    (1750’s) James Oswald: One Evening as I lost my Way, The Birth of Kisses,

    (1763) Robert Bremner: Prussian March, A March in Rinaldo, March, March, Grenadier March,

    (1770s) William Vickers: The Merry Thought, My Own Kind Dery
    (1782) Aird: The Amorous Goddess, La Nouvelle Angloise, The Braes of Angus

    (1787) Thompson Hibernian Muse: The High Road to Dublin, The Irish Widow,
    (1808) O’Farrell: Courtney’s Favorite, Deidre’s Lamentation for the Sons of Usnoth, Meeting of the Waters, The Kerry Jigg
    (1853) J.T. Surenne: Oh! Arranmore, Lov’d Arranmore
    Goodman: We’ll Gang na mair to yon town, The Night of an Irishman, Farewell to Old Ireland

    Check out my long interview with James Moyar on the Droning on Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-a66uw-1440e69

    You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

  • S7 E14 Larry Grogan (Coppers and Brass) With Paddy Keenan and Lynn Sanders

    June 17th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 40 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:
    Johnson: Larry Grogan,
    Robert Bremner: Larry Grogan
    Oswald: Larry Grogan
    William Vickers: Larry Grogan,
    Aird: Larry Grogan,
    O’Farrell: Lary Grogan,
    J.T. Surenne: Larry Grogan
    O’Neill: Larry Grogan
    Goodman: The Humours of Ennistymon
    Grogan/Thompson: Ally Croaker
    Johnny Doran: Coppers and Brasses
    Willie Clancy: Coppers and Brass
    Paddy Keenan: Coppers and Brass, The Rambling Pitchfork
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    If you're interested in buying the set of Herriot and Allen Smallpipes I played at the beginning of the episode, Email Rob Edwards here:
    rcedward@gmail.com

    Many Thanks to Lynn Sanders and Paddy Keenan for Contributing tunes for this episode.
    Check Out Paddy's Website here:
    https://www.paddykeenan.com/

    I'm indebted to several different entries from Traditional Tune Archive (as often is the case). In Particular the entry about Larry Grogan was particularly useful:
    https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Larry_Grogan_(1)

    I also used the Irish Tune Info entry about Coppers and Brass:
    https://www.irishtune.info/tune/1096/

  • S7 E13 50K Download Special with so many guest musicians

    June 3rd, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 17 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:
    Dan Nolan: Un Canadien Errant, the wandering Canadian, A La Claire Fontaine, by the clear Spring
    Jon Schurlock: Playing Highland Laddie from William Dixon
    Ryan G Kirk: Mary Scott (From Oswald)
    Jeremy Kingsbury: She Rose and Let Me In
    Dave Rowlands: 'La Bernardina' by Josquin des Pres
    Jeremy Kingsbury: The Carle He Came O’Er the Craft, Jim Harding’s Waltz (from Dave Rowlands, and Waltzish from Nicholas Konradsen)
    Charlie Rutan: Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle
    Benjamin Elzerman: Jacks Gone-a-Shearing From William Vickers/Matt Seattle
    Jeremy Kingsbury: Taladh, Bundle and Go, You Silly Fool, Mr. Mackay’s Jig, The Piper’s Maggot, Woo’ed and Married an’ a (From Donald Macdonald and Eliza Ross)
    James Moyar: Battle of Waterloo
    Jim Sanders: Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
    You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

    Thanks Everyone so much for your tune submissions and for listening to the show, If you want to pick up a Wetootwaag Shirt on Sale This Week (June 3- June10) head over to https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag-logo?fbclid=IwAR1NVkN_oUo_hKOH27zUFGooOmvvnygCNhBaJWD3XR9t6j8yuL7MmiIAmRE

  • S7 E12 Listener Recording Request Mini Episode

    May 23rd, 2023  |  Season 7  |  6 mins 13 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

    S7 E12 Listener Recording Request Mini Episode

    Tunes:
    Eliza Ross: Dark-Eyed one of the Night, Dark Girl of the White Feet
    Donald MacDonald: Lady Seaforth’s Reel, Lady Mary MacKay’s Reel, Mary Gray, Sweet Molly.

    Next Episode We will hit 50,000 downloads since relaunching the podcast, and I would love to hear from you.
    Record a tune you’ve heard from the podcast, or a concordance you play that I haven’t, or just your favorite historic piping tune, or just tell me a story! Tell me the name of the tune, the instrument you are playing and who you are and I’ll try to include it in the episode. If you have links to archival sources for your tunes all the better, or if you have a project coming up you’d like to share with podcast listeners send it my way as well.
    You can use an Mp3 or wav files, or just a voice memo off of your phone I should be able to work with. I can also rip the audio from youtube videos.
    Send them to me at bagpipehistory@gmail.com

    The set I play is still a bit rough around the edges, especially when performed in the blowing sand of Oak Island, but the tunes are:
    Dark-Eyed one of the Night from Eliza Ross, Lady Seaforth’s Reel from Donald MacDonald, Dark Girl of the White Feet from Eliza Ross, followed by Lady Mary MacKay’s Reel, Mary Gray and finally Sweet Molly all from Donald MacDonald.

    See Eliza Ross Manuscript for sources here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript
    All of the Donald Macdonald tunes are played from the edition available from Ceol Sean here:
    https://ceolsean.net/content/McDlight/McDlight_TOC.html
    Or you can look through most of the tunes on the edition available on National Library of Scotland’s Website here: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682572

    Thanks for Listening to the Show!
    Remember Send your submissions to bagpipehistory@gmail.com

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  • Season 7 Episode 11 Lark in the Morning Part II Galloway Tom

    May 19th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 8 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:
    Straloch: Gallua Tom
    Walsh: Gallaway Tom
    Vickers (Same as walsh): The Gold Ring
    Oswald: Gallaway Tom
    Scots Musical Museum: Galloway Tam
    Niel Gow: Kelso Races
    Sutherland: Kelso Races
    O’Farrell: Galloway Tom, Tuhy’s Frolic
    Goodman: Humours of Limerick
    Ennis: The Lark’s March
    O’Neill: The Little Yellow Boy, The House in the Glen, The Lark in the Morning
    Hugh McDermot: A Western Lilt
    James Morrison: The Lark In the Morning
    Dave Rickard: The Lark in the Morning
    Angus McKay: The Hills of Glenorchy
    James Aird: The Humours of Limerick
    David Young: Tom Come Tickle me
    Ryan: Lark in the Morning

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  • Season 7 Episode 10 Lark in the Morning Part 1: Over the Hills and Far Away

    May 6th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  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:
    John Tams: Over the Hills and Far Away
    Playford ‘Twas O’er the Hills and Far Away
    John Blow and Henry Purcell: Jockey’s Lamentation, The Recruiting Officer
    John Jay: Over the Hills and Far Away
    Mr. Ralph: Over the Hills and Far Away
    Oswald: Over the Hills and Far Away
    Aird: O'er the Hills and Far Awa
    James Hogg: Over the Seas and Far Awa, Whig Song Over the Hills and Far Away
    Thomas Glen: O’er the Hills and Far awa
    Angus MacKay: O’er the Hills and Far Away
    William Ross: O’er the Hills and Far Away
    LBPS Blue Book: O’er the Hills an’ Far Awa’
    Matt Seattle: Over the Hills & Far Away

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  • S7 E09 Cock Up Thy Beaver (Rerun)

    April 22nd, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 8 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 Playford: Johnny Cock thy Beaver
    Carolan: Cock up thy Beaver Variations
    Dixon: Watty’s Away
    Oswald: Johnny Cock-up thy Beaver
    Robert Bremner: Scots Bonnet
    O’Farrell: The Blue Bonnett
    A.L. Lloyd: The Bonny Black Hare

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  • S7 E08 John Charles Guest Host Singer Spotlight: Kenneth MacIver of Lewis with guest tracks from Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie, Allan MacDonald, Julie Fowlis and Jeremy Kingsbury

    April 8th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  42 mins 47 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

    S7 E08 John Charles Guest Host Singer Spotlight: Kenneth MacIver of Lewis with guest tracks from Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie, Allan MacDonald, Julie Fowlis and Jeremy Kingsbury

    Featuring musical guests:

    • Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie
    • Allan MacDonald
    • Julie Fowlis
    • Jeremy Kingsbury Tune Stems:

    Tha M'inntinn a-raoir a-nochd 's a-raoir - On my mind last night, tonight and last night
    Also known as "Munlochy Bridge"
    Siuthadaibh Bhalachaibh, Siuthadaibh - Go to it Lads, Go To It
    Also known as "Devil in the Kitchen".
    Càit am bi na Maraichean - Where will the Sailors Be?
    Mo Chailinn Bheag Dhonn - My Little Brown-Haired Lass
    Hì Horò na Boireannaich - Hi Horò the Women
    O Nach Àghmhor A-Nis - Oh How Joyful it is Just Now
    Nam Bithinn na Mo Mhaighdeann - If I was a Maiden
    Tha Fionnlagh ag Innearadh - Finlay is Spreading Manure
    Mac a' Phì Cnag-Shùileach - Big-Eyed MacPhee
    Also known as "Mrs. MacLeod of Raasay" etc.

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  • Season 7 Episode 07 Dissertation Chapter Readthrough

    April 1st, 2023  |  Season 7  |  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

    This episode is a read through of my dissertation chapter:
    CHAPTER FIVE: JOHN FUBBISTER, OZAAWINDIB, THE RED RIVER AND THE QUEER ATLANTIC WORLD

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