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:

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Episodes

  • S5E20 Lament of a Druid and William Litten's Manuscript With Guest Music from David Barrett

    July 17th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  52 mins 17 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:
    Litten: Prince of Wales Minuet, The Goose’s Minuet, Kissing and Flirting, Kissing and Drinking, The Royal Hunt, They Royal Review, St. Catherine’s Lane at Five, Duke Gordon’s Reel, Cotillion.
    Fox: Lament of a Druid
    Neal: I’m asleep and Don’t waken me
    Set from Dave Barret: Red Haired Boy, and Paddy’s Leather Breeches.
    Piobaireachd: The Vaunting

    Special Thanks to David Barrett for sending in a track from his Starting to See Album,
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    Season 5 Episode 19 A Chat with Joey Abarta about Pat Sky and American Uilleann Piping

    July 3rd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 13 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:
    Patrick Sky: Many A Mile
    Joey Abarta: Eibhli Gheal Chiuin Ni CHearbhaill (Fair Gentle Eily OCarroll)

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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-stock

    Rob 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/UCMNv7YozytBYTZHjyMGxO1A

    Simon 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/

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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 Kearney

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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
    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.