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 E05 Joey Abarta's King of the Blind Review and Donald MacDonald Playthrough Part 2

    March 10th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  51 mins 17 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, joey abarta, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    From Joey Abarta, King of the Blind: Any Ol’ Jig will do, The Black Rock, Top it Off, The Longford Piper, The Balintore Fancy, Follow me up to Carlow
    From Donald MacDonald: Ranting Roving Highlander, Miss Montgomery, Because he was a Bonny Lad, Miss M. Mackenzie, I come Home, Bog’n Lochain, We’ll Gang Noe Mair to Yon Town, Fill the Stoup, The Miller’s Fair Daughter, Lady Wemsy’s Jig, Pease Straw, The Jolly Gardner,

    Thanks Joey for letting me have an early peak at King of The Blind.
    You can get your own copy March 31st on Bandcamp, or by ordering through his website here:
    https://www.joeyabarta.com/
    It will eventually be on his Bandcamp page, but now you can pick up his first solo album there as well:
    https://joeyabarta.bandcamp.com/album/swimming-against-the-falls

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  • S7 E04 Smollet Holden's Collection of Favorite Irish Airs on C Pipes

    February 26th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  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:

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  • S7 E03 Turlough McSweeney, Simon Pokagon and the Chicago Worlds Fair

    February 12th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 15 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:
    O’Neill: The Wild Irishman (Boil the Breakfast Early), Toss the Feathers, Cherish the Ladies,
    Goodman: Fágamaíd Súd Mar Atá Sé (Melody for the Donegal Piper)
    O’Keefe: The Broomstick
    O’Farrell: The Hermit of Killarney, Fair Peggy, Kitty Tyrrell
    Simon Pokaggon: Red Man’s Rebuke

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  • S7 E02 Jackson's Celebrated 2023 Playthrough

    January 29th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  36 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

    S7 E02 Jackson's Celebrated 2023 Playthrough

    Tunes:
    Jackson: Cossey’s Jigg, Pither in Enough, The Figure of 3, Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Morning Brush, Jackson’s Night Cap, Jackson Over the Water, Jackson’s Dream, Humours of Listivatin, Cummilum, Jackson’s Bouner Bougher, The maids in the morning.
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  • S7 E01 Women of Watlen: Christian Dalrymple with Performance by James Moyar

    January 15th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  40 mins 37 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 E01 Women of Watlen: Christian Dalrymple with Performance by James Moyar

    Tunes:
    William Vickers: Cold And Raw
    Watlen: Miss C. Dalrymple: Oxford Castle, Miss Watson’s Favorite, Miss W. Dalrymple’s Fancy, Sir George Ramsay’s Lament (THANKS JAMES MOYAR!)
    Watlen: What a Beaw My Granny Was, Soldiers Dance, Poney Races,
    Watlen: Composed By a young Lady: L’abbe’
    Watlen: By a Lady: The Finali
    Watlen: By Lady Ru____en: Honarble David Ruthven’s Birthday
    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

    Thanks to James Moyar for playing through one of the more challenging of Miss Dalrymple’s Tunes. Check out James on the Droning On Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/DroningOnPodcast/
    and his recent Piper’s Dojo Conversation:
    https://youtu.be/brhFlo8IJ_Y
    or support him by buying some awesome Bagpipe Gear at https://www.bagpipeswag.com/

    Cover image of Miss Christian Dalrymple from The National Trust of Scotland at Newhailes house:
    https://www.facebook.com/NTSNewhailes/photos/a.329838043864698/1473748449473646/

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  • S6 Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes With tune from James McGlauhlin

    December 19th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  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

    S6 Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes With tune from James McGlauhlin

    Tunes:
    John Watlen: The Milliner’s House in the Pantomine They Fairy’s Triumph, Seige of Belgrade, German Dance, The Highland Fair, German Waltz, The Lilly, Miss Ann Baines Fancy, Leap over the Garter, Lads if you Loe me, The Caledonian Beauty, Lady Eliza Callander’s Favourite, Oxford Castle, Miss Wardlaws Reel, The Celebrated Air Ah! Ca! Ira as chanted at Paris, July 14, 1790, Jack the Sailor, The Ton, Miss Montgomery’s Reel, The Surrender of Calais, Better Late than Never, The New Highland Laddie,
    Guest Performance by James McGloughlin: The Highland Fair
    James Aird: Lady Eliza Callander’s Favourite, Oxford Castle,
    William Gunn: The Charms of Whisky, The Christmas Carousing.

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  • Season 6 Mix Tape

    December 3rd, 2022  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 51 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:
    Inveraray & District Pipeband: March, Strathspey & Reel
    Three on the Bund: Local Hero
    Simon Pfisterer: Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins in B minor
    Karel Westerling: Riding Free Spirit
    Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie and Steven Byrnes: The Badger and the Weasel
    Glengervie: Sine Bhan/ Come by the Hills, Christ Has My Heart Aye/The Mermaid/In And Out The Harbour /Juan Martino's, The Lonesome Boatman
    Dave Rowlands: Chickadee, The Purturbation, Jim Harding’s Waltz
    Nicholas Konradsen: Waltzish Set, Farewell to Gagnef, Smoke Braider's Bourree, Farewell to Claremont
    Falsobordone: Maria Unser Frowe, Quant j'ay l'espart, A tutta gente
    Jason Rouse: The Spanish Cloak, Job of Journey Work
    Rebel’s Menuet: Mairi Bhan Òg (Mary young and fair), Bothan Airidh 'm Braighe Rainneach (The Shieling on the Braes of Rannoch), Drumochter Reels: (1) Calum Figheadair (“The Kilchattan Wedding”) / (2) Druimuachdar / (3) Uist Reel

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  • S6 Barry Shears’ new Book, Donald MacDonald’s old Book and John Walsh Shuttle pipes

    November 20th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  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

    S6: Barry Shears’ new Book, Donald MacDonald’s old Book and John Walsh Shuttle pipes

    Tunes:
    Barry Shears: The Royston Session, Dave MacIsaac’s Pipe Jig, Chateau Barra Glen, Jerry Holland’s Pipe Jig, Mary Jane Kelly, Aunt Mae’s Reel, Captain Angus MacDonald (Lament For A Friend), John Mc Eachen's Reel, Hug air a bhonaid mhoir (Celebrate the Big Hat), Walter Beaton's Reel, Snuffing the Candle

    Donald MacDonald: A Highland Reel, Sweet Molly, Sleepy Maggie, Lady Seaforth (reel), Lady Mary Mackay (reel), Brogues an’ Brochan an’a’, Roy’s Wife, Cameronian Rant, Jenny Dang the Weaver, Tail Toddle, Old Rusty Gun, The Piper’s Maggot, Mary Gray, Keep the Country Bonny Lassie, Earl Marischal (A reel).
    David Young: Jolly Robin

    You can buy Legacy here: https://capebretonpiper.com/

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  • S6 Puirt à Beul with Guest host John Charles Bauschatz

    November 12th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  29 mins 1 sec
    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

    S6 Puirt à Beul with Guest host John Charles Bauschatz

    Tunes:
    Margaret Stewart: Chuir Mo Leannan Cùlaibh Rium (Since my love turned his back on me), Meall do Bhrògan (Enjoy your Shoes),
    Scots Guards: The Sweet Maid of Glendaruel,
    Wilma Kennedy: Pòg o Leannan an Fhìdhleir (A Kiss for the fiddler's sweetheart), Am Buachaille Dubh (Black-Haired Shepherd),
    Annie Arnott: Tha Biodag aig MacThòmais (Thompson's Dirk).
    Barry Shears: Tha Biodag aig MacThòmais (Thompson's Dirk).
    You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

  • S6 Halloween Episode With Tunes by James Moyar

    October 23rd, 2022  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 12 mins
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, halloween, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    S6 2022 Halloween Episode With Tunes by James Moyar

    Tunes:
    From James Moyar: She Moved Through The Fair, At My Wake,
    1791: From The Celebrated Circus Tunes Performed at Edinburgh this season, With the additions of some new reels and strathspeys set for the piano forte or violin and bass:
    John Watlen: The Milliner’s House in the Pantomime “The Fairy’s Triumph”, Seige of Belgrade by the Little Devil
    From Barry Shears: The Mermaid and the Sea Monster, I Can’t Get a Grant Rant, John G. Dally, Mrs. Evelyn Shears, Cuir ‘sa Chiste Mhoir Mi (Put Me in the Big Chest), The Ale is Dear,
    From Jeremy’s Memory: Piper’s Warning to His Master
    Oliver and Company: Oscar’s Ghost
    From Campbell (Albyn’s Anthology): Young Benjie
    Peter Bellamy: Mountain Streams Where the Moorecocks Crow

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    Get your Halloween Bagpipe gear here:
    https://www.bagpipeswag.com/

  • S6 The Parcel of Rogues and Straight & Skillern episode with guest song by Christine Sparks

    October 7th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 19 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: The Morning Post, The Merry Fifers (Mount Sion), the Purfleet, Oxford Ramble, Four Seasons, Black Dance, Variety is Charming, Just So in the North, The Sword Knot, Turks Head, The Happy Wedding, Cox’s Museum, Naples Dance, Bevis Mount, Paddy Wack, La Damoselle, Lord Bath’s Gate, Polly’s Fancy, The Ladies Lesson, The Sky Lark, Le Renard, Merry Thought, The Cascade, Van Rotterdam op Dort, A Parcell of Rogues in the Nation, Miss Fowler’s Delight, The Nabob, Pantheon, The Oak Tree, The Cave of Enchantment
    William McGibbon: A Parcel of Rogues in the Nation
    Ewan Maccoll: A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
    Robert Chambers: Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation!
    Christine Sparks: A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
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  • S6 E18 Drone Regulators Episode with a Harta Sample and tunes from Harta, Sean Reidy, David Asbrink and Juhan Suits

    September 11th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  57 mins 7 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

    S6 E18: Drone Regulators Episode with a Harta Sample and tunes from Harta, Sean Reidy, David Asbrink and Juhan Suits
    This episode begins with a few tracks from Harta’s album
    Check out Harta’s album here:
    https://hartaskye.bandcamp.com/album/harta

    You can Check out Cyberpiper’s stuff on Spotify:
    https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CcW3ntOdd74juidHcKMoM
    Or on Facebook:
    https://www.facebook.com/theOneAndOnlyCyberpiper

    I play the Title Track off my Album where I experiment with playing the tone hole on my border pipes as a regulator of sorts:
    https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal

    Sean Reidy Makes Good Music and you should listen any time you have a chance. I’m hoping he gets a link to me where that is more easily accomplished:

    You can Watch David Asbrink play some stellar tunes on his youtube page:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJ61jQW7x2NGgOT9IVTsTQ/videos
    or listen to his tracks on Soundcloud:
    https://soundcloud.com/davidasbrink

    You can watch the entire Juhan Suits video here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgfuD_UuBn0
    While not particularly Bagpipey I rather enjoyed listening to another of his projects on Soundcloud:
    https://soundcloud.com/trio-romansid
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  • S6 Old Favorites Robert Bremner part 3 Bremner’s Guitar Tutor with Special Thanks to Ryan Kirk and Rob Turner

    August 6th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  53 mins 48 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:

    Robert Bremner: Stadholders Minuet, Moorish Tunes, Mill Mill O, Willy was a Wanton Wag, and Black Joke.
    William McGibbon: Mill Mill O, Willie Was a Wanton Wag
    James Oswald: Burlesque on a Black Joak:
    Miscellaneous: Clare Dragoons, Braes a Mar

    Big Thanks To Ryan Kirk for the performance and write up. Head over to the Facebook page to tell him thanks!

    Thanks to Rob Turner for his Playing of James Oswald’s Burlesque on Black Joke. You can watch his youtube upoload of the tune, along with some stellar background information. https://youtu.be/vHFwsYbvZ-A

    As I said in the episode, be sure to check out the rest of his music on his Youtube channel: fiauto
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMNv7YozytBYTZHjyMGxO1A

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  • S6 Old Favorites again, Robert Bremner 1.5 and 2 Jack Lattin Revisited and Robert & James Bremner and the Declaration of Independence

    July 30th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 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:
    Part 1.5:
    Bremner: The Grant's Rant, The Carle He Came O'er the Craft, Miss Blair's Reel
    William Dixon: Jack Lattin
    John Sutherland: Jack Latone
    O'Farrell: Jack Lattin with Variations

    and on Part 2:
    Robert Bremner, Loch Ness, Feg for a kiss, The Cross Well of Edinburgh & Watermen’s Rant, Open the Door to Three & Invercaul’s Reel, Straglass House.
    James Bremner (By Way of Francis Hopkinson), Lady Coventry’s Minuett
    Robert Millar: Lady Coventry’s Minuett, St. Paul’s.
    Misc: Wha Saw the Forty Twa
    Kerr: Wha’ Widna Fecht
    Levey: Milk the Churn/ Gliogar an Mheadair (Fig for a Kiss)
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  • S6 Old Favorites S4 E32 Robert Bremner, Vibratto Church Music, Alan Ramsay and William McGibbon

    July 16th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 7 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:
    Bremner: Elgin, Aberdeen Or St. Paul’s, Grant’s Rant, The Carle Came over the Craft, Blue Britches, Miss Blair’s Reel, Mary Scott, Blue Britches, Cuzzle Together.
    McGibbon: She Rose and Let me in, Cumbernauld House, Bottom of the Punch Bowl
    Daniel Wright: She Rose and let me in

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    Check out my new Album: Bannocks of Barley Meal here:
    https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal

  • S6 E14 Eliza Ross Manuscript and Borrowed Scottish Smallpipes

    July 2nd, 2022  |  Season 6  |  53 mins 32 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, jon swayne, light music, nineteenth century, performance, ray sloan, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history

    Tunes:
    Patrick MacDonald:The Mermaid Song, The Fishermen’s Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph MacDonald’s jig, Lord Reay’s Jig, and The Goatherd; Harris Dance
    Eliza Ross: Dark Girl of the Sheep, Dark Eyed one of the Night, Tune 70, Jolly Alasdair choice of all the girls, Mr. McKay’s Gig, Dark Girl of the White Feet, You Silly Fool
    Edward Bunting: Bonny Portmore
    William Vickers: Strike the Bell
    William Dixon: Little Wee Winking Thing
    Michael Grey: Whitby Runaround

    You can Find Eliza Ross’s Collection here:
    1812: Dark Girl of the Sheep, Dark Eyed one of the Night, Tune 70, Jolly Alasdair choice of all the girls, Mr. McKay’s Gig, Dark Girl of the White Feet, You Silly Fool from Eliza Ross’s Manuscript from the Isle of Raasay in 1812:

    https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript

    I am mostly playing Ray Sloan Smallpipes in Bb, he kindly provided the Image for the Episode art as well, Thanks Ray! You can check out Ray’s work here,
    http://www.borderbagpipes.com/index.html

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