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

  • 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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  • S6: Cabar Féidh Vol II: Black and the Grey, Rakish Paddy with tracks from the Goodman Trio and Tiarnan O Duinnchinn

    June 18th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  46 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:
    William Dixon: Black and the Grey
    John Johnson: Black and the All Black
    Robert Topliff: The Black and the Grey
    Davies: John Patterson’s Mare Goes Foremost
    John Rook: The Black and the Grey
    William Gunn: John Patterson’s Mare
    Donald MacLeod: John Paterson’s Mare
    Cannon Goodman: Reel,
    From The Goodman Trio, Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain: The Cup of Tea, The Kerry Lassie.
    Francis O’Neill: Sporting Pat, Rakish Paddy
    Patsy Touhey: Rakish Paddy
    Tiarnan O Duinnchinn: Reggish Paddy,

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  • S6: Cabar Féidh Volume I: 1734-2022 with tracks from Barry Shears and Brian May

    June 2nd, 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

    Tunes:
    Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Nightcap, Jackson’s Morning Brush
    David Young: Caper Fei
    John Sutherland: Caper Fey
    O’Farrell: Caper Fey
    Alexander MacKay: Cabar Feidh
    Robert Millar: Caperfeigh
    William Gunn: Cabar Feidh
    Angus MacKay: Cabar Feigh
    William Ross: Caber Feidh
    Cannon Goodman: “Reel”
    J&R Glen: Caber Feigh
    Logan: Caberfeidh
    Barry Shears: Cabar Feidh, (Settings 59, 99, 159, 206) And a Set of: Caber Feidh (206), Beaver Cove as a reel (94), Chan eil ginni ormsa (177) and Caber Feidh (159).
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    If you see this in time come visit at 6 PM US Central time on June 3rd to celebrate my album launch of Bannocks of Barley Meal!
    https://fb.me/e/3BvpXpa2T

    You can check out Bannocks of Barley Meal on Bandcamp, I hope to have Physical copies available soon:
    https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal

    Thanks to Barry Shears for the set of tunes, you can see his website here: https://capebretonpiper.com/

    Thanks to Brian May for his playing of Cabar Feidh, you can check out Brian’s website here:
    https://www.brianmaybagpiper.com/

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  • S6 E11 New Pipes, New Books, New Album

    May 21st, 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:
    Pete Stewart: La Muse au Gros Bourdon, Hunts Up, The Buffens, Bransle d’Escosse I, Salt Fish and Dumplings, Softly Robin.
    Iain Gelston: The Seagulls’ March, Renee O’Brien’s
    Traditional?: An Dro
    Straight and Skillern: The Cave Enchantment
    Jeremy Kingsbury: Mio and the Land Far Away, John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes,
    William Dixon: Minuet Edward the second.
    LBPS Blue Book: I’ll Gang Nae Mair Tae Yon Toon, The Mill, the Mill O’, Wee Totum Fogg, Ye Banks and Breas of Bonnie Doon, My Love, She’s but a Lassie yet
    Aird: Bannocks of Barley Meal
    Eliza Ross: Alasdair of the Stoups & The Big Foot of the Deceitful One

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  • S6 E 10 A conversation with Jamie Campbell about William Dixon

    May 7th, 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

    Tunes:
    William Dixon: Golden Locks, My Love Comes Passing By Me, Black and the Grey

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  • s6e09 Mini Episode Livestream announcement

    April 24th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  14 mins 45 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: Jack Latin, Edward the Second, New Way to Morpeth.

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    Hey Everyone, I just wanted to post this quick announcement that I’ll be doing a livestream on Monday night, hopefully with my new pipes. If they don’t come in time I’ll still play some tunes.
    The Live Stream will be on Facebook at 6 PM US Central Time, Monday April 25th, you can attend following the below link:
    https://fb.me/e/2j85yJyZt

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  • S6E08 Smollet Holden, The Hermit of Killarney and Lead Belly

    April 23rd, 2022  |  Season 6  |  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:
    Ross McNaughton Playing Freeland Barbour’s tune: Pitlochry Highland Games
    Smollet Holden: Baltioura, What Call Have you to me Ned, The Yellow Stockings, The Cruskeen Lawn, Round the World For Sport, The Hermit of Killarney, Big Bow Wow, She is the Girl that can do it, Drimindoo
    O’Farrell: Adieu, Adieu Thou Faithless World, The Cruskeen Lawn
    The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem: Cruiskeen Lawn.
    Thomas Crocker: The Hermit of Killarney,
    The Weavers: Kisses Sweeter than Wine
    Edward Bunting: The Black Cow
    David Sear: Drimindown
    Lead Belly: If it wasn’t for Dicky

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    If you are interested in composing a tune for the Pitlochry Highland Games follow the link here:
    https://www.pitlochryhighlandgames.co.uk/
    You can scroll down to find the rules and where to submit your entry.

    Don’t forget you can buy Podcast merch here at https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag

    If you want to watch the Regency House Party it is hosted on youtube in the US, not sure of the availability elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZlGrTbZHg&list=PLA41E10951CB748DD

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  • S6E07: Litten Manuscript Part II: Kiss My Wife and Welcome, Speed the Plow

    April 9th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 3 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 Litten: Kiss My Wife and Welcome, Hey My Nancy, No Title II, Patrick’s Hill, Speed the Plough, The Ploughboy
    James Aird: The Irish Pelt, Hey my Nanny
    John MacPherson Mulhollan: Kiss My Wife and welcome,
    O’Farrell: Humours of Ballinamult, Rogara Duff (Black Rogue),
    John Murphy: Mrs. Dungannon’s Jigg,
    Cannon Goodman: The Humours of Ballinamult,
    Stephen Grier: Jackson’s Sport, God Speed the Plough,
    Tara McGovern and the Iowa City Session: Basket of Turf
    Francis O’Neill: The Basket of Turf,
    Smollet Holden: The Unfortunate Rake
    John Rook: The Wee Wee Man,
    William Dixon: The Golden Locks
    Fisin: Speed the Plough
    Anderson: Speed the Plough
    William Gunn: Speed the Plough
    Carlton Rawlings: Speed The Plough
    O’Keefe: The Ploughboy

    I Forgot to mention but, here is a link to the flip/cocktail/punch recipes if you want to try and decipher and drink them:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UPFH3qOexRrTBT3JFpRXxQ7F8cGf2vjk/view?usp=sharing

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  • S6E06 Fitzmaurice no. III, John Murphy, Walker Jackson and Cannon Goodman

    March 26th, 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

    Tunes:
    Tunes:
    Richard Fitzmaurice: The Munster Lassie, The Lads of Fingall, Turn the Pig from the Tea Pot, Jigg.
    Goodman: The Munster Lass, The Munster Lass, Horse in the Pound, Trip to the Garret, Maid At the Fair, Morning Brush, Grog, Thought, Jigg, Night Cap, Welcome Home, Snack.

    Donnellan: Rose in the Gap,
    O’Farrell: The Gay Lass, Jackson’s Maid at the Fair, Jackson’s Welcome Home
    John Murphy: The Kilkenny Girls, Take Care of My Cap
    O’Neill: The Gay Lass, The Kilkenny Girl
    Rook: Woman’s Dance,
    John Hall: Take Care of my Cap
    Walker Jackson: Pither in Enough, Jackson’s Morning Brush, Jackson’s Night Cap.

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  • S6E5 Tripping up the Stairs

    March 19th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  40 mins 34 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:
    Rutherford: A Trip Up Stairs
    Thompson: Trip Up Stairs
    O’Farrell: Trip Up Stairs
    Goodman: Trip it up Stairs, Trip it Up Stairs
    Stewart: A Trip up Stairs
    Robins: Swallow-Tail, Champion
    McNulty: Syriacus
    William Dixon: Dick’s Away

    Please send any feedback about audio quality to wetootwaag@gmail.com
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  • S6 E4 A Chat with John Charles Bauschatz

    March 12th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 16 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:
    James Horner: The Legend Spreads
    From John Charles Bauschatz: Bhon Chuir Mo Leannan Cùlaibh Rium – Since My Love Turned His Back on Me
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  • S6 E3 Tha Mi Sgith, Buain na Rainich, Cutting Bracken, Drummond Castle, Loch Ness With Guests Ian Crane, Jessica (@thehighlandharper) and Anna Seda (@doescellothingz)

    February 26th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  57 mins 29 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, cello, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, harp, history, ian crane, 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: New Bigging, Drummond Castle
    Robert Bremner: Loch Ness
    Aird: Loch Ness
    Buttrey: Loch Ness
    Niel Gow & Sons: Drummond Castle
    Edinburgh Repository of Music: Drummond Castle
    Albyn’s Anthology: Why Should I Sit and Sigh?
    Roud: Sovay
    Ross: Drummond Castle Reel
    Donald MacDonald: The Weary Maid
    Angus MacKay: Drummond Castle

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  • S6E02: Valentine's Day Tunes

    February 14th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  19 mins 49 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:
    Donald MacDonald: Now Jenny Lass My Bonny Bird, Coutie’s Wedding, Flirty Brown Maid,
    Straight and Skillern: Kiss your Partner, Island of Love.
    Thompson: Cupid’s Frolick
    Eliza Ross: Will you Take a Wife Donald?
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  • S6 E 01: Bagpipe Myths and History, A chat with Keith Sanger

    February 12th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  2 hrs 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:
    Angus Cumming: Arndilly’s Reel, Sir Harry Innes’s Reel

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  • Welcome to Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast: Introduction and Review of Sources

    January 22nd, 2022  |  Season 0  |  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:
    Original: Improvisation at St. Clement’s Church on the Isle of Harris
    Thomas Marsden: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe
    Straigh & Skillern: Miss Fowler’s Delight, The Nabob, Pantheon, The Oak Tree.
    Patrick MacDonald: Mermaid, Fisherman's Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph McDonald's Jig, Tune 6 & 7 (Lord Reay's Jig, and The Goatherd)

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  • S5 E35: Season Finale Cape Breton Tunes and Eliza Ross Manuscript

    December 31st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  57 mins 54 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:
    From Gathering of the Clans:
    Brenda Stubbert, Colonel MacBain’s Fancy, The Dun Petticoat, Go Immediately, The Sound of Mull, Mary Jane Kelly, The Night We had the Goats, The Grey Old Lady of Raasay.
    Eliza Ross: Dun Coloured Tailor, The Night We Had the Goats, The Grey Hag of Raasay, Big Foot of the Deceitful One.
    My Setting: Reel of Tulloch, Mio’s Tune.
    Straight and Skillern: Cave of Enchantment, Exeter Change.

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