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:

https://www.wetootwaag.com/albums

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Episodes

  • 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

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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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  • S5 E34: Cape Breton Piping Chat with Barry Shears

    December 18th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 28 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:
    Sets from Barry:
    Welcome to the Trossacks, Father Eugene’s Welcome to Cape North.
    My Daughters Lullaby, Siobhan’s Reel, Alison’s Port Beag, and Angus Maclean Shears.

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  • S5 E 33: 8 Months in, High B and C on Highland Pipes Tips and Tricks with a Tune from Malin Lewis and Bob Cameron

    December 3rd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  54 mins 26 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:
    Bob Cameron: The Lark in the Clear Air
    Traditional/My Settings: Braveheart, Frere Jacques, When the King Enjoys his Own Again, Ye Banks and Braes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes, Greensleeves
    Aird: Tam Glen
    Malin Lewis: In Tune with Nature
    Rutherford: Strip Me Naked, Jacks A Live, Tom Edwards

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  • S5 E32 Wetootwaag’s Mix Tape of Other people’s Music

    November 20th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  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:
    Preston Howard Wilde - Good Natured Man: An Chailín Dubh Doar, King of the Cannibal Islands, Jockey to the Fair, The Ship Returns Home
    Inveraray & District Pipe Band - Ascension: Mad Hornpipes,Catherine's Lament
    Lowp - Drive Away Dull Care: Rusty Gully-Duns Dings A'-Wee Totum Fogg, Long Lankin
    Ryan Molloy - tempered:Bourrée from Suite in E minor by J.S. Bach (BWV996) & The Return from Fingal (march) – Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, The Unspoken Words (march) & An Evening on Doughmore Beach (reel) – Tara Howley
    Jamie MacDonald & Christian Gamauf - The Pipe Slang:Asturian, Mo Nighean Donn à Cornaig
    Fraser Fifield, Piobaireachd Pipe Music:Where Rivers Meet, The MacDougall's Gathering
    Iain Gelston - Soundcloud: Leshly's March, Cotting Burn
    Jeremy Kingsbury: John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes.

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  • S5 E31 International Uilleann Piping Day: Hibernian Muse, John Murphy and a Song from Pat D’Arcy

    November 6th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  57 mins 19 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:
    Hibernian Muse: Planxty Connor, Hugar mu Fean, Ballinamona Oro, The Lads of Dunse, the Lasses of Dunse
    O’Farrell: Planxty Connor
    Goodman: Planxty Connor
    Burke Thumoth: Hugar mu Fean,
    John Walsh: Lads of Dunce
    Thompson: Lads of Dunse
    James Aird: Lads of Dunce, Lasses of Dunse
    Caledonian Muse: I made Love to Kate
    Pat D’Arcy: The Whistling Thief, The Rocky Road to Dublin
    John Murphy: Pat What are you Doing?, Pat in a Passion, O’Connoly’s Jigg & Jackson’s Rattle, Murphy’s Jigg.
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    Huge thank you to Patrick D’Arcy for sharing a track with us. You should check out Pat’s Albums here:
    http://www.patrickdarcymusic.com/store.html
    And His Important website here:
    https://www.uilleannobsession.com/
    and His excellent Youtube channel here:
    https://www.youtube.com/PDarcy

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    Here are some links to things happening on International Uilleann Piping Day:
    https://www.facebook.com/uilleannpipingday/
    https://pipers.ie/event-single/international-uilleann-piping-day-iupd-2021/

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  • S5E30 Fitzmaurice's Spooky Gold Ring with Tune from Blackie O'Connell

    October 29th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  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 McGibbon: Halloween
    Walsh: Gold Ring
    Nixon: Gold Ring
    William Vickers: Gold Ring
    John Rook: Gold Ring Paddy
    Fitzmaurice: The Tore Retreat, Kick the World Before You, Fitzmaurice’s Hornpipe,
    David Young: Kick The World Before You
    Killoran: The Gold Ring Goodman: Five Pound Jig
    Seamus Ennis: The Gold Ring
    O’Farrell: Lasses of Limerick
    Fitzmaurice: Mrs. Garden Campbell’s Jig

    Edward Bunting: Pharoh Or the War March
    Grier: The Golden Ring
    Patsy Touhey: The Gold Ring
    O’Neill: The Gold Ring
    Blackie O’Connell and Siobhán Peoples: The Gold Ring & The Dawn Chorus

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  • 5e29: Caledonian and Hibernian Muse Audiobook and Tunes

    October 16th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 1 min
    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:
    Caledonian Muse: Posodh Peathar, Muirland Willie, He Hirpled Tille Her, Polworth Green
    Hibernian Muse: Carolan’s Receipt, Port Patrick, Coulin, Irish Hoboy

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  • s5e28 The Gravel Walk To Kiss Mother with Tunes from Frankie Kennedy & Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tim Britton

    October 11th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  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 (Order…cause they are mostly the same haha):
    William Litten: The Highland Man, Jigg Poltage
    Robert Bremner: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
    James Aird: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
    Caledonian Muse: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
    Donald MacPhee: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
    David Glen: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
    Rook Manuscript: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
    Matt Seattle: The Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
    Rutherford: Jackie Stewart’s New Reel
    From Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh & Frankie Kennedy: The Highlandman / The Cliffs Of Glencolumbkille / Old Cuffe Street
    Hime: Ryan’s Rant
    McFadyen: Rayan’s Rant
    John Clinton: Paddy Cary
    Ryan Mammoth: Around The World (or is it Mammoth as in Huge?)
    O’Neill: Jolly Seven, Tie The Bonnet/Rambler’s Rest, The Fairy Hurlers
    Traditional Tune Archive: Galway Rambler
    Stephen Grier: Lord Wellington, Maid In the Cherry Tree/Curragh Races/Untitled)
    Kerr: Ryan’s Rant
    From Tim Britton: The Gravel Walk

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