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

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Episodes

  • S4E27 Oscar & Malivina A Chat with Nicolas Brown

    October 3rd, 2020  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 8 mins
    bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, good enough music for them who love it, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, nicolas brown, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, the ivy leaf, uilleann pipes, union pipes

    Tunes: By Nicolas Brown from new album "Good Enough Music for them who Love it"
    O’Farrell (et.al) Oscar & Malvina Set for the Pipes
    Aird (et. al) Battle from Oscar And Malvina

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    S4E26: Keep The Country Bonny Lassie and Jackson's Welcome Home

    September 26th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  20 mins 48 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, jackson's welcome home, keep the country bonny lassie, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

    Tunes:
    O’Farrell: Jackson’s Welcome Home
    Aria Di Camera: Let’s Shak her well
    Bremner: Keep the Country Bonny Lassie
    Donald MacDonald: Keep the Country Bonny Lassie

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    S4E25: Dorrington Lads A Conversation with Donald WG Lindsay

    September 19th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 23 mins
    ascension island, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, conversation, donald lindsay, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, history of sleep, interview, irish music, music, pastoral pipes, richard youngs, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

    Tunes:
    William Dixon: Dorrington Lads by Donald WG Lindsay & Richard Youngs

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    S4 E24: Descriptive Pieces The Irish Fox Hunt, Oscar and Malvina, The Desperate Battle and The Stool of Repentance

    September 11th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  52 mins 55 secs
    aird, bagpipes, baroque, bremner, celtic, descriptive pieces, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, fox chase, ghb, great highland bagpipes, gunn, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, stool of repentance, the fox chase, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

    Tunes:
    O’Farrell: Oscar and Malvina, Irish Fox Hunt
    Piobaireachd: The Desperate Battle
    Dixon: The Stool of Repentance
    Bremner: Wright’s Rant
    Gunn: The Piper’s Son

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    S4E23: Maggie Cameron AKA The Lasses Pisses Brandy and O’Farrell original Waterford Waltz

    September 5th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  34 mins 25 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, northumberland, northumbrian pipes, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

    Tunes:
    Dixon: The Lasses Bushes Brawly
    William Vickers: Lassess Pisses Brandy
    Gunn: William Roy’s Loomhouse
    James Scott Skinner: Maggie Cameron
    O’Farrell: Waterford Waltz,
    Bremner: The Lady’s Breast Knot

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    S4E22: Hoop her and Gird Her

    August 29th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  37 mins 39 secs
    bagpipes, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, hit her between the legs, hoop her and gird her, irish music, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

    Tunes:
    Dixon: Hit Her Between the Legs
    Geoghegean: Jigg call’d Whip her & Gird Her
    Gow: Hoop Her and Gird Her
    O’Farrell: Bridget my Treasure
    (I made a slight update to my discussion of Hit her between the Legs, sorry if it triggers a confusing double download)

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    S4E21: Clean Pease Straw, Robert Bremner and John Sutherland Collections

    August 22nd, 2020  |  Season 4  |  28 mins 22 secs
    bagpipes, celtic, clean pease straw, country dancing, donald macdonald, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, jack lattin, john sutherland, music, pastoral pipes, peas straw, robert bremner, scotland, scottish, scottish country dancing, scottish dance, shor and sweet, uilleann pipes

    Tunes:
    Donald MacDonald: Pease Straw
    O’Farrell: Short and Sweet
    Robert Bremner: Clean Pease Straw, Pudding Maggie
    John Sutherland: Jack Latone, Clean Pease Straw

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    S4E20 Edward Bunting Revisited, Bonny Portmore, Have You Seen My Valentine with guest Simon Chadwick

    August 15th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  52 mins 12 secs
    bagpipes, border pipes, celtic, edward bunting, eighteenth century, eighteenth century music, gaelic, harp, history, ireland, irish music, music, nineteenth century, scotland, scottish, scottish music, simon chadwick, storm, uilleann pipes, whistle, wire harp

    Tunes:
    Bunting: Have you Seen my Valentine? The Chanter’s Tune, Chorus Jig (reel), Bonny Portmore
    Neil Gow: Drummond Castle,
    Donald MacDonald: The Weary Maid
    William Dixon: Jack Lattin
    Played from memory likely off Chieftains album: Summertime Summertime, Hugar mu fean

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    S4E19: Love and a Pipe, Highland Harry Back Again, with guests Ryan Behnke and Unwelcome Visitors

    August 8th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  27 mins 28 secs
    bagpipebinky, bagpipes, celtic, eighteenth century, history, ireland, irish music, music, nineteenth century, o'farrell, robert burns, ryan behnke, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, unwelcome visitors, whistle

    Tunes:
    O’Farrell: Love and a Pipe Duet, Humours of Ardmore
    Donald MacDonald, Highland Harry Back Again
    Angus MacKay: Highland Harry Back Again
    Robert Burns: My Harry was a Gallant Gay
    Guest Track from Unwelcome Visitors: Young Tom Ennis, Jimmy Neary’s, The White Petticoat.

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    Live Stream Announcement for August 8 Bagpipes and the North West Company

    August 7th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  6 mins 5 secs
    bagpipes, celtic, donald macdonald, fur trade, ghb, grand portage, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, music, scotland, scottish, uilleann pipes

    Tune in to the Facebook Page for the Podcast to watch a livestream.
    Tunes in this short message, Beginning of Love and a Pipe from O'Farrell and Lament For John from Finbar Furey

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    S4 E18: Over the Water to Charlie, Greig’s Pipes, John Walsh Dance Music

    July 31st, 2020  |  Season 4  |  37 mins 10 secs
    bagpipe, bagpiper, caledonia, caledonian pocket companion, country dance, country dance music, eighteenth century, folk music, ghb, great highland bagpipes, irish history, irish music, jacobite, james oswald, john walsh, music, music history, o'farrell, ofarrell, outlander, scotland, scottish history, scottish music, tunes, uilleann, uilleann pipes, weekly podcast, wetootwaag, whistle

    John Walsh: The Puff, The Laundry (Hot Pot), Hot Stick
    James Oswald: Over the Water to Charlie
    Angus MacKay: Over the Water to Charlie, Greig’s Pipes
    O’Farrell: Shaun Buee, Greig’s Pipes

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    S4 E17 A Rock and a Wi Pickle Tow, Harp Tunes with Special Guest performance by Simon Chadwick Introduction Edward Bunting and William McGibbon collection

    July 25th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  52 mins 50 secs
    a rock and a wi pickle tow, bagpipes, celtic music, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, gaelic harp, great highland bagpipes, harp, history, irish music, jacobite, jacobite rebellion, james oswald, kitty tirrell, music, musician, o'farrell, old tunes, scottish music, simon chadwick, uilleann, uilleann pipes, whistle

    Tunes:
    Donald MacDonald: Dogs Bite Chapmen, The Rock and the wee Pickle Tow
    James Oswald, A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow
    William McGibbon, A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow, If E’er you do Well it’s a Wonder
    Edward Bunting, John O’Reily the Active, Kitty Tirrell (Courtesy of Simon Chadwick)
    O’Farrell: Kitty Tirrell

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    S4 E16 Napoleonic Fur Trade Pipers, Downfall of Paris, Up and a Warr em a Willie and many more

    July 18th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 3 mins
    angus mackay, bagpipes, celtic, donald macdonald, fur trade, georgian, ghb, grand portage, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, music, napoleon, north west company, o'farrell, ofarrell, regency, rhine, scotland, scottish, uilleann pipes, voyageur, waterloo

    A Bit of a Discussion of North West Company Bagpiper George McKay and the following tunes:
    Original Composition: Grand Portage Tribal Chairwoman Beth Drost
    O’Farrell: Fall of Paris, Basket of Oysters
    Angus MacKay: Up an Waur em Willie
    Donald MacDonald: Amorous Lover, Up and Warr em Willie
    O’Neil: Downfall of Paris, Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine

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    S 4 E 15 When The King Enjoys His Own again the World will be Turned Upside Down

    July 11th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  38 mins 51 secs
    american revolution, bagpipes, celtic, eighteenth century, history, ireland, irish music, jacobite, jacobite rebellion, music, nineteenth century, reel, return from fingal, revolutionary, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, whistle, yorktown

    From O’Farrell: Moll in the Wad, The Bard’s Legacy
    From Donald MacDonald: The Perewig, Cuir’s Chiste Moir Me & c.
    Other: Return from Fingal, The king will enjoy his own again/the world turned upside down

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    Season 4 Episode 14 Many 98s I Hae a Wife of My Ain with Guest Tim MacDonald and Jeremy Ward

    July 4th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  33 mins 42 secs
    98, angus mackay, bagpipes, celtic, donald macdonald, filddle, ghb, gordon duncan, great highland bagpipes, highland, historic tunes, history, jeremy ward, music, o'farrell, ofarrell, old music, old women's money, scotland, scottish, tim macdonald, uilleann, uilleann pipes

    Gordon Duncan: The 9/8 Jig
    O’Farrell: Sall’s Delight, Wife of My Own, Old Women’s Money, Tuhy’s Frolic
    Donald MacDonald: The Grinder, I hae a wife o my ain, brose and butter, an Irish Jig.
    Angus MacKay: I Ha’e a Wife o’ my ain, Brose and Butter, Saw Ye Carle of Late, Go to Berwick Johnny.
    Tim MacDonald and Jeremy Ward: I Hae A Wife O My Ain / Dunkeld É

  • Season 4 Episode 13: Robin Power’s Fancy, My Woer Be Merry, Sir J.M. Mackenzie’s Reel, Earl Marischal Reel, Hills of Glenorchy, Humours of Last Night.

    June 27th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  34 mins 27 secs
    bagpipes, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, georgian, history, ireland, irish music, isle of skye, music, nineteenth century, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, victorian, whistle

    O’Farrell Tunes: Robin Power’s Fancy and Humours of Last Night.
    Angus Mackay Tunes: Sir J.M. Mackenzie’s Reel, Hills of Glenorchy
    Donald MacDonald Tunes: My Woer be Merry, Earl Marischal Reel