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:

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Episodes

  • 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.

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    Season 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle Manuscript

    February 13th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  45 mins 43 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:
    David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript: Athol Braes, Kiss’d Yestereen, New Bigging, The Malt Man, Kick the World Before You
    William Napier: Braes of Athol
    Neil Gow & Sons: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
    James Rook: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
    William Gunn: Oh How I was Kiss’d Yestreen
    Donald MacDonald: Kick the Rogues Out
    Elizabeth Ross: You Silly Fool

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    Season 5 Episode 3 Play Through of Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Part 1

    February 5th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  36 mins 54 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:
    Anderson: Mail Coach
    Jackson: The Figure 3, The Cossey Jig, Pither in Enough
    O’Farrell: Jackson’s Maid at the Fair, Jackson’s Punch Bowl
    Angus MacKay: The Braes of Tullymet
    William Dixon: Hit her between the legs
    Sutherland MS: Whip her and Gird Her

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    Season 5 Episode 2 Dixon and Fitzmaurice Travel to Roslin Castle looking for a Bonny Lass

    January 30th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  45 mins 7 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: Saw ye Never a Bonny lass
    Vickers Manuscript: Kiss’d her under the Coverlet
    Fitzmaurice: Loose the Belt
    Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book: The Berlin Waltz
    Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle
    William McGibbon: Rosline Castle
    James Manson (David Glen): Roslin Picnic
    Donald MacDonald: Roslin Castle, MacPharlane’s lilt
    Angus MacKay: Roslin Castle
    O’Farrell: Pay The Reckoning (Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy, Bobbing for Eels)

  • S5E01 Uilleann Pipes and Strathspeys with Tunes from Jarlath Henderson & Innes Watson and Paul Anderson

    January 22nd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  59 mins 1 sec
    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: Irish Hautboy
    Jar and Innes: Top Gallantsail (Comp Innes Watson), John Stephen Of Chance Inn (Comp Angus Fitchet),
    Travers Jig (trad), Gustys Frolics (trad: Mick Dohertys Version)
    O’Farrell: Roys Wife of Aldivalock
    O’Farrell: Rothemurchus’s Rant
    Paul Anderson Playing: The Rothiemurchus Rant (Bremner) , Dogs Bite Chapmen (Traditional he Says) and The Fairy Dance (Nataniel Gow)
    From Sutherland: Haughs of Cromdale and Merry Maid’s Wedding
    O’Farrell: Ewe with the Crooked Horn
    George MacLellan: The Little Cascade
    Neil Gow: Lady Baird’s Strathspey
    Drummond Castle MS: Allastor
    Joseph Dales: Jenny Sutton

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    S4E37: Jackson's Tweedside Season Finale

    December 28th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  46 mins 3 secs
    celtic society, country dance, donald macdonald, duet, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, o'farrell, robert bremner, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walker jackson

    Tunes:
    1828 Donald MacDonald: The Celtic Society Quickstep, The Weaver
    1800s O’Farrell: Marinda
    1744 John Johnson: The Skimmer
    1775 Straight and Skillern: The Cave of Enchantment, The Exeter Change
    1770s Thompson: Jackson’s Morning Brush

    1796 Cooke: Jackson’s Bottle of Claret
    1790 Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Morning Brush, Jackson’s Turret
    1790s Thomas Calvert: Kelso Bowling Green
    1750s Robert Bremner: Tweedside (With Ryan Kirk).

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    S4E36: Some Holiday Tunes and Bodachan a Gharidh (The Merry old Gardener)

    December 19th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  41 mins 18 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:
    O’Farrell: Lewellynn, A Piper o’er the Meadows Straying, Black Joke
    John Parry: Nos Calan
    Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning
    My Setting?: Mill Mill o, Baloo Lammy
    Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh (The Jolly Old gardener)
    Aird: Bodachan a garidh (The Merry old gardener)

  • S4E35: Bremner Part 3: Bremner’s Guitar Tutor with Special Thanks to Ryan Kirk and Rob Turner

    December 11th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  53 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:

    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

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    S4 Bandamp Friday Reminder

    December 4th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  6 mins 13 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: Straight & Skillern: The Nabob

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    S4 E34 Robert Bremner Part 2: Robert & James Bremner and the Declaration of Independence

    November 27th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  48 mins 19 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, bremner, celtic, declaration of independence, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, hopkinson, irish music, music, pastoral pipes, philadelphia, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

    Tunes:
    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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    S4 E33: Robert Bremner Part 1.5 and Jack Lattin Revisited

    November 20th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  20 mins 20 secs
    bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, itma, jack lattin, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

    Tunes:
    Robert Bremner: Grant’s Rant, Miss Blair’s Reel, The Carle Came O’er the Craft
    O’Farrell: Jack Lattin with Variations
    William Dixon: Jack Lattin
    John Sutherland: Jack Latone

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    S4 E32 Robert Bremner Part 1: Vibratto, Church Music, Allan Ramsay and William McGibbon

    November 14th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 52 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:
    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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    Happy International Uilleann Piping Day!

    November 7th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  10 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:
    Charles and Samuel Thompson: Trip to Paris, The Breast Knot