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

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June 2nd, 2022

1 hr 10 mins 59 secs

Season 6

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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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You can check out Bannocks of Barley Meal on Bandcamp, I hope to have Physical copies available soon:
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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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Set from Bannocks of Barley Meal:

1774: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Nightcap, Jackson’s Morning Brush. All are from Walker Jackson’s own book, Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes.
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

Caber Feidh:

1734 Caper Fei From Drummond Castle Manuscript, likely by David Young
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

1785: Caper Fey From John Sutherland’s Manuscript
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-121-160.pdf

1808: Caper Fey from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc4.pdf

1822: Cabar Feidh from Alexander MacKay’s Islay collection:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104488178

1848: Cabar feidh from William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

1854: Cabar Feigh from Angus MacKay’s Piper Assistant:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007036

1869: Caber Feidh from William Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music
https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/Book06/Book06%2023a.pdf

https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html

1860s: Reel (Cabar Fey) From Goodman:
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-three#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=152&z=-239.9692%2C1213.7862%2C8184.6391%2C4299.1055

1870: Caber Feigh from John and Robert Glen's Collection for the Great Highland Bagpipe
https://ceolsean.net/content/JRGlen/Book02/Book02%2027.pdf

1899: Caberfeidh from Logan's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music
https://ceolsean.net/content/Logan/Book05/Book05%2043.pdf

20th Century Settings from Nova Scotia:
Barry Shears: Cabar Feidh, (Settings 59, 99, 159, 206) all available in Play it Like You Sing It Volume 2:
I was able to find my copy of Play it Like You Sing it Volume 2 at the Pipers Hut:
https://www.thepipershut.com/play-it-like-you-sing-it-volume-2-by-barry-shears.html
Thanks to Barry Shears for the set of tunes, you can see his website here: https://capebretonpiper.com/

And I didn’t Ask Brian what setting he was playing, but thanks to Brian May for his playing of Cabar Feidh, as a Strathspey; you can check out Brian’s website here:
https://www.brianmaybagpiper.com/

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Setting I didn’t Play:

Robert Bremner’s Setting from 1769 Country Dances for Caper Fey (I Didn’t play this one as it was too dependent on a leading note and far reaches of the second octave.
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104993990

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