Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

S 09 E 07 Mini Episode Check Out Droning On Podcast this week

March 29th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  9 mins 43 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: Stool of Repentance

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S 09 E 06 Paddy Whack With a Song from Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer

March 23rd, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 23 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:
Straight and Skillern: Paddy Whack
Robert Ross: Paddy Whack
Sutherland: Paddy Whack
Gordon Mooney: Black Hen’s Egg
Alex MacKay: Black Hen’s Egg
John MacPherson Mulhollan: Paddy Whack, Jackson’s Cassock
Peacock: Paddy Whack
O’Farrell: Paddy Whack, The Black Joke
Hannam: Paddy Whack
Steele: Green Joke
Riley: While History’s Muse
Millar: Paddy Whack
Roddy Cannon: Paddy Whack (from Millar)
Ballad: Polly Oliver
Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer: Sweet Peggy Oliver
Goodman: The Pig Under the Pot
Alexander Glen: Paddy Whack
David Glen: Paddy Whack

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S 09 E 05 The Advocate’s Manuscript New Chanter, Ghost Notes and also I’m the new President of Lowland and Border Piping Society! with tunes from Fionnllagh MacA’Phiocar and Donald Lindsay

March 9th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 12 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:
Gutch, Rimbault Et. Al: Robin Hood’s Preferment
Me: Dynamic Theme, Storm Theme,
Fionnllagh MacA’Phiocar: Ghost Notes
Donald Lindsay: Invocation of the Corn Mother, Two Boats Under the Moon
Advocates Manuscript: Tune 58, 1, A Scots Measure, Jamies Reel (Oyster Wives Rant), The Britches Loose, The Island of Love, The White Jock
O’Farrell: The Shepherds Hornpipe
Walsh: Petticoat Tight, Petticoat Loose,
Fitzmaurice: Loose the Belt
Straight and Skillern: Cupid’s Frolick, Cox’s Museum, Naples Dance, Black Dance, Island of Love
James Horner: The Legend Spreads

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S 9 E 04 Celtic Melodies Mail Coach and Angus MacKay's High B Manuscript

February 23rd, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 20 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:
Anderson: The Mail Coach
Highlander: “Gu’n d’thug mi suil air an trupa ghlas.” “I cast an eye on the grey troop”, “Chaidh mi thun na traigh.” “I wen to the Ebb”, “Gur Trom, tom a tha mi” Sad, Sad am I,
Angus MacKay: Wha’ll be King but Charlie, Lilla’s A Lady, Lilla’s a Lady, Voulez vous danser Madamoiselle or the Portuguese, Paddy Rafferty’s With Variations, Fowler’s Rant, Lady Ellinor Campbell, No. XIII Pipe Reel, “Gur mise tha suncach” “Tis me that’s Happy”, No. 22 Pipe Reel “Lochiel’s Awa To France”
Hamilton: Lilla’s a Lady
Alexander MacKay: Lady Ellinor Campbell’s Reel, Miss Catherine Campbell Ardmore’s Strathspey,
Andrew O’Sullivan: Black Grouse
William Vickers: Lochail’s Real

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Season 9 E 03 Celtic Melodies with new article from Roddy Cannon & Keith Sanger and tunes from Rod Nevin

February 8th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 20 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:
“Highlander” (Maybe Alexander MacKay): Biodh mid subhach (Let us Be Merry), Falb orra, ho! (Ho away she goes) and Pipe Reel (Smith of Killiechassie), Latha dhomhsa ‘s mi siubhal garbhlaich (One day as I was traversing mountains), Cha ‘n ‘eil Cailleach agam fhein (I am Alone since my wife died), Pipe Reel (The Black Hen’s Egg), Cainntearachd (As is played on the pipe!), A Jacobite Air.
If you have some thoughts about the collection of tunes, or want to send me a recording of you playing some of the tunes get in touch at bagpipehistory@gmail.com

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S 09 E 02 Rerun of a Conversation about Bagpipe Myths and History with Keith Sanger

January 25th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  2 hrs 9 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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S 09 E 01 New Intro Music and Season 5 MixTape Rerun

January 12th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 13 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:
Straight And Skillern: Raspberry Blossoms

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: 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 – Pay The Pipemaker: John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes

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S 08 E 29 Season Finale MacDonald Drone Regulator with Song from Adam Sanderson

December 28th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 30 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:
The Doors: The End
My Setting: Macrimmon Shall Never Return, John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes,
Kilberry(ish): Macrimmon Will Never Return, Corrienessan’s Salute, Lord Lovat’s Lament, The Pretty Dirk, Battle of Auldearn, Piper’s Warning To His Master,
Rainstorp: Jack Latine
Angus MacKay: The Pretty Dirk
Donald MacDonald: Reel of Tulloch, Brose and Butter, The Green Hillock (Tulloch Ghorum), The Cock Crowing (Cock of the North),
Adam Sanderson: Auntie Mary

Thank you so much to Vince Ayub for sending me the Donald MacDonald Drone Regulators and bass drone reed.
Special thanks to Adam Sanderson for sending me his singing of Auntie Mary
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S 08 E 28 Season 8 Mix Tape part 2

December 21st, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 18 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:
Brendan Taffee: Shady Grove
Jim Sanders/Jeremy Kingsbury: Shady Grove
John Charles Bauschatz: Spoon Carver, Reels from Eliza Ross: Nighean bhàn a' Mhuilleir (the miller's fair-haired girl), Dòmhnall Àlainn a' Tighinn (elegant Donald coming)
Jeremy Kingsbury: Angus MacKay: MacKay’s Rant, Eliza Ross: Elegant Donald is Coming
Pete Stewart: Twa Corbies, Saw Ye not my Maggy, Curds and Way
Kat Eggleston: 49 Rooms
Gordon Mooney: The Bonnie Mill Dams O’Norham, O’Er the Border
Frankie Archer: Fair Mabel of Wallington Hall, Peacock Followed the Hen
Society of Sound: Paint Your World Green
Andy May Trio: Hambo Eric
Triton: The Creek Beneath the Snow
Iain MacHarg: Green Knight Title Sequence
Sean Reidy: Wahoo Tree

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S 08 E 27 Season 8 Mix Tape part 1

December 14th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  53 mins 23 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:
Simon Pfisterer: Super Mario
Dan Whelan/Crooked Penny: Saros
Air: La Femme d’Argent
Circulus: Dragon’s Dance
Bagad Brieg: Bourrée du val d'amour
Brendan Taaffe: The Eagle’s Whistle
Aaron Jonah Lewis: Egyptian Princess
Benjamin Elzerman: Idumea
James Moyar: So Treibeb Wir

(Notes to come)
Check Out Simon’s Album here:
https://simonpfisterer.com/product/another-way-to-go-cd/

Check Out “Crooked Penny’s” album Eclipse here:
https://crookedpenny.bandcamp.com/album/eclipse

Check out Air here:
https://www.airfrenchband.com/

Check out Circulus here:
https://circulus.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-dingwalls-2005

Check out Bagad Brieg Here:
https://www.bagadbrieg.bzh/

Check Out Aaron Jonah Lewis Here:
https://aaronjonahlewis.com/recordings/
https://aaronjonahlewis.bandcamp.com/album/mozart-of-the-banjo-the-joe-morley-project

Check Out Brendan Taaffe here:
https://brendantaaffe.bandcamp.com/album/heap-of-horseshoes

Check Out Benjamin Elzerman’s Track on Pipes for Peace here:
https://droningon.bandcamp.com/album/pipes-for-peace

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