Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

S 10 E 02 Kilts, Bagpipers and Living History. A Chat with Isaac Walters (A Rerun from 2021)

January 25th, 2026  |  Season 10  |  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:
Robyn Jamner: If I die at the Hands of a faceless man.
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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S 10 E 01 Abolish Ice Chippewa Valley Irish Immigration with guest musicians Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain (Rerun)

January 11th, 2026  |  Season 10  |  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:
O'Farrell: Raspberry Flowers
William Vickers: Sweet as Sugar Candy
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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S 09 E 36 Season Finale Dunkeld Sessions

December 31st, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 15 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:
Rebel's Minuet (Crìsdean & Johanna): Will ye go to Flanders
You can hear from several stellar musicians playing at the various sessions in Dunkeld over the Collogue weekend.
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S 09 E 35 Donald Macdonald Playthrough Part 5

December 13th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  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:
Donald MacDonald: A Jig, A Jig, “The 92nd Gordon Highlanders” Quickstep, Buachail Na Gobhar. Is Na Caroach “The Goat Herd”, Taladh, or the Nurse’s Song, “Mackay’s March” Quickstep, A Reel “The Flirting Brown maid”, Hurichum Harichim “72nd Highlanders”, A Jig “The Gown and Apron”, The Highland Laddie, The Haughs of Cromdale, Buain Ne Ronich, or the Weary maid, Lochial’s Awa’ To France

Mr. Mitchell: I’ll Gar Ye Be Fain to Follow Me
Alan Ramsay: Song To the Tune of “I’ll Gar ye be fain to follow me
O’Farrell: Fain to Follow Me

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S 09 E 34 2025 Mixtape Episode, Bandcamp Friday Album Launch Edition!

December 5th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  2 hrs 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:
Jeremy Kingsbury: Saw ye a Lassie of Fifteen at the mines in Wicklow or Bath? From Humours of Toddy
ArBo Doughty: Far Away/ The Moth in the Lantern, Green Fields of Canada and Paddy’s Rambles Through the Park from fahy’s fields
Nicholas Brown: Master, I Go Hunting - Shaving Baby With a Spoon - Sky Blue Dress (Hop Jigs) from Not so Good As The Flute
Dave Rowlands: Cotting Burn from Musica ex alia terra
Brendan Taaffe & Maurice Manning: Spin All the Stars, Grace it Falls from The Bucolics Project
Muco: Wið ymbe (a beekeeper's charm) from Soþlice, Bryd One Brere from Summer Crossing and
Frankie Archer: In Brunton Town from Sing Yonder 2
Mike MacNintch: The Keelman O’er the Land/Jenny Nettles/Drops of Brandy from The Chanter’s Song
Ian Lawther: Meggy’s Foot from The Empty Trough
Donald WG Lindsay & Alisdair Roberts: Wheels of Fortune, Jock Hawk’s Adventures in Glasgow from Welcome Home My Dearie
Matthew Welch: Lessons in Dragonease Six (Glass Dragons) from Dragon Fire
Raflum | 雨鎖悲秋: Sunset Glow, Secluded Vale from Melodies of Forest and Springs 林泉吟
Sean Reidy: The Arduous Wait from Tunes for the Soul
Landless: The Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry, The Hag from Lúireach
Topette!!: JLP, Winstanley’s/Les Trois Canards from Bourdon
Marit and Rona: Kilmartin Glen Campsite from Turas

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S 09 E 33 Dunkeld Cathedral LBPS Concert

November 29th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  45 mins 27 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:
Rhiona Sidley, Stuart Letford and Tom Rust with MacCrimmon’s Lament
Jeremy Kingsbury: Hacky Honey, Tam Glen/Lads Wi' the Kilts, Stool of Repentance, Merry Old Woman, Jackson's Lake,
Fionnlaigh Mac a Phiocair with the Rolling Wave Set
Ian Kinnear with The Bloody Fields of Flanders and Lochanside
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S 09 E 32 Intro to Border Pipes Talk

November 15th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 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:
A Mile to Ride, Dorrington Lads, Generous Fox, Bonny Lad, Welcome to Town Again, Rock and Wee Pickle Tow, Terribus, Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon, Jack Lattin
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S 09 E 31 Halloween Episode Part 2 Ghost Stories

October 31st, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 2 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:
Jeremy Kingsbury: Drømde mik en drøm i nat, Niizh Aandegog, Twa Corbies,
Robert Bremner: Bristol
Petrie: The Song of the Ghost
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S 09 E 30 Halloween Episode The Werewolf

October 18th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  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:
Robin Moss Kingsbury: Spooky Song
Peter MacLeod Jr: Loch Ness Monster
TuneArchive Sources: Old Crow Reel, Raven Through the Bog,
Jeremy Kingsbury: Twa Corbies, The Rakes of the Time, Hey Johnny Cock up Thy Beaver, The Werewolf
Meadows Trio: Wolf in the Butter
Rowan Leslie: The Siren
Demon Barbers: The Werewolf
Michael Hurley: The Werewolf
Cat Power: The Werewolf
Dan Whalen: The Witches

Readings From:
Adomnán: Vita Columba
Unknown: The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus
Unknown: The Bestiary (MS Bodley 764)
Marie de France: Bisclavret the Werewolf
Check out Dan Whalen on Tiktok at protection_road
https://www.tiktok.com/@protection_road?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

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S 09 E 29 Advocates Manuscript Part 2 with contributions from Brian McCandless and Cathal Brown

October 4th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 24 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:
Advocates 5.2.22 Manuscript: The Laird of Ogle's, Tune # 8, 9 (Strathspey), 10 (Lochiel's Awa to France), 11 (The Black Mill), Jack has Got a Wife, Jack's Frolic, White Jock, Le Demoiselles, The School for Lovers,
Cathal Brown: Gahagan's Frisk, The Humours Westmeath,
James Aird: Jackson's Frolic,

To Download Brian's Article Click here:
https://www.patreon.com/file?h=140330775&m=542585391
Check out the Archive of Alternate Pipers of North America here:
https://pipersgathering.org/apna_old/?page_id=1553

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