Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
Original Compositions, Historic Tunes and Popular Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Displaying all 3 Episode of Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast with the tag “fur trade”.
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Country Dance Live Stream Announcement November 1st at 3:30 pm
October 27th, 2020 | Season 4 | 10 mins 26 secs
bagpipes, baroque, book, celtic, country dance, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, fur trade, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, john askin, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, thompson, uilleann pipes, union pipes
Live stream at 3:30 on Sunday November 1st at the Following link: You can Find it on the North American Voyageur Council Facebook page, or shared on the Podcasts Facebook page on 3:30 on Sunday.
You can follow the link below to the Event: https://fb.me/e/2aR9NiWgl
Tunes this Episode: both from Charles And Samuel Thompson’s “Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances” Likely Published around 1758
Woton Underhedge Fair
The Scaramouche -
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 -
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