Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Fur Trade”

Country Dance Live Stream Announcement November 1st at 3:30 pm

Jeremy Kingsbury — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 02:00:00 -0400

Livestream Announcement: “Many thanks for your country dance book” -John Askin
John Askin’s Borrowed Country Dance Book
A livestream Discussion and Concert of tunes from likely Country Dance Music Collections Performed on bagpipes and whistles at 3:30 US Central Time on November 1st,

A live stream Discussion and Concert of tunes from several Country Dance Music collection that John Askin may have borrowed From Detroit's Sampson Flemming in 1778.
Performed on Various Bagpipes and Whistles by Jeremy Kingsbury
Lasting More than Thirty minutes, but hopefully no longer than an Hour.

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

Likely to play tunes by Robert Bremner, John Walsh, O’Farrell, James Aird, William McGibbon, Donald MacDonald, Charles and Samuel Thompson.

The Tunes I play on Whistle are both from Charles And Samuel Thompson’s “Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances” Likely Published around 1758
The tunes were:
Woton Underhedge Fair
The Scaramouche

I couldn’t find an Archive copy but was able to download the ABC notation from this site:
https://archive.org/details/ThompsonI17313

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Live Stream Announcement for August 8 Bagpipes and the North West Company

Jeremy Kingsbury — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Checkout the Facebook page here:
https://facebook.com//Wetootwaags-Bagpipe-and-History-Podcast-105980514479825/
LIVE STREAM 1 PM Saturday August 8th, 2020 (US Central Time GMT -5:00)

Generally this would be the weekend of the Rendezvous Days Pow Wow at Grand Portage

Since we are not meeting in person I’ll be doing a live stream
Music program

Tune in to the Wetootwaag’s Bagpipes and History Podcast Facebook Page or the North American Voyageur Council Facebook Page (and likely some other places) for you to enjoy!

Thanks!

Saturday at 1 PM for a Live Stream
I’ll be mostly playing Bagpipe Tunes on Scottish and Irish Bagpipes that would have been Popular in the 1790s, as well as a Discussion of the Bagpipers that Entertained the North West Company and Indigenous People throughout the Interior of Canada.

(If Acoustics are too intense with Highland Pipes, likely to strongly Feature Uilleann Pipes)

S4 E16 Napoleonic Fur Trade Pipers, Downfall of Paris, Up and a Warr em a Willie and many more

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 04:00:00 -0400

Be Sure to Hunt down the Podcast on your Favorite Podcast listening service!
If I’m not available on your podcast player of choice send me an email: wetootwaag@gmail.com

Here’s a link to the podcast on Apple Podcasts/Itunes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677

The image for the episode is me dressed as my interpretation of George McKay when he piped for the North West Company at Grand Portage, with my reproduction George McKay Waterloo Pipes (thanks to Chris Black and Janet LaFrance for the image!)

I used O’Neil’s setting for Downfall of Paris:
Page 1: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/1201-1800/Sheet-1501-1600/1562a-Downfall-1stPage.gif
Page 2: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/1201-1800/Sheet-1501-1600/1562b-Downfall-2ndPage.gif
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/Sheet-1801-1850/1824-BonaparteCrossingRhine.gif

O’Farrell’s setting for The Fall of Paris: https://digital.nls.uk/87779894
If you aren’t Fall of Paris’d out check out the amazing Mikie Smyth performance: https://youtu.be/ZF8uHVu4Res

O’Farrell’s setting for The Basket of Oysters: Just went hunting, and still not finding a Vol 3&4 online, if anyone has a link to it please let me know, but You can use this link to download a PDF, the tune is numbered 123 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc4.pdf

Angus MacKay’s Up and Waur them a’ Willie, https://digital.nls.uk/105007223
Donald MacDonald’s cut time setting for Up and waur them a’ Willie: https://digital.nls.uk/105682484

Donald MacDonlad Tunes Up and Warr em Willie and Amorous Lover: https://digital.nls.uk/105876159

If you want to read John McKay’s Journal that Discusses the North West Company Bagpiper George Mckay you can read it here, the Entry is on August 17th 1794:
http://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M119/B166-A-2.pdf
(If you don’t want to download a PDF link straight from me the HBC Archive Link is here The HBC Archive recently Digitized ALL of their Post journals, some good Quarantine reading here!
http://pam.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LISTINGS_WEB2/LISTINGS_DET_REP_FULL_GR/SISN%2023208?sessionsearch