S7 E23 Drummond Castle Manuscript Part 2

October 6th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  59 mins 40 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

S7 E23 Drummond Castle Manuscript Part 2

Tunes:
David Young: Tail Todle, Collar Reel, Macfarlane’s Reel, Inverara Reel, The Wood of Fyvie, Four and twenty Highlandmen, What Meikle Sorrow Ails You, Corby Reel, Wattie Laing, O’er Bogie, Up and Worst them All Willy, Because I was a bonny Lad, Unfortunate Jock, The Confederacy, Kirkcudbright, You’ll Ay be Welcome Back Again, The Old Wife Beyond the Fire, Rob Shore in the Harvest, A Ranting Highlandman, Fettercairn Reel,
Patrick MacDonald: North Highland Reel #10
William Dixon: Hacky Honey

Thanks to Stephen McNally for the reversed negative image of the title page.
The Majority of the Tunes on this episode come from The Drummond Castle Manuscript by David Young, likely created in 1737. It is split up into 2 PDFs on Ross’s Music Page: The First PDF includes an index, which was very necessary for figuring out the titles on some of the harder to read pages.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

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S7 E22 Baltioura and Souters of Selkirk

September 23rd, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 6 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:
David Young: Because I was a Bonny Lad
Willie Ross: It was Early in the Morning My Love Left Me
Michael Roddy: It was Early in the Morning My Love Left Me
John Sutherland: Balty Hora,
James Aird: Baltioura
Smollet Holden: Baltioura
O’Farrell: Baulthy Oura
Edward Bunting: Baltiorum
Cannon Goodman: Bailtídhe mhóra (Na)
Daniel Wright: The Sulters of Selkerke
William Dixon: The Souters of Selkirk
William McGibbon: The Suitors of Selkirk
James Oswald: The Souters of Selkirk
Walsh: Sulters of Selkerke
John McLachlan: Souters o’ Selkirk

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S7 E21 John Sutherland's Manuscript Part 1

September 10th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 5 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:
Sutherland: Cameronian Rant, this wants to be turn’d, The Lady’s Favourite, Paddy Whack, Kiss about the Hay Stacks, Salt Beef and Dumplings, The Peasant’s Dance, The Nosegay, Duncan Davison, Nancy Larson, Balty Horah, Trip it Up Stairs, Fanny’s Fancy

I'm happy to be supported by The Quietpiper AKA Robert Felsburg, check out his work here:
https://www.thequietpiper.com/

All of the tunes this week come from John Sutherland’s Manuscript available on Ross’s Music Page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html

John Sutherland was a Piper from Aberdeenshire in the late eighteenth century.
His manuscript was hand written and likely from around 1785.

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I highly Recommend Ross Anderson’s Introduction to Sutherland:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/Sutherland-Manuscript.pdf

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1785: GHB Fingering Chart, Cameronian Rant and “this wants to be turn’d” are all available here:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-fm.pdf

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1785: The Lady’s Favourite, Paddy Whack, Kiss about the Hay Stacks, Salt Beef and Dumplings, The Peasant’s Dance, The Nosegay, Duncan Davison, Nancy Larson, Balty Horah, Trip it Up Stairs, Fanny’s Fancy
Are all available in this PDF:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf

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You can Listen to my Trip it up the stairs episode here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s6e05

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S7 E20 Pipers' Gathering Sessions

August 26th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 11 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:
Iain Gelston: St. Mary’s Hornpipe
Jenny Nettles, Drops of Brandy, Braes of Mellenish (And Many more)

Check Out Iain’s Tunebook here:
https://iaingelston.wordpress.com/documents/
For the episode where I play through several of Iain’s Tunes go here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e17

For Pipers’ Gathering Information Check out their Website:
https://www.pipersgathering.org/gathering22/
and their Social Media sites:
https://www.facebook.com/pipersgathering
https://www.instagram.com/thepipersgathering/

For Information about the Scholarship go here:
https://www.pipersgathering.org/scholarships-2/

I talk a bit about Cassandre “Balbar” which is how I know her on Facebook, but I see she goes by Balosso-Bardin as well online, so apologies if I got the name wrong.
Anyway, here is her website:
http://www.cassandrebalossobardin.com/
And you can check out the MET Bagpipe Collection here:
https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2023/3/hidden-bagpipes
and International Bagpipe day here:
https://www.internationalbagpipeorganisation.com/international-bagpipe-day.html

This episode is largely me talking about my time at Pipers’ Gathering and playing some tracks from the impromptu sessions that happened there.
You can hear many pipers playing, but specifically John Charles Bauschatz, Benjamin Elzerman, Robert Mitchell, Rod Nevin, Patrick Hutchinson, Casandre Balosso-Bardin, Mike MacNintch, Thomas Deneuville, and too many more to list.

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S7 E19 24 Hours with Quietpiper Small Pipes

August 12th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  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:
Seattle: Appletrees is Meickle Better
William Vickers: Strike the Bell, Bonny Miller, Old Wagon Way, Cotillon La Pierfitoise, Get Her Boo, Well Dane Jack, Joyful Days is Coming.
William Dixon: Little Wee Winking Thing, Golden Locks
Unknown: Badger and the Weasel, Banks of Sicily
Jeremy Kingsbury: Robin’s Roly Poly
Patrick MacDonald: To Me Comfortable in Repose, Western Isles Dane, Skye Dance 27 &29, Harris Dance 31 & 32, Oscar’s Ghost
Robert Bremner: Cuzzle Together

This episode, and many in the future would not be possibly without the generosity of Robert Felsburg or The Quietpiper
https://www.thequietpiper.com/
Check out his socials as well.
https://www.instagram.com/thequietpiper/
https://www.facebook.com/QuietpiperSmallpipes
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheQuietpiper

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S7 E18 Rowly Powly Album Announcement

August 3rd, 2023  |  Season 7  |  8 mins 29 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:
Straight and Skillern: Cupid's Frolick, Cox's Museum, Naples Dance, the Black Dance, The Island of Love

Here is a Link to the Livestream, which should start at 7 PM US Central time on the Podcast's Facebook Page:
https://fb.me/e/3FaWh0d4Y

When the Album Goes Live on Friday It will be available here on Bandcamp:
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/rowly-powly

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S7 E17 Wetootwaag In the Wild Trying Other People's Bagpipes with Rob Edwards

July 29th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  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:
William Vickers: The Bonny Miller,
Terry Tully: Ass in the Graveyard
Patrick MacDonald: The Mermaid Song, Fisherman's Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph McDonald's Jig, Tune 6 & 7 (Lord Reay's Jig, and The Goatherd) and Flowers of the Forest
Johnny Cock up thy Beaver
Robert Bremner: Cuzle Together
Donald MacDonald: Taladh, Bundle and Go, Rusty Old Gun, Earl Marischal's Reel, Tail Toddle,
William Dixon: An Thou Were my Ain Thing,
Will You take a Wife Donald, Dark Girl of the Sheep, Tail Toddle, Early Marischal’s Reel
Gordon Mooney: Linkumdoddie
Rob Edward: Is This Yours?
Setting a Course for Lewis
David Young: Jolly Robin
If you're interested in buying the set of Herriot and Allen Smallpipes I played at the beginning of the episode, Email Rob Edwards here. He’s also making excellent bellows and furniture presently, and likely small pipes soon as well!
rcedward@gmail.com

Of the several makers who’s instruments I was able to play for this episode, Robert Felsburg is I believe the only one actively taking orders.
https://www.thequietpiper.com/

You may still technically be able to get on Fin Moore’s wait list, but I’m not sure how you’d go about it.

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Season 7 Episode 16 Piping on Madeline Island, Lake Superior (Wetootwaag In the Wild)

July 15th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 5 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: Cullen Bay, Jenny Nettles, Farewell to the Creeks, Grand Portage Piobaireachd, Carey Baxter’s Three Waves, Drimandoo, Lament of a Druid, March from Oscar and Malvina, and many more.

If you ever make it to Madeline Island be sure to hit up the Madeline Island Museum (You can buy my CDs there too!
https://madelineislandmuseum.wisconsinhistory.org/

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To Read More From and About John Johnston Check out these Sources:
Masson (The Statistical Account Knock off Printed format)
https://archive.org/details/P000159/page/135/mode/1up?view=theater

You can look at Johnston’s Original contribution and letter I read by navigating this website:
https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/nwc/toolbar_1.htm

I also found these website entries helpful and interesting while planning the episode:

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnston_john_6E.html
https://www.dib.ie/biography/johnston-john-a4306
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/todd_isaac_5E.html

For Physical Copies of Bannocks of Barley Meal go here:
https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1

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S7 E15 Exploring the Sources for Larry Grogan

July 1st, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 17 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:
(1730s)Johnson: Jack Latine, Fiddle Faddle, Steward’s Rant, The Hermitage, A Trip to the Laundry,
(1748) John Walsh: Pray Be Civil, The Bush, The Mouse Trap, Swab the Decks,

(1750’s) James Oswald: One Evening as I lost my Way, The Birth of Kisses,

(1763) Robert Bremner: Prussian March, A March in Rinaldo, March, March, Grenadier March,

(1770s) William Vickers: The Merry Thought, My Own Kind Dery
(1782) Aird: The Amorous Goddess, La Nouvelle Angloise, The Braes of Angus

(1787) Thompson Hibernian Muse: The High Road to Dublin, The Irish Widow,
(1808) O’Farrell: Courtney’s Favorite, Deidre’s Lamentation for the Sons of Usnoth, Meeting of the Waters, The Kerry Jigg
(1853) J.T. Surenne: Oh! Arranmore, Lov’d Arranmore
Goodman: We’ll Gang na mair to yon town, The Night of an Irishman, Farewell to Old Ireland

Check out my long interview with James Moyar on the Droning on Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-a66uw-1440e69

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S7 E14 Larry Grogan (Coppers and Brass) With Paddy Keenan and Lynn Sanders

June 17th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 40 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:
Johnson: Larry Grogan,
Robert Bremner: Larry Grogan
Oswald: Larry Grogan
William Vickers: Larry Grogan,
Aird: Larry Grogan,
O’Farrell: Lary Grogan,
J.T. Surenne: Larry Grogan
O’Neill: Larry Grogan
Goodman: The Humours of Ennistymon
Grogan/Thompson: Ally Croaker
Johnny Doran: Coppers and Brasses
Willie Clancy: Coppers and Brass
Paddy Keenan: Coppers and Brass, The Rambling Pitchfork
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If you're interested in buying the set of Herriot and Allen Smallpipes I played at the beginning of the episode, Email Rob Edwards here:
rcedward@gmail.com

Many Thanks to Lynn Sanders and Paddy Keenan for Contributing tunes for this episode.
Check Out Paddy's Website here:
https://www.paddykeenan.com/

I'm indebted to several different entries from Traditional Tune Archive (as often is the case). In Particular the entry about Larry Grogan was particularly useful:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Larry_Grogan_(1)

I also used the Irish Tune Info entry about Coppers and Brass:
https://www.irishtune.info/tune/1096/