Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

S6 E3 Tha Mi Sgith, Buain na Rainich, Cutting Bracken, Drummond Castle, Loch Ness With Guests Ian Crane, Jessica (@thehighlandharper) and Anna Seda (@doescellothingz)

February 26th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  57 mins 29 secs

bagpipes, baroque, border music, cello, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, harp, history, ian crane, 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: New Bigging, Drummond Castle
Robert Bremner: Loch Ness
Aird: Loch Ness
Buttrey: Loch Ness
Niel Gow & Sons: Drummond Castle
Edinburgh Repository of Music: Drummond Castle
Albyn’s Anthology: Why Should I Sit and Sigh?
Roud: Sovay
Ross: Drummond Castle Reel
Donald MacDonald: The Weary Maid
Angus MacKay: Drummond Castle

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S5 E21: Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs Audiobook

July 31st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 25 mins

anthony smith, archive, audiobook, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, celtic music, david young, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, harp, highland, highland vocal airs, history, irish music, joseph mcdonald, macpherson, music, ossian, pastoral pipes, patrick mcdonald, primary source, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walter young

This episode Functions mostly as an Audiobook style reading of Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs.
The Preface and Article were Read by Anthony Smith.
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S4E20 Edward Bunting Revisited, Bonny Portmore, Have You Seen My Valentine with guest Simon Chadwick

August 15th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  52 mins 12 secs

bagpipes, border pipes, celtic, edward bunting, eighteenth century, eighteenth century music, gaelic, harp, history, ireland, irish music, music, nineteenth century, scotland, scottish, scottish music, simon chadwick, storm, uilleann pipes, whistle, wire harp

Tunes:
Bunting: Have you Seen my Valentine? The Chanter’s Tune, Chorus Jig (reel), Bonny Portmore
Neil Gow: Drummond Castle,
Donald MacDonald: The Weary Maid
William Dixon: Jack Lattin
Played from memory likely off Chieftains album: Summertime Summertime, Hugar mu fean

S4 E17 A Rock and a Wi Pickle Tow, Harp Tunes with Special Guest performance by Simon Chadwick Introduction Edward Bunting and William McGibbon collection

July 25th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  52 mins 50 secs

a rock and a wi pickle tow, bagpipes, celtic music, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, gaelic harp, great highland bagpipes, harp, history, irish music, jacobite, jacobite rebellion, james oswald, kitty tirrell, music, musician, o'farrell, old tunes, scottish music, simon chadwick, uilleann, uilleann pipes, whistle

Tunes:
Donald MacDonald: Dogs Bite Chapmen, The Rock and the wee Pickle Tow
James Oswald, A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow
William McGibbon, A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow, If E’er you do Well it’s a Wonder
Edward Bunting, John O’Reily the Active, Kitty Tirrell (Courtesy of Simon Chadwick)
O’Farrell: Kitty Tirrell