Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Season 5 Episode 6: Kilts, Bagpipers and Living History. A Chat with Isaac Walters

February 27th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 15 mins

bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, jacobite, kilt, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, tartan, uilleann pipes, union pipes

Tunes:
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

S5E05 Chippewa Valley Irish Immigration, Canon Goodman, with guest musicians Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain

February 21st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 3 mins

bagpipes, baroque, canon goodman, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, emmigration, famine, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, immigration, irish music, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

TUNES:
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.

Season 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle Manuscript

February 13th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  45 mins 43 secs

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript: Athol Braes, Kiss’d Yestereen, New Bigging, The Malt Man, Kick the World Before You
William Napier: Braes of Athol
Neil Gow & Sons: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
James Rook: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
William Gunn: Oh How I was Kiss’d Yestreen
Donald MacDonald: Kick the Rogues Out
Elizabeth Ross: You Silly Fool

Season 5 Episode 3 Play Through of Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Part 1

February 5th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  36 mins 54 secs

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
Anderson: Mail Coach
Jackson: The Figure 3, The Cossey Jig, Pither in Enough
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Maid at the Fair, Jackson’s Punch Bowl
Angus MacKay: The Braes of Tullymet
William Dixon: Hit her between the legs
Sutherland MS: Whip her and Gird Her

Season 5 Episode 2 Dixon and Fitzmaurice Travel to Roslin Castle looking for a Bonny Lass

January 30th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  45 mins 7 secs

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
William Dixon: Saw ye Never a Bonny lass
Vickers Manuscript: Kiss’d her under the Coverlet
Fitzmaurice: Loose the Belt
Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book: The Berlin Waltz
Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle
William McGibbon: Rosline Castle
James Manson (David Glen): Roslin Picnic
Donald MacDonald: Roslin Castle, MacPharlane’s lilt
Angus MacKay: Roslin Castle
O’Farrell: Pay The Reckoning (Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy, Bobbing for Eels)

S5E01 Uilleann Pipes and Strathspeys with Tunes from Jarlath Henderson & Innes Watson and Paul Anderson

January 22nd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  59 mins 1 sec

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
James Aird: Irish Hautboy
Jar and Innes: Top Gallantsail (Comp Innes Watson), John Stephen Of Chance Inn (Comp Angus Fitchet),
Travers Jig (trad), Gustys Frolics (trad: Mick Dohertys Version)
O’Farrell: Roys Wife of Aldivalock
O’Farrell: Rothemurchus’s Rant
Paul Anderson Playing: The Rothiemurchus Rant (Bremner) , Dogs Bite Chapmen (Traditional he Says) and The Fairy Dance (Nataniel Gow)
From Sutherland: Haughs of Cromdale and Merry Maid’s Wedding
O’Farrell: Ewe with the Crooked Horn
George MacLellan: The Little Cascade
Neil Gow: Lady Baird’s Strathspey
Drummond Castle MS: Allastor
Joseph Dales: Jenny Sutton

S4E36: Some Holiday Tunes and Bodachan a Gharidh (The Merry old Gardener)

December 19th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  41 mins 18 secs

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
O’Farrell: Lewellynn, A Piper o’er the Meadows Straying, Black Joke
John Parry: Nos Calan
Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning
My Setting?: Mill Mill o, Baloo Lammy
Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh (The Jolly Old gardener)
Aird: Bodachan a garidh (The Merry old gardener)

S4E35: Bremner Part 3: Bremner’s Guitar Tutor with Special Thanks to Ryan Kirk and Rob Turner

December 11th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  53 mins

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:

Robert Bremner: Stadholders Minuet, Moorish Tunes, Mill Mill O, Willy was a Wanton Wag, and Black Joke.
William McGibbon: Mill Mill O, Willie Was a Wanton Wag
James Oswald: Burlesque on a Black Joak:
Miscellaneous: Clare Dragoons, Braes a Mar

S4 Bandamp Friday Reminder

December 4th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  6 mins 13 secs

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes: Straight & Skillern: The Nabob

S4 E34 Robert Bremner Part 2: Robert & James Bremner and the Declaration of Independence

November 27th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  48 mins 19 secs

bagpipes, baroque, bremner, celtic, declaration of independence, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, hopkinson, irish music, music, pastoral pipes, philadelphia, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

Tunes:
Robert Bremner, Loch Ness, Feg for a kiss, The Cross Well of Edinburgh & Watermen’s Rant, Open the Door to Three & Invercaul’s Reel, Straglass House.

James Bremner (By Way of Francis Hopkinson), Lady Coventry’s Minuett
Robert Millar: Lady Coventry’s Minuett, St. Paul’s.
Misc: Wha Saw the Forty Twa
Kerr: Wha’ Widna Fecht
Levey: Milk the Churn/ Gliogar an Mheadair (Fig for a Kiss)