Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
Original Compositions, Historic Tunes and Popular Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Displaying Episode 171 - 180 of 183 in total of Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast with the tag “history”.
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S4E21: Clean Pease Straw, Robert Bremner and John Sutherland Collections
August 22nd, 2020 | Season 4 | 28 mins 22 secs
bagpipes, celtic, clean pease straw, country dancing, donald macdonald, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, jack lattin, john sutherland, music, pastoral pipes, peas straw, robert bremner, scotland, scottish, scottish country dancing, scottish dance, shor and sweet, uilleann pipes
Tunes:
Donald MacDonald: Pease Straw
O’Farrell: Short and Sweet
Robert Bremner: Clean Pease Straw, Pudding Maggie
John Sutherland: Jack Latone, Clean Pease Straw -
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 -
S4E19: Love and a Pipe, Highland Harry Back Again, with guests Ryan Behnke and Unwelcome Visitors
August 8th, 2020 | Season 4 | 27 mins 28 secs
bagpipebinky, bagpipes, celtic, eighteenth century, history, ireland, irish music, music, nineteenth century, o'farrell, robert burns, ryan behnke, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, unwelcome visitors, whistle
Tunes:
O’Farrell: Love and a Pipe Duet, Humours of Ardmore
Donald MacDonald, Highland Harry Back Again
Angus MacKay: Highland Harry Back Again
Robert Burns: My Harry was a Gallant Gay
Guest Track from Unwelcome Visitors: Young Tom Ennis, Jimmy Neary’s, The White Petticoat. -
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 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 -
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 -
S 4 E 15 When The King Enjoys His Own again the World will be Turned Upside Down
July 11th, 2020 | Season 4 | 38 mins 51 secs
american revolution, bagpipes, celtic, eighteenth century, history, ireland, irish music, jacobite, jacobite rebellion, music, nineteenth century, reel, return from fingal, revolutionary, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, whistle, yorktown
From O’Farrell: Moll in the Wad, The Bard’s Legacy
From Donald MacDonald: The Perewig, Cuir’s Chiste Moir Me & c.
Other: Return from Fingal, The king will enjoy his own again/the world turned upside down -
Season 4 Episode 14 Many 98s I Hae a Wife of My Ain with Guest Tim MacDonald and Jeremy Ward
July 4th, 2020 | Season 4 | 33 mins 42 secs
98, angus mackay, bagpipes, celtic, donald macdonald, filddle, ghb, gordon duncan, great highland bagpipes, highland, historic tunes, history, jeremy ward, music, o'farrell, ofarrell, old music, old women's money, scotland, scottish, tim macdonald, uilleann, uilleann pipes
Gordon Duncan: The 9/8 Jig
O’Farrell: Sall’s Delight, Wife of My Own, Old Women’s Money, Tuhy’s Frolic
Donald MacDonald: The Grinder, I hae a wife o my ain, brose and butter, an Irish Jig.
Angus MacKay: I Ha’e a Wife o’ my ain, Brose and Butter, Saw Ye Carle of Late, Go to Berwick Johnny.
Tim MacDonald and Jeremy Ward: I Hae A Wife O My Ain / Dunkeld É -
Season 4 Episode 13: Robin Power’s Fancy, My Woer Be Merry, Sir J.M. Mackenzie’s Reel, Earl Marischal Reel, Hills of Glenorchy, Humours of Last Night.
June 27th, 2020 | Season 4 | 34 mins 27 secs
bagpipes, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, georgian, history, ireland, irish music, isle of skye, music, nineteenth century, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, victorian, whistle
O’Farrell Tunes: Robin Power’s Fancy and Humours of Last Night.
Angus Mackay Tunes: Sir J.M. Mackenzie’s Reel, Hills of Glenorchy
Donald MacDonald Tunes: My Woer be Merry, Earl Marischal Reel -
S4 E10 Donald MacDonald Corrections to previous Episodes, every old Dance tune was Donald MacDonald.
June 7th, 2020 | Season 4 | 38 mins
bagpipes, celtic, donald macdonald, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, music, scotland, scottish, uilleann pipes
This Episode has The Following tunes from Donald MacDonald’s 1841 Publication “A Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, Reels & Jigs for the Bag-pipe”
Nurse’s Song, Johnny Lad, Buckskin Kilt, Wren’s Death, the Kilt is my Delight and Jenny Dang the Weaver. Piper’s Maggot,
And the Following Tunes from Donald MacDonald’s 1820 Collection of the ancient martial music of Caledonia, called Piobaireachd:
Mrs. MacLeod of Raasay and Reel of Tulloch
This Episode also includes O’Farrell’s setting of The Piper’s Maggot.