S7 E25 200 Year old tunes on a 100 Year old Chanter Donald MacDonald Playthrough part 3

November 4th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 8 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:
Donald MacDonald: Coutie’s Wedding, The Braes of Lochaber, The High Way to Linton, Fall of Foyers (The Whimsical), The Bride Has a Bonny Thing, The House of Gray (Plovers in the Hills), Morag is Domhnull (Marion & Donald), The Smith’s Daughter, An Irish Jig, The Bridge of Perth, The Kilt is My Delight, I ha’e a Wife o’ My Ain, Roslin Castle, MacFarlane’s Lilt, The Campbells are Coming, The Duke of Perth, Kate Dalrymple (Jingling Johnie),The Boat Leaks (The Three Girls of Portree), The Munster Mare, The Wren’s Death, A Mulinn Dubh, Buckskin Kilt, The Wren’s Death, The Kilt is my Delight, Jenny Dang The Weaver, The Grinder, Lady Bighouse’s Reel, Brigis Mhic Ruaridh

Thanks to Tiber for Visiting with me this summer and letting me share some of our chat and his own lovely singing.
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All of the Tunes this week come from Donald MacDonald’s 1828 collection of dance music.
You can see the National Library of Scotland’s Copy here:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682638

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s7 E24 Halloween Special Episode With Guest Host John Charles, and contributions from Jenna Bagpipes, Leslie Anne Harrison, ChristianWandzala, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin and Eileen Budd

October 21st, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 3 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 Campbell: Halloween, Smith’s Orange and Fork
William Campbell: The Crown Prince, Lord St. Orville, Arabella, The Royal Visitors,
John Sutherland: Alas Poor Soul, The Devil’s Dream,
Abraham MacIntosh: The Witches Hill
Joseph Lowe: The Warlocks, The Witches

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Jenna Bagpipes: Devil’s in the Corners
Leslie Anne Harrison: Da Trowie Burn
Christian Wandzala: Bonnie Susie Cleland

Cassandre Balosso-Bardin: Water Nymph aka “Vittrans polska” by Emelius Lundberg
Eileen Budd: Stories of Scottish Arthurian Legends
John Charles: Am Bròn Binn

This episode wouldn’t be possible without the efforts of John Charles! “Dr. Jeremy Kingsbury’s Official archivist and biographer!” Thank you John Charles.
I join him in offering my sincere thanks to our guest performers whose links appear in chronological order:

(Note that I am also indebted to the recordings of Leslie and Cassandre from their Performances at the Pipers’ Gathering, 2023, and the recording of Greg Lotta.
You can check out Pipers’ Gathering Here: https://www.pipersgathering.org/
And Greg Lotta’s Work here: https://www.youtube.com/@glatta0

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Jenna Dennison:
Known on Social Media as “Jenna Bagpipes” I first met Jenna on Tik Tok where I saw her ripping High Bs on Highland pipes! She’s a delightful Bagpiper’s Bagpiper to follow on social media.
If you want music to “Devil’s in the Corners” you can get it by joining her Patreon feed:
Montreal Piping & Drumming School
http://www.mpds.ca/en/

social media / website links
https://www.youtube.com/@jennabagpipes
https://www.tiktok.com/@jennabagpipes
https://www.patreon.com/jennabagpipes
https://www.jennadennison.com

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Leslie Anne Harrison:
You can Check out Leslie Anne Harrison’s projects on her website:
https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/
Be sure to check out her Flute books, “Playing Outside the Lines”
https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/store
and her “Irish Flute Library” https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/the-irish-flute-library
I took the recording from Greg Lotta’s Recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IHALOj6JhE&t=941s

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Christian Wandzala
You can see some of Christian’s musical projects on Social media here:
https://www.facebook.com/catandhare
and his band, Leaky Bellows with his wife Emily Sine Nomine! (CONGRATULATIONS!) and John Charles Here: https://www.facebook.com/trollmoss

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Cassandre Balosso-Bardin
You can check out Cassandre’s extensive work on her website here:
http://www.cassandrebalossobardin.com/
Be sure also to check out the “International Bagpipe Organization” which she founded:
https://www.internationalbagpipeorganisation.com/

I took the recording from Greg Lotta, which you can watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrZ5h0lINI&t=195s

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Eileen Budd:
You can check out Eileen on Social Media, she puts out stellar 60 second Scottish Stories on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/eileenbudd/?hl=en
She also has her own podcast, Scottish Folk:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scottish-folk/id1674005044

You should also check out her adaptation of the Ossian Poems:
https://wideopensea.bigcartel.com/product/ossian

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John Charles:
I’m sure John Charles has many sources for his playing of Am Bròn Binn, but I found this setting which sounds fairly similar after a quick search of his favorite archive, Tobar an Dualchais:
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/43732?l=en

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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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