Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

S 10 E 05 Dixon Playthrough Part 2 With a Tune from Chris Norman and David Greenberg

February 22nd, 2026  |  Season 10  |  1 hr 21 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 Dixon: Dorrington, Have a Care of Her Johnny, Hacky Honey
Daniel Dow: Sandy Gow's Three Pints
John McLachlan: Sandy Gow's Three Pints,
William Vickers: Strike the Bell,
From David Greenberg and Chris Norman: a John Reid Piece, Garb of the old Gaul and Hacky Honey

Big Thank You to David Greenberg and Chris Norman for allowing me to play their full track: General Reid from their album Let Me In This Ae Night the track is a set of a John Reid Piece, Garb of the old Gaul and Hacky Honey. You can and should buy their whole album, but in the mean time you can stream it on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4DWQdp7wKySlfzuPMVkdO0
amazon music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B003AMICX2?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US
You can check out Chris Norman’s website here:
https://boxwood.org/
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S 10 E 04 Dorrington Lads: William Dixon, Iain Gelston and Donald Lindsay

February 8th, 2026  |  Season 10  |  2 hrs 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:
William Dixon: Wattys away, Dorrington (I keep saying Dorrington Lads in the Episode, or Dixon just calls it Dorrington).
Iain Gelston: Rusty Gully, Cotting Burn,
Lionel Winship: Dorrington Laddie
John Rook: Dorrington Lads
Melodies Committee: Dorrington Lads
Bruce and Stoke: Dorrington Lads

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S 10 E 03 2026 William Dixon Playthrough Jamie Campbell Conversation rerun

February 7th, 2026  |  Season 10  |  1 hr 15 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 Dixon: Golden Locks, My Love Comes Passing By Me, Black and the Grey
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S 10 E 02 Kilts, Bagpipers and Living History. A Chat with Isaac Walters (A Rerun from 2021)

January 25th, 2026  |  Season 10  |  1 hr 28 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:
Robyn Jamner: If I die at the Hands of a faceless man.
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
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S 10 E 01 Abolish Ice Chippewa Valley Irish Immigration with guest musicians Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain (Rerun)

January 11th, 2026  |  Season 10  |  1 hr 23 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:
O'Farrell: Raspberry Flowers
William Vickers: Sweet as Sugar Candy
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.
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S 09 E 36 Season Finale Dunkeld Sessions

December 31st, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 15 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:
Rebel's Minuet (Crìsdean & Johanna): Will ye go to Flanders
You can hear from several stellar musicians playing at the various sessions in Dunkeld over the Collogue weekend.
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S 09 E 35 Donald Macdonald Playthrough Part 5

December 13th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  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:
Donald MacDonald: A Jig, A Jig, “The 92nd Gordon Highlanders” Quickstep, Buachail Na Gobhar. Is Na Caroach “The Goat Herd”, Taladh, or the Nurse’s Song, “Mackay’s March” Quickstep, A Reel “The Flirting Brown maid”, Hurichum Harichim “72nd Highlanders”, A Jig “The Gown and Apron”, The Highland Laddie, The Haughs of Cromdale, Buain Ne Ronich, or the Weary maid, Lochial’s Awa’ To France

Mr. Mitchell: I’ll Gar Ye Be Fain to Follow Me
Alan Ramsay: Song To the Tune of “I’ll Gar ye be fain to follow me
O’Farrell: Fain to Follow Me

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S 09 E 34 2025 Mixtape Episode, Bandcamp Friday Album Launch Edition!

December 5th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  2 hrs 13 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:
Jeremy Kingsbury: Saw ye a Lassie of Fifteen at the mines in Wicklow or Bath? From Humours of Toddy
ArBo Doughty: Far Away/ The Moth in the Lantern, Green Fields of Canada and Paddy’s Rambles Through the Park from fahy’s fields
Nicholas Brown: Master, I Go Hunting - Shaving Baby With a Spoon - Sky Blue Dress (Hop Jigs) from Not so Good As The Flute
Dave Rowlands: Cotting Burn from Musica ex alia terra
Brendan Taaffe & Maurice Manning: Spin All the Stars, Grace it Falls from The Bucolics Project
Muco: Wið ymbe (a beekeeper's charm) from Soþlice, Bryd One Brere from Summer Crossing and
Frankie Archer: In Brunton Town from Sing Yonder 2
Mike MacNintch: The Keelman O’er the Land/Jenny Nettles/Drops of Brandy from The Chanter’s Song
Ian Lawther: Meggy’s Foot from The Empty Trough
Donald WG Lindsay & Alisdair Roberts: Wheels of Fortune, Jock Hawk’s Adventures in Glasgow from Welcome Home My Dearie
Matthew Welch: Lessons in Dragonease Six (Glass Dragons) from Dragon Fire
Raflum | 雨鎖悲秋: Sunset Glow, Secluded Vale from Melodies of Forest and Springs 林泉吟
Sean Reidy: The Arduous Wait from Tunes for the Soul
Landless: The Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry, The Hag from Lúireach
Topette!!: JLP, Winstanley’s/Les Trois Canards from Bourdon
Marit and Rona: Kilmartin Glen Campsite from Turas

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S 09 E 33 Dunkeld Cathedral LBPS Concert

November 29th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  45 mins 27 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:
Rhiona Sidley, Stuart Letford and Tom Rust with MacCrimmon’s Lament
Jeremy Kingsbury: Hacky Honey, Tam Glen/Lads Wi' the Kilts, Stool of Repentance, Merry Old Woman, Jackson's Lake,
Fionnlaigh Mac a Phiocair with the Rolling Wave Set
Ian Kinnear with The Bloody Fields of Flanders and Lochanside
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S 09 E 32 Intro to Border Pipes Talk

November 15th, 2025  |  Season 9  |  1 hr 23 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:
A Mile to Ride, Dorrington Lads, Generous Fox, Bonny Lad, Welcome to Town Again, Rock and Wee Pickle Tow, Terribus, Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon, Jack Lattin
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