Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Robert Burns”

S4 E31: Halloween Edition! Fairies, Ghosts and Devilish Pipers Special Halloween Episode

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Robert Burns: Tam O’Shanter
Bremner: Jenny Nettle, What the De’il Ales you?
Vickers: Deval Stick the Minister
John Sutherland: Devil Stick the Minister, The Devil’s Dream
William Gunn: Jenny Nettles
Bland And Weller: The Fairies Revel
Thompson: Love Sick Polly
Padraic Ganly: The Fairy’s Bagpipe
Seamus Ennis: Queen of the Fairies

Cover Art from This 1775 Political Cartoon: Three noblemen dance round a tall thistle as the devil plays the bagpipes; representing Scottish influence on the British policy towards American independence. Engraving, 1775.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/kdbr6gua

Robert Bremner: What the De’il Ails you?
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003032

Tam O Shanter Story:
http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/tamoshanter.htm

And the Lovely Youtube Animated Telling of the Poem:
https://youtu.be/dkiZbpd9stw

De’il Stick the Minister From Sutherland: (Download PDF Link and Tune #128):
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-41-80.pdf

The Devil’s Dream From Sutherland: (Download PDF Link and Tune #46):
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf

Deval Stick the Minister (Vickers): (clicking link may not work, but copying it in should)
http://www.farnearchive.com/detail.asp?id=R0300901

Story of The Devil’s Dream Playing Fiddler From Jabez Allies, On the Ignis Fatuus: Of, Will-o’-the-wisp, and the Fairies (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, London: 1846)31-32.
https://books.google.com/books?id=4C-_AQAACAAJ&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false

Scots Musical Museum Jenny Nettles:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94624348

Robert Bremner’s Jenny Nettles:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003175

William Gunn’s Jenny Nettles (The Tailor’s Daughter): (PDF Download from Ceol Sean)
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book02/Book02%2025.pdf

Fisherman Dances for a Year Stories can be found in John Gregorson Campbell, Superstitions of the highlands & islands of Scotland (Glasgow: John MacLehose and Sons, 1900) 61-35.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61730/61730-h/61730-h.htm#CHAP_II_SEC_7

Bland and Weller’s The Fairies Revels:
https://archive.org/details/BlandWellers24CountryDancesForTheYear1803/page/n7/mode/2up

Love Sick Polly from Thompson’s Complete Country Dances 1773-1780:
https://archive.org/details/ThompsonsCompleatCollectionOf200FavouriteCountryDancesVol41773-80

For the Various versions of the Changeling in the Cradle playing the bagpipes see below:

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008860/4961500

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009342/5008794/5130359

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4493687/4410669

More Complex Version from Barry O’Neill:
Johnnie In the Cradle on page 203:
https://pdfslide.net/documents/british-folk-tales-and-legends.html

The Fairy’s Bagpipe from Padraic Ganly:
https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/score/ganly-82
I heard about this cool collection “Poblacht na hÉireann” from Argentina during the SCUPC piper’s Sunday with Pamela Schweblin. This collection of original compositions composed by Padraic Ganly about a hundred years ago has some of the best titles for tunes, and pretty cracking melodies too. You can look through them all at ITMA:
https://www.itma.ie/features/notated-collections/ganly-poblacht-na-heireann

“The Fairy Warning” story from the Duchas site:
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4602676/4594563/4615015

You Can Read the Peter Laban’s Transcription of Seamus Ennis’s playing in Sraith 2 Uimhir 29 Marta 1986 of An Piobaire:
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=1011&mediaId=25931

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S4E19: Love and a Pipe, Highland Harry Back Again, with guests Ryan Behnke and Unwelcome Visitors

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 01:00:00 -0400

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.

Big thanks to Ryan Behnke for Bagpipe Friendship and collaboration! Listen to his tunes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bagpipebinky/ and check out his website: https://www.ryanbehnkeirishpiper.com/
You can check out Unwelcome Visitors here: https://www.facebook.com/unwelcomevisitors/
I bought their album on CD Baby which isn’t really doing that anymore, but looks like you can also buy their album on Itunes or listen on Spotify.

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O'Farrell Setting for Humours of Ardmore (Is sadly in a later volume I have yet to find Easy linking for)
O'Farrell setting for Love and a Pipe: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781574
Robert Burns: My Harry was a Gallant Gay from 1790 in the Scots Musical Museum:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94550460
Donald MacDonald's setting for Highland Harry Back Again: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683276
Hmm, Looking at the William Gunn Setting, I'm realizing the Traditional Tune Archive omitted all of the embellishments, so My Chanter version is hardly recognizable to this setting: https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book04/Book04%2017.pdf
Look through the entire collection on Ceol Sean's website: https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html
Angus McKay's Setting for Highland Harry Back Again: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007047

Season 4 Episode 9 Hebrides Episode- Improv at St.Clement’s Church on Harris, The Three Girls from Portree, Skye Boat Song, To Daunton Me and Corrienessan’s Salute.

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sun, 31 May 2020 05:15:00 -0400

Theme is pretty lose this episode, did some recordings in an awesome setting on the Isle of Harris a year ago, and they all sorta spill off from there.
The Three Girls from Portree written by Angus McKay, Skye Boat Song first transcribed by Anne Campbelle MacLeod, To Daunton Me from O'Farrell's Setting and Robert Burns song and Corrienessan’s Salute composed by Roderick Dall Mackay

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