S5E26 20,000 Download Special and Update

September 21st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  26 mins 50 secs

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Tunes…Quite a few, but mostly chat.

Thanks for listening and subscribing everyone!

New intro tune is Bannocks Of Barley Meal, I’m using Aird/MacFadyen’s setting:
https://archive.org/stream/selectionofscotc00rugg#page/n69/mode/1up

I’m getting new Jon Swayne Bagpipes, if you aren’t familiar with his work and are curious you can check it out here:
https://www.jonswayne.com/

The Pipe makers I mentioned on the show you should check out if you are in the shopping mood:

Robert Felsburg:

https://www.thequietpiper.com/

He is a great follow on Instagram and occasionally posts a video or a live of himself playing William Dixon tunes, so obviously I am a fan!
https://www.instagram.com/thequietpiper/

Ross Calderwood

You can Check out Ross’s Page Here:
https://www.lochalshpipes.co.uk/

He also has some great clips of himself playing Dixon tunes on his Youtube channel worth watching but this is the video I referenced about the various tunings with his drone configuration, besides you get to see his impressive shop set up behind him😊 :
https://youtu.be/deOGkXiiPCE

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S5E25: General Leslie's Highland March from Oscar and Malvina

September 11th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  52 mins 7 secs

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Tunes:
Johnson and Ritson and Ramsay: General Lesly’s March To Longmaston Moor
Wright: Lashley’s March
James Aird: Leslie’s March
James Oswald: Lasly’s March
O’Farrell: Highland March from Oscar and Malvina
Edward Bunting: Dirty James
Cannon James Goodman: Unnamed (Shitty James who Lost Ireland)
J & R Glen: Leslie’s March
William Ross: All the Blue Bonnets over the Border
McFadyen: Lads Wi’ The Kilts
Logan: All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border
John Johnson: The Knife Grinder, Eye for Shame
Donald MacDonald: The Far Away Wedding, The Grinder, I have a Wife of My Ain, Brose and Butter & An Irish Jig

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s5e24 Hymns and Mackintoshs Lament with James Moyar and Chris Gray

August 29th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  55 mins 42 secs

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Tunes:
From James Moyar: Windsor, Conditor Alme Siderum, Cheshire, Llangloffan, Bereden Vag for Herran, Detroit
Alexander Campbell: In the Breach of the Garden (Mackintosh’s Lament)
Kilberry Ceol Mor: Mackintosh’s Lament
From Chris Gray: MacKintosh’s Lament/ Cumha Mhic an Toisich.

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S5E23: Tunes from the Patrick McDonald Discussion with guest tune from Ronan Browne

August 14th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 1 min

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Tunes:
From Ronan Browne: Lady in the Desert
John and William Neal: Da mihi manum (Give Me Your Hand)
Daniel Dow: Lads Wi The Kilts, Luinnag ferramh Bata (The Boatman’s Song), Thainig a ntuisga beatha (The Whisky).
Patrick McDonald: Tune 179 A St. Kilda Girl’s Lamentation on the Death of her Lover, Tune 180 Tha Guillan agam fhin, A St. Kilda Song and Dance, Tune 181 Ciod e bhiodh tu ‘g iarraidh, A St. Kilda Song and Dance, Tune Number 78 Dh’eirich mi moch, Tune Number 77 Port na maighdinn Chuain The Mermaid Song, North Highland Reels of Country Dances: Tune number 1, 2, 3, 5, 13 (Joseph MacDonald’s Jig, Whip her and Gird Her, The Far Away Wedding, Reel of Stumpie, The Lochaber Dance).
Eliza Ross: A chaorain A chaorain (Little peat, Little Peat), Dòmhnall Àlainn a’ tighinn (Elegant Donald is coming).
Celtic Melodies: Pipe Reel, Tha Goal again air an nighinn (I love the Lassie).
Alexander Campbell: I Bid my Heart be Still, It Was O’er in Yon Soa.
Special Thanks to Ronan Browne for letting me play his tunes.
You can buy his music here:
People can buy CDs from www.ronanbrownemusic.com
Ronan let me know about a series of video’s he has been working which are hosted by The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre. I highly recommend this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4gVm8PoF1U
There are new ones being released, and old ones being hidden from view pretty regularly, so be sure to subscribe to the youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVtIFrH7-r2I5rRS-K8F9UA

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S4 E18: Over the Water to Charlie, Greig’s Pipes, John Walsh Dance Music

July 31st, 2020  |  Season 4  |  37 mins 10 secs

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John Walsh: The Puff, The Laundry (Hot Pot), Hot Stick
James Oswald: Over the Water to Charlie
Angus MacKay: Over the Water to Charlie, Greig’s Pipes
O’Farrell: Shaun Buee, Greig’s Pipes

S4 E11 Amazing Grace, John Newton & The KKK, The Little Spree and MacKay's Rant (With Chris McMullan)

June 14th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  45 mins 14 secs

amazing grace, anti-racism, bagpipes, battle of hayes pond, chris mcmullan, ghb, great highland bagpipes, john newton, kkk, lumbee, scottish history, slave trade, uilleann, uilleann pipes, wetootwaag

Tunes: Amazing Grace By Myself and on Uilleann Pipes Thanks to Chris McMullan
The Little Spree (An Daorach Bheag), MacKay’s Rant (From Angus MacKay’s Collection)