Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Season 5 Episode 2 Dixon and Fitzmaurice Travel to Roslin Castle looking for a Bonny Lass

January 30th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  45 mins 7 secs

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
William Dixon: Saw ye Never a Bonny lass
Vickers Manuscript: Kiss’d her under the Coverlet
Fitzmaurice: Loose the Belt
Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book: The Berlin Waltz
Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle
William McGibbon: Rosline Castle
James Manson (David Glen): Roslin Picnic
Donald MacDonald: Roslin Castle, MacPharlane’s lilt
Angus MacKay: Roslin Castle
O’Farrell: Pay The Reckoning (Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy, Bobbing for Eels)

S5E01 Uilleann Pipes and Strathspeys with Tunes from Jarlath Henderson & Innes Watson and Paul Anderson

January 22nd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  59 mins 1 sec

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
James Aird: Irish Hautboy
Jar and Innes: Top Gallantsail (Comp Innes Watson), John Stephen Of Chance Inn (Comp Angus Fitchet),
Travers Jig (trad), Gustys Frolics (trad: Mick Dohertys Version)
O’Farrell: Roys Wife of Aldivalock
O’Farrell: Rothemurchus’s Rant
Paul Anderson Playing: The Rothiemurchus Rant (Bremner) , Dogs Bite Chapmen (Traditional he Says) and The Fairy Dance (Nataniel Gow)
From Sutherland: Haughs of Cromdale and Merry Maid’s Wedding
O’Farrell: Ewe with the Crooked Horn
George MacLellan: The Little Cascade
Neil Gow: Lady Baird’s Strathspey
Drummond Castle MS: Allastor
Joseph Dales: Jenny Sutton

S4E36: Some Holiday Tunes and Bodachan a Gharidh (The Merry old Gardener)

December 19th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  41 mins 18 secs

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
O’Farrell: Lewellynn, A Piper o’er the Meadows Straying, Black Joke
John Parry: Nos Calan
Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning
My Setting?: Mill Mill o, Baloo Lammy
Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh (The Jolly Old gardener)
Aird: Bodachan a garidh (The Merry old gardener)

S4E35: Bremner Part 3: Bremner’s Guitar Tutor with Special Thanks to Ryan Kirk and Rob Turner

December 11th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  53 mins

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:

Robert Bremner: Stadholders Minuet, Moorish Tunes, Mill Mill O, Willy was a Wanton Wag, and Black Joke.
William McGibbon: Mill Mill O, Willie Was a Wanton Wag
James Oswald: Burlesque on a Black Joak:
Miscellaneous: Clare Dragoons, Braes a Mar

S4 Bandamp Friday Reminder

December 4th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  6 mins 13 secs

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes: Straight & Skillern: The Nabob

S4 E34 Robert Bremner Part 2: Robert & James Bremner and the Declaration of Independence

November 27th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  48 mins 19 secs

bagpipes, baroque, bremner, celtic, declaration of independence, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, hopkinson, irish music, music, pastoral pipes, philadelphia, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

Tunes:
Robert Bremner, Loch Ness, Feg for a kiss, The Cross Well of Edinburgh & Watermen’s Rant, Open the Door to Three & Invercaul’s Reel, Straglass House.

James Bremner (By Way of Francis Hopkinson), Lady Coventry’s Minuett
Robert Millar: Lady Coventry’s Minuett, St. Paul’s.
Misc: Wha Saw the Forty Twa
Kerr: Wha’ Widna Fecht
Levey: Milk the Churn/ Gliogar an Mheadair (Fig for a Kiss)

S4 E33: Robert Bremner Part 1.5 and Jack Lattin Revisited

November 20th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  20 mins 20 secs

bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, itma, jack lattin, music, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes

Tunes:
Robert Bremner: Grant’s Rant, Miss Blair’s Reel, The Carle Came O’er the Craft
O’Farrell: Jack Lattin with Variations
William Dixon: Jack Lattin
John Sutherland: Jack Latone

S4 E32 Robert Bremner Part 1: Vibratto, Church Music, Allan Ramsay and William McGibbon

November 14th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 52 secs

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
Bremner: Elgin, Aberdeen Or St. Paul’s, Grant’s Rant, The Carle Came over the Craft, Blue Britches, Miss Blair’s Reel, Mary Scott, Blue Britches, Cuzzle Together.
McGibbon: She Rose and Let me in, Cumbernauld House, Bottom of the Punch Bowl
Daniel Wright: She Rose and let me in

Happy International Uilleann Piping Day!

November 7th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  10 mins

aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

Tunes:
Charles and Samuel Thompson: Trip to Paris, The Breast Knot

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

October 31st, 2020  |  Season 4  |  54 mins 14 secs

bagpipes, baroque, celtic, devil, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, fairy, ghb, ghost, ghost stories, great highland bagpipes, halloween, haunted, highland, history, irish music, music, old nick, pastoral pipes, robert burns, scary, scotland, scottish, scottish music, tam o' shanter, uilleann pipes, union pipes

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
Bland And Weller: The Fairies Revel
Thompson: Love Sick Polly
Padraic Ganly: The Fairy’s Bagpipe
Seamus Ennis: Queen of the Fairies