S 08 E 06 Gathering Of the Clans Revisited a Conversation with Barry Shears

April 13th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  1 hr 39 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:
Barry Shears: The Hen's March over the Hill, John MacColl's Favourite
O'Farrell: The Hen's Concert
Several other tunes played by Barry Shears

Check out Barry's New Edition of Gathering of the Clans here:

https://capebretonpiper.com/content/gathering-clans-collection-volume-1-anniversary-edition

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S 08 E 05 Thank You Ross Anderson: Tunes from John Sutherland and David Young

April 6th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  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:
John Sutherland Manuscript: 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, Cock and the Hen, Fanny’s Fancy, The Witches,
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,

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All of the tunes this week come from John Sutherland’s 1780s Manuscript and the Drummond Castle Manuscript from 1737 available on Ross’s Music Page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html

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Here are some Obituaries and Tributes to Ross Anderson:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366577932/Obituary-Professor-Ross-Anderson-pioneer-in-security-engineering-and-campaigner
https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/03/31/rip-ross-j-anderson/
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2024/03/29/rip-ross-anderson/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864210
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-1-april-2024/39303/
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/ross-anderson
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/ross_anderson_obit/

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S 08 E 04 George MacLeod's 1784 Repertoire part 1 (Patrick MacDonald's North Highland Piper)

March 23rd, 2024  |  Season 8  |  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:
Patrick McDonald: Ossian’s soliloquy on the death of all his cotemporary Heroes, North Highland Country Dances tunes 1-6, 24, Màraidh bhàn òg. {Potential/likely titles for tune 1-6: Tune 1: Joseph MacDonald’s Jig, Tune 2: Lady Wemyss’ Jig/Whip her and gird her, Tune 3: Far awa Wedding, Tune 4: maybe Shaggy Grey Buck, Tune 5: Stumpie, Tune 6& 24: Lord Reay’s Jig}
O’Farrell: Apples in Winter
Holden: Irish Trott
Donald MacDonald: LadyWemyss’ Jig
William Vickers: Cold and Raw

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S 08 E 03 My Approach to Music Theory and the Historical Repertoire

March 9th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  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:
Bremner: St. Paul/Aberdeen, Bristol
John Murphy: Miss Boswell’s Jig

William Dixon: Hacky Honey

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Here is a link to the music Theory video Rod shared with me about the way white supremacists have used music Theory:
https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA?si=GQqtJUc7O6VFbIc6

I recorded this episode about a month before this article often discussed with some sort of click bait title like “Pythagoras was wrong about music theory” (speaking of clickbait, did you know academics and journalists alike don’t often get a say on the title of their work, so if you see a particularly egregious title, don’t necessarily hold it against the author). The abstract is that our “western musical theory and the idea that there was universal harmonies, and that good music is just about consonance and not dissonance” is obviously a really limited perspective on what good music is, and intrinsically apparent to anyone who plays a drone instrument, or regulators.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45812-z

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1762: Aberdeen (In G) from Bremner’s Rudiments of Music
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723589

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1762: Bristol (In G minor) from Bremner’s Rudiments of Music
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723781

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1810: Miss Boswell’s Jigg from John Murphy
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_collection_of_Irish_airs_and_jiggs_wit/_Up5WmARde0C?hl=en

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1733: Hacky Honey from William Dixon’s Manuscript

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S 08 E 02 UPDATED Robert Bremner's Rudiments of Music

February 24th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  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:
Robert Bremner: French, Elgin, Stilt, Jush of Perth, Blue Britches, Dunfermling

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S08 E 01 My Approach to a Historical Repertoire

February 10th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  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:
O’Farrell: Humours of Toddy
Niel Dicke: Patti
Donald MacDonald: Dunrobin Castle
Jeremy Kingsbury: The Pretty Sporran
Angus MacKay: The Pretty Dirk
Patrick MacDonald: Lord Reay’s Jig
Straight and Skillern: Miss Fowler’s Delight, The Nabob, Pantheon, The Oak Tree,
James Aird: Rondo

(Sources and Links Coming Soon, email me If you want something and I haven’t uploaded the Show notes yet)

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Rerun: The Patrick McDonald’s Discussion With Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart

January 27th, 2024  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 20 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:
From Joe Hughie MacIntyre courtesy of the Barry Shears Collection: Tulloch Gorum, Sandy Cameron, Eight Men of Moidart, Miss Proud.

On the Podcast this week I’m joined by Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart to have a conversation with Patrick McDonald's Collection of Vocal Airs as the starting point.

Tunes: From Joe Hughie MacIntyre courtesy of the Barry Shears Collection: Tulloch Gorum, Sandy Cameron, Eight Men of Moidart, Miss Proud.
Listen wherever you enjoy podcasts (Now on Stitcher!) or by following the link below:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e22

email me at wetootwaag@gmail.com if you'd like to participate in a book club discussion of the Patrick McDonald Collection Book If I hear from enough folks I'll try to set one up.

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Rerun Important Influences: The Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs Audiobook

January 13th, 2024  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 25 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

This is a rerun of an episode from July, 2021.
The Preface and Article were Read by Anthony Smith.

Get in touch with him about any voiceover projects via email:
2acanthonysmith@gmail.com

You can watch his excelent Bodhran Videos on his Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/smithpercussions/

If you would like to see the Patrick McDonald Original book you can read it here:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_Highland_Vocal_Airs_To_w/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=0

You can buy the annotated print of the book with tune titles filled in here:
https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-V7M9GD/the-patrick-mcdonald-collection

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S7 E29 Susanna Blamire (the Muse of Cumberland) and the Season Finale

December 30th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 20 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

S7 E29 Susana Blamire and the Season Finale
Tunes:
Eliza Ross: Miss Mary____, Unnamed, Will you Take a Wife Donald,
Christian Dalrymple (via James Watlen): Miss Watson’s Favorite
Anna Gordon: Clark Colven
David Young: Tibbie Fowler of the Glen, Hey My Nanny,
Ewan Maccoll: Tibbie Fowler
Susana Blamire: I’m Tibby Fowler of the Glen, Oh Jenny Dear I’ve Courted Lang, Oh Donald! Ye are Just the Man, Jack Lattin, Cumberland Scold, Dear Nancy, Oh Jenny Dear the Word is Gane,
Henderson: Lucy Campbell
William Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England
William Vickers: Cold and Raw

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S7 E28 Mixtape Episode

December 16th, 2023  |  Season 7  |  1 hr 29 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:
Innes Watson and Jarlath Henderson: The Final Trawl
Dàimh: An Dubh Ghleannach
Brìghde Chaimbeul: Crònan
Dave Rowlands: La Chanterelle and Spinning Jenny
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman: The Fate of Bones
Plúirín na mBan: Two Brothers
Matt DeBlass: Middlebook
Jeff Mann & Andrew Morrill: The Highland Vamp
The Fabled Folks: Enkidu
Jason Rouse: The Fairy Hill (Sí Beag, Sí Mór) & Fergus McPhilimey and his Sarcastic Son
Fàrsan: Pronn an Caoran (Smash the Ember)
Cleveland Celtic Ensemble: Ole Joe’s Jig & Road to Banff

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The Final Trawl from Innes Watson and Jarlath Henderson’s Album “A Moment in Time”
https://innojar.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-in-time-2

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An Dubh Ghleannach from Dàimh’s new album SULA.
https://daimh.bandcamp.com/album/sula

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Crònan from Brìghde Chaimbeul’s “Carry Them With Us”
https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/carry-them-with-us

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La Chanterelle and Spinning Jenny from Dave Rowlands “Final Disclosure”
https://daverowlandsbagpipes.bandcamp.com/album/final-disclosure

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Fair and Equal Fable from Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman’s album: “The Fate of Bones”
https://irishmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-fate-of-bones

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Two Brothers from Plúirín na mBan’s debut album: “Female Rambling Sailor”
https://pluirinnamban.bandcamp.com/album/female-rambling-sailor

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Middlebook from Matt DeBlass’s album “Small Musics”
https://mattdeblass.bandcamp.com/album/small-musics

You can Also Follow Matt on Tik tok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@mattdeblassmusic

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The Highland Vamp by Jeff Mann & Andrew Morrill on “Whippin' the Coo's Hoof”

Enkidu by The Fabled Folks on “Whippin’ the Coo’s Hoof”

https://poopoop.bandcamp.com/album/whippin-the-coos-hoof

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The Fairy Hill (Sí Beag, Sí Mór) and Fergus McPhilimey and his Sarcastic Son From Jason Rouse’s Album “Frontier Nua”
https://pipingrouse.bandcamp.com/album/frontier-nua

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Pronn an Caoran (Smash the Ember) from Fàrsan’s debut album, “Fàrsan”
https://farsan.bandcamp.com/album/f-rsan

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Ole Joe’s Jig & Road to Banff from Cleveland Celtic Ensemble’s Upcoming Album
https://www.kbbproductions.net/
https://www.facebook.com/CleCelticEnsemble

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