Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

Gary invites you to a ringside seat to take in this year's Wheel of Fortune contest held at the Danderhall Miners' Club in Midlothian on the 21st of April 2024. This is one of the most exciting and imaginative competitions in the piping calendar, and produced some wonderful music again this year.  And you can hear it exclusively here in EYP!


Playlist

Cameron Drummond with Donald MacLellan of Rothesay, the Ewe with the Crooked Horn and Drumlithie.

 
Craig Sutherland with the Liberton Pipe Band Polka, Mrs Crogan’s Reel, McFadden’s Reel, Isla’s Bow, The Fourth Floor, Biddy from Sligo, Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight, The Plenin Jig. 

 
Ciaren Ross with Macleod of Mull, John Cassidy, Fear a Bhata, The Seagull, The Jug of Brown Ale, The lark in the Morning, Unknown, The Periwig.

 
Ben Duncan with The Lonach Gathering, Thoughts of Burns, Miss Proud.

Craig Muirhead with Ina MacKenzie, The Mysteries of Knock, O’Donovan’s Jig, Donald Cameron’s Powderhorn, Lachlan MacNeil of Kintarbert’s Fancy, Polka, Ned Groggin, The Blacksmith, Alex C MacGregor.

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Tracks Played

Daimh with Ida’s Jig from Diversions

St Lawrence O’Toole Pipe Band with the Donegal Lass set from Turas Ceoil – Resume, Live in Glasgow 2018.

Alastair Hanning with the Lament for Glencoe, Highland Harry, Thomson’s Dirk from the City of Wellington Highland Pipe Band.

Skiltron with Bagpipes of War from The Highland Way

Brian Lamond with the Islay Ball, the Shepherd’s Crook, Loch Carron and the Rookery from Another Day at the Office

78th Fraser Highlanderswith the Mason’s Apron, Resolis, Struan Robertson, The Ness Pipers, the Mist Covered Mountains, the Little Cascade from Live in Ireland

The Fred Morrison Trio with Train Journey from Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

 Links
City of Edinburgh Pipe Band Wheel of Fortune

St Lawrence O'Toole and Bucksburn and District in Concert, Aberdeen

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Gary invites you to travel with him to explore some of the people, places and tunes associated with the Isle of Lewis, including a visit to the home and workshop of piper and reed-maker, James Duncan MacKenzie.

Tracks

The Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band with The Ness Pipers Set fromImpact – Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

 
Pipe Major Iain Morrison with Mrs Duncan MacFadyen, Sandy MacPherson and the Traditional Reel from Back to Back

Pipe Major Donald MacLeod with Lachie’s Lullaby, Duncan Johnstone, The Man From Skye from P/M Donald MacLeod Vol 1.

Margaret Stewart with Ewen Henderson with Deirdre’s Dream from The Piper and the Maker 2 – celebrating C

James Duncan MacKenzie with Taigh Iain’ Iain’ Naill, Tracy and Barney’s Garden Party and Ian’s Last Munro from Fibhig.

James Duncan MacKenzie with Boyd MacKenzie from Fibhig

Breabach with The New Paradigm Set fromBann

Anna Murray with Pipe Major Donald MacLean of Lewis, Bengullion and MacLeod of Mull from Tri Nighean

 Murray Henderson with Major Manson at Clachantrushal from The Great Highland Bagpipe, March, Strathspey and Reel

 The Battlefield Band with Crossing the Minch from Battlefield Band

Links
Hebridean Reeds

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Gary celebrates the fact that EYP is a year old this week, with another eclectic mix of tunes and styles from the world of bagpipes.



Tracks Played

Ross Miller with The Candlewood Suites Reel, Restalrig Road and Molly Rankin’s from The Restalrig Reels

Stuart Liddell with Gaelic Air and Reels from Inveroran 

Scottish Power Pipe Band with Michael MacDonald’s Jig, Donald MacLean, Chloe’s Passion and the Foot Tapper from Live

 Tim Edey and Ross Ainslie with Lunny’s from Diad.

 
Listener's Corner - David MacDonald and Friends (the Tohoku Ensemble) with Tohoku (John Brock)

John MacDougall with Loch Broom Bay, Alan MacPherson of Mosspark, Donald Willie and his Dog from the World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 8

Kenneth I MacKenzie – Sunset on Sunart from Glendrian

Links

 Ross Ainslie Crowdfunder

List of Major Pipe Band Championships 2024

Saturday 18th May UK Championships Bangor Northern Ireland

 Saturday 8th June British Championships Forres

 Saturday 27th July Scottish Championships Dumbarton

 Sunday 11th August European Championships Perth

 Fri 16th and Saturday 17th World Championships  Glasgow

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Gary brings you the winning performances from the B Grade MSR at last weekend's Duncan Johnstone Memorial contest in Glasgow.

Tracks Played
 

Ross Connor with Morag Ramsay, Cat Lodge and Little Cascade,  EYP Recording

Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham with Father John MacMillan of Barra from Five and Twenty

Cameron May with the Duke of Roxburgh’s Farewell to the Blackmount Forrest, Inveraray Castle and Mrs MacPherson of Inveran,  EYP Recording

Neil Johnstone with Farewell to Nigg from Scottish Folk Tunes – 69 Traditional Pieces for Cello

Keith Bowes with MacLean of Pennycross, Inveraray Castle and Miss Proud, EYP Recording

Fraser Allison  with  Pipe Major J McWilliams, Tulloch Gorm and the Rejected Suitor, EYP Recording

Ossian with Duncan Johnstone, The Duck and The Curlew from the Dove Across the Water 

Jonathan Simpson with the Braes of Brecklet, Blair Drummond and the Smith of Chilliechassie,  EYP Recording

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Gary brings you highlights of the 'Accents' concert held at the National Piping Centre on 14th March. Tune in for some wonderful music on highland pipes, smallpipes, border pipes, clarsach, viola, guitar and piano from some of Scotland and Ireland's finest emerging traditional musicians.


Thanks to my sponsor, RG Hardie Bagpipes


Playlist
Sarah Muir with Alan Dodd's Farewell to Scotland, Lady MacKenzie of Gairloch and Roddy MacDonald's Fancy, EYP Recording March 2024

Fionnlagh Mac A'Phiocair and Sarah Hannify with Lamerick, EYP Recording March 2024

Malachy Arnold with Chuir I a Ghluin air a Bhodach,  Puirt a Beul and Elizabeth’s Big Coat EYP Recording March 2024

Calum Kaye and Alex Wotherspoon with the Breton Set EYP Recording March 2024

Seumas O Baoighill and Gillie Flaherty with  Will the Minster Not Dance, Kilbrandon EYP Recording March 2024

Sarah Muir with The Sorcerer and Kenneth MacDonald’s Jig, EYP Recording March 2024

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Gary celebrates the contribution made to Scotland's music by Ian Green of Greentrax Recordings, who passed away this week, and is joined by Ian's friend, pipe maker, musician and promoter, Hamish Moore, who shares his memories of Ian and also tells us all about an exciting new competition he is organising on the island of Raasay.

Playlist

Gordon Duncan with Ian Green of Greentrax and Mr and Mrs Duncan’s Golden Wedding from Thunderstruck.


 Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band with the Battle of the Somme, the Black Isle, the Banks of the Flossie and the Festival March from Revisited: P/M Iain MacLeod’s Selection 

Niall Matheson with the Sound of the Sea from the Tennent’s P/M Donald MacLeod MBE Memorial Competition 2000

Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band with Leaving Lunga, The Shepherd’s Crook and The Rookery from Terra Incognita


Kenneth and Angus MacKenzie with When Harry Met Shelly from Piob is Fidheal


Allan MacDonald with Thogal nam Bo from Seudan

Seudan with The Rothiemurchas Rant, Alex Currie’s, Lord MacDonald, Cota Mor Ealasaid, Hamish the Carpenter, The Margaree Reel (all trad, arr. Seudan, Grian Music) from Seudan, 

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Gary introduces more top drawer music of the bagpipe as he looks ahead to some of the live piping events which can be heard across Scotland in the weeks ahead as we move towards a new season.


Tracks
Fraser Fifield with The Old Road o Lumphanan from One Great Circle

Drums and Pipes and Regimental Band of the Gordon Highlanders with Highland Troop from Cock o the North 

Willie McCallum with Dora Macleod, Caledonian Society of London, Roddy MacDonald’s Fancy, Fiona MacLeod, Dr MacPhail’s Reel, The Cockerel in the Creel from the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society Recital, St Cecelia’s Hall

MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band with Pipe Sergeant John Barclay, Ben Gullion, Dr Ross’s 50th Welcome to the Argyllshire Gathering from A Big Step Forward

Pipe Major Donald MacLeod with Wee Highland Laddie, Meeting of the Waters, Hen’s March and Glasgow Police Pipers from The New York Recordings

Cristina Pato with Fandango, Prueba de Fuego from Latina

Martyn Bennett with Mary Kelly’s, Glesga Tabla and Belle’s Fancy from The Grand Concert of  Scottish Piping

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Gary invites you to join him at the Far North Retreat near Tain in the company of fellow instructors Fin Moore,  Mike Vass and Liz Doherty, and a host of other musicians who have gathered there this week for tunes, laughs and craic!


Tracks
Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton with Mink

John D Burgess with the Swallow Tailed Coat set

Seudan with Tullochgorm

Mike Vass with Settled in Clay

The Ghillies with The Passive Drinker and Sir James of the Bings

Liz Doherty with Jonny Sunshine

Sarah Hoy, Fin Moore, Chris Grace, Colin Sanderson, John Saunders,  Abbey Arkotxa and Gary West with The Atom of Delight (Derek Hoy)  

Jock Tamson's Bairns with The Fairy Boy of Leith

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Gary invites you on a tour which takes in the music of Scotland, Ireland, Northumbria, Asturias, Brittany, New Zealand and Cuba. And there's a first chance to hear a brand new bagpipe-infused single from Linlithgow's very own town piper, Ross Miller.

The Battlefield Band with The Merry Macs, Dr Iain MacAonghais and Mrs Chisholm’s Delight from Happy Daze

Tejedor with Salton d’Lyana from Music na Maleta

Canterbury Caledonian Society with Chief Grey Feather, Guards Club Recital Series, McPhedran’s Strathspey, Cockerel in the Creel, Dr Alasdair MacKenzie, Alasdair’s Reel, Wild Mountain Thyme, Miss Campbell of Sheerness and The Hard Drive 

Calum Stewart with True North from True North

Brian Lamond with the Islay Ball, The Shepherd’s Crook, Loch Carron and The Rookery from Another Day at the Office

Xavier Boderiou, Sylvain Barou and Antoine Lahay with Kernivinen Plinn from Liamm

Anthony Robb with I Saw My Love Come Passing By Me from Northumberland Rant

Ross Miller with Newly Wed At Newhall and Murray & Jacqui Ross of Torri Dhu – New single

Salsa Celticawith Cajan Solo, Rumba Ecossia and Llego from Live in Concert at the Universal Hall, Findorn

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Gary brings you the full set from the reigning world pipe band champions'  performance at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall as part of Celtic Connections 2024.

Tracks
Beolach  with Berrigan's Folly from All Hands

Pipe Major Angus MacDonald with Eileen MacDonald, Traditional Jig and the Glasgow City Police Pipers from Ceol Beag at the Castle

People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with The Lark in the Morning, Queen of the Rushes and St Ninian's Parish Centre Ceilidh 

People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with Joe McGann's Fiddle and Roddy MacDonald's Fancy

People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with Jamie's

People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with Drum Fanfare

People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with P/M Bob Martin and Cabar Feidh

People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with Joanna's Hornpipe, Inspector Donald Campbell of Ness, Sad the Parting, Seonaidh's Tune, Lexy McAskill, Glasgow Police Pipers

People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with Alex Snaddon's and Stranded in Krakow

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Gary introduces highlights from the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland's performance on the main stage of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, as part of Celtic Connections 2024.

John Dew with the Duncan Johnstone, John MacKenzie, Eastwood Cottage and the High Bridge Walk from The High Bridge Walk

 
Harta with To Dauntin Me, Linkumdoddie and Go to Berwick Johnny from Harta

 
Allan MacDonald with Cumha Alasdair Dheirg Mhic ic Alasdair (Lament for Alasdair Dearg of Glengarry) from Dastirum.

 
The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland with Gran’s and India’s (Ali Hutton), Live Recording February 2024

 
The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland with the Sandpiper Melody (Field Marshall Montgomery) Live Recording February 2024

 
The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland with Shiny Side, 12th of June and Francis Street Number 3. Live Recording February 2024

 
Daimh with Peggy McLean, the Black Horse, Am Ball a bh’anns ann Oban, Mary’s Fancy from the Rough Bounds

Links

National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland

Electronic Bellows https://e-bellow.com/

Notes on the Campbell Cainntearachd 

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Gary invites you to eavesdrop on a practice by the reigning world pipe band champions, the People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia, as they make their final preparations for their Celtic Connections appearance at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

With thanks as always to our sponsor,RG Hardie Bagpipes

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Tracks
John McSherry with the Rambles of Kitty from Soma

Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with Ian Green of Greentrax and Rachel’s Hornpipe from the Midwest Highland Arts Fund Winter Storm Concert 2006


Angus MacColl with the Highland Wedding and the Abercairney Highlanders from A Tradition of Excellence

People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with excerpts from The Lark in the Morning, Jamie’s, Joanna’s Hornpipe, Pipe Major Bob Martin, Drum Fanfare – EYP Recording

Hugh McCallum with Lament for Mary MacLeod from The World’s Greatest Pipers Vol 2

Brighde Chaimbeulwith Tornala Maika from The Reeling

National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland – with the Germinator and John Cairns’ Double from Thunderstruck


Links
Binneas is Borreraig Project    

or contact

christerry@mweb.co.za.   

Greentrax Recordings

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Gary brings a light touch to Burns' night with a couple of the bard's songs this week, from Robyn Stapleton and our very own Eilidh West. There's a return visit to the bagpipe factory of RG Hardie & Co to catch up on the latest news from there, plus plenty of top drawer piping from bands and soloists alike.

Tracks
The Bothy Band with Leitrim Fancy, Round the World for Sport, Rip the Calico, Martin Wynne’s, the Enchanted Lady, the Holy Land from The Best of the Bothy Band

 Stuart Liddell with Gaelic Airs & Reels: A Mhoire Mhin-Gheal, Fagail Bharraidh, Tom an Earraidh, Break Yer Bass Drone , Harris Dance, McFadden's Reel , Alasdair Fraser's Welcome to Cape Breton  and The Sheepwife from Inveroran

 Robyn Stapletonwith Ca the Yowes from Songs of Robert Burns

 Lothian and Borders Police Pipe Band with the Sleeping Tune, live at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band with The Ness Pipers, The Steampacket, Mobouy Bridge and the Ness Pipers from Impact

 Callum Beaumont with Raigmore and Sandy’s New Chanter from Winter Storm 2020

 Eilidh West with Ae Fond Kiss (Live from the Bothy)

 Paul Anderson with Father John MacMillan of Barra and the MacNeills of Ugadale from The Journey Home

 Links
RG Hardie Twist Trap Practice Pipes - Setting Up and Tuning

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It may be the bleak mid winter but there's plenty to warm you up in this week's episode of EYP as we celebrate more top drawer music from the world of the bagpipe.

Tracks Played
Ross Miller with D Major MacKenzie, Rona’s Reel and Mornington from The Roke 

Alasdair Gillies with The Inverness Gathering, The Cameron Quickstep (as a march then hornpipe) from Lochbroom

 
Dr Angus MacDonald with Yester House, The Kames Lassies, The Back of the Change House, Dan J Campbell’s Reel, A Cur na Gobhair as a Chreig, be Siud an Duine Truagh abd Na Hu Bhi Fire Faire from The Piping Concert at Celtic Connections 1997

 
Paddy Keenan with The Flagstone of Memories, Anderson’s, Molly Bawn, The Bucks of Oranmore from The Piping Concert at Celtic Connections 1997

 
Gordon Duncan with Am Breamatain Tobhan Dubh, Port Sean Seasamh, Blow my Chanter, The Famous Baravan, The Jolly Tinker, The Contradiction, The Ash Plant, The High Level Hornpipe, Trad Irish, and Richard Dwyer’s from The Piping Concert at Celtic Connections 1997

The Shotts and Dykehead and Simon Fraser University Drum Corps with the Duthart Drum Salute from Winter Storm 2005 

Stuart Cassells with The Paps of Jura set from Blown Away

Fraser Fifield with Lament for Red Hector of the Battles from Piobaireachd

 
Dougie MacLean with Solid Ground from Real Estate

Links
RG Hardie Bagpipes

The Pittsburgh Piping Society

Celtic Connections 2024

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Gary brings you more top drawer music of the bagpipes from a the airts, with visits to Shetland, Dumfriesshire, Frankfurt, USA, Canada and Galicia.

Tracks

Chris Stout and Finlay MacDonald Band with Borve Castle from The Cauld Wind 

Angus MacColl with Sine Bhan, Traditional Reels from The Lord Todd Piping Recital Challenge

Iain MacInnes with How She’ll Never be Guided, Played in the Low Country and Woo’d and Married and A (private recording)

The Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with Satellite Glen and Il Paco Grande from Live in Frankfurt

Cantrip with The Eveal Dr Gray, Mrs Dundas of Arniston, Marianne’s Reel and The MacDonalds from Boneshaker

Bill Livingstone with a Thousand Curses on Love and The Greenwood Side from Northern Man

Carlos Nunez with Dannses Macabres from Finisterrre: the End of the Earth

 Cantrip Tour Dates
Fri      12 Jan,   The Majestic Theatre,   115 SW 2nd St. Corvallis, Oregon  19:30

Sat      13 Jan,   Irish PDX, Winona Grange 271,  8340 SW Seneca St, Tualatin, Oregon                    19:30

Sun   14 Jan,   Lincoln City Cultural Centre,  540 NE Hwy 101, Lincoln City Oregon,                     14:00

Mon    15 Jan,   Blaylock’s Whisky Bar,  433 13th St, Astoria, Oregon,  18:00

Tue    16 Jan,   Music at the (Gig Harbour )    3805 Harbourview Dr, Gig Harbour, Washington. - 8:00 Show - Sold out. Second show added at 20:00

 Wed    17 Jan,   Nordland Community Church Hall,   7120 Flagler Rd,  Nordland Washington   19:00

Thurs  18 Jan,   Lopez Community Centre,           204 Village Rd, Lopez Island, Washington,   19:00

 Fri    19 Jan,   Bellingham Folk Festival,             The Blue Room, 202 E Holly St 301, Bellingham, Washington, 21:00

 Sat    20 Jan,   Seattle Folklore Society,    Phoney Centre Concert Hall, 6532 Phoney Ave, Seattle,Washington   19:30
 

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Gary celebrates the beginning of a new year of piping with a look ahead to this year's Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow which runs from 18th January - 4th February.


Playlist

The Friel Sisters with Helvic Head / Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her / Frahers from The Friel Sisters

 Stuart Liddell with Troy’s Wedding and the Viennese Waltz from Midwest Highland Arts Fund: Winter Storm 2006

 Fred Morrison with the Kansas City Hornpipe from Live at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

 St Lawrence O’Toole Pipe Band with the Old Triangle from the Dawning of the Day

 St Lawrence O’Toole Pipe Band with the Dust Gatherer from Evolution

John Mulhearn with The Pipe Factory from the Pipe Factory

 Brighde Chaimbeul with Pililiu (the Call of the Redshank) from Carry Them With Us

 Jose Manuel Tejedor with Aviles to Cork from Lluz

Links

Celtic Connections Festival 2024

Midwest Highland Arts Fund Winter Storm (Kansas)

Celtic Arts Foundation Winter School (Washington State)

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Gary takes a look back at the story so far here on EYP as he revisits some of the highlights of the piping year as it draws to a close.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Guid New Year! Tune in for plenty more music in 2024!


Tracks
Rura with A Minor Emergency from Dusk Moon.

Seonaidh MacIntyre and Ewen Henderson with Finn’s Tune, Bàgh Dubh gu Buala Dubh, and Allan J. Nairn of Ceann Tràgha (all Seonaidh MacIntyre) from The Piper and the Maker 2 – Celebrating C

People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate with the Mason’s Apron and Cunningham’s Fancy from Forte - Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Callum Beaumont with the Crags of Stirling, MacBeth’s Strathspey and Lt Col DJS Murray from the Young Ones

Tritonwith Comfort Comfort from Rule of Three

Andy May with Spence’s Tent and Back to the Forge Recorded Live at Piping Live 2023

Iain Speirs with the Edinburgh Piobaireachd recorded live at the Captain John MacLellan Memorial Recital Challenge, 2023

inB with Maol Donaidh, Farewell to Decorum and Rakish Paddy recorded Live at the Bothy 2023

Tannahill Weaverswith ‘S an an ile   (find under Holiday Music on their website)

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Join Gary for more high end music from the world of bagpipes, featuring tunes from Dysart and Dundonald and Alberta Caledonia Pipe Bands, from Andrew Carlisle, the Peatbog Faeries and a project featuring the music of the far north of Scotland entitled Urachadh. There's  a double helping from a brand new album, Epic New Dawn, featuring a fabulous community-based piping and drumming initiative from the East Ayrshire Pipe Band Academy and the Kilmarnock Pipe Band. And there's a special mix tape treat for fans of the legendary Irish superstars, the Bothy Band.

Tracks
The Peatbog Faeries with The Locks and Rocks Reel from What Men Deserve to Lose

Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band with The Fallen Stag, Fulmar’s Flight and Pipe Major George Allan from Pipe Bands of Distinction

Andrew Carlisle with The Piper’s Bonnet, The Cameronian Rant, Charlie’s Welcome, John Morrison of Assynt House from The Young Ones 

The Bothy Band mixtape with extracts from The Butterfly, Do You Love and Apple?, Farewell to Erin, Fionnghuala, The Kesh Jig, The Death of Queen Jane and Old Hag You Have Killed Me.

 Epic – East Ayrshire Pipe Band Academy with Take Me to Rio (Mark Saul) from New Dawn

 Kilmarnock Pipe Band with MacLeod’s Oran Mor, The Thrappledouser, Cabar Feidh and The Electric Pumpkin from New Dawn

Urachadh with The Achiltibuie Road Retreat, The Profit and Loss Jig and The Young Cannister from Urachadh

Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band with Dance Around the Cup, James MacLennan’s Favourite, The Cat and the Dog, Stew Pididdy’s Jig, Polyrhythmically Challenged, Duncan Lamont, Blackley of Hillsdale, The Rejected Suitor, Dance Around the Cup from Another Round

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Gary is on his travels again, and brings you great music and chat from one of his 'homes from home', the Celtic Arts Foundation in Mount Vernon, in the Pacific North West of the USA. There's live sets from piping supremo, Zephan Knichel, and from the superb fiddle and piano duo of Cayley Schmid and Aaron Guest, as well as gorgeous Gaelic songs from Stacey Giermann.  There's a National Piping Centre recording of Willie McCallum from 25 years ago, a set of tunes from some of Gary's fellow folkies who are regular visitors to the foundation, and a major scoop too - an exclusive first airing of a set from the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band's incredible concert held earlier this year in Glasgow.

Click here for full information on the Celtic Arts Foundation

Music Played

Master of Scottish Arts Folk Band with Captain Archibald Leslie, Susan MacLeod, John Keith Laing and Smelling Fresh from Westering Home.

Willie McCallum with Nellie’s Strathspey, the Reel of Bogie, Domnhall Ruadh, The Piping Poodle, the Night we Had the Goats, The Famous Bridge, Inverinate House, Loch an Duin and The Periwig from Piping Centre Recital Series 1997.

Cayley Schmid and Aaron Guest with the Reel of Rio,  Quinie fae Rhynnie and  Johnny Wilmot’s Fiddle, live at the Littlefield Center, Mount Vernon WA.

Zephan Knichel  with Return From Glengarry, Samantha's Welcome to Maui, Hecla, The Fiddler, Untitled Reel, Molly Rankin, Pleasanton Butter Buns and Rory Gallagher  live at the Littlefield Center, Mount Vernon WA.

The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with the Dysart and Dundonald Tribute, Live at the SECC, Glasgow, August 2023.

Zephan Knichel with Kennedy Street and Tam Bain's Lum  live at the Littlefield Center, Mount Vernon WA.

Stacey Giermann with Theid Mi Cuide Riut and Taladh Chriosda (The Christ Child's Lullaby)  live at the Littlefield Center, Mount Vernon WA.

Cayley Schmid and Aaron Guest with Road to Lochaber, Through the Gates, Connal MacDonagh's, Buntata's Sgadan, Elliot Fin MacDonald and Melbourne Morning,  live at the Littlefield Center, Mount Vernon WA.

Zephan Knichel with Trip to Moreda,  Dunrovin Farm and Annie's New Heart  live at the Littlefield Center, Mount Vernon WA.

Background music recorded at the Celtic Arts Foundation Scottish Session, Littlefield Center - thanks to all 30 or so musicians involved in that!

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Join Gary for more top class music from the world of bagpipes, with tunes from Davy Spillane, Simon McKerrell, Bonnie Rideout & Allan MacDonald, Dr Angus MacDonald, Beolach, the Battlefield Band, Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia and a listener's corner spot from Jock Roarty.
 
Tracks

Beolach with Annie’s New Heart from All Hands  

Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with Call to the Gathering

 Simon McKerrell with Lucy Cassidy, Duncan Johnstone and The Madchester Hornpipe from The Best of Piping ive Recital Series 06/07

 
Bonnie Rideout and  Allan MacDonald with The Nameless Lament from Scotland’s Fiddle Piobaireachd Volume 2

Davy Spillane with Atlantic Bridge from Atlantic Bridge

Jock Roarty with Our Harry 

Dr Angus MacDonald with Dhanns i Leam, a Mhaighdeann Bhrèagha / South Uist Golf Club / A-null Thar nan Eileanan Dh' Ameireagaidh Gun Tèid Sinn or Over The Isles To America / The Lads of Mull from Maidean Dubh an Donais

 The Battlefield Band with The Five Mile Chase, The Cameronian Reel, The Black Haired Lass and the Miss Girdle, from Beg and Borrow

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Join Gary as he brings you more great music from that family of instruments we call the bagpipe. At the more traditional end of things, there’s classic tunes from Murray Henderson and we take in the first world championship win from the Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band in 1992.  Listen out too for a modern twist from Malin Lewis and from Sketch while Mairearad Green and Anna Massie get down and folky! And in a special tribute to the late Skye Richendrfer of the Celtic Arts Foundation on the 1st anniversary of his passing, we are treated to a new piobaireachd composition in his memory composed and performed by Bruce Gandy. 

Tracks

Mairearad Green and Anna Massie with La Rachoudine, Gillie Dubh and Annie's Carafe from Farran

 Malin Makes Music with Trans  

Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band with The Pile Driver, Lachine Rapids, Jane Campbell, Lt Col DJS Murray, Mists of Time, Price of a Pig, Should Have Been Working and Maxwell’s Bonnett from the World Pipe Band Championships 1992 

 Bruce Gandy with Skye of Mount Vernon, Washington private recording

 
Masters of Scottish Arts with the Atholl Highlanders, Caliope House and Skye (Fred Morrison) from Westering Home

Sketch with MacPhail from Highland Time 

Dan Houghton with Mad Tam of Bedlam from Borderpipe Personality Disorder

 Murray Henderson with the Stirlingshire Milita and Inverlochy Castle from The World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 4

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Join Gary as he brings you more great music from bagpipes great and small! There's a double helping from the Northumbrian tradition,  a flavour of the Himalayas, up tempo tunes from the wider trad scene, a song from Scottish folk royalty, and a short tribute to Dundee piping great, Harry Ellis, who sadly passed away this week.


Tracks

James Harper with Colorado Frontiersman, Bonnen Polka, and Eiggmare from Culzean

 Billy Pigg with Archie’s Fancy and Holey Ha’Penny from Northumberland Rant: Traditional Music from the Edge of England  (Smithsonian Folkways Recording)

 
Chris Ormston with Keening in the Wind and Alston Flower Show from from Northumberland Rant: Traditional Music from the Edge of England  (Smithsonian Folkways Recording)

 Lindsay Ellis with The Keeper of the Light, The Angel and the Imp and the Half-Gassed Cat

 Michael Grey The Calm Before the Hum from Shimla Hum

78th Fraser Highlanders with Johnny Cope, Lord MacPherson of Drumochter, Flight from Vail, Traditional Jig, The Apple Tree, The Sound of Sleat, Greyfriars’ Julie, The Sister’s Reel, Chase the Train, The Pibroch Club from Flame of Wrath

 Dougie Maclean with Oh Gin I Were a Baron’s Air from Craigie Dhu

 The Tannahill Weaverswith Elspeth Campbell, Kenny Gillies of Portnalong, Malcolm Johnstone, Thornton Jig from The Mermaid’s Song

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Gary brings you more high quality music of the bagpipe kind, with tunes from  Rura, The Finlay MacDonald Band, Iain MacFadyen, Fred Morrison and Canadian band, Iron Brew. There's a gorgeous version of the pibroch, Desperate Battle of the Birds on pipes and piano, courtesy of Roddy MacLeod and Craig Muirhead, a taster of a brand new piece for pipes and orchestra from Lorne MacDougall, and with Armistice Day just around the corner, a moving song version of the lament, Flooers o the Forest, from one half of the Corries, Ronnie Brown.


Tracks

Rura with Dusk Moon from Dusk Moon

Craig Muirhead and Roddy MacLeod with the Desperate Battle of the Birds

The Finlay MacDonald Band with Alister’s Vintage Bar from Pressed for Time

Lorne MacDougall with Bonfires of Arran

Iain MacFadyen with Mary MacPherson of Kyle and Myles MacDonald’s Welcome to Skye from Ceol Mor, Ceol Beag

Iron Brew with the Swallowtale Jig from Are You My Sister?

Ronnie Brown with Flooers o the Forest from Battle Songs and Ballads

Fred Morrison and Jamie McMenemy with Jamie’s Tune and Up South from Up South 

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Following on from last week's Halloween shenanigans things are a bit more chilled in this episode - although maybe not quite as chilled as the title might suggest! There's fine music from Daimh, Cantrip, Angus and Kenneth MacKenzie, P/M Angus MacDonald, Matt MacIsaac and the Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band, while Eilidh West, usually to be heard introducing each episode in the jingle, is in fine voice as she quietly sings you to sleep.

Tracks
Daimh with Puff Puff from Sula

Cantrip with The Careful Jig, The Crossing and Leslie’s March from The Crossing

Eilidh West with Quietly Sing You to Sleep  (Live at the Wee Folk Club, Edinburgh)

Matt MacIsaac with John MacColl’s March to Kilbowie Cottage, Tulloch Castle and Sandy Cameron from the Piping Album

Pipe Major Angus MacDonald with Lament for the Children from The World's Greatest Pipers Vol 1

Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with the Mason's Apron Set from Forte

Angus and Kenneth Mackenzie with Donald and Gordon's fromPiob is Fidheal

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Join Gary for a Halloween special, and hear about some of the deep rooted traditions associated with the festival and what lies behind them. And of course there is plenty of appropriate pipe music to lighten the mood, with sets from Lincoln Hilton, Steve Byrne, The Victoria Police Pipe Band, the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, John MacLean, Troy MacGillivray and Hugh MacDiarmid's Haircut. There's a full rendition of Robert Burns' epic tale, Tam O'Shanter, and a seldom heard reply from his wife, Kate! So grab your turnip lantern (or pumpkin if you must!), get the fancy dress on, and let's go guising!


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Tracks

The Hell Bound Train by the Victoria Police Pipe Band from Piping Up

Trick or Treat by Lincoln Hilton

Halloween by Steve Byrne from The Piper and the Maker 2 - Celebrating C

The Piper's Weird by Troy MacGillivray from Westering Home

The Devil in the Kitchen, Calum Crubach, the Black Snuff Mill and Sleepy Maggie by John MacLean from the Second Grand Concert of Piping

The Haunting,  Drops of Brandy, Lewis Jig, Patrick's Annabel, Give Us a Drink of Water, Paddy be Easy, and The Foxhunter by the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band  from Affirmation

The Pumpkin's Fancy, The Easy Club Reel, The Clumsy Lover and Break Yer Bass Drone by Hugh MacDiarmid's Haircut from Airs From Your Elbow

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Gary returns after a week’s break with more top-drawer music from the world of bagpipes. There’s a taster of two new albums, True North from uillean pipe maestro, Calum Stewart, and the latest excellent offering from the band, Rura, entitled Dusk Moon. From the solo highland piping there are sets from Willie McCallum and from John Walsh, a double duo helping from Fin Moore and Sarah Hoy and from Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton, and a wee trip back in time to the 1970s to the classic sound of Edinburgh City Police along with a solo set from their Pipe Major, Iain MacLeod.

Thanks to my sponsor
https://rghardiebagpipes.com/

Tracks Played 

Calum Stewart with As as Thoisich from True North.

Willie McCallum with A.A. Cameron's Strathspey, Donald Ruadh, Wiseman's Exercise, The White Eyebrow, The Piping Poodle, The Night We Had the Goats, MacPherson's Reel and  Inverinate House from Hailey’s Song

 
John Walsh with Loch Broom Bay, Toots and Hickory and the Gold Ring from Time to Spare

 
Pipe Major Iain MacLeod with Leaving Glenurquhart, Inveraray Castle and the Smith of Chilliechassie from Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band Revisited

Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band with The Battle of the Somme, The Black Isle, the Banks of the Lossie and Festival March from Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band Revisited

 Rura with A Minor Emergency from Dusk Moon

 
Fin Moore and Sarah Hoy with Jimmy Mo Mhìle Stòr, Gillun nan Dròbher (The Drover Lads) and Dinkie Dorrian’s from The Piper and the Maker 2 – Celebrating C

 Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton with Mink from Symbiosis 2.


Links Mentioned
Edinburgh Gaelic School Fundraising Concert, 8th November, details an tickets here
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thigibh-air-cheilidh-tickets-737953216937?aff=oddtdtcreator&lang=en-gb&locale=en_GB&status=30&view=listing

Ross Ainslie, Ali Hutton and Owen Sinclair in concert at Kilmelford, 20th October
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ross-ainslie-and-ali-hutton-trio-with-owen-sinclair-tickets-700346895417

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Gary helps to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society by taking a look at the development, decline, and revival of the bellows bagpipe tradition in Scotland. With music from Gordon Mooney,  , Fred Morrison, Annie Grace & Judy Barker, Andy May and ... himself!

Tracks
Daimh with Jerry’s Pipe Jig, Slainte do Mhabou, Donella Beaton, Muinera de Casu from From Moidart to Mabou

Annie Grace and Judy Barker with Alison Cross from Reclaimed (Presented by Lowland and Borders Pipers’ Society)

 Gordon Mooney and Shona Mooney  with Jimmy Allan, Geld Him Lasses, Coffee and Tea and Skint o’ Siller  from Reclaimed (Presented by Lowland and Borders Pipers’ Society)

Andy May with The Countess of Galloway Set from Happy Hours

Gary West with Dixon’s Highland Laddie and Rangers’ Frolic from The Islay Ball

Fred Morrison Trio with Kansas from Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Further Resources
 Lowland and Border Pipers Society

Hugh Cheape , Bagpipes: a National Collection of a National Instrument (2008)

Matt Seattle, The Master Piper - Nine Notes that Shook the World (edited version of the William Dickson Manuscript)

Pete Stewart,  Welcome Home My Dearie: Piping in the Scottish Lowlands 1690-1900

Pete Stewart, The Day it Daws: The Lowland Scots Bagpipe and its Music 1400 to 1715 

Gary West, Voicing Scotland: Folk, Culture, Nation (2012)

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Join Gary for more music from the world of bagpipes, this week with two fine voices thrown in for good measure! These belong to Andy Hunter, who gives us his rendition of the song version of the Ewe wi the Crookit Horn in the company of the Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band, and nobel laureate, Seumas Heaney, who reads his poem, The Given Note, accompanied by the great uillean piper, Liam O'Flynn. There's also sets from Donald MacPherson, Gordon Duncan, Ceolbeg, Assynt, the Scottish Gas Caledonia and Galician supremo, Cristina Pato.

Tracks
 

Assynt with Fiend and the Hound, A Race to the Top and Deadlines from Road to the North

Donald MacPherson with The Knightswood Ceilidh  and Major Manson at Clachantrushal from thePiping Centre 1996 Recital Series, Vol 2.

Gordon Duncan with Galician Jig, Blow my Chanter and the Famous Barravan from The Circular Breath (Greentrax Recordings)

Scottish Gas Caledonian Pipe Band  with Cumha Mhic Mhic Alasdair, The Conundrum  and  Carradale Bay from Out of the Blue

Ceolbeg with Zito the Bubbleman fromAn Unfair Dance

Cristina Pato with Guirele from Xilento

Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band and Andy Hunter with The Yowie’s Horn, The Ewe wi the Crooked Horn, Broon’s Toon, The Lowlandman and The Highlandman from Terra Incognita

Seumas Heaney and Liam O’Flynn with The Given Note from The Piper and the Poet

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Gary brings you tunes from Angus MacColl, Ann Gray,  Shotts and Dykehead, Hecla, Hamish Moore, the Vale of Atholl and a folk classic from Dick Gaughan. And there are musical visits to the Cobblestone Bar in Dublin and the Railway Tavern, Perth.

Tracks
Hecla with Angus Waltz Intro, Angus John MacNeil of Barra and Angus Sutherland from Hecla: Smallpipes, Fiddle and Gaelic Song

Angus MacColl with The Highland Wedding and the Abercairney Highlanders from A Tradition of Excellence

Dick Gaughan and Johnny Cunningham with Freedom Come A Yefrom The Harvard Tapes

Hamish Moore with Molly Rankine’s, Brenda Stubbert’s Reel and Jack Daniel’s from Stepping on the Bridge

 Ann Gray with Strathspeys and Reels fromA Twist in the Tale

Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with The Galician Jigs from No Reservations

Kevin Rowsome, Lorraine Hickey and Peter Mohan with The Game of Love, Outdoor Relief and the Reel of Bogie from The Cobblestone Sessions

Shotts and Dkyehead Pipe Band with Diaspora (Mark Saul), The Bob of Fettercairn and The Brown Haired Maid from Rise

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More great tunes and tales of all things bagpipes, including the story behind the house for sale in Dunkeld, Perthshire, which was built in the 18th century for the piper to the Duke of Atholl. He led quite an interesting life!  There's sets too from Llan de Cubel, John Patrick, Stuart Liddell, and Clan Alba, a song from Silly Wizard, pipe tunes on the moothie from Donald Black, and extracts from the marvellously powerful music suite, The Bruce 700, commissioned in 2014 by Stirling Council to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.

Tracks

Llan de Cubel with El Molin del Puirtu from Un Tiempu Mayor

John Patrick with Wiseman’s Exercise, Stumpie, Reel of Bogie, Munlochy Bridge, Roderick MacDonald, Johnnie MacDonald’s Reel and Donald MacLean from the Piping Centre Recital Series 1997.

Allan McDonald , Neil Johnstone and Full Cast of The Bruce 700 – Bruce’s March, Battle of Bannockburn, Caoineadh, Lament, the Road to Loch Nam Bairneas from The Bruce 700

Silly Wizard withThe Parish of Dunkeld / The Curlew  from Live Again

Stuart Liddell with A Mhoire Mhin-Gheal, Fagail Bharaidh, Tom an Earraich, Break yer Bass Drone, Harris Dance, McFadden’s Reel, Alistair Fraser’s Welcome to Cape Breton, The Sheepwife from Inveroran

Donald Black with Paddy’s Leather Breeches, Kenny Gillies of Portnalong, Wee Todd from Westwinds. 

Clan Alba with the Clan Alba March, Lexy MacAskill, Latha Siubhal Beinne Dhomh, The Hawk from Clan Alba

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Gary introduces more top drawer music of the bagpipe variety, with sets from Seanaidh MacIntyre and Ewen Henderson, Cantrip, Alasdair Gillies, Megan Henderson - and himself! And listen out for a new initiative - our first 'Listener's Slot' - a lovely smallpipes suite which comes from Rob Menzies of British Columbia.

Tracks
Cantrip with the Eavil Dr Gray, Mrs Dundas of Arnistoun, Marion’s Reel and MacDonald’s Reel from Boneshaker

P/M Alasdair Gillies with Mrs John MacColl, Tulloch Castle and Dr MacPhail’s Reel from 25 Years of the Glenfiddich Piping Championship

Gary West with Lady Dorothea Stewart Murray's Wedding March and Gordon Cottage (bothy recording)

Seanaidh MacIntyre and Ewen Henderson with the Homegrown Reels - Finn's Tune , Bagh Dubh gu Buala Dubh and Allan J Nairn of Ceann Tragha (all composed, Seonaidh MacIntyre)  from The Piper and the Maker 2 – Celebrating C

Rob Menzies with the Gateshead Hotel Suite (private recording)

Megan Henderson with Pilgrim Souls from Pilgrim Souls

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It's piobaireachd all the way this week as Gary introduces music he recorded at the  Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner held recently in Edinburgh. This annual event celebrates the piobaireachd compositions of the late Captain John, one of the few prolific composers of this music from the 20th century. With tunes from Iain Speirs, Finlay Johnstone, Nick Hudson and Willie McCallum. it's a bumper episode - enjoy!

Tracks
Iain Speirs with the Edinburgh Piobaireachd by Captain John MacLellan

Finlay Johnstone with Salute to the Succession by Captain John Maclellan

Nick Hudson with Farewell to the Queen’s Ferry by Captain John MacLellan

Willie McCallum with The Phantom Piper of Corrieyairack by Captain John MacLellan

Links
The Eagle Pipers Society

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Gary welcomes the brand new bellows-pipe quartet, inB, to perform the very first Bothy Session from the shores of the Firth of Forth.  Top uillean pipers Louise Mulcahy and Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn team up with Brighde Chaimbeul and Fin Moore on Scottish smallpipes to create a stunning blend of music from both sides of the Irish Sea. This is their very first recording project - a major scoop for EYP! And there's news and roundups from this year's Piping Live festival and the World Pipe Band Championships.

Tracks
inB with  Dornoch Links / Joe Bane's (John MacDonald) and  Taladh Bhride 

The Boghall and Bathgate Pipe with The Abercairny Highlanders (Angus MacKay), Susan Macleod (Donald Macleod) and John Morrison of Assynt House (Peter R Macleod) from Forte - Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

inB with The Kitchen Maid, P Joe’s and Fog in the Bog

inB with Bochd Liath nan Godhar (or The Maids of Kintail)  and The Rock / O’Sullivan’s

inB with Maol Donaidh, Farewell to Decorum (Hamish Moore) and Rakish Paddy

Andy M Stewart with The Errant Apprentice (AM Stewart) from The Man in the Moon

https://andymstewart.org/

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Gary presents the podcast in front of a live audience in the Street Cafe at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow as part of the Piping Live Festival. With sets from Finlay MacDonald, John Mulhearn, Andy May, Estonians Catlin and Marko Magi, and the wonderful uillean pipes and Scottish smallpipes quartet, InB.

Tracks
Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with The Haunting, Drops of Brandy, Snug in a Blanket, Untimely Journey, Rocking the Baby from Live in America

Live Sets on Stage
John Mulhearn with the Apologist (J Mulhearn)

Finlay MacDonald with Pipe Major Angus MacDonald (Allan MacDonald), Eliot Fin MacDonald (F MacDonald) and Abdul's (F MacDonald)

Andy May with Spence's Tent (James Hill) and Back to the Forge (Andy May) / Go to Berwick Johnny

Catlin and Marko Magi with traditional Estonian songs and tunes

InB (Fin Moore, Brighde Chaimbeul, Louise Malcahy and Tiarnan O Duinnchean) with The Kitchen Maid, P Joe's and Fog in the Bog 

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Gary looks ahead to a range of live events across the central belt of Scotland as we reach the sharp end of the piping season with Piping Live in Glasgow and the Fringe in Edinburgh. There's  new music from Mark Saul, and timeless tunes from Angus MacColl, Gordon Duncan, Gordon Mooney, and Polkemmet Grorud Pipe Band. And Westie's Wildcard returns with an imaginary trip to the Yukon in the company of the Lochee Bard himself, the late Michael Marra.

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Tracks
Mark Saul with A' Dol Suas from Threnody

The Polkemmet Grorud Pipe Band with Irish Air and Reels Set from From Celtic Roots

Angus MacColl with The Highland Wedding and the Abercairney Highlanders from A Tradition of Excellence

Gordon Duncan with Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie, Ash City, The Inverness Incident and the High Drive from Just for Gordon

Michael Marra with The Lonesome Death of Francis Clarke fromHigh Sobriety (Live at the Bonar Hall)

Mark Saul  with Gordon's Reel from Threnody

Gordon Mooney with Terribus Ye Terioden from O'er the Border

Links
Piping Live! 

Lowland and Border Pipers' Society (LBPS)

Thunderstruck (the play) 

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Join Gary from his unscheduled stopover in an airport hotel in Washington DC for the latest instalment of EYP! He had been teaching on the Cairdeas smallpipes course in Vermont, and you can tune in here to hear all about it. With session music, brand new albums and tunes from past instructors, plus plenty of chat - they don't half enjoy their piping in Vermont!

Tracks
Dan Houghton with Bochd Liath nan Gobhar, Lieutentant MacGuire, Freya’s Diplomacy (D Houghton) and The Old Woman’s Dance (Donald MacLeod) from Borderpipe Personality Disorder 
https://www.pipingtool-scot.com/

Hamish Moore with Molly Rankine's from Stepping on the Bridge (extract)

Sheila Stewart with the Moving On Song (Ewan MacColl) from The Stewarts of Blair
(you may recognise this in its later form as part of Martyn Bennett's album, Grit)

Anna Murray with Tir nan Og from Scottish Folk at its Best

Triton with Dancing on the Bridge, The Brown-Haired Lass, The Sharpe Sea (T Cummings) from Rule of Three
https://timothycummings.com/

Triton with Derriere chez Nous  from Rule of Three

Triton with  Ronds de Saint-Vincent from Rule of Three

Iain MacInnes with  The Celtic Society’s Quickstep (William Mackay), Captain Grant, Murray’s Welcome, The 72nd Highlanders’ Farewell to Aberdeen (N Matheson) from Tryst
https://www.greentrax.com/

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Gary reports back from his trip to Washington State in the North West of the USA where he helped to host the Skagit Valley Highland Games. There's music from Willie McCallum, Daimh, Tim Edey & Ross Ainslie, the Masters of Scottish Arts, as well as a quartet featuring Fin Moore, Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie (again!) and Gary himself. And there's plenty chat and craic too, as he catches up with old friends and new.
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Tracks

Tim Edey and Ross Ainslie with Muineira de Poio, Muineira de Ourense and A Composa from Diad.

Willie McCallum with Nellie’s Strathspey, The Reel of Bogie, Donald Ruadh, The Piping Poodle (W McCallum), The Night We Had the Goats, The Famous Bridge, Inverinate House, Loch an Duin, The Periwig from The Piping Centre 1997 Recital Series
https://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/

Masters of Scottish Arts with the Atholl Highlanders, Calliope House (Dave Richardson), and Skye (Fred Morrison) from Westering Home
https://celticarts.org/

Ross Ainslie, Brighde Chaimbeul, Fin Moore & Gary West with Lullaby for Mel (Ross Ainslie) from The Piper and the Maker 2 - Celebrating C.

Daimh with Siud an Gaol a Bh’agad Orm (aka John Roy Stuart), Craig a Bhodaich (Donald MacLeod), The Lassie that Beguiled Me, The Uist Reel, Angus MacKenzie’s (Fraser Shaw) from Sula.

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Join Gary for the latest instalment of his podcast which features an incredible piece of percussive blues harp playing from Mike Whellans in partnership with the smallpipes of Battlefield Band piper, Mike Katz. Sadly Mike Whellans passed away last week, so we play this in tribute to his 6 decades of contribution to the music scene in Scotland and beyond. There are tunes too from the St Lawrence O'Toole Pipe Band, from their pipe major Allen Tully in solo mode, and from the folk band Pipedown, and much more besides.

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Tracks
Pipedown with Tar the House (Allan MacDonald), The Periwig, Cuillin (Martyn Bennett) from Roag

Martyn  Bennett with Buain a Choirce from Glenlyon.
http://www.martynbennett.com/

Alen Tully with Donal Og, The Swallow’s Tail, The Gravel Walks and the Humours of Tulla from the Best of Piping Live Recital Series 06/07
https://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/

St Lawrence O’Toole Pipe Band with the Links of Forth, Blair Drummond and The Smith of Chilliechassie from Turas Ceoil Live at the Royal Concert Hall
https://slotpb.com/

Bruce MacGregor with Annie’s Waltz (Bruce MacGregor) from Road to Tyranny
https://www.brucemacgregor.scot/

Mike Katz and Mike Whelans with Juan Martino and Tail Toddle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui5h_ip_Un8

Tony McManus with The Lament for the Viscount of Dundee from Ceol Mor
https://www.tonymcmanus.com/

Decker Forrest, Alan Henderson and Murdo Cameron with Doctor Allan MacDonald (I MacInnes), Chan Eil Fonn air an nighean Dubh, Sgitheanach an Earbail Fhada, De Bha Sibh Ris, a Chaluim Mhoir? From Aon.
https://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/?lang=en

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Gary brings you more top drawer piping from across Scotland and well beyond, with news and the winning performance from the European Pipe Band Championships held recently in Aberdeen. He samples the brand new release from Daimh, takes you on some rambles to the sound of the uillean piping of John McSherry, while Jack Lee treats us to a fine set recorded live in Seattle. Meanwhile, Lorne MacDougall pops up to say Hello World. This week's centre piece is a marvellous performance of the Lament for Mary Macleod from one of the most successful pipers of all time, Donald MacPherson.
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Tracks Played

Lorne MacDougall with Hug air a Bodach Mor, The Gravel Walk,  Richard Dwyer's and the Gravel Walk (again!) from Hello World
https://lornemacdougall.com/

Inveraray and District Pipe Band  John MacColl's March to Kilbowie Cottage (William Lawrie), Tulloch Castle (Roderick Campbell) and Major David Manson (Peter R. MacLeod)
https://idpb.co.uk/

 Jack Lee with The Men Of Argyll (John MacLellan), Jamie MacInnes' Ceilidh, Pipe Major George Allan  (Donald Macleod) from Masters of Scottish Arts, Live in Concert, Volume 1.
https://leeandsonsbagpipes.com/our-story/

Daimh with If it Plays in Peoria (Angus MacKenzie and Murdo Cameron), Hit the Toad (Alasdair White) and Samhradh Beag and Damhair (Alasdair White) from Sula
https://www.daimh.net/

Donald MacPherson with Lament for Mary MacLeod from The Master Piper
An obituary for Donald can be seenhere

John McSherry, the Rambles of Kitty, from Soma
https://johnmcsherry.com/


For good quality video coverage of the European Pipe Band Championships see
https://www.youtube.com/c/dronechorus

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Gary visits the bagpipe makers RG Hardie in Glasgow and takes you on a tour of their workshops to see how the instruments we play and the uniforms we wear start their lives. And look out for an exciting announcement too! There's music from two bands who have won over twenty world titles between them - Muirhead and Sons, and Field Marshall Montgomery, as well as tunes from Fraser Fifield, the Ghillies and the Cape Breton pairing of Jamie MacInnis and Paul MacNeil.

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Tracks Played

The Ghillies with The Passive Drinker (RS MacDonald) and Sir James of the Bing (Gordon Duncan) from The Nineties Collection Volume 2
https://www.greentrax.com/

Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band with Kilworth Hills (GS MacLennan) and Torosay Castle (JM Laurie)  from 25 Years of World pipe Band Champions
http://www.lismor.com/

Field Marshall Montgomery (short clip) with Smelling Fresh (J D MacKenzie) and P/M George Allan (D Macleod) from the World Pipe Band Championships 2013

Jamie MacInnis and Paul MacNeil with The Feet Washing, The Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies, The Price of the Pig from Fosgail an Dorus. (Iona Records)

Fraser Fifield with Lament for Red Hector of the Battles from Piobaireachd
https://fraserfifield.com/shop#piobaireachd-pipe-music


Links

R.G. Hardie
https://rghardiestore.com/

The Stout Collection
https://rghardiestore.com/stout-music-collection

Note -in the podcast commentary I got the name of the piobaireachd film wrong - it is actually called MacCrimmon's Gold and it is available on Youtube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zfxjy8E9L8

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Gary brings you another eclectic mix of sounds and tunes, including the winning performance at the recent UK Pipe Band Championships from the  People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate. There's sets too from North American fiddle and border pipes duo, Ben Miller and Anita MacDonald, from stalwarts of the English folk scene, Blowzabella, top drawer pibroch playing from Bruce Gandy, a double header visit to Brittany in the company of the Unusual Suspects and the Bagad Brieg,  and exquisite highland piping from Matt MacIsaac.

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Tracks Played

1. Ben Miller and Anita MacDonald with Yestreen from A Day at the Lake
https://soundcloud.com/ben-anita

2. The People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band with Joanna's Hornpipe, Inspector Donald Campbell of Ness, Sad the Parting, Seonaidh's Tune, Lexy McAskill, Glasgow Police Pipers.  Recorded at UK Championships, Lurgan.
Recording courtesy of We Love Pipe Bands.
https://www.youtube.com/user/zippyzipster

3. Blowzabella The Wars of the Roses from A Richer Dust
https://blowzabella.co.uk/

4. Bruce Gandy with The Rout of Glenfruin from Front Row Seat
https://www.brucegandymusic.com/

5. The Unusual Suspects with Lorient Suite Part 1 from Big Like This
https://corrinahewat.com/artists/the-unusual-suspects/

6.  Bagad Brieg – Gavotte Bigouden from Gogo Droch
https://soundcloud.com/bagadbrieg/gavotte-bigouden

7.  Matt MacIsaac with Dr MacInnes’ Fancy, Lynn Sutherland, The Drunken Landlady from The Piping Album
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2438230-Matt-MacIsaac

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Gary pays musical tribute to long-term friend and stalwart of the pipe band scene, Drum Major Alister 'Bo' Walker of both the Vale of Atholl and Atholl Highlanders pipe bands who sadly passed away this week after a long battle with illness. There are tunes too from the Simon Fraser University pipe band, from top uillean piping duo, Tiarnan O Duinnchinn and Cillian Vallely,  from Australian 'modern piping'  guru, Lincoln Hilton, and there's an upbeat cheery Fandango from Galician all-rounder, Christina Pato. Rounding off this week's menu, there's a very fine piece of musical storytelling from the Battlefield Band's vintage album, Anthem For the Common Man.

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Tracks Played

Tiarnan O Duinnchinn and Cillian Vallely, with Excerpt From the Singing Strings Part 3 from Live Recordings From the William Kennedy Festival

Gary West with Drum Major Alister Walker, Atholl Highlanders (G West), Jimmy Menzies of Baledmund (Pete Clark), Glen Tilt (John Crerar), The Smith of Killiechassie, Miss Proud from The Piper and the Maker 2 - Celebrating C.

Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with Eileen Mary Connolly (Martin Hughes), Mrs Stewart of Grandtully, The New Reel, O’Rourke’s, Electric Chopsticks (RS MacDonald), Good Drying (RS MacDonald) from Live ‘N Well – The Motherwell Concert

Cristina Pato with Fandango: Prueba de Fuego  from Latina
http://www.cristinapato.com/en/

Battlefield Band. The Yew Tree (Brian McNeill) from Anthem for the Common Man

Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with 400% (Lincoln Hilton)  from Live in New York
https://sfupipeband.com/

Lincoln Hilton with Odyssey (single)
https://www.mdpiping.co.uk/pages/about

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Gary brings you exclusive highlights from this year's main piping concert at Celtic Connections, held in the main auditorium of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Names and Places is a full length suite composed in the late 1980s by Martin Hughes and Ian Kirkpatrick of the band, Eclipse First, and was (we reckon) the first to be conceived specifically for the combination of pipe band and folk group. The piping and drumming on the original album was provided by members of the Vale of Atholl, some of whom returned to join an all star cast in this re-working of the piece led by musical director, Lorne MacDougall. Also on the menu this week, we catch up on results from last weekend's Atholl Gathering in Perthshire, and hear a magnificent rendition of the Lament for the Viscount of Dundee by Roddy Macleod as well as a little of the background to the tune from Gary.

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Tracks Played

Chris Gray with High Voltage (C Gray) from his album, Chris Gray

Landing at Roscoff from Names and Places,Live at Celtic Connections 2023

The West Wind, Isle de Groix, Grande Nuit du Port de Peche from Names and Places,Live at Celtic Connections 2023

Tony McManus with The Lament for the Viscount of Dundee from Ceol Mor

Roddy MacLeod with The Lament for the Viscount of Dundee  available on
https://roddymacleodbagpipes.com/piobaireachd-downloads/

The Oban Inn, the Victoria Bar and the Craigdarroch Arms from Names and Places,Live at Celtic Connections 2023

The Creagorry Ceilidh and the Boys and Ballivanich from Names and Places,Live at Celtic Connections 2023

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Gary chats to the Director of the National Piping Centre, Finlay MacDonald, about life in charge of one of the main piping institutions in the world, and about plans for this year's 20th Piping Live festival in August.  With music from Fraser Fifield, Angus MacColl, Willie McCallum, Alasdair Gillies, Ross Ainslie and Tim Edey, as well as from Finlay himself in partnership with that fine Shetland fiddler, Chris Stout.

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Tracks Played

Finlay MacDonald and Chris Stout with Borve Castle, Tommy and Ronnie's Double Tonic (Allan MacDonald) and the Thin Man (Gordon Duncan) from Cauld Wind.

Alasdair Gillies with In Memory of Herbie MacLeod (Jerry Holland), The Editor’s Strathspey, The Dusky Meadow (Donald MacLellan), Hey Johnnie , Alex Currie’s Strathspey, Le Petit Cheval Rouge, West Mabou Reel, Kelsae Brig, The Stone Frigate (Donald Kerrigan) from Loch Broom

Fraser Fifield with Secret Path (F Fifield) from Secret Path

 Angus MacColl with MacLean of Pennycross (A Ferguson) and John MacDonald of Glencoe (W Lawrie) from The Best of Piping Live Recital Series 2006/07

Willie McCallum wtih Jack Adrift (Donald MacLeod), P/M George Allen (Donald Macleod) and Tam Bain's Lum (Donald Shaw Ramsay) from The Best of Piping Live Recital Series 2006/07

Tim Edey and Ross Ainslie with Lunny from Diad


Links

Piping Live 2023 Information and Tickets
https://pipinglive.co.uk/

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Gary brings you another eclectic mix of pipe music and related sounds from across the globe including 3 tracks from the album of the week, 'Westering Home', recorded in Washington State in 2019 and featuring some of the world's top pipers and drummers. There's tunes too from Hamish Moore, from Willie Clancy, Breton 'supergroup' Den, and from those urban Gaels, Trail West, and a lovely Gaelic song from Lewis native, Calum Alex MacMillan who accompanies himself on smallpipes - not an easy thing to do, but he does it so well!

Music Played

Trail West with Pipe Major William MacLean (Peter R MacLeod), Lauren McKowen’s (Simon McKerrell) and Tayvallich Turkey (Allan Nairn) –from From the Sea to the City
https://www.trail-west.com/

Masters of Scottish Arts with Campbelltown Kilty Ball, Cutty’s Wedding, Louden’s Bonnie Woods and Braes, Because he Was a Bonnie Lad, High Road to Linton, Kilt is My Delight, Reel of Tulloch, Mrs MacLeod of Raasay from Westering Home
https://celticarts.org/

Calum Alex MacMillan with Fadachd an t-Seoladair (John MacLennan) from The Piper and the Maker 2 – Celebrating C.
https://moorepipes.bandcamp.com/album/piper-and-the-maker-ii-celebrating-c

Hamish Moore with Stumpie (strathspey) and Stumpie (reel) from Stepping on the Bridge
https://www.greentrax.com/

Masters of Scottish Arts Folk Band with Captain Archibald Leslie (D Campbell), Susan MacLeod (Donald MacLeod), John Keith Lang (Addie Harper) and Smelling Fresh (James Duncan MacKenzie) from Westering Home
https://celticarts.org/

 
Masters of Scottish Arts with the Old Woman’s Lullaby from Westering Home.
https://celticarts.org/

Willie Clancy with Garret Barry and Old Tipperaray, from My True Love She Dwells on the Mountain.
http://veteran.co.uk/vt163cd.htm

 
Den with Madam Lulu (S Siberil) from Just Around the Window
https://www.discogs.com/release/4531743-Den-Just-Around-The-Window

Links

Piping Live 2023
https://pipinglive.co.uk/

Tibetan Monks Performing
 https://youtu.be/Eo7MGSAFFN4

Planxty at Eurovision 1981 with Timedance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnPI0qEDO5A 

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In this week of Eurovision Song Contest mania, Gary explores some of the bagpipe traditions of Europe which continue to flourish across the continent. With visits to Sardinia, Greece, Bulgaria, France, Galicia, Asturias, Northumbria, Ireland and Scotland.

Tracks Played

Franco Melis with ‘Fiorassiu’ from the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society 2nd Grand Concert of Piping
https://www.greentrax.com/

Susana Sevaine with 'Revolucion' from Fa
https://www.susanaseivane.net/

Petrov Stephanos (Bulgaria)  with Theodoros Kekis and Theolagos Grillis (Greece)  Untitled from  A Celebration of Pipes in Europe

Jim Malcolm  'The Battle of Waterloo' from  Rohallion
https://www.jimmalcolm.com/

Menace d’Eclaircie with ‘Les Joies du F1’ from Les Etoiles du Rock n Roll
https://www.klam-records.net/en/menace-d-eclaircie

Jean-Christophe Maillard Musette de Cour from A Celebration of Pipes in Europefollowed by Andy May – ‘The Quayside’ (James Hill) from Happy Hours
https://www.magneticnortheast.com/andy-may-commission

The Chieftains with 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley,' The Best of the Chieftains
https://www.thechieftains.com/

Xose Maneul Tejedor with 'Anada Pa Gael'from A Celebration of the Music of Gordon Duncan’
https://www.greentrax.com/

The Greater Glasgow Police Pipe Band  'Gaelic March Set' from Ceolry
https://musicscotland.com/products/greater-glasgow-police-scotland-pipe-band-ceolry

Further Information

Video of Sardianian Laudennas Playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz1sb6ZGRug

Link to New Zealand Piobaireachd Society Composing Contest
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVWPtGv39WmGE2K361M9GhBltujQWXyQsdpFTjjiZxYBnEbw/viewform

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Gary brings you the winning performances from the recent Wheel of Fortune contest run by the City of Edinburgh Pipe Band, with sets from Cameron Drummond, Craig Sutherland and King of the Jokers, John Mulhearn! There's a classic pipe band track from 1979 which features one of our listeners performing with the Triumph Street Pipe Band from British Columbia who lifted the world drumming title that day in Nottingham. There's a sparkling set on uillean pipes from Calum Stewart, and look out too for our first piobaireachd of this new podcast, Roddy MacLeod playing an appropriate tune for Coronation week - the King's Taxes!

Music Played

Calum Stewart with The Angel’s Share (Calum Stewart), Copper Stills (Calum Stewart) and Gladstone (J Scott Skinner) from Tales From the North
https://www.calum-stewart.com/

Triumph Street Pipe Band with Kilworth Hills (GS MacLennan), The Duke of Gordon’s Birthday, Fiddler’s Joy, Jimmy’s Return, St Kilda Wedding, Dream Angus, The Curlew (Donald MacPherson), Matheson’s Hornpipe, Calum Beag from 1979 World Pipe Band Championships, private recording.

Craig Sutherland with Dugald MacColl’s Farewell to France (John MacColl), The Islay Ball and John Morrison of Assynt House (Peter R MacLeod) from private recording, Wheel of Fortune contest, 2023.

Cameron Drummond with March of the King of Laois, the Kesh Jig, Merrily Danced the Quakers Wife, Queen of the Rushes, the Silver Spear, Richard Dwyer’s, Pressed for Time (Gordon Duncan), Frances Morton’s (Fred Morrison) from private recording, Wheel of Fortune contest, 2023.

John Mulhearn with PM Alex M MacIver (Angus Lawrie), Neil Sutherland of Lairg (Archie MacNeill) and John Garroway (Donald MacLeod) from private recording, Wheel of Fortune contest, 2023.

Roddy MacLeod with The King’s Taxes from Roddy MacLeod Piobaireachd, Volume One
https://roddymacleodbagpipes.com/

Gary West with Fleshmarket Close (Michael Grey), The Yellow-Haired Tinker, The Mason's Apron from The Islay Ball
https://www.garywest.scot/Webstore/GaryWest/The-Islay-Ball-CD-Album-by-Gary-West-p297301635

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Gary helps to mark Anzac day, and reflects on the experiences of those who fought in the Gallipoli campaign during the First World War.  As well as the troops of Australia and New Zealand, many Scottish regiments saw action there too, some of whom shared their stories with the late Jock Duncan, and which we now share with you.  We also pay tribute to the late Jock Elliot of G1 Reeds and the Inveraray and District Pipe Band, who sadly passed away recently.

Music and clips played

1. Daimh, with ‘Jerry’s Pipe Jig (Jerry Holland), Slainte do Mhabu (Colm O’Rua), Donella Beaton (George Johnston), Munera e Casu (trad) from Moidart to Mabu
https://www.daimh.net/

2.  Australia Highlanders with ‘From Maui to Koma (B Worrall) and Alive ( C Mathers) from Sans Peur
https://www.allcelticmusic.com/artists/Australia%20Highlanders%20.html

3. Excerpt from Jock’s Jocks: a One Act Play, by Gary West. Cast: Scott Gardiner, Chris Wright, Charlie West and Gary West. Based on oral history recordings made by the late Jock Duncan, Pitlochry. Includes a spoken-word version of ‘The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ by Eric Bogle

The Book, Jock's Jocks, is available from the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust at
https://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/

4. William Boyle with Stirling Castle, Aspen Bank, The Smith’s a Gallant Fireman, The Rose Among the Heather, The Ferryman, Sleepy Maggie, Pigeon on the Gate, The Farmer’s Daughter, The Kilt is My Delight, The High Road to Linton (all trad), from Bagpipe Virtuoso

 
5. Manawatu Scottish Society Pipe Band with The Calling’ (S MacKenzie, 98 Jig (Gordon Duncan), The Sporting Pitchfork (trad), The Famous Baravan (Gordon Duncan)
https://www.greentrax.com/

6. Clip of Mr John Haward, President of Box Hill RSL, Australia
https://boxhillrsl.com.au/

 7.  Inveraray and District Pipe Band with ‘Amazing Grace’ from A Night in That Land
https://idpb.co.uk/

8. Mark Saul with ‘Journey to the Centre of the Celts’ from Scotland: the Music and the Song
https://www.greentrax.com/

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Gary chats with Brighde Chaimbeul, one of the most innovative and exciting musicians to have emerged in Scotland in recent years. Brighde explains the thinking and the influences behind her brand new album, Carry Them With Us , a collaboration with experimental saxophonist, Colin Stetson. As well as sampling the delights of that, we also dip into another wonderful new album, Diad, from Tim Edey and Ross Ainslie. There's sets too from the Scottish Gas Caledonia Pipe Band, from Willie McCallum and from Breton pipe maker and musician, Xavier Boderiou.


Tracks Played
1. Tim Edey and Ross Ainslie with 'Jim Tweedie's Sea Legs' (J A MacGee), Humours of KiltyClougher (trad), Tatter Jack Walsh (trad), the Girl of the House (trad) from Diad
https://rossainslie.bandcamp.com/

2.  Scottish Gas Caledonia Pipe Band with Glengarry's Lament (trad), The Conundrum (Peter Macleod),  Carradale Bay (T Muirhead) from Out of the Blue
https://www.greentrax.com/

3. Brighde Chaimbeul, 'Banish the Giant of Doubt and Despair' (trad) from Carry Them With Us
https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/carry-them-with-us

4.  Brighde Chaimbeul, 'The Haunting' (trad) from Carry Them With Us
https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/carry-them-with-us

5. Ross Ainslie, Brighde Chaimbeul and Steven Byrnes, 'Dodd's' from Las
https://rossainslie.bandcamp.com/album/las

6. Willie McCallum, A.A. Cameron's Strathspey, Donald Ruadh, Wiseman's Exercise (C Campbell) The White Eyebrow, The Piping Poodle, The Night We Had The Goats, MacPherson's Reel, Inverinate House from Hailey's Song
https://www.templerecords.co.uk/products/william-mccallum-haileys-song

7. Xavier Boderiou with 'Matt Hayes' and 'My Former Wife' (private recording)
https://boderiou.com/en/
https://xavierboderiou.bandcamp.com/

8. Tim Edey and Ross Ainslie with 'Lullaby for Mel' (Ross Ainslie) fromDiad
https://rossainslie.bandcamp.com/


Links Mentioned
Tobar an Dualchais / Kist of Riches Online Archive
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/

Lowland and Border Pipers' Society
https://lbps.net/

The Eagle Pipers Society
https://eaglepipers.wordpress.com/

Tickets for the Capt John A MacLellan MBE Memorial Dinner
https://eaglepipers.wordpress.com/capt-john-a-maclellan-memorial-dinner-tickets/

Colin Stetson (Brighde's collaborator)
https://www.colinstetson.com/

For Tour Dates Mentioned see
https://www.rossainslie.com/live
https://www.brichaimbeul.com/tickets

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Gary chats to piper, pipe maker, teacher and composer, Fin Moore, about his music, craftmanship and his new project, an album featuring instruments all made by himself and his father, Hamish Moore, entitled The Piper and Maker 2: Celebrating C.

Tracks Played

Track 1 Breabach with The Ramparts (D MacLeod), We Were Poor But We Were Miserable (J D MacKenzie) from Astar
 https://www.breabach.com/

Track 2 Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with Alick Cameron, Champion Piper (GS MacLennan), Lexy MacAskill (J MacAskill), Lt Col DJS Murray (J Allan), Traditional, Thomson’s Dirk, Back of the Moon (A G Kenneth) from Live From New York City
https://sfupipeband.com/

 Track 3  Seudan with The Rothiemurchas Rant, Alex Currie’s, Lord MacDonald, Cota Mor Ealasaid, Hamish the Carpenter, The Margaree Reel (all trad, arr. Seudan, Grian Music) from Seudan, Greentrax Recordings
https://www.greentrax.com/

 Track 4  Fin Moore and Sarah Hoy with Jimmy mo Mhile Stoer, Gillean nan Drobher, Dinkie Dorrian’s (Francie Dearg O’Biern) from The Piper and the Maker 2 – Celebrating C
https://moorepipes.bandcamp.com/album/piper-and-the-maker-ii-celebrating-c

 Track 5 Allan MacDonald with Siud mar Chaidh an Cal a Dholaidh (trad) from The Piper and the Maker 2 – Celebrating C
https://moorepipes.bandcamp.com/album/piper-and-the-maker-ii-celebrating-c

 
Track 6 Seonaidh MacIntyre and Ewen Henderson with Finn’s Tune, Bàgh Dubh gu Buala Dubh, and Allan J. Nairn of Ceann Tràgha (all Seonaidh MacIntyre) from The Piper and the Maker 2 – Celebrating C
https://moorepipes.bandcamp.com/album/piper-and-the-maker-ii-celebrating-c
 

Track 7 Mairi Campbell and Hamish Moore, The Piper and the Maker (M Campbell and D Francis), from The Piper and the Maker (Greentrax Recordings)
https://www.greentrax.com/

Links Mentioned

https://www.pipesdrums.com/

https://bagpipe.news/

https://www.thebigrabshow.com/

Get in Touch
EYP@garywest.scot

https://www.garywest.scot/

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Gary West brings you the first episode of his brand new podcast, including music from the Inveraray and District Pipe Band, James Duncan MacKenzie, Jock Duncan , Gordon Duncan and look out for a wildcard track from young Edinburgh singer/songwriter, Gus Harrower.



Track 1
James Duncan MacKenzie – Taigh Iain’ Iain’ Niall, Tracy and Barney’s Garden Party, Ian’s Last Munro (all James Duncan MacKenzie) from Fibhig
www.jamesduncanmackenzie.com

Track 2
Inveraray and District, ‘Pointed Hornpipes’ (Kenny the Sparrowman (RS MacDonald), Dora Watt (George M MacIntyre) from A Night in This Land
https://idpb.co.uk

 
Track 3
Jock Duncan ‘The Muckin o Geordie’s Byre’  from Wood’s Green (Beltona).

Track 4
Gordon Duncan ‘Ian Green of Greentrax’ (Gordon Duncan, Grian Music), Mr and Mrs Duncan’s Golden Wedding (Gordon Duncan, Grian Music) from Just For Gordon(Greentrax Recordings)
www.greentrax.com

Track 5
Inveraray and District Pipe Band, John MacColl’s March to Kilbowie Cottage (William Lawrie), The Cameronian Rant (trad), The Little Cascade (GS MacLennan), from A Night in That Land (self release)
www.idpb.co.uk

Track 6
Gus Harrower. The Day Sinatra Died (Gus Harrower, self release)
www.gusharrower.com

Track 7
Stuart Liddell, ‘Fair Maid of Barra (trad), The Stonecutter’s Phoenix (Mark Saul), The Sterling Mossie (Colin Magee) from A Night in That Land (self release).


Links Mentioned

Scots Radio. www.scotsradio.com
Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust   www.gordonduncan.co.uk

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