Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

Send us Fan Mail A brief reflection on the EYP adventures of 2025, Marry Christmas to all, and happy 90th birthday to Gary's mum! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Gary pays tribute to P/M Ian MacLellan and P/M Jamie Troy, both of whom have passed away in recent days. There's also a taster or two from the brand new CD release from Stuart Liddell. Playlist Rura with Day One from Live at the Fruitmarket Stuart Liddell with The Bird Jigs – The Seagull, The Duck, The Geese in the Bog, The Skylark’s Ascension, The Hen’s March and The Curlew...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you a bumper episode this week, with all of the music recorded live at the Gordon Duncan Tribute Concert held in Mount Vernon, Washington State, USA and hosted by the Celtic Arts Foundation. Playlist Craig Sutherland with Sir James of the Port, Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. Craig Sutherland with Andy Renwick's Ferret and the Fourth Floor, Live...

Send us Fan Mail Gary hosts another hour of top notch piping from a the airts. EYP 126 Playlist Beolach with The Cape Breton Slip Set – An Drochaid Chliuiteach,  Scottsville Reel, Foxhunter and Walking the Floor from Beolach   Iain MacDonald and Iain MacFarlane with Miss Elspeth Campbell, Danced with Me the Beautiful Maiden and the Rejected Suitor from First Harvest .   Gordon Mooney with Souters...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you highlights from the recent Lowland and Border Pipers' Society gathering in Dunkeld, Perthshire. Playlist Finlay MacDonald, Fionnlagh  Mac A Phiocair, John Saunders and Sarah Hanniffy with Annie’s New Heart, Turf Lodge from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury.   Ian Kinnear with The Bloody Fields of Flanders and Lochanside f...

Send us Fan Mail Gary is back after his week off (or wee cough!) with more chat and music from the piping world, including an in-depth chat with Head of Piping Studies at the National Piping Centre, John Mulhearn. Playlist Gordon Duncan with Just for Seumas, The Thin Man, Lament for Mary MacLed and Break Yer Bass Drone from Just for Seumas   Strathclyde Police with Links of Forth, Atholl Cummers a...

Send us Fan Mail Join Gary as he brings you both cheery and melancholy tunes and songs from Scotland and well beyond. Playlist Cantrip with the Duncan Johnstone Set from Undark Jack Lee with 93rd at Modder River, Susan MacLeod and the Little Cascade from The Piping Centre 1996 Recital Series Vol 1 Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with Tir Nan Og from Affirmation Archie Fisher with The Lassie o th...

Send us Fan Mail Gary takes you on another musical journey in the company of all things bagpipes. Playlist Eabhal with This is How the Ladies Dance, Stoddies Reel, Break in Borve and St Valery Pipes from This is How the Ladies Dance    Stuart Liddell with The Highland Wedding and The Cameronian Rant from The P/M Alasdair Gillies Memorial Challenge 2021.   Julian Goodacre with The Saunt from Some o...

Send us Fan Mail Join Gary as he brings you tunes from Brittany, Sweden ... and Motherwell! Playlist Den with L’Orient et Grand, from Just Around the Window. Johnstone Pipe Band with The Drunken Landlady, Michael Brady's Jig, Thief of Lochaber, Caledonia, AA Cameron's, Cutties Wedding, Cupair Thu, Tailler Thu, The Hole in the Bath from the 2023 World Pipe Band Championships Harta with Bo...

Send us Fan Mail More great music of the bagpipe, including a quick trip to Hampden Park. Playlist Assynt with Rescues from Where From Here? Murray Henderson with AA Cameron’s Strathspey, Nelly’s Strathspey, Roes Among the Heather, Maclaine of Lochbuie’s Reel, Malcolm the Tailor and the Wind that Shakes the Barley from The World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 4. Annie Grace with ‘Tunes’ from The Bell ....

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you more bagpipes delights from the Bothy. Playlist Dan Houghton with Drink, Debauchery and 200 Euros, Teigis agus Dealg Innte, Willie Murray’s Reel and The Fourth Floor from Bagpipe Personality Disorder .   Greater Glasgow Glasgow Police Pipe Band with Lightly Swims the Swan, Miss Victoria Ross, Lady Margaret Stewart, Port a Beul, Lord McConnell of Lough Erne and Loch...

Send us Fan Mail Refreshed from his wee break in Orkney, Gary brings you more great music from the world of bagpipe (and song!) Playlist Kirkwall City Pipe Band with Orkney Anthem from Anthems of a Peedie Nation Salsa Celtica with Cailleach from 25th Anniversary Big Band Live in Concert   Stuart Liddell with Port Urlar from The Argyllshire Gathering 2025 (Peter McCalister recording)   Malin Lewis...

Send us Fan Mail Gary pays a return visit to the Restitution contest held on Raasay in early September, and explores the contribution that island has made to Scotland's creative culture more widely. Playlist Angus Nicholson with Barabel Phadruig, The Eavesdropper, Waulking the Floor and John MacDonald’s Exercise from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording.   Decker Forrest with Si...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you performances from the 2nd annual contest held on the isle of Raasay, organised by Hamish Moore. Playlist Finlay Cameron with Miss MacGregor's Favourite, Jerry's Pipes, Cailleach A’ Ghobhainn and Merrily Danced the Quaker’s Wife from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Angus Nicholson with A Mhairi Mhin Mo Mheallshuileach Dubh, Lucy Campbel...

Send us Fan Mail It's piobaireachd all the way this week as Gary brings you all four performances from this year's recital dinner celebrating the life and music of Captain John A MacLellan. Playlist Iain Speirs with A Welcome Home for Patrick Struan, EYP Recording from The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner, 2025. Cameron Drummond with the Edinburgh Piobaireachd...

Send us Fan Mail Join Gary as he tours Scotland with 17 lovely Kiwis, with appropriate music along the way! Playlist Inverarary and District Pipe Band with The Miniscus, the Kesh Jig Waltz, the Kesh Jig, Steve Byrne’s, The Water is Wide, An Cota Ruadh, Port Domhnall Ruadh, the Laird of Drumblair and Kelsae Brig from World Pipe Band Championships 2011.   Ross Ainslie and Brighde Chaimbeul with Dod’...

Send us Fan Mail Gary invites you to this year's Piping Live Festival in Glasgow to eavesdrop on his 78th Fraser Highlanders Live in Ireland 'listening party'.  Playlist to follow Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you more top drawer music from the world of bagpipes, including extracts from a production commemorating the emigration of 1500 people from the Hebrides to Canada in 1923. Playlist Trail West with Francis Street Jig, The Travers and P/M Jimmy MacGregor from From the Sea to the City Martyn Bennett with The Magic Flute from the Grand Concert of Piping   The Metagama Ense...

Send us Fan Mail Gary takes a look ahead to this year's Piping Live festival running in Glasgow from 11th - 17th August. Playlist Cala with Dusty from From the River Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia with Show Time from Rise    Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton  with Ceit Bheag from Anna Bhan   Gordon Duncan with Donal Og / Wild Irishman / Rakish Paddy / Madame Bonaparte / Richard Dwyers from Jus...

Send us Fan Mail Gary is back in the bothy after a few weeks on the road - join him for some more top drawer piping from a the airts. Playlist Breabach with Knees Up from Frenzy of the Meeting Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with The Drunken Landlady, Throw the Beetle At Her, Brendan Murphy's, Suo Gan, Nellie's Strathspey, The Fiddler's Joy, Put Me In the Big Chest, Calum Iain, Li...

Send us Fan Mail Gary introduces a recital from three of the world's top players who gathered at the Celtic Arts Foundation, Mount Vernon, Washington. Sit back and enjoy sets from Callum Beaumont, Willie McCallum and Stuart Liddell.  Playlist Callum Beaumont with Pipe Major Bob Martin, Lord Lovat’s Lament and Killiecrankie from the Glenfiddich Champions Recital, Celtic Arts Foundation, Mount...

Send us Fan Mail Gary reports in from Duncan, Vancouver Island, bringing you music and chat from British Columbia and well beyond. Playlist John Dew with The Ruins of Gylen Castle from Na  Caismeachdan Andrew Carlisle with Mrs John MacColl, Inverarary Castle and Dr MacPhail’s Reel from the MacLean MacLeod Memorial Piping Contest 2025. Brighde Chaimbeul with A’Chailleach from Sunwise   Derek Midgle...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you highlights from this year's MacLean MacLeod Memorial Piping Championships held recently at the University of Delaware, and run by the United States Piping Foundation. Playlist Nick Hudson with Invergordon’s Welcome to HM Queen Elizabeth II, P/M Hector MacLean and Sandy Cameron Bruce Gandy with P/M Karen MacLean, Caledonian Society of London and John Garroway....

Send us Fan Mail Gary chats to Bede Patterson, one of the new generation of Australian pipers blazing a trail in fresh and exciting approaches to piping. Playlist Matt MacIsaac with Gaelic Air, The Old Woman’s Dance and the Firedrill from The Piping Album   P/M John D Burgess with the Baldoozer, Center’s Bonnet, Cork Hill and John MacDonald’s Jig from King of the Highland Pipers   The Whistlebinki...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you more high-end music of the bagpipe (and plenty other instruments) with visits to Brittany, Ireland, USA - and Glasgow! Playlist Calum Stewart with Craigellachie Lasses from True North Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band with The Sandpiper, Archie Beag, Bronni’s Blue Brozzi, La Boume, Lady Madelina Sinclair,  Stirling Castle,  Sleepy Maggie, Tail Toddle, Frances Mor...