Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

Send us Fan Mail As it turns a touch wintry in Scotland, warm yourself up by moving your feet to some more top class music from the world of bagpipes. Playlist Tannahill Weavers with Turf Lodge, The Cape Breton Fiddlers’ Welcome to Shetland, Lady Margaret Stewart and the Flaggon from Dancing Feet     Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band with the Inverness Gathering, The Drunken Piper and the Australian...

Send us Fan Mail Another hour of top drawer music from the bothy. Playlist Breabach with The Braes of Mellenish, The Poetic Milkman, the Milkman’s Bridge and Ray Anderson from Urlar  John MacDougall with The Braes of Castle Grant and the 74th’s Farewell to Edinburgh from the World’s Greatest Pipers Vol 8. Chris Stout and Finlay MacDonald with Algiers from Cauld Wind Matt Seattle with Little Wee Wi...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you more great tunes from a the airts - well from Scotland, England and Canada to be precise! Playlist Rura with The Boys from Ballydowse and The Smasher from Despite the Dark   P/M Iain Morrison with Jack Aloft and the Rakes of Kildare from Back to Back   Martyn Bennett with Swallowtail from Martyn Bennett   Eddie Seaman feat. Maeve MacKinnon with Uamh an Oir from Cav...

Send us Fan Mail Gary makes a return visit to the bagpipe factory of RG Hardie, and brings you plenty more great music along the way, with a wee trick or treat thrown in for good measure. Playlist Daimh with Ronald MacKenzie of Milton and Mabou, Stormy Hill and Maili Ceit’s Jig from Tuneship   Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with Il Paco Grande from Live in Well   Callum Beaumont with Raigmore and Sandy’...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you more great bagpipe tunes from Scotland, Ireland, Canada and Galicia. Playlist Lorne MacDougall with Trip to Aviles, Atlantic Bridge, The Sound of Sleat and Atlantic Bridge from Hello World   Jack Lee with Tom Wilson, the 24th Guards Brigade at Anzio, The Homewrecker, The Brolum and the High Road to Linton from the Piping Centre Recital Series 1996 Vol 1 Inveraray a...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you more fine music of the bagpipe kind from his extensive collection. Playlist Chris Gray with LA’s Welcome to Thwale from Chris Gray Roddy MacLeod with Willie Gray’s Farewell to the Glasgow Police and Donald MacLean’s Farewell to Oban from the World’s Greatest Pipers Vol 6 James Duncan MacKenzie with Theid Mi Dhachaidh, recorded at The Raasay, 2024 Hamish Moore and D...

Send us Fan Mail More pipe music from a the airts as Gary delves into his collection once more for your delectation and delight!   Playlist Rory Campbell with Cotton Eyed from Intrepid John Wilson with Traditional Air, Hugh Kennedy and Inveran from The World’s Greatest Pipers Vol 5.   Greater Glasgow Police Pipe Band feat. Rachel Walker with Fraoch a Ronaigh, Thug Mi Gaol Ghut, Thug Mi Gradh and H...

Send us Fan Mail Join Gary as he shines a light on those pipers who tend to be labelled 'file under folk'.   Playlist Music in the Glen with The Sweetheart Reel, Aisling’s Wedding, Brosnan’s Reel and Mrs Crehan’s from Music in the Glen   Kenneth and Angus MacKenzie with Iain MacDonald with Bodach nan Tri Ordagan from Ceol Mhor Ostaig The Battlefield Band with Cearcall a Chuain, The Kames...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you highlights of the inaugural piping contest on the Island of Raasay, organised by Hamish Moore, sponsored by the Isle of Raasay Distillery, which celebrates the Gaelic cultural roots of piping. Playlist Field Marshall Montgomery with their Medley from the World Pipe Band Championships 1992   Decker Forrest with Tog Orm mo Phìob is Thèid mi Dhachaigh from The Raasay,...

Send us Fan Mail Gary reports on recent events in Braemar, Raasay and Brittany and brings you great  music from Highland, Uillean and Northumbrian pipes. And look out for some congregational Psalm singing too! Playlist The Angus Nicholson Trio with the Primrose Lass from Sealladh Ard   P/M Ian Duncan with the Braemar Gathering, John D Burgess and Miss Lily Christie from the Piping Centre Recitals,...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you more top drawer music from the world of piping and drumming, and pays tribute to two stalwarts of our community who sadly passed away recently, P/M Malcolm MacKenzie and former Solo Drumming World Champion, Joe Noble. Playlist Trail West with Wait Til I Tell Ucca from Countless Isles and Endless Miles Niall Matheson with Asian Tears, Rocking Miss Molly, Paddy O’Raf...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you all four performances from this year's Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital held in Edinburgh on 24th August. With tunes from Callum Beaumont, Iain Speirs, Stuart Liddell MBE and Ian K MacDonald. Playlist Callum Beaumont with The Phantom Piper of Corrieyairack Ian Speirs with Farewell to the Queen's Ferry Stuart Liddell MBE with The Salute to...

Send us Fan Mail Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the 2024 World Pipe Band Championships from Glasgow Green. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Join Gary as he brings you this year's live EYP show from the Street Cafe at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, with sets from Cameron Bonar, Hazel Whyte, Austin Diepenhorst and Swedish mulit-instrumentalists, Dråm. Playlist to follow! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Gary chats to Florida-based Eric Stein about his plans to develop a pan-European solo piping contest, and looks ahead to this year's Piping Live festival which takes place in Glasgow next week. Playlist Fred Morrison Trio with the Train Journey North from Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall   Seudan with the Tulloch Gorm Set from Seudan   Alen Tully with  As I Went Out Upo...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you more delights of the bagpipe kind with the top performances from the inaugural Gordon Duncan Memorial Kitchen Piping Contest from Washington State, and also pays tribute to 'The Captain' - Ken Eller from Ontario, who passed away recently. Playlist Ross Miller with D Major MacKenzie, Rona’s Reel and Mornington from The Roke   Inveraray and District with Jo...

Send us Fan Mail Gary reports on the piping culture of the USA from his Boston hotel room! Playlist Ben Miller and Anita MacDonald with Oh as I was Kissed Yestreen, The Black-haired lad, Sweet Molly and The Primrose Lass from A Day at the Lake Adrian Melvin with Hills of Kintail, Donnie MacGregor, The Kitchenmaid and Donella Beaton from Unplugged   Mike Cusack with Major Manson at Clachantrushal,...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you top drawer pipe music from Scotland, Ireland and the USA. Playlist Iain MacInnes with Lt Col DJS Murray, The Treadmill and Spark’s Rant from Sealbh   John D Burgess with Lord Alexander Kennedy, Tulloch Gorm and Mrs MacPherson of Inveran from King of the Highland Pipers   Stephanie Makem and Tiarnan o Duinnchinn with Lough Erne Shore from Ceol is Piob   Stephanie Ma...

Send us Fan Mail There might not be much sign of summer yet here in Scotland but we carry on regardless with another eclectic mix of all things bagpipe. Playlist Cantrip with Ian Green of Greentrax,  Whistle O’er the Lave o It,   The Ramnee Ceilidh and the Hare of the Dog from Boneshaker Bruce Gandy with the Abercairney Highlanders, Arniston Castle and John Morrison of Assynt House from the MacLea...

Send us Fan Mail Gary introduces highlights from a recent top solo contest in Delaware, USA, and catches up with news from sponsors, RG Hardie Bagpipes. Playlist Breabach with The Old Collection from Fas Cameron Macdougall  with The Ross-shire Volunteers, Tulloch Gorm, and Loch Carron from The United States Piping Foundation, Maclean Macleod Memorial Piping Championships 2024   Andrew Carlisle wit...

Send us Fan Mail After a week off, Gary returns refreshed and armed with another bumper selection of all things bagpipes. Playlist Xavier Boderiou, Sylvain Barou and Antoine Lahay with Wedding Reels from Liamm. Roddy MacLeod with The Taking of Beaumont Hamel, The Shepherd’s Crook and the Smith of Chilliechassie from Pipers of Distinction: Roderick J MacLeod   Ben Duncan with Dougall, The Media Shi...

Send us Fan Mail Gary pays tribute to all those involved in D Day exactly 80 years ago, and remembers the wonderful voice of the late Rod Paterson, who died last week.  Playlist Mike Katz with The Best Englishman, Chase the Train and Mr MacKinnon of Corry from A Month of Sundays   Alasdair Gillies with Mrs John MacColl, Tulloch Castle and Dr MacPhail’s Reel from 25 Years of the Glenfiddich Piping...

Send us Fan Mail There's plenty of variety this week as Gary dips once more into his extensive collection of piping sounds from around the world. Playlist Old Blind Dogs with Bunker Hill Set from Room With a View   Willie Morrison with The Right Honourable Allan J MacEachan, Sandy Thomson of Alva and Ludovic Morrison’s Favourite from Pipers of Distinction   Lincoln Hilton with Shadow from Me...

Send us Fan Mail Gary brings you an eclectic mix of  top drawer music drawn from his collection of all things bagpipe. Playlist The Iron Horse with The Goatherd, The Major’s Maggot, James MacLellan’s Favourite, Duncan the Gauger and The Piper’s Bonnet from Thro’ Water, Earth and Stone   St Lawrence O’Toole Pipe Band with Joe Cooley’s Hornpipe, Joe Cooley’s Jig, The Donegal Lass, Eddie’s Lamentatio...

Send us Fan Mail Gary celebrates the music and legacy of the late Gordon Duncan, who would have been 60 this week. Playlist  Gordon Duncan with Galician Jig, Blow My Chanter and the Famous Baravan from The Circular Breath   The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience with Pitlochry High School Centenary from Foxie Laddie   Scotrail Vale of Atholl.  Archie MacKenzie of Dumbarton, JF MacKenzie of Garry...