Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Tunes: O’Farrell: Lewellynn, A Piper o’er the Meadows Straying, Black Joke John Parry: Nos Calan Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning My Setting?: Mill Mill o, Baloo Lammy Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh (The Jolly Old gardener) Aird: Bodachan a garidh (The Merry old gardener) Be Sure to Head over to Ryan Kirk’s Youtube Channel to catch some stellar tunes: https://www.youtube.com/cha...

Tunes: Robert Bremner: Stadholders Minuet, Moorish Tunes, Mill Mill O, Willy was a Wanton Wag, and Black Joke. William McGibbon: Mill Mill O, Willie Was a Wanton Wag James Oswald: Burlesque on a Black Joak: Miscellaneous: Clare Dragoons, Braes a Mar Big Thanks To Ryan Kirk for the performance and write up. Head over to the Facebook page to tell him thanks! Thanks to Rob Turner for his Playing of J...

S4 Bandamp Friday Reminder Tunes: Straight & Skillern: The Nabob Quick late reminder that you should buy people’s music on Bandcamp today! Friday December 4th. You can Check out my favorite Bandcamp purchases by looking at my profile. (Note I don’t do most of my listening on Bandcamp so it is a pretty small list that has really only started growing with the Bandcamp Friday promotions.) https:/...

Tunes: Robert Bremner, Loch Ness, Feg for a kiss, The Cross Well of Edinburgh & Watermen’s Rant, Open the Door to Three & Invercaul’s Reel, Straglass House. James Bremner (By Way of Francis Hopkinson), Lady Coventry’s Minuett Robert Millar: Lady Coventry’s Minuett, St. Paul’s. Misc: Wha Saw the Forty Twa Kerr: Wha’ Widna Fecht Levey: Milk the Churn/ Gliogar an Mheadair (Fig for a Kiss) Art...

Be sure to check out the Phenomenal Video from ITMA about The Story of Jack Lattin For Their Drawing from the Well Series. https://youtu.be/V_QMFkdSFuo You can also Check Out Edwina Guckian’s Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfPuMrLhWjXydtXJnqss5QA 1750s Bremner’s The Grant’s Rant: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002999 Bremner’s The Carle he Ca...

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

Tunes: Charles and Samuel Thompson: Trip to Paris, The Breast Knot Charles and Samuel Thompson 24 Country Dances for the Year 1771: https://imslp.org/wiki/24_Country_Dances_for_the_Year_1771_(Various) Check out Jimmy’s Gift presented by the Celitc Piper’s Club on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ENzIxbMEo2c Or via the Facebook Event for More details: https://fb.me/e/3nMzSeBcY You can watch my Country Dan...

Robert Burns: Tam O’Shanter Bremner: Jenny Nettle, What the De’il Ales you? Vickers: Deval Stick the Minister John Sutherland: Devil Stick the Minister, The Devil’s Dream William Gunn: Jenny Nettles Bland And Weller: The Fairies Revel Thompson: Love Sick Polly Padraic Ganly: The Fairy’s Bagpipe Seamus Ennis: Queen of the Fairies Cover Art from This 1775 Political Cartoon: Three noblemen dance roun...

Livestream Announcement: “Many thanks for your country dance book” -John Askin John Askin’s Borrowed Country Dance Book A livestream Discussion and Concert of tunes from likely Country Dance Music Collections Performed on bagpipes and whistles at 3:30 US Central Time on November 1st, A live stream Discussion and Concert of tunes from several Country Dance Music collection that John Askin may have...

Matt Seattle: Lady McIntosh’s Reel of O’er the Hills For A’ That Walsh: Hare in the Corn, My Ain Kind Deary, Turnbridge Frisk, Country Bumkin James Aird, Bab at the Bowster O’Farrell: Hare in the Corn, My ain kind Deary, “Handle’s Minuett” Matt Seattle’s Setting for Lady McIntosh’s Reel can be found in Geordie Syme's Paircel o Tunes https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/geordie-syme-s-parcel-o...

Tunes: Cooke: Jackson’s Bottle of Claret, Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself, The Lug of the Spade (Jackson), Miss Duval’s Reel O’Farrell: Jackson’s Silver Mines Bremner: Lady MacIntosh’s Reel Logan (John McColl): Lady Mackintosh’s Reel Goodman: Box The Monkey Cooke’s Country Dances for the 1796 Season: Jackson’s Bottle of Claret, Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself, The Lug of the Spade, The Silve...

Tunes: John Playford: Johnny Cock thy Beaver O’Carolan: Cock up thy Beaver Variations Dixon: Watty’s Away Oswald: Johnny Cock-up thy Beaver Robert Bremner: Scots Bonnet O’Farrell: The Blue Bonnett A.L. Lloyd: The Bonny Black Hare Cover Art from David Allan’s Lead Processing at Leadhills: Weighing the Lead Bars from the 1780s showing a Blue Bonnet and a Cocked hat. Courtesy of National Galleries Sc...

Tunes: By Nicolas Brown from new album "Good Enough Music for them who Love it" https://nicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/releases O’Farrell (et.al) Oscar & Malvina Set for the Pipes Aird (et. al) Battle from Oscar And Malvina You can see when you look at the sheet music how much work and craft Nicolas put into creating these renditions of tunes. His performances borrow from many of the known material...

Tunes: O’Farrell: Jackson’s Welcome Home Aria Di Camera: Let’s Shak her well Bremner: Keep the Country Bonny Lassie Donald MacDonald: Keep the Country Bonny Lassie Jackson’s Welcome Home From O’Farrell: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780410 1727 English Dance Setting for Let’s Shak her well (Keep the country Bonny Lassie) https://archive.org/details/AriaDiCam...

Tunes: William Dixon: Dorrington Lads by Donald WG Lindsay & Richard Youngs This episode is a track from Donald Lindsay and Richard Youngs' new album The History of Sleep and a conversation about Dorrington Lads, Dixon tunes, Bagpiping on Ascension Island in the Time of Covid and several other things with Donald and Hannah all the way from Ascension Island. You can and should check out the add...

Tunes: O’Farrell: Oscar and Malvina, Irish Fox Hunt Piobaireachd: The Desperate Battle Dixon: The Stool of Repentance Bremner: Wright’s Rant Gunn: The Piper’s Son O’Farrell’s Irish Fox Hunt: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781370 If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend watching this clip of Liam O’Flynn talking about and playing the Fox Chase: https://youtu....

Tunes: Dixon: The Lasses Bushes Brawly William Vickers: Lassess Pisses Brandy Gunn: William Roy’s Loomhouse James Scott Skinner: Maggie Cameron O’Farrell: Waterford Waltz, Bremner: The Lady’s Breast Knot The Lasses Bushes Brawly: From William Dixon’s Manuscript: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition Lasses Pisses Brandy From William Vickers' Manuscript: http://www....

Tunes: Dixon: Hit Her Between the Legs Geoghegean: Jigg call’d Whip her & Gird Her Gow: Hoop Her and Gird Her O’Farrell: Bridget my Treasure Dixon’s Hit Her Between the Legs: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition John Geoghegan’s Setting for “Jigg call’d Whip her & Gird Her”: (it is on Page 10) https://books.google.com/books?id=2WAhy_kbUmQC&pg=PA10#v=on...

Tunes: Donald MacDonald: Pease Straw O’Farrell: Short and Sweet Robert Bremner: Clean Pease Straw, Pudding Maggie John Sutherland: Jack Latone, Clean Pease Straw Pudding Maggie From Robert Bremner: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002845 Clean Pease Straw From Robert Bremner: https://digital.nls.uk/105003010 John Sutherland’s Clean Pease Straw: (PDF download l...

Once again Big thanks to Simon Chadwick to agreeing to be on the Podcast this week! Check Simon’s current projects out here: http://simonchadwick.net/ Bunting’s The Chanter’s Tune: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104979293 Clarke’s Setting for “The Song of the Chanter” I forgot to mention it has a different title I just got it off of Tune Archive: https://tunear...

Tunes: O’Farrell: Love and a Pipe Duet, Humours of Ardmore Donald MacDonald, Highland Harry Back Again Angus MacKay: Highland Harry Back Again Robert Burns: My Harry was a Gallant Gay Guest Track from Unwelcome Visitors: Young Tom Ennis, Jimmy Neary’s, The White Petticoat. Big thanks to Ryan Behnke for Bagpipe Friendship and collaboration! Listen to his tunes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.co...

Checkout the Facebook page here: https://facebook.com//Wetootwaags-Bagpipe-and-History-Podcast-105980514479825/ LIVE STREAM 1 PM Saturday August 8th, 2020 (US Central Time GMT -5:00) Generally this would be the weekend of the Rendezvous Days Pow Wow at Grand Portage Since we are not meeting in person I’ll be doing a live stream Music program Tune in to the Wetootwaag’s Bagpipes and History Podcast...

John Walsh The Puff: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248231 John Walsh: The Laundry (Hot Pot): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90246647 John Walsh: Pot Stick or Shamboy (Over the water to Charlie): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248183 James Oswald’s Over the Water to Charlie: https://d...

Big thanks to Simon Chadwick to agreeing to be on the Podcast this week! Check Simon’s current projects out here: http://simonchadwick.net/ Donald MacDonald Setting of Dogs Bite Chapmen: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683232 Donald MacDonald Setting of The Rock and the wee Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683...

Be Sure to Hunt down the Podcast on your Favorite Podcast listening service! If I’m not available on your podcast player of choice send me an email: wetootwaag@gmail.com Here’s a link to the podcast on Apple Podcasts/Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 The image for the episode is me dressed as my interpretation of George McKay when he...