Jeff has returned! You may well remember him from his excellent shortbread recipe and more in past episodes - today he's come back to share some background about & recordings of four familiar holiday tunes that fit on the pipes! Several of the recordings you'll hear in this episode are based on Timothy Cummings' settings in his holiday collection available here: https://birchenmusic.com/product/on-this-day-earth-shall-ring-printed-collection/

Tune into this episode to hear James misplace yet another Shakespeare quote!

The recording of Veni, Veni is from an arrangement my good buddy Scot, (also a past guest of the show,) did for organ to accompany pipes. It was interesting: we used a Bb chanter and tuned the bass drone up to C, so it came out in c-minor. There's a video of the performance, (from which we pulled the audio in this episode,) available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlnMudvXJE

And if you liked that tune at the end of the episode, that's our take on, "Cornish Wassail," and you can listen to (and buy, if you so desire,) that track on BandCamp here: https://wassailiens.bandcamp.com/track/cornish-wassail-single

And you can be among the first to acquire Wassailiens merch here: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wassailiens

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