Katie's been entertaining and inspiring folk in and out of piping since she started her impressively fast-paced bagpipe journey. From busking to competing, to recently joining the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland: follow her on social media platforms, (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc) to see what's next @thewheeledpiper

Tune into this episode to hear Katie say, of learning to play bagpipes at school, "...it got me out of History which I didn't really enjoy very much..."

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Just for fun: a mega marathon of all past Holiday Episodes! If you're not into it, no sweat, the regularly scheduled episode will be out next week. To get one of these cool North Pole & District T-shirts at the special promo price of $15, just go to BagpipeSwag.com, there'll be a banner at the top of the site through the rest of December, 2022. Or go to this link. Thanks, Happy Holidays friends!

The Chanter Rant guys have done a lot of terrible things, and a lot of awesome things. Among the latter is helping this man's philosophy, work ethic, strategizing, and handsome face come more fully into the awareness of the international competitive pipe band community.

Tune into this episode to hear Joe promise, on record, to never play Cajun Grace again...

Here's a link to Wake & District's website: https://www.raleighpipeband.com/ And, because it came up so often in the show, also MacLellan Bagpipes: https://www.raleighpipeband.com/

*Allow me to suggest following both on Instagram. Wake puts out great content, and it's a lot of fun to look through the progress photos of MacLellan's move-in to their new location. Not to mention the beautiful sets of pipes that get posted there regularly.

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Given his background in aviation one might assume that Dave's, "drone work," has to do with the kind that fly around in the sky - but no, Dave's been hard at work perfecting both design and production methodology to bring solid, reliable, good-sounding 3D printed GHB drones to the masses! Dave was recently featured in Big Rab's episode #299, (also, congrats to Rab on 300 - holy moly!) There's a link over to Rab's show down below.

Tune into this episode to hear David & James both do some terrible South Park voices!

APPLICABLE LINKS

Dave's Big Rab Interview (episode 299): https://www.thebigrabshow.com/copy-2-of-guests

Video of the sound sample played at the end of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K5ie4xaOZI

And, of course, Dave's website: https://www.3dprintedbagpipes.com/

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Tam O'Shanter is a popular poem, maybe especially around this time of year. I convinced my own padre to do a reading for the episode in English, and then got permission from Scots Hoose to use a really excellent pro-recording they had of Hamish MacDonald reading the poem in Scots. Not to mention: amazing musical score provided by Jeremy of the Wetootwaag Bagpipes & History Podcast. Check out the links below, and Happy Halloween!

Tune into this episode to hear how excellent this podcast would've been if my dad had decided to get into bagpipe-podcasting instead of me...

--Scots Hoose: http://www.scotshoose.com/ --The Scots Hoose Tam O'Shanter Graphic Novel-style video I mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqVwCa_x5o --Wetootwaag's Halloween episode from this year: https://www.wetootwaag.com/

And, don't miss it, last chance to get the crazy low price on the limited run of shirts & mugs, buy before November 1st to be entered into the drawing... also because they won't exist anymore as of November 1st...

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Laura has been living to entertain since she was tiny... she's still tiny, but ever since she was especially tiny - from dance routines and flutophones in her childhood to full-immersion fantasy theme park acting, song writing, and (of course) bagpiping today!

Tune into this episode to hear James interrupt Laura over and over and over again because he's inexplicably giddy about two people from the same small town knowing a bunch of the same people and places...

Here are some links to where you can get glimpses of Laura as, "Piper," at Evermore Park: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=piper+evermore+park https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNgF3G544l-dS75V-Ekml-Q And the helium in bagpipes video as well, of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVO-d0eWooY&t=696s

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Marc's back! No marriage proposal this time, but plenty of great insight, stories, and ideas about how to be a good Pipe Sergeant!

Tune into this episode to hear Marc sum-up the duties of a Pipe Sergeant as, "be the sheepdog".

If you want to check out the Pride Pipers, here's their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069227525235

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If you haven't heard of JD, you've probably at least heard JD (he's the new voice of the Weekly Drone on The Big Rab Show) - and if you haven't heard JD there's at least a chance you've been in a plane that he touched at some point during production...

Tune into this episode to hear about the time JD played pipes for a porn star... and the time he played at a (I'm guessing) illegal cage fight... and much, much more...

This episode opens with a bit of a tune JD wrote, "Mrs Maria Ingraham," and it closes with another JD original, "A Georgia Peach and a Texas Rose". Enjoy, friends!

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If you've ever been impressed by production quality in a penny whistle tutorial on YouTube, you were probably watching Sean. A self-proclaimed, "recovering highland bagpiper," Sean joins me to talk about whistles & why, (I'm sure,) all pipers and drummers should pick up a whistle.

Tune into this episode to hear Sean extol that ever-popular musical genre: Elf Metal.

If you're looking to get a lovely whistle, here's the discount code for whistles from the good people over at LÍR : HERITAGEBAGPIPES

Here are links to Sean's work & other things that came up during the interview:

Sean's YouTube chanel: https://www.youtube.com/c/whistletutor

Sean's website: https://whistletutor.com/

Sean's band: https://thesternwheelers.com/

The live session album Sean mentioned: https://patrickourceau.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-monas

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Ross needs no introduction, I’m sure. He’s an amazing piper, whistler, tunesmith, and I hear he’s a decent baker as well! Along with the totally-talented Brìghde Chaimbeul and the superbly-skilled Steven Byrnes, Ross has gifted us with another unique collection of music in the new album, “LAS”. For C-Smallpipe enthusiasts everywhere, this has been much-anticipated, as Brìghde and Ross did the whole thing on C-smallpipes. And whether you care a lot about the key of the pipes or it makes no difference to you at all: this album is a horizon-broadening, joy-bringing, excitement-inducing musical trip and I could not recommend it enough. In the last 48hrs I think I’ve listened it through some 9 times, and some of the tracks, (especially The Badger & The Weasel,) many more times than that, and it’s not getting old in any way. Stream it, buy it, share it with friends - get copies to hand out for the Holidays, this is good music.

Tune into this episode to hear Ross totally shut-down my suggestion that World’s ought to include a Grade 1 Cabaret Competition…

Here are the links! As of today, there’s a single track of the album available, but the whole album will drop on September 2nd. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1F6NvB43HUErNBJMGzBS5j?si=TwydsrbuQQOMOa8NusSj2A

As of posting the episode, I don’t have a BandCamp link yet, but for sure consider purchasing a copy to support these amazing artists. One easy way to do that is via BandCamp. Here’s Ross’ BandCamp Profile: https://rossainslie.bandcamp.com/

Here’s Brìghde’s: https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/

And if you’re interested, here are some YouTube videos related to this new album: Album sampler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COPSjIhoU6E

The trio at Celtic Colours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiueVh23lUo

The early jamming that lead to this album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8gDqZ_hW3k

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