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Join Gary as he brings you more great music from bagpipes great and small! There's a double helping from the Northumbrian tradition,  a flavour of the Himalayas, up tempo tunes from the wider trad scene, a song from Scottish folk royalty, and a short tribute to Dundee piping great, Harry Ellis, who sadly passed away this week.


Tracks

James Harper with Colorado Frontiersman, Bonnen Polka, and Eiggmare from Culzean

 Billy Pigg with Archie’s Fancy and Holey Ha’Penny from Northumberland Rant: Traditional Music from the Edge of England  (Smithsonian Folkways Recording)

 
Chris Ormston with Keening in the Wind and Alston Flower Show from from Northumberland Rant: Traditional Music from the Edge of England  (Smithsonian Folkways Recording)

 Lindsay Ellis with The Keeper of the Light, The Angel and the Imp and the Half-Gassed Cat

 Michael Grey The Calm Before the Hum from Shimla Hum

78th Fraser Highlanders with Johnny Cope, Lord MacPherson of Drumochter, Flight from Vail, Traditional Jig, The Apple Tree, The Sound of Sleat, Greyfriars’ Julie, The Sister’s Reel, Chase the Train, The Pibroch Club from Flame of Wrath

 Dougie Maclean with Oh Gin I Were a Baron’s Air from Craigie Dhu

 The Tannahill Weavers with Elspeth Campbell, Kenny Gillies of Portnalong, Malcolm Johnstone, Thornton Jig from The Mermaid’s Song

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Gary brings you more high quality music of the bagpipe kind, with tunes from  Rura, The Finlay MacDonald Band, Iain MacFadyen, Fred Morrison and Canadian band, Iron Brew. There's a gorgeous version of the pibroch, Desperate Battle of the Birds on pipes and piano, courtesy of Roddy MacLeod and Craig Muirhead, a taster of a brand new piece for pipes and orchestra from Lorne MacDougall, and with Armistice Day just around the corner, a moving song version of the lament, Flooers o the Forest, from one half of the Corries, Ronnie Brown.


Tracks

Rura with Dusk Moon from Dusk Moon

Craig Muirhead and Roddy MacLeod with the Desperate Battle of the Birds

The Finlay MacDonald Band with Alister’s Vintage Bar from Pressed for Time

Lorne MacDougall with Bonfires of Arran

Iain MacFadyen with Mary MacPherson of Kyle and Myles MacDonald’s Welcome to Skye from Ceol Mor, Ceol Beag

Iron Brew with the Swallowtale Jig from Are You My Sister?

Ronnie Brown with Flooers o the Forest from Battle Songs and Ballads

Fred Morrison and Jamie McMenemy with Jamie’s Tune and Up South from Up South 

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Following on from last week's Halloween shenanigans things are a bit more chilled in this episode - although maybe not quite as chilled as the title might suggest! There's fine music from Daimh, Cantrip, Angus and Kenneth MacKenzie, P/M Angus MacDonald, Matt MacIsaac and the Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band, while Eilidh West, usually to be heard introducing each episode in the jingle, is in fine voice as she quietly sings you to sleep.

Tracks
Daimh with Puff Puff from Sula

Cantrip with The Careful Jig, The Crossing and Leslie’s March from The Crossing

Eilidh West with Quietly Sing You to Sleep  (Live at the Wee Folk Club, Edinburgh)

Matt MacIsaac with John MacColl’s March to Kilbowie Cottage, Tulloch Castle and Sandy Cameron from the Piping Album

Pipe Major Angus MacDonald with Lament for the Children from The World's Greatest Pipers Vol 1

Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with the Mason's Apron Set from Forte

Angus and Kenneth Mackenzie with Donald and Gordon's from Piob is Fidheal

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Join Gary for a Halloween special, and hear about some of the deep rooted traditions associated with the festival and what lies behind them. And of course there is plenty of appropriate pipe music to lighten the mood, with sets from Lincoln Hilton, Steve Byrne, The Victoria Police Pipe Band, the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, John MacLean, Troy MacGillivray and Hugh MacDiarmid's Haircut. There's a full rendition of Robert Burns' epic tale, Tam O'Shanter, and a seldom heard reply from his wife, Kate! So grab your turnip lantern (or pumpkin if you must!), get the fancy dress on, and let's go guising!


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Tracks

The Hell Bound Train by the Victoria Police Pipe Band from Piping Up

Trick or Treat by Lincoln Hilton

Halloween by Steve Byrne from The Piper and the Maker 2 - Celebrating C

The Piper's Weird by Troy MacGillivray from Westering Home

The Devil in the Kitchen, Calum Crubach, the Black Snuff Mill and Sleepy Maggie by John MacLean from the Second Grand Concert of Piping

The Haunting,  Drops of Brandy, Lewis Jig, Patrick's Annabel, Give Us a Drink of Water, Paddy be Easy, and The Foxhunter by the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band  from Affirmation

The Pumpkin's Fancy, The Easy Club Reel, The Clumsy Lover and Break Yer Bass Drone by Hugh MacDiarmid's Haircut from Airs From Your Elbow

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Gary returns after a week’s break with more top-drawer music from the world of bagpipes. There’s a taster of two new albums, True North from uillean pipe maestro, Calum Stewart, and the latest excellent offering from the band, Rura, entitled Dusk Moon. From the solo highland piping there are sets from Willie McCallum and from John Walsh, a double duo helping from Fin Moore and Sarah Hoy and from Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton, and a wee trip back in time to the 1970s to the classic sound of Edinburgh City Police along with a solo set from their Pipe Major, Iain MacLeod.

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Tracks Played 

Calum Stewart with As as Thoisich from True North.

Willie McCallum with A.A. Cameron's Strathspey, Donald Ruadh, Wiseman's Exercise, The White Eyebrow, The Piping Poodle, The Night We Had the Goats, MacPherson's Reel and  Inverinate House from Hailey’s Song

 
John Walsh with Loch Broom Bay, Toots and Hickory and the Gold Ring from Time to Spare

 
Pipe Major Iain MacLeod with Leaving Glenurquhart, Inveraray Castle and the Smith of Chilliechassie from Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band Revisited

Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band with The Battle of the Somme, The Black Isle, the Banks of the Lossie and Festival March from Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band Revisited

 Rura with A Minor Emergency from Dusk Moon

 
Fin Moore and Sarah Hoy with Jimmy Mo Mhìle Stòr, Gillun nan Dròbher (The Drover Lads) and Dinkie Dorrian’s from The Piper and the Maker 2 – Celebrating C

 Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton with Mink from Symbiosis 2.


Links Mentioned
Edinburgh Gaelic School Fundraising Concert, 8th November, details an tickets here
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Ross Ainslie, Ali Hutton and Owen Sinclair in concert at Kilmelford, 20th October
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Gary helps to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society by taking a look at the development, decline, and revival of the bellows bagpipe tradition in Scotland. With music from Gordon Mooney,  , Fred Morrison, Annie Grace & Judy Barker, Andy May and ... himself!

Tracks
Daimh with Jerry’s Pipe Jig, Slainte do Mhabou, Donella Beaton, Muinera de Casu from From Moidart to Mabou

Annie Grace and Judy Barker with Alison Cross from Reclaimed (Presented by Lowland and Borders Pipers’ Society)

 Gordon Mooney and Shona Mooney  with Jimmy Allan, Geld Him Lasses, Coffee and Tea and Skint o’ Siller  from Reclaimed (Presented by Lowland and Borders Pipers’ Society)

Andy May with The Countess of Galloway Set from Happy Hours

Gary West with Dixon’s Highland Laddie and Rangers’ Frolic from The Islay Ball

Fred Morrison Trio with Kansas from Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Further Resources
 Lowland and Border Pipers Society

Hugh Cheape , Bagpipes: a National Collection of a National Instrument (2008)

Matt Seattle, The Master Piper - Nine Notes that Shook the World (edited version of the William Dickson Manuscript)

Pete Stewart,  Welcome Home My Dearie: Piping in the Scottish Lowlands 1690-1900

Pete Stewart, The Day it Daws: The Lowland Scots Bagpipe and its Music 1400 to 1715 

Gary West, Voicing Scotland: Folk, Culture, Nation (2012)

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Join Gary for more music from the world of bagpipes, this week with two fine voices thrown in for good measure! These belong to Andy Hunter, who gives us his rendition of the song version of the Ewe wi the Crookit Horn in the company of the Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band, and nobel laureate, Seumas Heaney, who reads his poem, The Given Note, accompanied by the great uillean piper, Liam O'Flynn. There's also sets from Donald MacPherson, Gordon Duncan, Ceolbeg, Assynt, the Scottish Gas Caledonia and Galician supremo, Cristina Pato.

Tracks
 

Assynt with Fiend and the Hound, A Race to the Top and Deadlines from Road to the North

Donald MacPherson with The Knightswood Ceilidh  and Major Manson at Clachantrushal from the Piping Centre 1996 Recital Series, Vol 2.

Gordon Duncan with Galician Jig, Blow my Chanter and the Famous Barravan from The Circular Breath (Greentrax Recordings)

Scottish Gas Caledonian Pipe Band  with Cumha Mhic Mhic Alasdair, The Conundrum  and  Carradale Bay from Out of the Blue

Ceolbeg with Zito the Bubbleman from An Unfair Dance

Cristina Pato with Guirele from Xilento

Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band and Andy Hunter with The Yowie’s Horn, The Ewe wi the Crooked Horn, Broon’s Toon, The Lowlandman and The Highlandman from Terra Incognita

Seumas Heaney and Liam O’Flynn with The Given Note from The Piper and the Poet

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Gary brings you tunes from Angus MacColl, Ann Gray,  Shotts and Dykehead, Hecla, Hamish Moore, the Vale of Atholl and a folk classic from Dick Gaughan. And there are musical visits to the Cobblestone Bar in Dublin and the Railway Tavern, Perth.

Tracks
Hecla with Angus Waltz Intro, Angus John MacNeil of Barra and Angus Sutherland from Hecla: Smallpipes, Fiddle and Gaelic Song

Angus MacColl with The Highland Wedding and the Abercairney Highlanders from A Tradition of Excellence

Dick Gaughan and Johnny Cunningham with Freedom Come A Ye from The Harvard Tapes

Hamish Moore with Molly Rankine’s, Brenda Stubbert’s Reel and Jack Daniel’s from Stepping on the Bridge

 Ann Gray with Strathspeys and Reels from A Twist in the Tale

Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with The Galician Jigs from No Reservations

Kevin Rowsome, Lorraine Hickey and Peter Mohan with The Game of Love, Outdoor Relief and the Reel of Bogie from The Cobblestone Sessions

Shotts and Dkyehead Pipe Band with Diaspora (Mark Saul), The Bob of Fettercairn and The Brown Haired Maid from Rise

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More great tunes and tales of all things bagpipes, including the story behind the house for sale in Dunkeld, Perthshire, which was built in the 18th century for the piper to the Duke of Atholl. He led quite an interesting life!  There's sets too from Llan de Cubel, John Patrick, Stuart Liddell, and Clan Alba, a song from Silly Wizard, pipe tunes on the moothie from Donald Black, and extracts from the marvellously powerful music suite, The Bruce 700, commissioned in 2014 by Stirling Council to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.

Tracks

Llan de Cubel with El Molin del Puirtu from Un Tiempu Mayor

John Patrick with Wiseman’s Exercise, Stumpie, Reel of Bogie, Munlochy Bridge, Roderick MacDonald, Johnnie MacDonald’s Reel and Donald MacLean from the Piping Centre Recital Series 1997.

Allan McDonald , Neil Johnstone and Full Cast of The Bruce 700 – Bruce’s March, Battle of Bannockburn, Caoineadh, Lament, the Road to Loch Nam Bairneas from The Bruce 700

Silly Wizard with The Parish of Dunkeld / The Curlew  from Live Again

Stuart Liddell with A Mhoire Mhin-Gheal, Fagail Bharaidh, Tom an Earraich, Break yer Bass Drone, Harris Dance, McFadden’s Reel, Alistair Fraser’s Welcome to Cape Breton, The Sheepwife from Inveroran

Donald Black with Paddy’s Leather Breeches, Kenny Gillies of Portnalong, Wee Todd from Westwinds. 

Clan Alba with the Clan Alba March, Lexy MacAskill, Latha Siubhal Beinne Dhomh, The Hawk from Clan Alba

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Gary introduces more top drawer music of the bagpipe variety, with sets from Seanaidh MacIntyre and Ewen Henderson, Cantrip, Alasdair Gillies, Megan Henderson - and himself! And listen out for a new initiative - our first 'Listener's Slot' - a lovely smallpipes suite which comes from Rob Menzies of British Columbia.

Tracks
Cantrip with the Eavil Dr Gray, Mrs Dundas of Arnistoun, Marion’s Reel and MacDonald’s Reel from Boneshaker

P/M Alasdair Gillies with Mrs John MacColl, Tulloch Castle and Dr MacPhail’s Reel from 25 Years of the Glenfiddich Piping Championship

Gary West with Lady Dorothea Stewart Murray's Wedding March and Gordon Cottage (bothy recording)

Seanaidh MacIntyre and Ewen Henderson with the Homegrown Reels - Finn's Tune , Bagh Dubh gu Buala Dubh and Allan J Nairn of Ceann Tragha (all composed, Seonaidh MacIntyre)  from The Piper and the Maker 2 – Celebrating C

Rob Menzies with the Gateshead Hotel Suite (private recording)

Megan Henderson with Pilgrim Souls from Pilgrim Souls

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