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S5 E35: Season Finale Cape Breton Tunes and Eliza Ross Manuscript


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S5 E35: Season Finale Cape Breton Tunes and Eliza Ross Manuscript

From Gathering of the Clans:

Brenda Stubbert, Colonel MacBain’s Fancy, The Dun Petticoat, Go Immediately, The Sound of Mull, Mary Jane Kelly, The Night We had the Goats, The Grey Old Lady of Raasay.
Eliza Ross: Dun Coloured Tailor, The Night We Had the Goats, The Grey Hag of Raasay, Big Foot of the Deceitful One.
My Setting: Reel of Tulloch, Mio’s Tune.
Straight and Skillern: Cave of Enchantment, Exeter Change.

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Thanks for listening to the podcast this year! Throughout January I won’t be posting full episodes, I’ll be working on my next Album, Bannocks of Barley Meal which is my best of season 5 album. Let me know if you have any favorite tunes from this season which you hope to see on the album: [email protected]

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Special Thanks once again to Barry Shears for our conversation and these excellent tunes.

Be sure to check out Barry’s excellent website for books, cds, archival recordings and photos of antique sets of pipes (as well as parts for sale).
https://capebretonpiper.com/
I was able to find my copy of Play it Like You Sing it Volume 2 at the Pipers Hut:
https://www.thepipershut.com/play-it-like-you-sing-it-volume-2-by-barry-shears.html

While many of the tunes I play are also in Play it Like you Sing It, all the settings I was closest following are in Barry’s first book, Gathering of the Clans which you can get here:

https://capebretonpiper.com/content/gathering-clans-collection-volume-1-0

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You can now Pick up CD copies of Pay the Pipemaker here:

https://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00ZT4Z74

If you want a Digital version you can of course pick it up on Bandcamp:

https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker

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I spend a fair amount of time talking about Ojibwe Language in this Episode, if you want to learn Hear more you can listen to My Ojibwe Podcast on all your favorite Podcast listeners, just search Ojibwemodaa podcast. Or Listen Here:

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tootwaag

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The Tunes!

Gathering of the Clans Volume 1 From Barry Shears:

Gathering of the Clans was first published in 1991, but most if not all of the tunes (except Barry’s Original Composition Mary Jane Kelly) are at least from the late 1800s, and likely much earlier than that. You can buy Gathering of the Clans here:

https://capebretonpiper.com/content/gathering-clans-collection-volume-1-0

1991: Brenda Stubbert

1991: Colonel MacBain’s Fancy
1991: The Dun Petticoat

Eliza Ross Manuscript:

1812: The Dun Coloured Tailor From Eliza Ross’s Manuscript

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript

Gathering of the Clans from Barry Shears Tunes

1991: Go Immediately

1991: Sound of Mull

1815ish: I didn’t play it but Sound of Mull is in Celtic Melodies as Pipe Reel, slightly different key

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012316

1991: Mary Jane Kelly

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The Night We had the Goats

1991: The Night we had the Goats from Barry Shears’ Gathering of the Clans:

https://capebretonpiper.com/content/gathering-clans-collection-volume-1-0

1812: The Night We Had The Goats from Elizabeth Ross’s Manuscript

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript

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The Grey old Lady of Raasay/ Cailleach Liath Rathasair

1991: The Grey old Lady of Raasay from Barry Shears’ Gathering of the Clans:

https://capebretonpiper.com/content/gathering-clans-collection-volume-1-0

1812: The Grey Hag of Raasay from Elizabeth Ross’s Manuscript

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript

1848ish: The Grey Old Lady of Raasay from William Gunn’s The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes

https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book03/Book03%2013.pdf

1954: James Nicolson, in the Older Style by Finlay MacRae on Practice Chanter:

https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/75207?l=en

Check out all of these links for Gaelic Singers approaches to the song:

1951: Peggy MacRae singing it: Cailleach Liath Rathasair

https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/35793?l=en
1966 Seanmhair Liath Nighean Fhionnlaigh Riobaich Kate MacDonald (not sure this is the same)
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/107628?l=en
1968: James Nicolson singing it (though it is MacDonald of Raasay rather than Grey old lady)
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/109940?l=en
1970 Neil MacVicar singing it: Cailleach Liath Ratharsaigh
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/30340?l=en
1959 Nan MacKinnon: Cailleach liath Ratharsair
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/93792?l=en
1972: And a very nice Choral setting: Cailleach Liath Ratharsair/Bodaich na h-Obha
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/50381?l=en

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Reel of Tulloch:

1828: Reel of Tulloch, I’m playing my own setting, but heavily influenced by Donald MacDonald’s version and based on my chat with Barry.

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105876148

You can check out Barry’s Setting for Reel of Tulloch with Crunluath variations in Play it Like you Sing it, which I was able to buy here:

https://www.thepipershut.com/play-it-like-you-sing-it-volume-2-by-barry-shears.html

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Elizabeth Ross’s Manuscript:

1812: The Big foot of the Deceitful One

1812: Dark Girl of the Sheep
1812: Donald Shaw and Margaret

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Straight and Skillern’s 204 Country Dances

1775: Cave of Enchantment, Exeter Change both from Straight and Skillern’s 1775 edition:

https://imslp.org/wiki/204_Favourite_Country_Dances_(Various)

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Mio and the Land of Far Away:

To Watch Mio and the Land of Far Away from 1987:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma19N71VZNY

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