June 02, 2022

S6: Cabar Féidh Volume I: 1734-2022 with tracks from Barry Shears and Brian May

1 hour 10 minutes

Tunes:

Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Nightcap, Jackson’s Morning Brush

David Young: Caper Fei

John Sutherland: Caper Fey

O’Farrell: Caper Fey

Alexander MacKay: Cabar Feidh

Robert Millar: Caperfeigh

William Gunn: Cabar Feidh

Angus MacKay: Cabar Feigh

William Ross: Caber Feidh

Cannon Goodman: “Reel”

J&R Glen: Caber Feigh

Logan: Caberfeidh

Barry Shears: Cabar Feidh, (Settings 59, 99, 159, 206) And a Set of: Caber Feidh (206), Beaver Cove as a reel (94), Chan eil ginni ormsa (177) and Caber Feidh (159).

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If you see this in time come visit at 6 PM US Central time on June 3rd to celebrate my album launch of Bannocks of Barley Meal!

https://fb.me/e/3BvpXpa2T

You can check out Bannocks of Barley Meal on Bandcamp, I hope to have Physical copies available soon:

https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal

Thanks to Barry Shears for the set of tunes, you can see his website here: https://capebretonpiper.com/

Thanks to Brian May for his playing of Cabar Feidh, you can check out Brian’s website here:

https://www.brianmaybagpiper.com/

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Set from Bannocks of Barley Meal:

1774: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Nightcap, Jackson’s Morning Brush. All are from Walker Jackson’s own book, Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes.

http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

Caber Feidh:

1734 Caper Fei From Drummond Castle Manuscript, likely by David Young

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

1785: Caper Fey From John Sutherland’s Manuscript

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-121-160.pdf

1808: Caper Fey from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc4.pdf

1822: Cabar Feidh from Alexander MacKay’s Islay collection:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104488178

1848: Cabar feidh from William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository

https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

1854: Cabar Feigh from Angus MacKay’s Piper Assistant:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007036

1869: Caber Feidh from William Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music

https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/Book06/Book06%2023a.pdf

https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html

1860s: Reel (Cabar Fey) From Goodman:

http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-three#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=152&z=-239.9692%2C1213.7862%2C8184.6391%2C4299.1055

1870: Caber Feigh from John and Robert Glen's Collection for the Great Highland Bagpipe

https://ceolsean.net/content/JRGlen/Book02/Book02%2027.pdf

1899: Caberfeidh from Logan's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music

https://ceolsean.net/content/Logan/Book05/Book05%2043.pdf

20th Century Settings from Nova Scotia:

Barry Shears: Cabar Feidh, (Settings 59, 99, 159, 206) all available in Play it Like You Sing It Volume 2:

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

Thanks to Barry Shears for the set of tunes, you can see his website here: https://capebretonpiper.com/

And I didn’t Ask Brian what setting he was playing, but thanks to Brian May for his playing of Cabar Feidh, as a Strathspey; you can check out Brian’s website here:

https://www.brianmaybagpiper.com/

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Setting I didn’t Play:

Robert Bremner’s Setting from 1769 Country Dances for Caper Fey (I Didn’t play this one as it was too dependent on a leading note and far reaches of the second octave.

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104993990

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June 02, 2022

S6: Cabar Féidh Volume I: 1734-2022 with tracks from Barry Shears and Brian May

1 hour 10 minutes

Tunes:

Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Nightcap, Jackson’s Morning Brush

David Young: Caper Fei

John Sutherland: Caper Fey

O’Farrell: Caper Fey

Alexander MacKay: Cabar Feidh

Robert Millar: Caperfeigh

William Gunn: Cabar Feidh

Angus MacKay: Cabar Feigh

William Ross: Caber Feidh

Cannon Goodman: “Reel”

J&R Glen: Caber Feigh

Logan: Caberfeidh

Barry Shears: Cabar Feidh, (Settings 59, 99, 159, 206) And a Set of: Caber Feidh (206), Beaver Cove as a reel (94), Chan eil ginni ormsa (177) and Caber Feidh (159).

+X+X+X+

If you see this in time come visit at 6 PM US Central time on June 3rd to celebrate my album launch of Bannocks of Barley Meal!

https://fb.me/e/3BvpXpa2T

You can check out Bannocks of Barley Meal on Bandcamp, I hope to have Physical copies available soon:

https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal

Thanks to Barry Shears for the set of tunes, you can see his website here: https://capebretonpiper.com/

Thanks to Brian May for his playing of Cabar Feidh, you can check out Brian’s website here:

https://www.brianmaybagpiper.com/

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Set from Bannocks of Barley Meal:

1774: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Nightcap, Jackson’s Morning Brush. All are from Walker Jackson’s own book, Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes.

http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

Caber Feidh:

1734 Caper Fei From Drummond Castle Manuscript, likely by David Young

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

1785: Caper Fey From John Sutherland’s Manuscript

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-121-160.pdf

1808: Caper Fey from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc4.pdf

1822: Cabar Feidh from Alexander MacKay’s Islay collection:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104488178

1848: Cabar feidh from William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository

https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

1854: Cabar Feigh from Angus MacKay’s Piper Assistant:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007036

1869: Caber Feidh from William Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music

https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/Book06/Book06%2023a.pdf

https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html

1860s: Reel (Cabar Fey) From Goodman:

http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-three#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=152&z=-239.9692%2C1213.7862%2C8184.6391%2C4299.1055

1870: Caber Feigh from John and Robert Glen's Collection for the Great Highland Bagpipe

https://ceolsean.net/content/JRGlen/Book02/Book02%2027.pdf

1899: Caberfeidh from Logan's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music

https://ceolsean.net/content/Logan/Book05/Book05%2043.pdf

20th Century Settings from Nova Scotia:

Barry Shears: Cabar Feidh, (Settings 59, 99, 159, 206) all available in Play it Like You Sing It Volume 2:

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

Thanks to Barry Shears for the set of tunes, you can see his website here: https://capebretonpiper.com/

And I didn’t Ask Brian what setting he was playing, but thanks to Brian May for his playing of Cabar Feidh, as a Strathspey; you can check out Brian’s website here:

https://www.brianmaybagpiper.com/

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Setting I didn’t Play:

Robert Bremner’s Setting from 1769 Country Dances for Caper Fey (I Didn’t play this one as it was too dependent on a leading note and far reaches of the second octave.

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104993990

FIN

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Here are six ways you can support the show:

You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes!

Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast!

You can also support me by Buying my First Album on Bandcamp:

https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes

or my second album on Bandcamp!

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

You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1