Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
This show is (mostly) a bi-weekly podcast that explores the likely repertoire of eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers, using historic music collections (written for bagpipes or not), performed on Uilleann pipes, Highland pipes, Border pipes, Lowland Pipes, Northumbrian Smallpipes and whistles. Every episodes notes include links to the historic sheet music when available. For information about my Albums go here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/albums For information about Jeremy and the instruments played on the show go here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/about
Episodes
July 5, 2025 • 78 mins
Tunes:
Jason Rouse: Napoleon’s Grand March
Stables: Napoleon’s Grand March
Angus MacKay: Up and Waur them A’ Willie, The Haughs of Cromdale,
Robert Miller: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo, Lochiel’s March (Pibroch of Donald Dhu)
John Gow: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
Donald MacLeod: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
John McLachlan: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
David Glen: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo, The Highland Briga...
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June 29, 2025 • 51 mins
Tunes:
O’Farrell: Delvin House, Major Graham, Love & Whiskey or Bob and Joan with Variations, Contented I am, The White Cockade, One Bottle More, Morgiana in Ireland, I had a Horse I had Nae Mair, Dunkeld Hermitage, Why Should Old Acquaintance be forgot, The Humours of Cork, A Man’s a man for a that, Jackson’s Bottle of Punch, We all take a sup in out turn, The Soldier Laddie, The Humours of Passage, Cumbernauld House, The Pausteen...
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June 17, 2025 • 71 mins
Tunes:
John Gow: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo
William Gunn: 71st Highlander’s quick step, Johnny Cope,
Robert Miller: Johny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning)
Thomas Glen: Johnny Cope,
Angus MacKay: Johnny Cope,
David Glen: Johnny Cope, DG setting for Johnny Cope,
O’Farrell: Johnny Cope,
Margaret Barry: Johnny Cope,
Patrick MacDonald: A Lament (I’m wounded),
Readings:
Thomas Pockocke,
Sergeant-Major Dick...
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June 14, 2025 • 61 mins
Tunes:
Miller: Bundle and Go, The Highlandmen come over the Hill, The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens, Glengary’s Strathspey, MacLeod Fencibles Quick March, The Bonniest Wife this side of Lord Reay’s Country, Gather and Go, Kiss and Come Again, The Piper he died cauld in a barn, As I was Kissd yestreen, MacLeod’s March,
Jeremy Kingsbury: When the King Enjoys His Own Again/The World Turned Upside Down,
Simon Fraser: ...
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June 7, 2025 • 79 mins
Tunes:
Dan Nolan: Un Canadien Errant, the wandering Canadian, A La Claire Fontaine, by the clear Spring
Jon Schurlock: Playing Highland Laddie from William Dixon
Ryan G Kirk: Mary Scott (From Oswald)
Jeremy Kingsbury: She Rose and Let Me In
Dave Rowlands: 'La Bernardina' by Josquin des Pres
Jeremy Kingsbury: The Carle He Came O’Er the Craft, Jim Harding’s Waltz (from Dave Rowlands, and Waltzish from Nicholas Konradsen)
Charlie Ruta...
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Tunes:
Fitzmaurice (1807): Rossy Castle, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle, Miss Ann Robinson’s Jigg, Miss Duff’s Jigg, O’Falvey’s Hornpipe, Miss Smollett’s Favorite.
From Rod Nevin: Rossy Castle, Miss Smollet’s Favorite.
Rook (1840): Paddy O’Carrol, Irish Washerwoman,
John Murphy (1810): Paddy O Carroll, The Irish Washerwoman
Ravenscroft/ Chappel (1609): Oft have I Ridden upon my Grey Nag
Playford (1651): Dargason,
Jones (1784)...
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May 22, 2025 • 4 mins
Tunes:
Me: Irish Washerwoman
Send me your tunes to bagpipehistory@gmail.com
Here are some 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!
Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag:
https://www.bagpipeswag.com/weto...
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May 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Tunes:
Fitzmaurice: A Connaught Air, Spatter the Dew, Moggy Will you Come Again, Billy O’Rourke, I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me, Mount the Stage, Donald Bran, Loose the Belt, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle, The Munster Lassie, The Lads of Fingall, Turn the Pig from the Tea Pot, Jigg, Mrs. Garden Campbell’s Jigg, The Tore Retreat, Kick the World Before You, Fitzmaurice’s Hornpipe,
Hamilton: Berlin Waltz
O’Farrell: Pay the Rec...
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May 2, 2025 • 28 mins
Tunes:
Bremner: The Carle He Came o'er the Craft, Ravenscroft's Fancy
Skinner: The Cradle Song
Straight and Skillern: The Morning Post
Eliza Ross: Will You Take a Wife Donald, Dark Girl of the Sheep,
Donald MacDonald: Tail Toddle, Keep the Country Bonny Lassie, Earl Marischal’s Reel, Old Rusty Gun, The Whimsical, Jingling Johnie, The Miller’s Fair Daughter, Marion & Donald, A Mulinn Dubh, Bodachan a Ghairdh
Litten: Fa La La, The ...
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April 20, 2025 • 50 mins
Tunes:
James Reay (Courtesy of Rick Lines): Paddy “Wake”, Paddy Whack,
Adam Christie: Erin Go Braugh
O’Farrell: Erin Go Braugh
Hannam: Savournah Deelish
Thomas Campbell (poem): Exile of Erin
Fitzmaurice: Gerrald Hasset’s Compliments to the Knight of Glen, Miss Ross of Rossy Castle’s Jigg, The Humours of Aberdeen, Jigg
From Rowly Powly: German Waltz, Rogara Duff (the Black Rogue), The Unfortunate Rake, Mrs. Dungannon’s Jigg, The La...
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April 5, 2025 • 99 mins
Tunes:
From A Selkie's Progress:
The Traveler to the Forest, “Cha ‘n ‘eil Cailleach agam fhein” (I am Alone Since my Wife Died), The Storm Rescue, Lord Bateman, Corrienessan's Salute, Selkie's Lament, Resolve, Dundee, Clark Colven, Fa La La, Shoals of Herring, Robin Hood's Preferment (The Noble Fisherman)
Ewan MacColl: The Shoals or Herring
Berit Allison: Selkie's Lament
Arthur Knevett: Lord Bateman,
Sung Ballad by Me: Clark Colven...
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March 29, 2025 • 9 mins
Check out Droning On Episode 120 wherever you get your podcasts or Here:
https://rss.com/podcasts/droning-on/1924252/
Here are some 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!
Checkout my Merch Store on Bag...
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March 23, 2025 • 83 mins
Tunes:
Straight and Skillern: Paddy Whack
Robert Ross: Paddy Whack
Sutherland: Paddy Whack
Gordon Mooney: Black Hen’s Egg
Alex MacKay: Black Hen’s Egg
John MacPherson Mulhollan: Paddy Whack, Jackson’s Cassock
Peacock: Paddy Whack
O’Farrell: Paddy Whack, The Black Joke
Hannam: Paddy Whack
Steele: Green Joke
Riley: While History’s Muse
Millar: Paddy Whack
Roddy Cannon: Paddy Whack (from Millar)
Ballad: Polly Oliver
Vicki Swan and Jon...
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Tunes:
Gutch, Rimbault Et. Al: Robin Hood’s Preferment
Me: Dynamic Theme, Storm Theme,
Fionnllagh MacA’Phiocar: Ghost Notes
Donald Lindsay: Invocation of the Corn Mother, Two Boats Under the Moon
Advocates Manuscript: Tune 58, 1, A Scots Measure, Jamies Reel (Oyster Wives Rant), The Britches Loose, The Island of Love, The White Jock
O’Farrell: The Shepherds Hornpipe
Walsh: Petticoat Tight, Petticoat Loose,
Fitzmaurice: Loose the B...
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February 23, 2025 • 80 mins
Tunes:
Anderson: The Mail Coach
Highlander: “Gu’n d’thug mi suil air an trupa ghlas.” “I cast an eye on the grey troop”, “Chaidh mi thun na traigh.” “I wen to the Ebb”, “Gur Trom, tom a tha mi” Sad, Sad am I,
Angus MacKay: Wha’ll be King but Charlie, Lilla’s A Lady, Lilla’s a Lady, Voulez vous danser Madamoiselle or the Portuguese, Paddy Rafferty’s With Variations, Fowler’s Rant, Lady Ellinor Campbell, No. XIII Pipe Reel, “Gur mise...
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February 8, 2025 • 80 mins
Tunes:
“Highlander” (Maybe Alexander MacKay): Biodh mid subhach (Let us Be Merry), Falb orra, ho! (Ho away she goes) and Pipe Reel (Smith of Killiechassie), Latha dhomhsa ‘s mi siubhal garbhlaich (One day as I was traversing mountains), Cha ‘n ‘eil Cailleach agam fhein (I am Alone since my wife died), Pipe Reel (The Black Hen’s Egg), Cainntearachd (As is played on the pipe!), A Jacobite Air.
If you have some thoughts about the coll...
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January 25, 2025 • 129 mins
Tunes:
Angus Cumming: Arndilly’s Reel, Sir Harry Innes’s Reel
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Thanks again Keith for using up a Friday evening chatting with me, you can
You can Keith’s Article: “Patronage of the price of the piper’s bag” here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XCrS_bwDBwLq4Ifq4oZrOCUGDoukfcB3/view?usp=sharing
You can also look at the rest of the issue of common stock it appeared in here:
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/common-stock/archiv...
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January 12, 2025 • 73 mins
Tunes:
Preston Howard Wilde - Good Natured Man: An Chailín Dubh Doar, King of the Cannibal Islands, Jockey to the Fair, The Ship Returns Home
Inveraray & District Pipe Band - Ascension: Mad Hornpipes,Catherine's Lament
Lowp - Drive Away Dull Care: Rusty Gully-Duns Dings A'-Wee Totum Fogg, Long Lankin
Ryan Molloy - tempered:Bourrée from Suite in E minor by J.S. Bach (BWV996) & The Return from Fingal (march) – Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, T...
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December 28, 2024 • 90 mins
Tunes:
The Doors: The End
My Setting: Macrimmon Shall Never Return, John Charles’ Fireproof Pipes,
Kilberry(ish): Macrimmon Will Never Return, Corrienessan’s Salute, Lord Lovat’s Lament, The Pretty Dirk, Battle of Auldearn, Piper’s Warning To His Master,
Rainstorp: Jack Latine
Angus MacKay: The Pretty Dirk
Donald MacDonald: Reel of Tulloch, Brose and Butter, The Green Hillock (Tulloch Ghorum), The Cock Crowing (Cock of the North), ...
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December 21, 2024 • 78 mins
Brendan Taffee: Shady Grove
Jim Sanders/Jeremy Kingsbury: Shady Grove
John Charles Bauschatz: Spoon Carver, Reels from Eliza Ross: Nighean bhàn a' Mhuilleir (the miller's fair-haired girl), Dòmhnall Àlainn a' Tighinn (elegant Donald coming)
Jeremy Kingsbury: Angus MacKay: MacKay’s Rant, Eliza Ross: Elegant Donald is Coming
Pete Stewart: Twa Corbies, Saw Ye not my Maggy, Curds and Way
Kat Eggleston: 49 Rooms
Gordon Mooney: The Bon...
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