Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Jeremy Kingsbury
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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

  1. Sep 19

    S 10 E 20 Angus MacKay's Favorite Irish Tune Book

    Paddy Keenan: Coppers and Brasses, Johnny's Tune For The Avalon, Angus MacKay: Rakes of Kilkenny, Farrell's Pipes, Galloway Tom, Pipers' Maggot, Paddy O'Rafferty, Spanish Waltz, O'Farrell: Rakes of Kilkenny, Farrell's Pipes, Galloway Tom, Pipers' Maggot, Paddy O'Rafferty, I had a pretty intense time listening to Paddy Keenan's playing and browsing the Gallery on his website: https://www.paddykeenan.com/gallery All the Tunes on this week's show come from one of O'Farrell's 5 publications or Angus MacKay's 3rd and 4th manuscript, viewable at the National Library of Scotland: https://manuscripts.nls.uk/repositories/2/resources/18513 For O'Farrell's Pocket Companion 1 and 2 you can view them online from the National Libary of Scotland's Website: 1806ish: O Farrells Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes Vol 1 https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779618 1806ish: O Farrells Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes Vol 2 https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94566912 Vol 3 and 4 are available on Ross's Music Page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc4.pdf Unfortunately O Farrel's Tutor is not available online anywhere except as ABC notation, and presently I'm having a hard time finding that even. FIN 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/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

    S 10 E 20 Angus MacKay's Favorite Irish Tune Book

  2. Sep 5

    S 10 E 19 Pipers' Gathering 2026 Review with Rod Nevin

    Tunes played in this episode: Scottish Smallpipes Session: La Promeneuse, Hielan’ Laddie and Road to Isles, Sound of Sleat, Horsburgh castle, The Duck, Drops of Brandy Northumbrian Smallpipes Session: Alston Flower Show hornpipe, Old Drove Road Irish Uilleann Pipes Session: Jim Ward's, Speed the Plough, Joe Banes / Gypsy Princess, Drops of Brandy, E minor Slip Jig (tune name?), The Butterfly, Man of the House Cabaret: Dos A Beer, The Haunting, The Boy’s Lament for His Dragon Irish Session Guitar solo (Bruce Childress): Mona Ray SSP, whistle, and bowed dulcimer: Pretty Saro Thanks to: All The Pipers’ Gathering session-goers; Cabaret performers Rebecca Connor, Benjamin Elzerman, and Nate and Asher Banton Keep up with us online: https://www.pipersgathering.org/ https://www.facebook.com/pipersgathering/ Look for the Cairdeas Session Tune Book on these sites: https://birchenmusic.com/product-category/collections/ https://www.cairdeas.org/ And listen to the tune recordings here: https://cairdeas-vermont.bandcamp.com/album/the-c-irdeas-session-tunebook-companion-recordings +X+X+X+ FIN 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/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

    S 10 E 19 Pipers' Gathering 2026 Review with Rod Nevin

  3. Aug 22

    S 10 E 18 Tunes I Never Want to End with Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan, The Goodman Trio, Patrick Hutchinson, John Charles Bauschatz, Barry Shears, Timothy Cummings and Iain Gelston with Rachel Hales & Chloe Jones

    Tunes: Jeremy Kingsbury Playing: Lee & Sylvia's Waltz by Gail Johnson, Manx Lullaby, Ancient Lullaby, The Star Above the Garter, The Duck, John Barbours 50th By Duncan Moore, Cotting Burn Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan: Mullach a' tSí Goodman Trio ( Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain): An Seanduine ag Luasgadh an Chliabháin/Cosa Buidhe Árda Dearga Patrick Hutchinson: Ancient Lullaby from Petrie John Charles Bauschatz: O Gur Duine Truagh Mi (Alas I am a Forlorne Man) Barry Shears: Foxhunter's Reel Tim Cummings: Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap, Iain Gelston: Eagle's Whistle, Terry Cloth, The Lairds of Ryton,Huge thank you to Gail Johnson for giving the inspiration for the tunes and inspiration for the episode. and Sean Reidy, Benjamin Elzerman and Jessica Oberle Mulhollem for suggesting tunes. Thanks to Patrick Hutchinson, John Charles Bauschatz, Barry Shears, Tim Cummings, Iain Gelston, the Goodman Tunes Trio and Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan for sending in tunes, or letting me play recordings. Check Out the Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts By Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain here: https://goodmantunestrio.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-from-the-goodman-manuscripts Check out Mullach a' tSí by Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan here: https://aoifeandliam.bandcamp.com/album/mullach-a-ts Check Out John Charles Bauschatz's Website here: https://asantobar.wordpress.com/ Check out Barry Shears' Work here: https://capebretonpiper.com/ Check out the Cairdeas Tunebook Album here: https://cairdeas-vermont.bandcamp.com/album/the-c-irdeas-session-tunebook-companion-recordings 100% of album sales funds tuitions for the Cairdeas school! Check out the LBPS 2025 Collogue Recording here: https://lbps.bandcamp.com/album/2025-lowland-and-border-pipers-society-collogue-in-dunkeld-scotland Check out Iain Gelston's Work here: https://iaingelston.wordpress.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/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

    S 10 E 18 Tunes I Never Want to End with Aoife Nic Dhomhnaill & Liam Lonergan, The Goodman Trio, Patrick Hutchinson, John Charles Bauschatz, Barry Shears, Timothy Cummings and Iain Gelston with Rachel Hales & Chloe Jones

  4. Aug 8

    S 10 E 17 The Tunes I Taught at Càirdeas and More

    Tunes: The Tunes I taught: Brose and Butter, Bundle and Go, Welcome Home My Dearie, Clark Colven, The Miller's Wedding, Robin Adair, New Way to Morpeth, The Pluner of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens, Yann Cariou, Tim Cummings, Jeremy Kingsbury, Ailis Sutherland, Clara Salem, Tunes I didn't Teach, Round two: Unfortunate Jock, Harris Dance (31), Harris Dance (32), Edward the Second Minuat, Wattie Laing, C**k-Laird fu' Cagie, Drummond Castle, I have a wife o my ain, Bonny Miller, Susan Stewart's Reel, Miss Murray's Reel, Tune to Learn by Ear: Welcome Home My Dearie Big thank you to the folks at Càirdeas and specifically to the instructors who let me use a recording of them playing: Yann Cariou, Tim Cummings, Ailis Sutherland and Clara Salem. Check out Càirdeas website here: https://www.cairdeas.org/ 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/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

    S 10 E 17 The Tunes I Taught at Càirdeas and More

  5. Jul 25

    S 10 E 16 Tunes I Probably didn't teach while I'm at Càirdeas

    Tunes: Nae Tune list or dots this time around. At least not for a while, but you can hear me introduce the tunes. Lots of stuff from David Young, Patrick MacDonald and Donald MacDonald. 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/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

  6. Jul 11

    S 10 E 15 The William Mackie Manuscript Playthrough Part 1

    Tunes: William Mackie: Taste Life's Glad Moments, Robin Adair, Ye Branks and Baes of Bonny Dune, The Banks of the Dee, What ails this heart of mine, Paddy O'Rafferty Robert Menzies: Taste Life's Glad Moments, Smollet Holden: Aleen Aroon O'Farrell: Paddy O'Rafferty with variations Angus MacKay: Paddy O'Rafferty with variations Seamus Ennis: Paddy O'Rafferty, The Reverend Brother's Jig Big Thanks to John Dally, Stephen McNally, Pete Stewart and Adam Sanderson for helping with my attempts at salvaging my miserable pornunciations. For an article on the "Z" or yogh letter: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/scottish-handwriting/coaching/letter-finder/letter-yogh Most of the tunes this week come from William Mackie's 1828 Pastoral Pipes manuscript still available on Ross's Music Page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/mackie-part1.pdf here is an archived photo of Mackie's pipes: https://web.archive.org/web/20240329181248/http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-579-671-C&scache=2u56p5txg5&searchdb=scran Other Sources: ====== 1823: Taste Life’s Glad Moments from Edinburgh Chapbook https://digital.nls.uk/chapbooks-printed-in-scotland/archive/104184666 +X+X+ 1793: Robin Adair from Edinburgh Musical Miscellany https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94581712 +X+X+ 1818: Robin Adair : The Much Admired Ballad, as sung by Mr. Philipps arranged for piano forte or harp by W. Reeve [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015096437556](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015096437556) For a Chapter on the History of “Robin Adair and Eileen Aroon” see: Stories of Famous Songs vol 1_ by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, 1901 [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002410743h](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002410743h) +X+X+ 1810: Aleen Aroon from Smollet Hoden’s A Collection of Farorite Irish Airs arranged for the Harp or Pianoforte” https://ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/8/8f/IMSLP740826-PMLP1177690-smollet +X+X+ FIN 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/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

    S 10 E 15 The William Mackie Manuscript Playthrough Part 1

  7. Jun 27

    S 10 E 14 On the Road Session with Rod Nevin, Jeremy Mitchell and Margaret Young

    Tunes: Pretty incomplete tune list: Tunes: Cuddy’s Wedding from Vickers, Auld Lang Syne from Appomattox, Hoopers and Girders (Pete Stewart’s Setting from David Young), Over the Hills and Far Away, Mill Mill O, Oyster Wive’s Rant, Gravel Walks, Brenda Stubberts, Mason’s Apron, Miss McLeod of Raasay, Atholl Highlanders, and many more. Càirdeas is pretty booked up for this year actually, but be sure to get on their mailing list here: https://www.cairdeas.org/ 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/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

    S 10 E 14 On the Road Session with Rod Nevin, Jeremy Mitchell and Margaret Young

  8. Jun 13

    S 10 E 13 Music of Robert Louis Stevenson with Guest Host Rod Nevin

    All songs in this episode are poems by Robert Louis Stevenson set to traditional tunes: “A Song of the Road” with Over the Hills and Far Away “The Spaewife” with unnamed tune collected by George St. J. Bremner “Wandering Willie” with Here Awa’ There Awa’ and Bonnie Dundee “Over the Sea to Skye” with the Skye Boat Song ======= Thanks to J.F.M. Russell, who has made his research into the music of Robert Louis Stevenson available on his website, https://sites.google.com/a/music-of-robert-louis-stevenson.org/introduction/home You can find many tantalizing tidbits about RLS’ music manuscripts and stories about his writings. The index on his site will guide you to more information about the poems and songs I selected. ====== Thanks to Jeremy Kingsbury for inviting me to guest host this episode, and for the many words of advice and encouragement in the process of recording and editing it. Thanks to my son Ethan for his assistance and expert advice on mixing and mastering this episode. ====== A Song of the Road You can hear much more about the Over the Hills and Far Away tune in Wetootwaag’s Bagpipe and History Podcast, Season 7 Episode 10: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s7e10 I didn’t mention it in the episode, but one of my favorite sung settings of this song is arranged by Sean Dagher on La Nef’s Sea Songs & Shanties album: (a great collection of sea shanty arrangements!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd69tvWD0xI&list=RDvd69tvWD0xI&start_radio=1 ====== The Spaewife Bremner’s (unnamed) tune from a note with transcription by Fannie, Robert’s wife, in her preface to Underwoods, A Child's Garden of Verses & Underwoods, Ballads, which is from the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Edition Volume VIII ====== Wandering Willie Original tune that Burns used for his Here Awa’ There Awa’, from a book RLS had in his library, The Songs of Scotland Without Words: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_songs_of_Scotland_without_words_for/pGhBAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA19&printsec=frontcover&dq=wandering From (another book RLS had in his library) Gems of Scottish Song: (this is an adaptation of the tune that Burns used for his Bonnie Dundee) Page 1 and Page 2 RLS sketched a tune for Wandering Willie in his manuscripts, and based it on this Bonnie Dundee version, and likely altered it further in the second part. ====== Over the Sea to Skye Please see Mr. Russell’s page about this song, which includes two examples of the song notated in Stevenson’s hand. https://sites.google.com/a/music-of-robert-louis-stevenson.org/over-the-sea-to-skye/ And this note with transcription by Fannie, Robert’s wife, in her preface to Underwoods, which is again from the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Edition Volume VIII https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_Robert_Louis_Stevenson/t2Q4AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=spae%20wife%20brenmer&pg=PA89&printsec=frontcover ====== The Peter Pauper Press music journal is what I have been using for a few years to write down tunes as I’m learning them, or compose new ones, along with descriptions and other thoughts: https://www.peterpauper.com/products/music-journal My bellows-blown scottish smallpipes were made by Nate Banton https://natebanton.com/ My C chanter was made by Robert Felsburg https://www.thequietpiper.com/ My low D whistle and C whistle were made by Rob Gandara https://carbony.com/ +X+X+X+X+ FIN 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/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

    S 10 E 13 Music of Robert Louis Stevenson with Guest Host Rod Nevin
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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

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