Droning On

PipingJim

Casual conversations with pipers, drummers, and other bagpipe-adjacent folk. --- Follow the show on Facebook/Instagram: @droning.on.podcast https://www.facebook.com/DroningOnPodcast/ Write-in at: TheDroningOnPodcast@gmail.com Support the show on Patreon, just search, ”Droning On Podcast”, or by buying cool stuff at BagpipeSwag.com

  1. 137: Robert Macdonald on "Music From the Dead"

    11/24/2025

    137: Robert Macdonald on "Music From the Dead"

    Robert Macdonald came on the show back in January of 2024. We talked then about his bagpipe journey, his music making with Pennyland, and more -- including the fiddle playing & tune-making of Cape Breton fiddler John MacDougall. The most recent episode (136: Music from the Dead, The Tune-Making of John MacDougall by Robert Macdonald) was an, "audiobook," you might say, of what Robert wrote about John MacDougall's work after spending time with him in Cape Breton in 2009. Tune into this episode to hear a dude who's never been to Cape Breton ask a dude who has been there what it's like... Here's a link to the Thesis we discuss in this episode: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1407&context=etd Here's a link to the previous interview (Ep. 098) with Robert: https://rss.com/podcasts/droning-on/1289665 And here's a link to John MacDougall playing the fiddle (this is the performance heard at the beginning & end of the episode): https://youtu.be/P2K7nvmnb_k?si=Ck-M36CpkGBorsfA - We're on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DroningOnPodcast And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/droning.on.podcast/ - You can write-in to the show with comments, ideas, requests, etc. at TheDroningOnPodcast@gmail.com - Support the show via Patreon (patreon.com/DroningOnPodcast), or by buying cool stuff at BagpipeSWAG.com - - - And now, some keywords: Bagpipes, bagpipe, bag, pipe, pipes, pipe, band, pipeband, Scottish, small, drone, droning, chanter, highland, lowland, uilleann, smallpipes, trad music,

    1h 15m
  2. 135: Halloween Special: "Pipers and the Supernatural" with Stuart McHardy (Author of The Silver Chanter)

    10/27/2025

    135: Halloween Special: "Pipers and the Supernatural" with Stuart McHardy (Author of The Silver Chanter)

    With around 40 books published to date, Stuart combine the roles of writer, storyteller and lecturer in Scottish history, folklore and geomythography. Additionally, Stuart has had a fair amount of poetry published and for many, many years worked as a musician. For 30 years he has been teaching at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Open Learning and has also been visiting schools as a storyteller, as well as focusing as a writer on history, folklore and the Scots language. I was the first Director of the Scots Language Centre in Perth and am a founding member and past-President of the Pictish Arts Society. Over the years Stuart has worked extensively in radio and more sporadically in television. In the theatre, I have produced/directed and performed, in shows on Radical Song, Songs and Stories of the Jacobites and others. Stuart has appeared at many book (and storytelling) festivals and events in Scotland, England, Ireland, Sweden and Australia. Tune into this episode to hear us liken hills & restaurant logos to human anatomy. Stuart's books are all over the internet, including Amazon and other retail sites. Here's an option: https://booksfromscotland.com/bfs-author/stuart-mchardy/ - We're on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DroningOnPodcast And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/droning.on.podcast/ - You can write-in to the show with comments, ideas, requests, etc. at TheDroningOnPodcast@gmail.com - Support the show via Patreon (patreon.com/DroningOnPodcast), or by buying cool stuff at BagpipeSWAG.com - - - And now, some keywords: Bagpipes, bagpipe, bag, pipe, pipes, pipe, band, pipeband, Scottish, small, drone, droning, chanter, highland, lowland, uilleann, smallpipes, trad music,

    2 hr
4.8
out of 5
20 Ratings

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Casual conversations with pipers, drummers, and other bagpipe-adjacent folk. --- Follow the show on Facebook/Instagram: @droning.on.podcast https://www.facebook.com/DroningOnPodcast/ Write-in at: TheDroningOnPodcast@gmail.com Support the show on Patreon, just search, ”Droning On Podcast”, or by buying cool stuff at BagpipeSwag.com

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