Wetootwaag's Podcast Of Bagpipe Power

Once again Big thanks to Simon Chadwick to agreeing to be on the Podcast this week! Check Simon’s current projects out here: http://simonchadwick.net/ Bunting’s The Chanter’s Tune: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104979293 Clarke’s Setting for “The Song of the Chanter” I forgot to mention it has a different title I just got it off of Tune Archive: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Chanter%27sTune Bunting’s Have you Seen My Valentine? https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105814783 Simon Chadwick’s Youtube Video if you want to see him play: https://youtu.be/i9y-GxC2fR8 Bunting’s The Chorus Jig: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104978952 William Dixon’s Manuscript is available here: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition Neil Gow’s Setting for Drummond Castle: https://imslp.org/wiki/ASecondCollectionofStrathspeyReels,etc.(Gow,_Niel)#IMSLP338815 (Go to page 8) Donald MacDonald’s Th

Tunes: O’Farrell: Love and a Pipe Duet, Humours of Ardmore Donald MacDonald, Highland Harry Back Again Angus MacKay: Highland Harry Back Again Robert Burns: My Harry was a Gallant Gay Guest Track from Unwelcome Visitors: Young Tom Ennis, Jimmy Neary’s, The White Petticoat. Big thanks to Ryan Behnke for Bagpipe Friendship and collaboration! Listen to his tunes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bagpipebinky/ and check out his website: https://www.ryanbehnkeirishpiper.com/ You can check out Unwelcome Visitors here: https://www.facebook.com/unwelcomevisitors/ I bought their album on CD Baby which isn’t really doing that anymore, but looks like you can also buy their album on Itunes or listen on Spotify. Be sure to tune in for my Bagpipes and the North West Company program/facebook live stream on Saturday August 8th, at 1 PM US Central time. Check out https://www.facebook.com/Wetootwaag/ to watch and listen. O'Farrell Setting for Humours of Ardmore (Is sadly in a later volume I have yet to find Easy linki

Checkout the Facebook page here: https://facebook.com//Wetootwaags-Bagpipe-and-History-Podcast-105980514479825/ LIVE STREAM 1 PM Saturday August 8th, 2020 (US Central Time GMT -5:00) Generally this would be the weekend of the Rendezvous Days Pow Wow at Grand Portage Since we are not meeting in person I’ll be doing a live stream Music program Tune in to the Wetootwaag’s Bagpipes and History Podcast Facebook Page or the North American Voyageur Council Facebook Page (and likely some other places) for you to enjoy! Thanks! Saturday at 1 PM for a Live Stream I’ll be mostly playing Bagpipe Tunes on Scottish and Irish Bagpipes that would have been Popular in the 1790s, as well as a Discussion of the Bagpipers that Entertained the North West Company and Indigenous People throughout the Interior of Canada. (If Acoustics are too intense with Highland Pipes, likely to strongly Feature Uilleann Pipes)

John Walsh The Puff: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248231 John Walsh: The Laundry (Hot Pot): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90246647 John Walsh: Pot Stick or Shamboy (Over the water to Charlie): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248183 James Oswald’s Over the Water to Charlie: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94596980 Angus MacKay’s Over the Water to Charlie: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007025 O’Farrell’s Setting for Shaun Bee: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780422 I got the Obituary for the Composed of Greig’s Pipes here: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Greig%27s_Pipes O’Farrell’s setting for Greig’s Pipes: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780146 Angus MacKay’s Greig’s Pipes: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-mus

Big thanks to Simon Chadwick to agreeing to be on the Podcast this week! Check Simon’s current projects out here: http://simonchadwick.net/ Donald MacDonald Setting of Dogs Bite Chapmen: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683232 Donald MacDonald Setting of The Rock and the wee Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683078 James Oswald’s Setting of A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94595720 William McGibbon Setting of A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105870582 William McGibbon Setting of If E’er you do well it’s a wonder: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105870010 Edward Bunting’s Setting of John O’Reily the Active https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/text/bunting-vol-1 ON PAGE 41 Simon Chadwick is performing these dots: http://digital-library.qub.ac.uk/digital/collecti

Be Sure to Hunt down the Podcast on your Favorite Podcast listening service! If I’m not available on your podcast player of choice send me an email: wetootwaag@gmail.com Here’s a link to the podcast on Apple Podcasts/Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 The image for the episode is me dressed as my interpretation of George McKay when he piped for the North West Company at Grand Portage, with my reproduction George McKay Waterloo Pipes (thanks to Chris Black and Janet LaFrance for the image!) I used O’Neil’s setting for Downfall of Paris: Page 1: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/1201-1800/Sheet-1501-1600/1562a-Downfall-1stPage.gif Page 2: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/1201-1800/Sheet-1501-1600/1562b-Downfall-2ndPage.gif Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/Sheet-1801-1850/1824-BonaparteCrossingRhine.gif O’Farrell’s setting for The Fall of Paris: https://digital.nls.uk/87779894 If you aren’t Fal

Unfortunately I’m having a hard time finding sheet music for the Bard’s Legacy, I still haven’t found the additional volumes of O’Farrell that I have in printed form. Donald MacDonald’s The Perewig: https://digital.nls.uk/105682803 Donald MacDonald’s Cuir’s Chiste Moir Me & c. https://digital.nls.uk/105683166 Definitely losing Historian Points for this, but this Wikipedia article was a good background starting place for When the King Enjoys his Own Again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whenthekingenjoyshisownagain See Moll in the Wad from O’Farrell: https://digital.nls.uk/94567500 For an awesome history of Women during the Revolutionary Period in the United States read Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Rosemarie Zagarri: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14399.html

Holy cow did I include a lot of tunes on this episode! Don’t get used to that! Big thank you to Tim and Jeremy for letting me play a track off their album “The Wilds” you can buy it here: https://timandjeremy.com/wilds/ You can also check out there stellar Youtube series “The Neil Gow Sessions” here: https://youtu.be/1qne-ly24Oo In Chronological order for the Episode: Gordon Duncan’s 98 Jig can be bought in this awesome collection: https://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/product/gordon-duncans-tunes/ Sall’s Delight From O’Farrell: https://digital.nls.uk/94566972 Wife of My Own from O’Farrell: https://digital.nls.uk/94566996 Donald MacDonald 9/8 Set Grinder: https://digital.nls.uk/105682770 I Hae a wife o my ain: https://digital.nls.uk/105682704 Brose and Butter: https://digital.nls.uk/105876148 An Irish Jig: https://digital.nls.uk/105682693 I Ha’e a Wife o’ my ain From Angus MacKay: https://digital.nls.uk/105007410 Brose and Butter From Angus MacKay: https://digital.nls.uk/105007201 Thanks to Tim MacDonald

O’Farrell’s Setting for Robin Power’s Fancy: https://digital.nls.uk/87780650 Donald MacDonald’s My Woer Be Merry: https://digital.nls.uk/105682792 Both Angus MacKay tune settings are on the same page: Sir J.M. MacKenzie’s Reel. https://digital.nls.uk/105007069 Donald MacDonald’s Earl Marischal: https://digital.nls.uk/105682561 Well I recorded A couple O’Farrell tunes, then Decided I play O’Farrell stuff way too fast and re-recorded it…then it was too slow I think! Ultimately, I decided to scrap that and go back to the fast version of my playing Humours of Last Night, without the Low Whistle, but I only decided that after recording the speaking portion of the podcast! Check Out O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion Setting of Humours of Last Night: https://digital.nls.uk/87781034 And if you are able, please consider donating to the Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project: https://communitybondproject.org/break-bonds-fundraiser/ Also consider donating to this Pride organization, as most Pride festivals were cancelled or

Since I’m in a new House…seems like the time to play the tune I “Composed” for my friend’s Ric and Berit when they finalized some messy business with their Cabin: Squatter’s Hame Since we did the first tune in MacKay’s book here’s the first in O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion, Humours of the Glen. Read it here: https://digital.nls.uk/87779642 And Another MacKay tune I quite liked, “The Bride has a Bonny Thing” You can see it here: https://digital.nls.uk/105006948 I went back to my house at the last minute to record Squatter’s Haim and just took a quick crack at this lovely Donald MacDonald tune Mary Gray. https://digital.nls.uk/105682550 Speaking of History, finally gonna play the clip Carrie shared with me! Carrie’s set: “The tunes are: The Lass o’ Corrie Mill (strathspey, traditional)/Carnival March (strathspey by Gideon Stove)/Return to Milltown (reel, traditional)/The Cape Breton Fiddlers’ Welcome to the Shetland Islands (reel by Willie Hunter). Emma and I are playing fiddle, and my mom Susan is on piano.

Big thanks to Chris McMullan’s for sharing his music with us, you can and should check out his youtube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0sMSmOTrAxO8Yox_rUYi1Q and buy his album: https://chrismcmullan.bandcamp.com/releases Thanks as well to the Bob Dunsire discussion board. If you want to read John Newton’s Account “Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade: http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=21874801;view=image;seq=1 Some Further Reading about the Lumbee and the KKK: https://web.archive.org/web/20120309032929/http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-postwar/6068 And while many folks seem to think the KKK is on the decline, hate groups aren’t, keep an eye on Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate map: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map and if you can please consider making a donation. https://donate.splcenter.org/ To have a look through Angus MacKay’s Collection: https://digital.nls.uk/105006794 Please leave us a review! We are at around 1300 downloads for

Black Lives Matter Notes: Here are some good resources and places to donate funds to support the Black Lives Matter Protests: I found this website really helpful for figuring out how to help, and how to understand what defunding the police means, and why it is a good idea. https://www.mpd150.com/how-can-you-help-mpls-june-2020/ “The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.” https://donate.splcenter.org/ The Minnesota Freedom Fund has received lots of donations and continually updates their website with good organizations to donate to: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/ Also use this resource to find your representatives: https://myreps.datamade.us/ Call and tell them you hold them accountable for Racial injustice and ask them to demilitarize the

Theme is pretty lose this episode, did some recordings in an awesome setting on the Isle of Harris a year ago, and they all sorta spill off from there. The Three Girls from Portree written by Angus McKay, Skye Boat Song first transcribed by Anne Campbelle MacLeod, To Daunton Me from O'Farrell's Setting and Robert Burns song and Corrienessan’s Salute composed by Roderick Dall Mackay

I have a lot of thank yous again for this album! Thanks to my buddy Dave for printing the chanter and thanks to Donald Lindsay and Zexuan Qiao for their work on the print and play chanter! I also appreciate the Musicians that agreed to share their tunes for the episode: Check out Cam’s Sound Cloud https://soundcloud.com/ravencake/sets/cam-st-louis-sampler and his Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/camstlouis Check out Lindstrument’s Page: https://lindstruments.com/ And the Lindsay System Chanter Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LindsaySystemChanter/ To include some history with this cutting edge Instrument episode here is me circular breathing my way through We’ll Gang nae mair to yon Town from Angus McKay’s collection on the Print and play Chanter.

Huge thanks to Hamish Napier! Check out his Bandcamp Page! We listened to tracks from The River, and The Woods Album. https://hamishnapier.bandcamp.com/ Open up with a clip of me playing a Pibroch I wrote for Grand Portage on the side of the road in the Cairngorms National Park. Then I play a tune from James Aird’s collection “The Braes of Angus”. Then three glorious tracks from Hamish Napier: From the River: The May Fly Woods: The Tree of Life/Lightning Woods: The Highest Willows And Conclude with my playing “Michael McDonald’s Jig” in Carnasserie Castle in Kilmartin Glen. In the future when the world opens back up I desperately hope I get to revisit our hike in the Cairngorms up to Corrie Fee: https://www.nature.scot/enjoying-outdoors/scotlands-national-nature-reserves/corrie-fee-national-nature-reserve And also spend another night at Rosebank House (not Rose Cottage as I say in the audio) in Blairgowrie: https://www.rosebank-blairgowrie.co.uk/en-US/homepage

This episode Gets a wee bit rambling..but they all do I suppose. Really looking forward to being able to record to my computer and a sound controlled space where I can pause and do another take haha. Anyway, we begin with the Stellar performance of The Pretty Dirk from 1953 by William MacLean. The Tune was composed by Patrick Òg MacCrimmon on the Isle of Skye likely between 1670 and 1730 when he was the Piper for The MacLeod’s at Dunvegan. Next original composition: The Pretty Cantle on Shepherd Musette Small pipes. Next an Angus McKay tune: A Skye Reel on my McCallum Highland Pipes. Then James Aird’s setting of “Shilling O’Gairey” as a preamble to… O’Farrell’s Setting of “Sheeling O Guira with New Variations on Uilleann Pipes. Check out the Amazing resources at Tobar an Dualchais: http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/51272/1 and Alt Pibroch at http://www.altpibroch.com/

Highland Pipes: Bog an Lochan (Angus MacKay 19th Century Tune) Glasgow City Police (modern tune Uilleann Pipes: O'Carolan's Concerto (Eighteenth Century) Noran Keeshna and Coosey Jig (From O'Farrell's Pocket Companion Early 19th Century) I made an over dubbed recording for the last set. Really hoping to find a good private place to record inside again! Please leave a review on your litener of choice. If you have any questions or comments feel free to message me at wetootwaag@gmail.com. Thanks for Listening!

In this episode, possibly original tune on Whistle, "Nurse's Song" if you recognize it as something else please email me! wetootwaag@gmail.com Then we have another fun tune out of James Aird's Eighteenth Century Collection the Moon and the Seven Stars. Moving onto the Nineteenth Century O'Farrell pocket companion tune Darby Carey on a Chieftain Low Whistle. Finally Glassy Reflections by me on Highland Pipes. be sure to check out https://www.thevgat.com/ for a fun DND Let's Play Podcast!

Episode Notes: First tune is a Piobaireachead I wrote for my grandparents and Family, called John and Mary Blair Salute. It was recorded on a hillside in Scotland on the shores of Loch Mor, (a bit south of the Falls of Foyers). I misspoke in the beginning here, I meant Ethnostate, not Eurostate, Europe is allowed to have states :) Next track is two Hornpipes, The Eric Rigler album in question was from 1997, and the Hornpipes were Plains of Boyle and Boys of Blue Hill. The O'Farrell Waltz's are The Salamanca and the Copenhagen Waltz. The Women's Set is The Female Hero (From James Aird's Collection), Well shot of her (from O'Farrell) and The Female Rake (also from Aird). and Finally the Oyster Wives Rant from Aird. Feel free to Email me with questions or comments at wetootwaag@gmail.com Thanks!

Let me Know you are listening! wetootwaag@gmail.com any hold outs from last round of posting episodes or are you all new listeners? Tunes Played on this episode: Highland Pipes set: Jigs from Angus MacKay's collection, and maybe some from Donald McDonald's collection too...not sure. Original Uilleann pipe tune (maybe) The Jared Wicks Let me know if you recognize this as a pre-existing tune! Highland Pipe Recording from Simon McTavish's Birthplace, Garthbeg, In Scotland, a bit South of Loch Ness, These tunes are: Dunrobin Castle, Wren's Death, Jenny Dang the Weaver and others form Angus MacKay's collection. Uilleann Pipes from St. Patti's day recording: The Bucks of Oranmore Finished up with recording from O'Farrell's setting of The Far Away Wedding, also compare it with MacKay's setting of Far away wedding 9/8.