Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast - s7 E24 Halloween Special Episode With Guest Host John Charles, and contributions from Jenna Bagpipes, Leslie Anne Harrison, ChristianWandzala, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin and Eileen Budd

s7 E24 Halloween Special Episode With Guest Host John Charles, and contributions from Jenna Bagpipes, Leslie Anne Harrison, ChristianWandzala, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin and Eileen Budd

10/21/23 • 63 min

Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Tunes:
William Campbell: Halloween, Smith’s Orange and Fork
William Campbell: The Crown Prince, Lord St. Orville, Arabella, The Royal Visitors,
John Sutherland: Alas Poor Soul, The Devil’s Dream,
Abraham MacIntosh: The Witches Hill
Joseph Lowe: The Warlocks, The Witches
Jenna Dennison: Devil’s in the Corners
Leslie Anne Harrison: Da Trowie Burn
Christian Wandzala: Bonnie Susie Cleland
Cassandre Balosso-Bardin: Water Nymph aka “Vittrans polska” by Emelius Lundberg
Eileen Budd: Stories of Scottish Arthurian Legends
John Charles: Am Bròn Binn

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Thanks to Beth Clark-McDonal, for the use of “Jock O Piper” for the Cover art, Check it out here:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/jack-o-piper-beth-clark-mcdonal.html?product=poster

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This episode wouldn’t be possible without the efforts of John Charles! “Dr. Jeremy Kingsbury’s Official archivist and biographer!” Thank you John Charles.
I join him in offering my sincere thanks to our guest performers whose links appear in chronological order:

(Note that I am also indebted to the recordings of Leslie and Cassandre from their Performances at the Pipers’ Gathering, 2023, and the recording of Greg Lotta.
You can check out Pipers’ Gathering Here: https://www.pipersgathering.org/
And Greg Lotta’s Work here: https://www.youtube.com/@glatta0

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Jenna Dennison:
Known on Social Media as “Jenna Bagpipes” I first met Jenna on Tik Tok where I saw her ripping High Bs on Highland pipes! She’s a delightful Bagpiper’s Bagpiper to follow on social media.
If you want music to “Devil’s in the Corners” you can get it by joining her Patreon feed:
Montreal Piping & Drumming School
http://www.mpds.ca/en/

social media / website links
https://www.youtube.com/@jennabagpipes
https://www.tiktok.com/@jennabagpipes
https://www.patreon.com/jennabagpipes
https://www.jennadennison.com

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Leslie Anne Harrison:
You can Check out Leslie Anne Harrison’s projects on her website:
https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/
Be sure to check out her Flute books, “Playing Outside the Lines”
https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/store
and her “Irish Flute Library” https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/the-irish-flute-library
I took the recording from Greg Lotta’s Recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IHALOj6JhE&t=941s

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Christian Wandzala
You can see some of Christian’s musical projects on Social media here:
https://www.facebook.com/catandhare
and his band, Leaky Bellows with his wife Emily Sine Nomine! (CONGRATULATIONS!) and John Charles Here: https://www.facebook.com/trollmoss

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Cassandre Balosso-Bardin
You can check out Cassandre’s extensive work on her website here:
http://www.cassandrebalossobardin.com/
Be sure also to check out the “International Bagpipe Organization” which she founded:
https://www.internationalbagpipeorganisation.com/

I took the recording from Greg Lotta, which you can watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrZ5h0lINI&t=195s

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Eileen Budd:
You can check out Eileen on Social Media, she puts out stellar 60 second Scottish Stories on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/eileenbudd/?hl=en
She also has her own podcast, Scottish Folk:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scottish-folk/id1674005044

You should also check out her adaptation of the Ossian Poems:

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Thanks to Beth Clark-McDonal, for the use of “Jock O Piper” for the Cover art, Check it out here:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/jack-o-piper-beth-clark-mcdonal.html?product=poster

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social media / website links
https://www.youtube.com/@jennabagpipes
https://www.tiktok.com/@jennabagpipes
https://www.patreon.com/jennabagpipes
https://www.jennadennison.com

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I took the recording from Greg Lotta, which you can watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrZ5h0lINI&t=195s

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You should also check out her adaptation of the Ossian Poems:

Previous Episode

S7 E23 Drummond Castle Manuscript Part 2

Tunes:
David Young: Tail Todle, Collar Reel, Macfarlane’s Reel, Inverara Reel, The Wood of Fyvie, Four and twenty Highlandmen, What Meikle Sorrow Ails You, Corby Reel, Wattie Laing, O’er Bogie, Up and Worst them All Willy, Because I was a bonny Lad, Unfortunate Jock, The Confederacy, Kirkcudbright, You’ll Ay be Welcome Back Again, The Old Wife Beyond the Fire, Rob Shore in the Harvest, A Ranting Highlandman, Fettercairn Reel,
Patrick MacDonald: North Highland Reel #10
William Dixon: Hacky Honey

Thanks to Stephen McNally for the reversed negative image of the title page.

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Thanks to Rob Felsburg for these lovely Scottish Smallpipes which feature heavely on this episode. Check out his instruments here:
https://www.thequietpiper.com/

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The Majority of the Tunes on this episode come from The Drummond Castle Manuscript by David Young, likely created in 1737. It is split up into 2 PDFs on Ross’s Music Page: The First PDF includes an index, which was very necessary for figuring out the titles on some of the harder to read pages.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

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You can Listen to Part 1 (from several years ago) where ever you get your podcasts of here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e04
Tunes (For Part 1)
Tunes:
David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript: Athol Braes, Kiss’d Yestereen, New Bigging, The Malt Man, Kick the World Before You
William Napier: Braes of Athol
Neil Gow & Sons: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
James Rook: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
William Gunn: Oh How I was Kiss’d Yestreen
Donald MacDonald: Kick the Rogues Out
Elizabeth Ross: You Silly Fool

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PART 2

1737: Tail Todle, Collar Reel, Macfarlane’s Reel, Inverara Reel, The Wood of Fyvie, Four and twenty Highlandmen, What Meikle Sorrow Ails You, Corby Reel, Wattie Laing, O’er Bogie, Up and Worst them All Willy, Because I was a bonny Lad. All from David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

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Unfortunate Jock:

1737: David Young has it as Unfortunate Jock.

1784: Tune number 10 from “North Highland Reels” section of Patrick McDonald’s Collection.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_Highland_Vocal_Airs_To_w/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA34&printsec=frontcover

You can buy the annotated print of the book with tune titles filled in here:
https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-V7M9GD/the-patrick-mcdonald-collection

“A Jig” (No. 193) from James Aird
https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00rugg/page/n80/mode/1up?view=theater

This lovely Set from Brìghde Chaimbeul
Turf’s Lodge into Aird’s Jig
https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/track/turf-lodge-airds-jig

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1737: From David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript:

The Confederacy, Kirkcudbright, You’ll Ay Be Welcome Back Again, The Old Wife Beyond the Fire, Rob Shore in The Harvest All from David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf

Next Episode

S7 E25 200 Year old tunes on a 100 Year old Chanter Donald MacDonald Playthrough part 3

Tunes:
Donald MacDonald: Coutie’s Wedding, The Braes of Lochaber, The High Way to Linton, Fall of Foyers (The Whimsical), The Bride Has a Bonny Thing, The House of Gray (Plovers in the Hills), Morag is Domhnull (Marion & Donald), The Smith’s Daughter, An Irish Jig, The Bridge of Perth, The Kilt is My Delight, I ha’e a Wife o’ My Ain, Roslin Castle, MacFarlane’s Lilt, The Campbells are Coming, The Duke of Perth, Kate Dalrymple (Jingling Johnie),The Boat Leaks (The Three Girls of Portree), The Munster Mare, The Wren’s Death, A Mulinn Dubh, Buckskin Kilt, The Wren’s Death, The Kilt is my Delight, Jenny Dang The Weaver, The Grinder, Lady Bighouse’s Reel, Brigis Mhic Ruaridh

Thanks to Tiber for Visiting with me this summer and letting me share some of our chat and his own lovely singing.
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All of the Tunes this week come from Donald MacDonald’s 1828 collection of dance music.
You can see the National Library of Scotland’s Copy here:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682638

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