017: A Christmas Episode - Timothy Cummings

Tim Cummings is a composer, arranger, and performer of music. He's written many excellent bagpipe tunes and arranged many more. In this episode we talk about a few of the holiday tunes that he's arranged in his collection, "On This Day Earth Shall Ring," (link below,) as well as musical modalities, alternative tunings, and many more things!As a special treat: Tim shares several recordings of his performances of the tunes in-question with other excellent musicians, (additional links below).Tune in to this episode to hear Tim say, "...I can always pick the people who've been at least bored during a sermon..."---For this episode, as for the past few, we've been talking about Christmas / Holiday tunes playable on pipes - their origins, fun facts, etc. We have been be leaning heavily on arrangements by Timothy Cummings, which are available as single-sheet downloads and in a beautifully printed collection at birchenmusic.com.Some featured tunes from this episode, as performed by Timothy Cummings and friends:A solis ortus cardine: https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk?t=74The Christ-Child's Lullaby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKduwz8JoXk&feature=youtu.be&t=1364Comfort, comfort, ye my people: https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk?t=1922.Some other favorites of mine that Tim has done:5/4 Waltzes with Jeremiah McLane https://soundcloud.com/birchen-music/jeremiah-mclane-timothy-cummings-54-waltzes-from-the-wind-among-the-reedsMan of Constant Sorrow/British Field March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc1eIYHM_vw---...And now, some keywords: Bagpipes, bagpipe, bag, pipe, pipes, pipe, band, pipeband, drums, bass, tenor, snare, Scottish, festival, Highland, games, WUSPBA, small, smallpipe, smallpipes, SSP, advent, epiphany, Christmas, holiday