S4E36: Some Holiday Tunes and Bodachan a Gharidh (The Merry old Gardener)

Tunes: O’Farrell: Lewellynn, A Piper o’er the Meadows Straying, Black Joke John Parry: Nos Calan Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning My Setting?: Mill Mill o, Baloo Lammy Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh (The Jolly Old gardener) Aird: Bodachan a garidh (The Merry old gardener) Be Sure to Head over to Ryan Kirk’s Youtube Channel to catch some stellar tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7jY3tVICOSthOfESS8MjNA Here’s a Link to the Newgrange Winter Solstice Livestream which will begin shortly after this episode is posted and should run through till the Solstice. https://livestream.com/accounts/285324/events/9440165/player You can check out photos of past Solstices from Mayeshowe at the below link: http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/ If you want more Christmas Bagpipe Carols Check out Charlie Rutan’s Christmas Bagpipe Series on Facebook: They are a great bit of history and music, well worth a watch! https://www.facebook.com/Christmas-Bagpipes-101281248507906 1808 O’Farrell: The Black Joke With Variations: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780734 1770s? James Aird: Bodachan a garidh https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87706527 1828: Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh Jolly Old Gardner https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682627 1808 O’Farrell: Unfortunately Lewelynn and A Piper O’er the Meadows Straying are both from the O’Farrell Pocketbook companion Volume 3 that I can’t link to easily. You can download the PDF off Ross’s Music Page, or look at the Cape Irish ABC notation Settings: http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofpc/ofpc.3/ofpc.3_table.html 1781 John Parry: Nos Calan https://viewer.library.wales/4675640#?c=&m=&s=&cv=17&manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fdamsssl.llgc.org.uk%2Fiiif%2F2.0%2F4675640%2Fmanifest.json&xywh=-213%2C458%2C4871%2C3692 Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning: Matt just posted his setting for the tune that I am Riffing on into the Discussions on the LBPS forum on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/LBPSGroup/?multi_permalinks=4233880116629245&notif_id=1607973793745357&notif_t=group_highlights&ref=notif 1820ish Robert Topliff: It bares a passing resemblance to this rather busy Nineteenth Century Setting From Robert Topliff: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104483151 Please take advantage of the Tune Collection tab: https://www.wetootwaag.com/tunesources Also Please take a minute to leave a review of the podcast! Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA