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Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast — 213 episodes

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S10 E 10 Lowland and Border Pipers' Society Tune of the Month Oyster Wife's Rant

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S 10 E09 Dixon Playthrough Part 4 with tune from John Dally

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S 10 E 08 Dixon Playthrough Part 3 with David Faulkner

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S 10 E 07 20 Year Anniversary, 200 Episodes and 100K downloads

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S 10 E 06 Humours of Glen, O'Farrell Playthrough Part 1

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S 10 E 05 Dixon Playthrough Part 2 With a Tune from Chris Norman and David Greenberg

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S 10 E 04 Dorrington Lads: William Dixon, Iain Gelston and Donald Lindsay

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S 10 E 03 2026 William Dixon Playthrough Jamie Campbell Conversation rerun

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S 10 E 02 Kilts, Bagpipers and Living History. A Chat with Isaac Walters (A Rerun from 2021)

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S 10 E 01 Abolish Ice Chippewa Valley Irish Immigration with guest musicians Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain (Rerun)

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S 09 E 36 Season Finale Dunkeld Sessions

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S 09 E 35 Donald Macdonald Playthrough Part 5

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S 09 E 34 2025 Mixtape Episode, Bandcamp Friday Album Launch Edition!

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S 09 E 33 Dunkeld Cathedral LBPS Concert

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S 09 E 32 Intro to Border Pipes Talk

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S 09 E 31 Halloween Episode Part 2 Ghost Stories

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S 09 E 30 Halloween Episode The Werewolf

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S 09 E 29 Advocates Manuscript Part 2 with contributions from Brian McCandless and Cathal Brown

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S 09 E 28 LBPS Tune Share Zoom Session Announcement

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S 09 E 27 Battle of Prestonpans 280th Johnny Cope Discussion with Nicolas Brown

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S 09 E 26 Listener Submitted Special

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S 09 E 25 Summer Rambles Part 2 with songs and tunes from Plimoth Patuxet

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S 09 E 24 Wetootwaag's Summer Rambles Part 1 Featuring Mystic Seaport Museum and more

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S 09 E 23 Cogadh no Sith War or Peace Waterloo Part 3 with writings from Keith Sanger and tunes from Ailean Domhnullach and Simon Chadwick

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S 09 E 22 Looking Forward to Pipers' Gathering 2025 Part 2 With Dick Hensold, Tracy Jenkins, and Ian Kinnear

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S 09 Bandcamp Friday Announcement

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S 09 E 21 Hyping Pipers' Gathering 2025 Part 1 with Eliot Grasso, Chris Gray and Shannon Heaton

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Sleep To a Storm on the North Carolina Beach

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S 09 E 20 LBPS Tune Share Sessions Follow Up

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S 09 E 19 Zexuan Qiao Border Chanter

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S 09 E 18 Waterloo and Peninsular War tunes part 2 With a track from Jason Rouse

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S 09 E 17 O'Farrell Vol 3 Playthrough with Donnacha Dwyer Uilleann Pipes

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S 09 E 16 Waterloo Tunes part 1 Johnny Cope and the 71st Regiment of foot

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S 09 E 15 Robert Miller's 1838 Highland Bagpipe Manuscript with tune from Dàimh

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S 09 E 14 Listener Submitted Special Rerun and Reminder

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S 09 E 13 Fitzmaurice's New Collection of Irish Tunes Vol VI and Irish Washerwoman with tunes from Rod Nevin

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S 09 E 12 Don't Forget to send me some Tunes for the Listener Submitted Special!

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S 09 E 11 Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes Nos. 1-4 revisited

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S 09 E 10 Happy Bandcamp Friday

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S 09 E 09 Paddy Whack Revisited, Erin Go Braugh and Fitzmaurice Volume V

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S 09 E 08 A Selkie's Progress with Song by Berit Allison and others

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S 09 E 07 Mini Episode Check Out Droning On Podcast this week

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S 09 E 06 Paddy Whack With a Song from Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer

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S 09 E 05 The Advocate’s Manuscript New Chanter, Ghost Notes and also I’m the new President of Lowland and Border Piping Society! with tunes from Fionnllagh MacA’Phiocar and Donald Lindsay

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S 9 E 04 Celtic Melodies Mail Coach and Angus MacKay's High B Manuscript

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Season 9 E 03 Celtic Melodies with new article from Roddy Cannon & Keith Sanger and tunes from Rod Nevin

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S 09 E 02 Rerun of a Conversation about Bagpipe Myths and History with Keith Sanger

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S 09 E 01 New Intro Music and Season 5 MixTape Rerun

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S 08 E 29 Season Finale MacDonald Drone Regulator with Song from Adam Sanderson

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S 08 E 28 Season 8 Mix Tape part 2

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S 08 E 27 Season 8 Mix Tape part 1

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S 08 E 26 180 year old Tunes on a 180 Year old Chanter Angus MacKay playthrough on Donald MacKay Chanter (maybe)

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S 08 E 25 Donald MacDonald Playthrough Part 4 Dunrobin Castle and Bung Your Eye

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Season 8 Episode 24: Halloween Special Cemetery Piping

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S 08 E 23 Witch Treatises Halloween Special with Tunes from Patrick Hutchinson and Autorickshaw Part 2

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S 08 E 22 Witch Treatises Halloween Special Part 1

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S 08 E 21 John Bell, Byker Hill and Dorrington Lads with songs from Frankie Archer, Cork Sacred Harp and many others

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S 08 E 20 Wetootwaag's Summer Rambles with tunes from Jim Sanders, Robert Edwards, Abe Zettek, Daniel Laxer, Cory Rudell and more

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S 08 E 19 Cold and Raw Album Discussion

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S 08 E 18 Music of the John Sutherland Manuscript

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S 08 E 17 The Sutherland Manuscript (article by Ross Anderson)

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S 08 E 16 Getting Pumped for Pipers' Gathering 2024

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S 08 E 15 70,000 Downloads Listener Submitted Special

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S 8 E 14 First Three Days with Colin Ross Bagpipes

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S 08 E 13 Small Small Pipe Episode Sutherland Tunes on Quiet Piper pipes

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S 08 E 12 Saw a Lassie of Fifteen in the Mines at Wicklow: John Sutherland Manuscript Part 2

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S 08 E 11 Exploring Key Signatures from Walker Jackson Part 2 with tunes from Frank Claudy and Patrick Hutchinson

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S 08 E 10 Tunes from the William Litten Manuscript

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S08 E09 Exploring the Key Signatures in Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes

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S 08 E 08 John Peacock’s Collection Part 1 (aka 5 days with a Northumbrian Small pipe Chanter)

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S 08 E07 George MacLeod's 1784 Repertoire part 2 (Patrick MacDonald's Piper)

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S 08 E 06 Gathering Of the Clans Revisited a Conversation with Barry Shears

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S 08 E 05 Thank You Ross Anderson: Tunes from John Sutherland and David Young

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S 08 E 04 George MacLeod's 1784 Repertoire part 1 (Patrick MacDonald's North Highland Piper)

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S 08 E 03 My Approach to Music Theory and the Historical Repertoire

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S 08 E 02 UPDATED Robert Bremner's Rudiments of Music

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S08 E 01 My Approach to a Historical Repertoire

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Rerun: The Patrick McDonald’s Discussion With Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart

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Rerun Important Influences: The Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs Audiobook

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S7 E29 Susanna Blamire (the Muse of Cumberland) and the Season Finale

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S7 E28 Mixtape Episode

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S7 E27 Singer Spotlight: Annie Arnott of Skye (1887 - 1978) Featuring musical guest Brìghde Chaimbeul

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S7 E26 Piping at Fort William Historical Park with appearance from Abe Zettek

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

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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

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S7 E23 Drummond Castle Manuscript Part 2

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S7 E22 Baltioura and Souters of Selkirk

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S7 E21 John Sutherland's Manuscript Part 1

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S7 E20 Pipers' Gathering Sessions

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S7 E19 24 Hours with Quietpiper Small Pipes

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S7 E18 Rowly Powly Album Announcement

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S7 E17 Wetootwaag In the Wild Trying Other People's Bagpipes with Rob Edwards

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Season 7 Episode 16 Piping on Madeline Island, Lake Superior (Wetootwaag In the Wild)

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S7 E15 Exploring the Sources for Larry Grogan

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S7 E14 Larry Grogan (Coppers and Brass) With Paddy Keenan and Lynn Sanders

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S7 E13 50K Download Special with so many guest musicians

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S7 E12 Listener Recording Request Mini Episode

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Season 7 Episode 11 Lark in the Morning Part II Galloway Tom

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Season 7 Episode 10 Lark in the Morning Part 1: Over the Hills and Far Away

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S7 E09 Cock Up Thy Beaver (Rerun)

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S7 E08 John Charles Guest Host Singer Spotlight: Kenneth MacIver of Lewis with guest tracks from Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie, Allan MacDonald, Julie Fowlis and Jeremy Kingsbury

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Season 7 Episode 07 Dissertation Chapter Readthrough

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S7 E06 Hymn Tunes with Guest Host James Moyar

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S7 E05 Joey Abarta's King of the Blind Review and Donald MacDonald Playthrough Part 2

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S7 E04 Smollet Holden's Collection of Favorite Irish Airs on C Pipes

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S7 E03 Turlough McSweeney, Simon Pokagon and the Chicago Worlds Fair

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S7 E02 Jackson's Celebrated 2023 Playthrough

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S7 E01 Women of Watlen: Christian Dalrymple with Performance by James Moyar

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S6 Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes With tune from James McGlauhlin

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Season 6 Mix Tape

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S6 Barry Shears’ new Book, Donald MacDonald’s old Book and John Walsh Shuttle pipes

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S6 Puirt à Beul with Guest host John Charles Bauschatz

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S6 Halloween Episode With Tunes by James Moyar

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S6 The Parcel of Rogues and Straight & Skillern episode with guest song by Christine Sparks

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S6 E18 Drone Regulators Episode with a Harta Sample and tunes from Harta, Sean Reidy, David Asbrink and Juhan Suits

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S6 Old Favorites Robert Bremner part 3 Bremner’s Guitar Tutor with Special Thanks to Ryan Kirk and Rob Turner

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S6 Old Favorites again, Robert Bremner 1.5 and 2 Jack Lattin Revisited and Robert & James Bremner and the Declaration of Independence

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S6 Old Favorites S4 E32 Robert Bremner, Vibratto Church Music, Alan Ramsay and William McGibbon

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S6 E14 Eliza Ross Manuscript and Borrowed Scottish Smallpipes

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S6: Cabar Féidh Vol II: Black and the Grey, Rakish Paddy with tracks from the Goodman Trio and Tiarnan O Duinnchinn

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S6: Cabar Féidh Volume I: 1734-2022 with tracks from Barry Shears and Brian May

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S6 E11 New Pipes, New Books, New Album

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S6 E 10 A conversation with Jamie Campbell about William Dixon

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s6e09 Mini Episode Livestream announcement

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S6E08 Smollet Holden, The Hermit of Killarney and Lead Belly

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S6E07: Litten Manuscript Part II: Kiss My Wife and Welcome, Speed the Plow

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S6E06 Fitzmaurice no. III, John Murphy, Walker Jackson and Cannon Goodman

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S6E5 Tripping up the Stairs

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S6 E4 A Chat with John Charles Bauschatz

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S6 E3 Tha Mi Sgith, Buain na Rainich, Cutting Bracken, Drummond Castle, Loch Ness With Guests Ian Crane, Jessica (@thehighlandharper) and Anna Seda (@doescellothingz)

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S6E02: Valentine's Day Tunes

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S6 E 01: Bagpipe Myths and History, A chat with Keith Sanger

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Welcome to Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast: Introduction and Review of Sources

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S5 E35: Season Finale Cape Breton Tunes and Eliza Ross Manuscript

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S5 E34: Cape Breton Piping Chat with Barry Shears

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S5 E 33: 8 Months in, High B and C on Highland Pipes Tips and Tricks with a Tune from Malin Lewis and Bob Cameron

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S5 E32 Wetootwaag’s Mix Tape of Other people’s Music

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S5 E31 International Uilleann Piping Day: Hibernian Muse, John Murphy and a Song from Pat D’Arcy

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S5E30 Fitzmaurice's Spooky Gold Ring with Tune from Blackie O'Connell

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5e29: Caledonian and Hibernian Muse Audiobook and Tunes

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s5e28 The Gravel Walk To Kiss Mother with Tunes from Frankie Kennedy & Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tim Britton

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S5E27: Brian Howard and Sean Lally Interview with tunes from Finbar Furey and Steven Dockery

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S5E26 20,000 Download Special and Update

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S5E25: General Leslie's Highland March from Oscar and Malvina

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s5e24 Hymns and Mackintoshs Lament with James Moyar and Chris Gray

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S5E23: Tunes from the Patrick McDonald Discussion with guest tune from Ronan Browne

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S5E22: Discussion of The Patrick McDonald Collection With Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart

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S5 E21: Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs Audiobook

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Bonus Episode 2

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S5E20 Lament of a Druid and William Litten's Manuscript With Guest Music from David Barrett

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Season 5 Episode 19 A Chat with Joey Abarta about Pat Sky and American Uilleann Piping

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Season 5 Episode 18: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe & I am Asleep Don’t Wake Me with Music from Pete Stewart, Rob Turner and Simon Chadwick

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Season 5 Episode 17: New To me Books Preview

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Season 5 Episode 16: Colclough Geoghegan, O’Farrell and Sky

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Season 5 Episode 15: John Murphy’s Collection & Have a Care of Her Johnny

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Season 5 Episode 14: Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No. 1 with Tune from Chris Norman and David Greenberg

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Season 5 Episode 13: The Campbells are Coming with a Tune From Xavier Boderiou

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Season 5 Episode 12 Under Named GHB Tunes From James Aird and Guest Track from Brìghde Chaimbeul

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Season 5 Episode 11 Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Conclusion

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Season 5 Episode 10 Jackson playthrough part 2 & Drops of Brandy Deep Dive

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Season 5 Episode 09 Pinched Notes On Highland Pipes and Tunes

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S5E08 One Year Anniversary from the Reboot! And my new Koehler & Quinn Chanter plays loads of O’Farrell tunes

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Season 5 Episode 07 Lowland Pipes! And Season Intermission

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Season 5 Episode 6: Kilts, Bagpipers and Living History. A Chat with Isaac Walters

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S5E05 Chippewa Valley Irish Immigration, Canon Goodman, with guest musicians Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain

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Season 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle Manuscript

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Season 5 Episode 3 Play Through of Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Part 1

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Season 5 Episode 2 Dixon and Fitzmaurice Travel to Roslin Castle looking for a Bonny Lass

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S5E01 Uilleann Pipes and Strathspeys with Tunes from Jarlath Henderson & Innes Watson and Paul Anderson

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S4E37: Jackson's Tweedside Season Finale

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

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S4E35: Bremner Part 3: Bremner’s Guitar Tutor with Special Thanks to Ryan Kirk and Rob Turner

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S4 Bandamp Friday Reminder

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S4 E34 Robert Bremner Part 2: Robert & James Bremner and the Declaration of Independence

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S4 E33: Robert Bremner Part 1.5 and Jack Lattin Revisited

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S4 E32 Robert Bremner Part 1: Vibratto, Church Music, Allan Ramsay and William McGibbon

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Happy International Uilleann Piping Day!

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S4 E31: Halloween Edition! Fairies, Ghosts and Devilish Pipers Special Halloween Episode

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Country Dance Live Stream Announcement November 1st at 3:30 pm

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S4E30: John Walsh's 1750 Caledonia Country Dances With Hare in the Corn and other tunes

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S4 E29: Cooke's 1796 Country Dances and a Discussion of Barrington's "Waking the Piper"

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S4 E28: Hey Johnny Cock up thy Beaver and A brief History of Slang

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S4E27 Oscar & Malivina A Chat with Nicolas Brown

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S4E26: Keep The Country Bonny Lassie and Jackson's Welcome Home

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S4E25: Dorrington Lads A Conversation with Donald WG Lindsay

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S4 E24: Descriptive Pieces The Irish Fox Hunt, Oscar and Malvina, The Desperate Battle and The Stool of Repentance

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S4E23: Maggie Cameron AKA The Lasses Pisses Brandy and O’Farrell original Waterford Waltz

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S4E22: Hoop her and Gird Her

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S4E21: Clean Pease Straw, Robert Bremner and John Sutherland Collections

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S4E20 Edward Bunting Revisited, Bonny Portmore, Have You Seen My Valentine with guest Simon Chadwick

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S4E19: Love and a Pipe, Highland Harry Back Again, with guests Ryan Behnke and Unwelcome Visitors

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Live Stream Announcement for August 8 Bagpipes and the North West Company

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S4 E18: Over the Water to Charlie, Greig’s Pipes, John Walsh Dance Music

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S4 E17 A Rock and a Wi Pickle Tow, Harp Tunes with Special Guest performance by Simon Chadwick Introduction Edward Bunting and William McGibbon collection

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S4 E16 Napoleonic Fur Trade Pipers, Downfall of Paris, Up and a Warr em a Willie and many more

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S 4 E 15 When The King Enjoys His Own again the World will be Turned Upside Down

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Season 4 Episode 14 Many 98s I Hae a Wife of My Ain with Guest Tim MacDonald and Jeremy Ward

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Season 4 Episode 13: Robin Power’s Fancy, My Woer Be Merry, Sir J.M. Mackenzie’s Reel, Earl Marischal Reel, Hills of Glenorchy, Humours of Last Night.

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S4 E12 MacKay, MacDonald, O'Farrell tunes with Special guest Carrie Dlutowski

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S4 E11 Amazing Grace, John Newton & The KKK, The Little Spree and MacKay's Rant (With Chris McMullan)

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S4 E10 Donald MacDonald Corrections to previous Episodes, every old Dance tune was Donald MacDonald.

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Season 4 Episode 9 Hebrides Episode- Improv at St.Clement’s Church on Harris, The Three Girls from Portree, Skye Boat Song, To Daunton Me and Corrienessan’s Salute.

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S4E08 Lindsay System Chanter, Donald Lindsay, Cam St. Louis, We’ll Gang nae mair to yon town

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Episode 7: Cairngorms and Hamish Napier

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Season 4 Episode 6 The Pretty Dirk, The Pretty Sporran, Skye Reel, Sheeling o Guira

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Season 4 Episode 5 Bog an Lochan, Carolan's Concerto, Glasgow City Police, Noran Keeshna, Coosey Jig

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Season 4 Episode 4 Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

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Episode 6: Season 4 Episode 3, New name, new Tune Collection! Welcome to James Aird's Collection

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Season 4 Episode 2

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Wetootwaag's Podcast Of Bagpipe Power Covid Season Episode 1

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Not a Bagpipe show :(

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Episode 2: Season 3 episode 2

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Episode 1: Season 3 episode 1