Worlds Past
Gary West looks ahead to the most important piping week of the year, with music from a range of artists appearing at Piping Live and reflections on pipe bands of the past.
Gary West looks ahead to a massive week in the piping and drumming world, as Piping Live, the biggest festival of its kind in the world begins in earnest. And as the world pipe band championships get back underway for the first time since 2019, he reflects on the pipe band sound of the past, with sets from the Vale of Atholl from 1987 and the Edinburgh City Police from 1962. We also hear from the newly crowned Scottish pipe band champions, the Field Marshall Montgomery, from the Inveraray and District in concert in 2013, and from soloists Connor Sinclair, Colin MacLellan and Andrea Boyd, while the high energy folk sound is provided by the flying fingered Lorne MacDougall and uillean pipe supremo, Paddy Keenan.
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Music Used:
Artist: Paddy Keenan
Title: The Flagstone of Memories, Anderson’s, Mooly Bawn, The Bucks of Oranmore
Artist: Field Marshall Montgomery
Title: The Sandpiper, Archie Beag, Bronni’s Blue Brozzi, La Baum Lady Madelina Sinclair, Stirling Castle, Sleepy Maggie, Tail Toddle, Francis Morton’s
Artist: Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band
Title: The Royal Scottish Pipers Society, Struan Robertson, The Sheepwife
Artist: Connor Sinclair
Title: Major Manson at Clachantrushal, Susan MacLeod, Broadford Bay
Artist: Scotrail Vale of Atholl
Title: Archie MacKenzie of Dumbarton, IF MacKenzie of Garrynahine, Caledonian Society of London, The Easy Club Reel, Eileen Mary Connolly, Donald MacLeod, Old Hag You Have Killed Me,
Artist: Colin MacLellan
Title: The Fairie’s Hornpipe, John F Kennedy, The Clachnacuddin Hornpipe
Artist: Andrea Boyd
Title: Hector the Hero, Jack Daniel’s, Molly Rankin, Michael Rankin
Artist: Inveraray and District Pipe Band
Title: Ascension Reels – Lament for Owen Roe O’Neill (trad, arranged Alan MacDonald,
Artist: Lorne MacDougall
Title: Thug air a Bhodich Mor, The Gravel Walk, Richard Dwyers, The Gravel Walk
Broadcast
- Sat 6 Aug 202221:00BBC Radio Scotland
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