Pipe Bands of Yesteryear
The definitive bagpipe programme featuring top quality music from Scotland and far beyond.
Gary West is in reflective mood as rewinds the clock to take in the music of some of the great pipe bands of the past, including several that are no longer with us. The industrial communities of the central belt of Scotland are well represented with sets from Dysart and Dundonald, Polkemmet Colliery and the eight-times world champions through the 1950s and 60s, based in a Grangemouth paper mill, Muirhead and Sons. Dowco Triumph Street from British Columbia and the Lothian and Borders Police bands go through their musical paces too, and there’s a stop off in Melbourne, Australia, for a set from the Victoria Police. Away from the pipe band scene, we dip into some classic recordings from Robert Mathieson, Yorkshireman John Walsh, and the Breton bagpipe and bass guitar duo of Patrick Molard and Alain Genty, while we bookend this week’s programme with two highly charged, full octane offerings from The Scott Wood Band and Rory Campbell & Malcolm Stitt.
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Artist: Scott Wood Band
Title: Dr Alasdair MacKenzie, Barber Avenue
Artist: Dysart and Dundonald
Title: Leaving Lunga, The Shepherd’s Crook, The Rookery
Artist: Muirhead and Sons
Title: Piper’s Prayer, Cockney Jocks, Bonnie Lass o Fyvie
Artist: Patrick Molard and Alain Genty
Title: Port Urlar
Artist: Polkemmet Grorud Pipe Band
Title: Glensanda, Mathieson’s Farewell, Tom Billy’s Jig, The Swaggering Jig, Campbelltown Kiltie Ball, Mac ‘n Irish, The Easy Club Reel, Itchy Fingers
Artist: Robert Mathieson
Title: The Radical Road, Partners in Time
Artist: Lothian and Borders Pipe Band
Title: The Sleeping Tune
Artist: John Walsh
Title: Dr Ross’s 50th Welcome to the Argyllshire Gathering, Jean Mauchlin, P/M Donald MacLean of Lewis
Artist: The Victoria Police Pipe Band
Title: Acid Piper, The Bulgarian Bandit, Adrian’s Obsession
Artist: Dowco Triumph Street
Title: Dugald MacColl’s Farewell to France, Atholl Cummers, Pretty Marion
Artist: Rory Campbell and Malcolm Stitt
Title: The Islay Ranters, Tar the House
Broadcast
- Sat 11 Feb 202321:00BBC Radio Scotland
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