Piping Down Under
Gary West takes you on a musical piping trip to Australia, introduces a classic archive session from 1980, and remembers a certain 'amazing' bagpipe number 1 hit from 50 years ago!
Gary West introduces more top tunes of the bagpipe kind including a whistle stop musical tour of Australia, with sets from the Victoria Police, Nunawading and Western Australia Police pipe bands. There’s an archive gem too, with a dip into a 1980 studio session from one of the greats of modern piping, Pipe Major Gavin Stoddard, whose contribution includes one of the classic tunes from the pibroch repertoire, Ronald MacDonald of Morar’s Lament. Mother and son team of Margaret and Martyn Bennett treat us to their unique blend of tradition with a modern twist, the flying fingers of Davy Spillane feature on uillean pipes, while these hardy perennials, the Battlefield Band, show why they’ve been leading the way in bagpipe-infused folk music for five decades now. And talking of the half-century, we mark the anniversary of a certain release that spent five ‘amazing’ weeks at Number One in the UK Charts fifty years ago!
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Music Used:
Artist: Battlefield Band
Title: Col MacLean of Ardgour, Pipe Major Jimmy McGregor, Rocking the Baby
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Artist: Victoria Police Pipe Band
Title: Daryl Boyle , Murray’s Fancy, The Dirty Lough, Reverie, Helen Young, Mrs Donald MacPherson, Shovel Tongue, Megalomania
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Artist: Gavin Stoddart
Title: The Braes of Brecklet, The Abercairney Highlanders
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Artist: Gavin Stoddart
Title: Maggie Cameron, Blair Drummond, The Sheepwife, Lochiel’s Awa tae France
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Artist: Martyn Bennett
Title: Buain a Choirce (reaping song)
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Artist: Nunawading Pipe Band
Title: Home to the Kyles, Miss Drummond of Perth, Fiona McDonald, Muddah Rudh, Edwyn’s Digi Place
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Artist: Gavin Stoddart
Title: Ronald MacDonald of Morar’s Lament
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Artist: Davy Spillane
Title: Undertow
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Artist: Western Australia Police Pipe Band
Title: The Little Cascade
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Artist: Pipes and Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
Title: Amazing Grace
Broadcast
- Sat 16 Apr 2022 21:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland except Extra
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