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Tunes: John Playford: Johnny Cock thy Beaver O’Carolan: Cock up thy Beaver Variations Dixon: Watty’s Away Oswald: Johnny Cock-up thy Beaver Robert Bremner: Scots Bonnet O’Farrell: The Blue Bonnett A.L. Lloyd: The Bonny Black Hare Cover Art from David Allan’s Lead Processing at Leadhills: Weighing the Lead Bars from the 1780s showing a Blue Bonnet and a Cocked hat. Courtesy of National Galleries Scotland: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/99127/lead-processing-leadhills-weighing-lead-bars 1686: John Playford, Dancing Master rendition of Johnny Cock thy Beaver here: https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dancing-master/Dance/images/Play1138.gif This whole database was helpful: https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dancing-master/Index.htm 1900: I would not have known to look here were it not for John Glen’s monumental work on early Scottish melodies, if you hadn’t noticed it is Glen’s collection that makes up much of the archival copies of these texts I rely on: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-

Tunes: By Nicolas Brown from new album "Good Enough Music for them who Love it" https://nicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/releases O’Farrell (et.al) Oscar & Malvina Set for the Pipes Aird (et. al) Battle from Oscar And Malvina You can see when you look at the sheet music how much work and craft Nicolas put into creating these renditions of tunes. His performances borrow from many of the known material we have of Oscar and Malvina into some beautiful descriptive and emotive pieces of music. Still, you can find the bones he used below: Head over to pick up his album: “Good Enough Music For Them Who Love It” https://nicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/releases O’Farrell’s Oscar & Malvina Set for the Pipes: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781238 The Overture setting Nicolas found in the National Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2015560929/ If I had looked it was on the National Library of Scotland as well! Feel so foolish for never searching! https://digital.nls.uk/special-c

Tunes: O’Farrell: Jackson’s Welcome Home Aria Di Camera: Let’s Shak her well Bremner: Keep the Country Bonny Lassie Donald MacDonald: Keep the Country Bonny Lassie Jackson’s Welcome Home From O’Farrell: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780410 1727 English Dance Setting for Let’s Shak her well (Keep the country Bonny Lassie) https://archive.org/details/AriaDiCamera1727/page/n71/mode/2up?q=shak+her Bremner’s Setting for Keep the Country Bonny Lassie (Seems also to be a highland Pipe Setting) https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002647 Donald MacDonald’s Setting for Keep the Country Bonny Lassie: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682561 Vote!!! Voting is obviously not actually going to solve all of the problems in this country, but it has the potential more than most years to fix a couple of them. This website is pretty helpful to see how to vote in your state. https://howto.vote/ This website didn’t k

Tunes: William Dixon: Dorrington Lads by Donald WG Lindsay & Richard Youngs This episode is a track from Donald Lindsay and Richard Youngs' new album The History of Sleep and a conversation about Dorrington Lads, Dixon tunes, Bagpiping on Ascension Island in the Time of Covid and several other things with Donald and Hannah all the way from Ascension Island. You can and should check out the additional tracks by buying Donald and Richard’s excellent album “History of Sleep” here: https://goodenergy.bandcamp.com/ If you don’t have it yet, I really enjoyed looking at the sheet music for Dorrington Lads while listening to Donald’s performance, you can pick up Matt Seattle’s The Master Piper which is referenced occasionally in the episode and includes the sheet music for Dorrington Lads here: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition Cover art is showing the lovely Zexuan Qiao album on the cassette release of History of Sleep. Please take advantage of the Tune Collection tab: https:

Tunes: O’Farrell: Oscar and Malvina, Irish Fox Hunt Piobaireachd: The Desperate Battle Dixon: The Stool of Repentance Bremner: Wright’s Rant Gunn: The Piper’s Son O’Farrell’s Irish Fox Hunt: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781370 If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend watching this clip of Liam O’Flynn talking about and playing the Fox Chase: https://youtu.be/EQU84O8xZlE O’Farrell’s Oscar & Malvina Set for the Pipes: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781238 Angus MacKay’s Manuscript for The Desperate Battle of the Birds, This isn’t really the version I played, but I learned it then forgot it then played it from Kilberry’s Ceol Mor, but I can’t really link to that. http://www.ceolsean.net/docs/AM%20titles/Desperate%20Battle%20of%20the%20Birds.pdf William Dixon’s The Stool of Repentance: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition Bremner’s Setting for Wright’s Rant: https://digital.nls.uk/special-colle

Tunes: Dixon: The Lasses Bushes Brawly William Vickers: Lassess Pisses Brandy Gunn: William Roy’s Loomhouse James Scott Skinner: Maggie Cameron O’Farrell: Waterford Waltz, Bremner: The Lady’s Breast Knot The Lasses Bushes Brawly: From William Dixon’s Manuscript: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition Lasses Pisses Brandy From William Vickers' Manuscript: http://www.farnearchive.com/browsebycollection.asp It seems like this awesome Archive hasn’t been updated in nearly 20 years, and there are some issues with dead links, but if you search around you can find it here hopefully. Gunn’s William Roy’s Loomhouse From Ceol Sean: https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book03/Book03%2021a.pdf James Scott Skinner: Maggie Cameron: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0151 O’Farrell’s The Waterford Waltz: (PDF Download for 4th volume, tune number 138) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc4.pdf Bremner’s The Lady’s Breast Knot: https://digital.nls.uk/special-col

Tunes: Dixon: Hit Her Between the Legs Geoghegean: Jigg call’d Whip her & Gird Her Gow: Hoop Her and Gird Her O’Farrell: Bridget my Treasure Dixon’s Hit Her Between the Legs: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition John Geoghegan’s Setting for “Jigg call’d Whip her & Gird Her”: (it is on Page 10) https://books.google.com/books?id=2WAhy_kbUmQC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false Gow’s Setting for Hoop Her and Gird Her: (it is on page 12) https://books.google.com/books?id=MMOivICwWCkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbsgesummary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false O’Farrell’s Bridget My Treasure (PDF Download it is on Page 21 of the PDF, numbered 34 in the text http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf Please do 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:

Tunes: Donald MacDonald: Pease Straw O’Farrell: Short and Sweet Robert Bremner: Clean Pease Straw, Pudding Maggie John Sutherland: Jack Latone, Clean Pease Straw Pudding Maggie From Robert Bremner: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002845 Clean Pease Straw From Robert Bremner: https://digital.nls.uk/105003010 John Sutherland’s Clean Pease Straw: (PDF download link again, page 106) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-81-120.pdf Donald MacDonald’s Pease Straw: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682616 John Sutherland’s Setting for Jack Latone: (link to download PDF, tune is on page 34) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf If you search for Sutherland on Ross’s Music page you can find all of John Sutherland’s Manuscript. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html Here is the Article that references Jack Lattin’s death from dancing: http://www.setda

Once again Big thanks to Simon Chadwick to agreeing to be on the Podcast this week! Check Simon’s current projects out here: http://simonchadwick.net/ Bunting’s The Chanter’s Tune: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104979293 Clarke’s Setting for “The Song of the Chanter” I forgot to mention it has a different title I just got it off of Tune Archive: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Chanter%27sTune Bunting’s Have you Seen My Valentine? https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105814783 Simon Chadwick’s Youtube Video if you want to see him play: https://youtu.be/i9y-GxC2fR8 Bunting’s The Chorus Jig: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104978952 William Dixon’s Manuscript is available here: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition Neil Gow’s Setting for Drummond Castle: https://imslp.org/wiki/ASecondCollectionofStrathspeyReels,etc.(Gow,_Niel)#IMSLP338815 (Go to page 8) Donald MacDonald’s Th

Tunes: O’Farrell: Love and a Pipe Duet, Humours of Ardmore Donald MacDonald, Highland Harry Back Again Angus MacKay: Highland Harry Back Again Robert Burns: My Harry was a Gallant Gay Guest Track from Unwelcome Visitors: Young Tom Ennis, Jimmy Neary’s, The White Petticoat. Big thanks to Ryan Behnke for Bagpipe Friendship and collaboration! Listen to his tunes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bagpipebinky/ and check out his website: https://www.ryanbehnkeirishpiper.com/ You can check out Unwelcome Visitors here: https://www.facebook.com/unwelcomevisitors/ I bought their album on CD Baby which isn’t really doing that anymore, but looks like you can also buy their album on Itunes or listen on Spotify. Be sure to tune in for my Bagpipes and the North West Company program/facebook live stream on Saturday August 8th, at 1 PM US Central time. Check out https://www.facebook.com/Wetootwaag/ to watch and listen. O'Farrell Setting for Humours of Ardmore (Is sadly in a later volume I have yet to find Easy linki

Checkout the Facebook page here: https://facebook.com//Wetootwaags-Bagpipe-and-History-Podcast-105980514479825/ LIVE STREAM 1 PM Saturday August 8th, 2020 (US Central Time GMT -5:00) Generally this would be the weekend of the Rendezvous Days Pow Wow at Grand Portage Since we are not meeting in person I’ll be doing a live stream Music program Tune in to the Wetootwaag’s Bagpipes and History Podcast Facebook Page or the North American Voyageur Council Facebook Page (and likely some other places) for you to enjoy! Thanks! Saturday at 1 PM for a Live Stream I’ll be mostly playing Bagpipe Tunes on Scottish and Irish Bagpipes that would have been Popular in the 1790s, as well as a Discussion of the Bagpipers that Entertained the North West Company and Indigenous People throughout the Interior of Canada. (If Acoustics are too intense with Highland Pipes, likely to strongly Feature Uilleann Pipes)

John Walsh The Puff: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248231 John Walsh: The Laundry (Hot Pot): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90246647 John Walsh: Pot Stick or Shamboy (Over the water to Charlie): https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248183 James Oswald’s Over the Water to Charlie: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94596980 Angus MacKay’s Over the Water to Charlie: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007025 O’Farrell’s Setting for Shaun Bee: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780422 I got the Obituary for the Composed of Greig’s Pipes here: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Greig%27s_Pipes O’Farrell’s setting for Greig’s Pipes: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780146 Angus MacKay’s Greig’s Pipes: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-mus

Big thanks to Simon Chadwick to agreeing to be on the Podcast this week! Check Simon’s current projects out here: http://simonchadwick.net/ Donald MacDonald Setting of Dogs Bite Chapmen: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683232 Donald MacDonald Setting of The Rock and the wee Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683078 James Oswald’s Setting of A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94595720 William McGibbon Setting of A Rock and a wi Pickle Tow: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105870582 William McGibbon Setting of If E’er you do well it’s a wonder: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105870010 Edward Bunting’s Setting of John O’Reily the Active https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/text/bunting-vol-1 ON PAGE 41 Simon Chadwick is performing these dots: http://digital-library.qub.ac.uk/digital/collecti

Be Sure to Hunt down the Podcast on your Favorite Podcast listening service! If I’m not available on your podcast player of choice send me an email: wetootwaag@gmail.com Here’s a link to the podcast on Apple Podcasts/Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 The image for the episode is me dressed as my interpretation of George McKay when he piped for the North West Company at Grand Portage, with my reproduction George McKay Waterloo Pipes (thanks to Chris Black and Janet LaFrance for the image!) I used O’Neil’s setting for Downfall of Paris: Page 1: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/1201-1800/Sheet-1501-1600/1562a-Downfall-1stPage.gif Page 2: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/1201-1800/Sheet-1501-1600/1562b-Downfall-2ndPage.gif Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/Sheet-1801-1850/1824-BonaparteCrossingRhine.gif O’Farrell’s setting for The Fall of Paris: https://digital.nls.uk/87779894 If you aren’t Fal

Unfortunately I’m having a hard time finding sheet music for the Bard’s Legacy, I still haven’t found the additional volumes of O’Farrell that I have in printed form. Donald MacDonald’s The Perewig: https://digital.nls.uk/105682803 Donald MacDonald’s Cuir’s Chiste Moir Me & c. https://digital.nls.uk/105683166 Definitely losing Historian Points for this, but this Wikipedia article was a good background starting place for When the King Enjoys his Own Again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whenthekingenjoyshisownagain See Moll in the Wad from O’Farrell: https://digital.nls.uk/94567500 For an awesome history of Women during the Revolutionary Period in the United States read Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Rosemarie Zagarri: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14399.html

Holy cow did I include a lot of tunes on this episode! Don’t get used to that! Big thank you to Tim and Jeremy for letting me play a track off their album “The Wilds” you can buy it here: https://timandjeremy.com/wilds/ You can also check out there stellar Youtube series “The Neil Gow Sessions” here: https://youtu.be/1qne-ly24Oo In Chronological order for the Episode: Gordon Duncan’s 98 Jig can be bought in this awesome collection: https://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/product/gordon-duncans-tunes/ Sall’s Delight From O’Farrell: https://digital.nls.uk/94566972 Wife of My Own from O’Farrell: https://digital.nls.uk/94566996 Donald MacDonald 9/8 Set Grinder: https://digital.nls.uk/105682770 I Hae a wife o my ain: https://digital.nls.uk/105682704 Brose and Butter: https://digital.nls.uk/105876148 An Irish Jig: https://digital.nls.uk/105682693 I Ha’e a Wife o’ my ain From Angus MacKay: https://digital.nls.uk/105007410 Brose and Butter From Angus MacKay: https://digital.nls.uk/105007201 Thanks to Tim MacDonald

O’Farrell’s Setting for Robin Power’s Fancy: https://digital.nls.uk/87780650 Donald MacDonald’s My Woer Be Merry: https://digital.nls.uk/105682792 Both Angus MacKay tune settings are on the same page: Sir J.M. MacKenzie’s Reel. https://digital.nls.uk/105007069 Donald MacDonald’s Earl Marischal: https://digital.nls.uk/105682561 Well I recorded A couple O’Farrell tunes, then Decided I play O’Farrell stuff way too fast and re-recorded it…then it was too slow I think! Ultimately, I decided to scrap that and go back to the fast version of my playing Humours of Last Night, without the Low Whistle, but I only decided that after recording the speaking portion of the podcast! Check Out O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion Setting of Humours of Last Night: https://digital.nls.uk/87781034 And if you are able, please consider donating to the Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project: https://communitybondproject.org/break-bonds-fundraiser/ Also consider donating to this Pride organization, as most Pride festivals were cancelled or

Since I’m in a new House…seems like the time to play the tune I “Composed” for my friend’s Ric and Berit when they finalized some messy business with their Cabin: Squatter’s Hame Since we did the first tune in MacKay’s book here’s the first in O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion, Humours of the Glen. Read it here: https://digital.nls.uk/87779642 And Another MacKay tune I quite liked, “The Bride has a Bonny Thing” You can see it here: https://digital.nls.uk/105006948 I went back to my house at the last minute to record Squatter’s Haim and just took a quick crack at this lovely Donald MacDonald tune Mary Gray. https://digital.nls.uk/105682550 Speaking of History, finally gonna play the clip Carrie shared with me! Carrie’s set: “The tunes are: The Lass o’ Corrie Mill (strathspey, traditional)/Carnival March (strathspey by Gideon Stove)/Return to Milltown (reel, traditional)/The Cape Breton Fiddlers’ Welcome to the Shetland Islands (reel by Willie Hunter). Emma and I are playing fiddle, and my mom Susan is on piano.

Big thanks to Chris McMullan’s for sharing his music with us, you can and should check out his youtube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0sMSmOTrAxO8Yox_rUYi1Q and buy his album: https://chrismcmullan.bandcamp.com/releases Thanks as well to the Bob Dunsire discussion board. If you want to read John Newton’s Account “Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade: http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=21874801;view=image;seq=1 Some Further Reading about the Lumbee and the KKK: https://web.archive.org/web/20120309032929/http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-postwar/6068 And while many folks seem to think the KKK is on the decline, hate groups aren’t, keep an eye on Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate map: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map and if you can please consider making a donation. https://donate.splcenter.org/ To have a look through Angus MacKay’s Collection: https://digital.nls.uk/105006794 Please leave us a review! We are at around 1300 downloads for

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