Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

• Episode 124 - Let Piping Flourish

  Send us a textGary is back after his week off (or wee cough!) with more chat and music from the piping world, including an in-depth chat with Head of Piping Studies at the National Piping Centre, John Mulhearn.PlaylistGordon Duncan with Just for Seumas, The Thin Man, Lament for Mary MacLed and Break Yer Bass Drone from Just for Seumas Strathclyde Police with Links of Forth, Atholl Cummers and MacAlistair’s Dirk from World Pipe Band Championships 1986 P/M Robert Reid with Lord Alexander Kennedy, Parker’s Farewelll to Perthshire and the Abercairney Highlanders from Classics from the College John Mulhearn with the Pipe Factory from The Pipe Factory P/M John MacDonald of South Uist (Seonaidh Roidean) with a set of traditional reels, archive recording. The Battlefield Band with Miss Ina MacKenzie, Braes of Mellenish and Troy’s Wedding from Anthem for the Common Man John Mulhearn with Farewell to the College of Piping and Darach Urqhuart from the Pipe Factory New Winter with Masters in this Hall (live recording)LinksThe Music of Gordon Duncan Concert 7th December Livestream LinkNew Winter Concerts Information hereSupport the show

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• Episode 123 - Chasing the Sun

  Send us a textJoin Gary as he brings you both cheery and melancholy tunes and songs from Scotland and well beyond.PlaylistCantrip with the Duncan Johnstone Set from UndarkJack Lee with 93rd at Modder River, Susan MacLeod and the Little Cascade from The Piping Centre 1996 Recital Series Vol 1Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with Tir Nan Og from AffirmationArchie Fisher with The Lassie o the Mornin from Off the MapThe People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with the Drum Fanfare from EYP Recording Band Practice. Simon Chadwick with An Tarbh Breac Dearg (the Red Speckled Bull) from Tarbh. Hevia with Busindre Reel from Tierra de Nadie / No Man’s Land Skerryvore with the Rut and the Drambulance from Chasing the Sun  Cantrip Tour Dates6   Nov   Buckman Performing Arts Centre, Memphis, TN 7   Nov   Club Possum, Mountain View, AR, 8   Nov   Café Paradiso, Fairfield, IA 9   Nov   Muso, Madison, WI 10 Nov   Mt. Horeb Public Library, Mount Horeb, WI 11 Nov   Leak Lake House, Milwaukee, WI 12 Nov   Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL 14 Nov   Maud’s Closet Concerts, Ashfield, MA 15 Nov   Old Songs, Voorheesville, NY 17 Nov   Club Passím, Cambridge, MA  Support the show

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• Episode 122 - This is How the Ladies Dance

  Send us a textGary takes you on another musical journey in the company of all things bagpipes.PlaylistEabhal with This is How the Ladies Dance, Stoddies Reel, Break in Borve and St Valery Pipes from This is How the Ladies Dance  Stuart Liddell with The Highland Wedding and The Cameronian Rant from The P/M Alasdair Gillies Memorial Challenge 2021. Julian Goodacre with The Saunt from Some of Me Pipes Donald Black with Spogan from From My Heart Donald Black with The Melness Reel, Raven’s Rock and Traditional Reel from From My Heart Polkemmet Grorud Pipe Band with The Hen’s March, The Flame in the Fiddle and Castles in the Fire from From Celtic Roots Beinn Lee with Davy Webster’s 40th, Clueless, Andy Renwick’s Ferret and The Ferry Road Shenanigans from Osgarra Gary West with The Stirlingshire Militia, Brig. Gen. Ronald Cheape of Tiroran and Drum Major Alister Walker, Atholl Highlanders from the MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Recital Evening October 2025 Gary West and Chris Wright with The Last Trip Home the MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Recital Evening October 2025 Arise and Go with Major George Morrison DSO, The Acadian Reel, Le Voyage and Jack Daniels’ from Meeting Place  Support the show

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• Episode 121 - Learning to Fly

  Send us a textJoin Gary as he brings you tunes from Brittany, Sweden ... and Motherwell!PlaylistDen with L’Orient et Grand, from Just Around the Window.Johnstone Pipe Band with The Drunken Landlady, Michael Brady's Jig, Thief of Lochaber, Caledonia, AA Cameron's, Cutties Wedding, Cupair Thu, Tailler Thu, The Hole in the Bath from the 2023 World Pipe Band ChampionshipsHarta with Borgsjo Polska and Polska frän Halleforsnäs from Harta Lorne MacDougall with Learning to Fly from Hello World Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with Eileen Mary Connolly, Mrs Stewart of Grandtully, The New Reel, O’Rourke’s Reel, Electric Chopsticks and Good Drying from Live n Well: the Motherwell Concert. Fin Moore and Sarah Hoy with Jimmy n Jigs from The Piper and the Maker 2: Celebrating C     Support the show

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• Episode 120 - The Tartan Army

  Send us a textMore great music of the bagpipe, including a quick trip to Hampden Park.PlaylistAssynt with Rescues from Where From Here?Murray Henderson with AA Cameron’s Strathspey, Nelly’s Strathspey, Roes Among the Heather, Maclaine of Lochbuie’s Reel, Malcolm the Tailor and the Wind that Shakes the Barley from The World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 4.Annie Grace with ‘Tunes’ from The Bell.Closkelt with Lucy Cassidy, Butterfingers, Mrs MacDonald of Uig, South Georgia Whaling Song, Balmoral Castle, Fiona MacDonald, The Swall-Tailed Coat, Alick Cameron Champion Piper and Drumlithie from 2025 Scottish Pipe Band Championship (Drone Chorus Recording).Hazel Whyte (and the Tartan Army!) with Flower of Scotland (a snippet) Hazel Whyte with Rocking the Baby and The Boys of Ballymote from the Raasay Restitution 2025, EYP Recording.Alen Tully with As I Went Out Upon the Earth and The Kerry Polka from The Best of Piping Live Recital Series 06/07Andy May with Da Slockit Light from The Yellow Haired Laddie Adrian Melvin Spirits of Old Pulteney, Major AF MacGillivray, Doune of Invernochty, Is it Long till the Wedding, The Brolum, Dr MacPhail’s Reel from Victoria Police Pipe Band Live in the Rockies   Support the show

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