Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

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This week Gary takes you on a musical journey to Cape Breton, New Zealand, Galicia, Northern Ireland and back to Scotland.

Playlist
Beolach with The Forest of Garth, Traditional Strathspey, Moving Cloud, The Watchmaker and the Stone Frigate from Variations
 
Canterbury Caledonian Pipe Band with The Clan MacRae Society, Blair Drummond and John Morrison of Assynt House from World Pipe Band Championships 2014.
 
The Scottish Power Pipe Band Feat. Karen Matheson with Amazing Grace from Cathcart
 
Greg Wilson with Mull of the Mountains, Pipe Major Joe Wilson, Donella Beaton and The Old Wife of the Mill Dust from Pipers of Distinction.

Wendy Stewart and Gary West with The Company’s Lament from Hinterlands

Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band with Train Journey North Set from Impact

Anxo Lorenzo with Polca dos Areeiras and Pasa Corredoiras 439 from Tiran
 
 
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This week's music of the bagpipe takes you to Ireland, New England, Washington, New Zealand, Brittany - and Scotland. 

Playlist
Arise and Go with The Beekeeper, The Pipers of Roguery and the Floating Crowbar from Moments of Light

Angus MacColl with Donald MacLellan of Rothesay, Capt Colin Campbell and Fiona MacLeod from A Tradition of Excellence
 
Iain MacInnes with The Ewe wi the Crookit Horn, Sweet Molly, MacPhee’s Reel, Malcolm Currie, Inver Lasses, Buntata ‘s Sgadan and Cabar Feidh from The Pipers’ Gathering: Live from North Hero 
 
New Zealand Police Pipe Band with The Smiler, The Braes of Mellenish, Miss Mathers of Wyvis, Jennifer Finlayson, AA Cameron, Cecily Ross, John MacKenzie’s Fancy and The Seedling from World Pipe Band Championships 1998 Vol 2.
 
Gwir with MacDonald Brothers, The Skye Dance and MacKerron’s Reel from Liamm Keltiek
 
Alasdair Gillies and Alasdair Fraser with Hi Ho Hirum, The Wee Man from South Uist, Kenny Gillies of Portnalong, the Hen’s March, Donald Willie and his Dog, The Foxhunter, The South Georgia Whaling Song, The Gravel Walk and the Cape Breton Fiddlers’ Welcome to Shetland from Masters of Scottish Arts Live at Benaroya Hall
 
Cillian Vallely with Cnocan an Teampaill, Star Above the Garter, Stormy Hill from The Raven’s Rock
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In this week's piping journey Gary takes you to Scotland, England, Brittany, Canada and Australia.

Playlist
Eabhal with Am Port Falach, Ian Skippinis of Tiree and The MacSim from This is How the Ladies Dance

Major Gavin Stoddart with The Highland Wedding, Blair Drummond and The Sheepwife from The Piping Centre 1997 Recital Series

Steven Bodenes and Sylvain Hamon with Konskried Plonevez Gavotte from Daou Don Dans

Chris Ormston with The Flower of the Quern from Time Out of Mind
 
The Queensland Police Pipe Band with Copper Top, Speyside, Airhythmic, The Cuckoo, Flew Over the Nest, Scirocco, Kruger’s Dance and 5 Alive from David Barnes Presents – Pandora’s Other Box
 
Blowzabella with Jan Mijne Man and Go Mauve from Vanilla
 
Bruce Gandy with Frances Gandy’s Diamond Year, Major William Dearborn and Nixon Wedding March from My Father’s Son
 
Ron Jappy with Tactical Nuclear Penguin, Kirsty’s and Miss Meghan Harrington from Vincular
  
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Blowzabella 
 Bruce Gandy
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Gary brings you more top quality music including that of the 'bagless' bagpipe of Sardinia.

Playlist
Chris Armstrong with Iain MacPherson’s Reel, The Broken Chanter and Loch Roaig from Notes in Ma Heid.
 
Roddy MacLeod with Tatties and Herring, Balmoral Castle, Captain Jack Murray, Lochan Duin, Captain Duff, Traditional Reel and Calum MacKay’s Reel from Pipers of Distinction
 
Jerry O’Sullivan with Introduction, The Shepherd’s Hornpipe, Lady Harriet Hope and The Humours of Castlecomber from O’Sullivan Meets O’Farrell
 
Band of the Black Watch with the Massacre of Glencoe Glasgow City Police Pipers, The Gold Ring, Auckland City Police and Maxwell’s Bonnet from Ladies from Hell
 
Fred Morrison and Jamie McMenemy with The Ladies from Hell, Carlos Barral of Oviedo and Lochaber to Argyll from Up South
 
Franco Melis with Processione e a seguire Elavazione from Launeddas
 
Griogair Labhruidh with Norman MacLean and Morven from Dail-Riata
 
78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band with She Walked Through the Fair, My Laggan Love, Foxhunter Jig, Foxhunter Hornpipe from Live in Canada
 
The Kathryn Tickell Band with The Wedding and Because he was a Bonny Lad from Debateable Lands
 
 
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Gary finds some hidden gems under a layer of rock. Tune in to find out what on earth he's talking about!

Playlist
Elias Alexander, Eamon Sefton, Kathleen Parks and Patrick Bowling with Grammy’s Trip to Oregon, Antrim Rose and The Knowledge Drop Karate Chop from Bywater

Metro Toronto Police Pipe Band with Bonnie Dundee, Steamboat, The Bugle Horn and the Atholl Highlanders from On the Beat. 
 
Berroguetto with Vilalbalcan II from Navicularia 
 
Donald MacPherson with Donald Gruamach’s March from Donald MacPherson: a Living Legend. 

Fraser Fifield and John Mulhearn with The Ardoch Polka, EYP Live Recording University of Edinburgh, February 2026.
 
Tony McManus with Inveran, The Devil in the Kitchen and Locheil’s Awa Tae France from The Maker’s Mark

Hamish Moore with Mrs Hamilton of Pencaitland from Stepping on the Bridge 
 
 P/M Alasdair Gillies with The Miller of Drone, the 74th Highlanders, the Rusty Gun, Alex Currie’s, The Road to Balquhidder, the Lintie, Molly on the Shore, Rossie Castle from the Winter Storm Festival Concert, 2009
 
Nuallan with Donald James MacDonnell, P/M Donald MacLean of Lewis, Alice and Grace Twa and The Swaggering Jig  from Nuallan: Piping from Cape Breton Island. 
 
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Elias Alexander Tour Dates 
 
 
 
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