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The very best of bagpipe music from Scotland and beyond. With live sessions, news, reviews and chat.
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Send us a text Gary hosts another hour of top notch piping from a the airts. EYP 126 Playlist Beolach with The Cape Breton Slip Set – An Drochaid Chliuiteach, Scottsville Reel, Foxhunter and Walking the Floor from Beolach Iain MacDonald and Iain MacFarlane with Miss Elspeth Campbell, Danced with Me the Beautiful Maiden and the Rejected Suitor from First Harvest. Gordon Mooney with Souters O Selkirk, Seeking the Galloway and Jock O the Side from O’er the Border Jim MacG...
Send us a text Gary brings you highlights from the recent Lowland and Border Pipers' Society gathering in Dunkeld, Perthshire. Playlist Finlay MacDonald, Fionnlagh Mac A Phiocair, John Saunders and Sarah Hanniffy with Annie’s New Heart, Turf Lodge from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury. Ian Kinnear with The Bloody Fields of Flanders and Lochanside from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury. Rhiona ...
Send us a text Gary 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. Playlist Gordon 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 Lo...
Send us a text Join Gary as he brings you both cheery and melancholy tunes and songs from Scotland and well beyond. Playlist Cantrip with the Duncan Johnstone Set from Undark Jack Lee with 93rd at Modder River, Susan MacLeod and the Little Cascade from The Piping Centre 1996 Recital Series Vol 1 Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with Tir Nan Og from Affirmation Archie Fisher with The Lassie o the Mornin from Off the Map The People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with...
Send us a text Gary takes you on another musical journey in the company of all things bagpipes. Playlist Eabhal 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 ...
Send us a text Join Gary as he brings you tunes from Brittany, Sweden ... and Motherwell! Playlist Den 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 Championships Harta with Borgsjo Polska and Polska frän Halleforsnäs from Harta Lorne MacDougall with Learning to Fly from ...
Send us a text More great music of the bagpipe, including a quick trip to Hampden Park. Playlist Assynt 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,...
Send us a text Gary brings you more bagpipes delights from the Bothy. Playlist Dan Houghton with Drink, Debauchery and 200 Euros, Teigis agus Dealg Innte, Willie Murray’s Reel and The Fourth Floor from Bagpipe Personality Disorder. Greater Glasgow Glasgow Police Pipe Band with Lightly Swims the Swan, Miss Victoria Ross, Lady Margaret Stewart, Port a Beul, Lord McConnell of Lough Erne and Lochend from Ceolry. Mick O’Brien with Statia Donnelly’s, If I Will I Can and Patsy Geary’...
Send us a text Refreshed from his wee break in Orkney, Gary brings you more great music from the world of bagpipe (and song!) Playlist Kirkwall City Pipe Band with Orkney Anthem from Anthems of a Peedie Nation Salsa Celtica with Cailleach from 25th Anniversary Big Band Live in Concert Stuart Liddell with Port Urlar from The Argyllshire Gathering 2025 (Peter McCalister recording) Malin Lewis with Tune 51 from Halocline Simon McKerrell with Domhnall nan Domhnall (from the si...
Send us a text Gary pays a return visit to the Restitution contest held on Raasay in early September, and explores the contribution that island has made to Scotland's creative culture more widely. Playlist Angus Nicholson with Barabel Phadruig, The Eavesdropper, Waulking the Floor and John MacDonald’s Exercise from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Decker Forrest with Siud an gaol a bh' agad orm, Janet tyed the bonnet tight, St. Anne's Reel, 'S e mo ghaol an gille d...
Send us a text Gary brings you performances from the 2nd annual contest held on the isle of Raasay, organised by Hamish Moore. Playlist Finlay Cameron with Miss MacGregor's Favourite, Jerry's Pipes, Cailleach A’ Ghobhainn and Merrily Danced the Quaker’s Wife from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Angus Nicholson with A Mhairi Mhin Mo Mheallshuileach Dubh, Lucy Campbell (Lady Louden), Little Donald in the Pig Pen, The Bobbers of Brechin and Buachaille Dubh Fionnghala from...
Send us a text It's piobaireachd all the way this week as Gary brings you all four performances from this year's recital dinner celebrating the life and music of Captain John A MacLellan. Playlist Iain Speirs with A Welcome Home for Patrick Struan, EYP Recording from The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner, 2025. Cameron Drummond with the Edinburgh Piobaireachd, EYP Recording from The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner 2025. Ian K MacDo...
Send us a text Join Gary as he tours Scotland with 17 lovely Kiwis, with appropriate music along the way! Playlist Inverarary and District Pipe Band with The Miniscus, the Kesh Jig Waltz, the Kesh Jig, Steve Byrne’s, The Water is Wide, An Cota Ruadh, Port Domhnall Ruadh, the Laird of Drumblair and Kelsae Brig from World Pipe Band Championships 2011. Ross Ainslie and Brighde Chaimbeul with Dod’s from Las Willie McCallum with Murdo MacLeod, Duncan Lamont and the Man from G...
Send us a text Gary invites you to this year's Piping Live Festival in Glasgow to eavesdrop on his 78th Fraser Highlanders Live in Ireland 'listening party'. Playlist to follow Support the show
Send us a text Gary brings you more top drawer music from the world of bagpipes, including extracts from a production commemorating the emigration of 1500 people from the Hebrides to Canada in 1923. Playlist Trail West with Francis Street Jig, The Travers and P/M Jimmy MacGregor from From the Sea to the City Martyn Bennett with The Magic Flute from the Grand Concert of Piping The Metagama Ensemble with extracts from Metagama: an Atlantic Odyssey (MacGregor’s Weeping, Murdo MacAskil...
Send us a text Gary takes a look ahead to this year's Piping Live festival running in Glasgow from 11th - 17th August. Playlist Cala with Dusty from From the River Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia with Show Time from Rise Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton with Ceit Bheag from Anna Bhan Gordon Duncan with Donal Og / Wild Irishman / Rakish Paddy / Madame Bonaparte / Richard Dwyers from Just For Seumas Kyiv Ethno Trio with the Raven from Kyiv Ethno Trio i...
Send us a text Gary is back in the bothy after a few weeks on the road - join him for some more top drawer piping from a the airts. Playlist Breabach with Knees Up from Frenzy of the Meeting Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with The Drunken Landlady, Throw the Beetle At Her, Brendan Murphy's, Suo Gan, Nellie's Strathspey, The Fiddler's Joy, Put Me In the Big Chest, Calum Iain, Little Cascade and The Phantom Phiddler from the Skagit Valley Highland Games, WA, 2025. Matthew Turnbull...
Send us a text Gary introduces a recital from three of the world's top players who gathered at the Celtic Arts Foundation, Mount Vernon, Washington. Sit back and enjoy sets from Callum Beaumont, Willie McCallum and Stuart Liddell. Playlist Callum Beaumont with Pipe Major Bob Martin, Lord Lovat’s Lament and Killiecrankie from the Glenfiddich Champions Recital, Celtic Arts Foundation, Mount Vernon, Washington, USA. Callum Beaumont with the Cameronian Rant and Drumlithie from the Glenf...
Send us a text Gary reports in from Duncan, Vancouver Island, bringing you music and chat from British Columbia and well beyond. Playlist John Dew with The Ruins of Gylen Castle from Na Caismeachdan Andrew Carlisle with Mrs John MacColl, Inverarary Castle and Dr MacPhail’s Reel from the MacLean MacLeod Memorial Piping Contest 2025. Brighde Chaimbeul with A’Chailleach from Sunwise Derek Midgley with MacLean of Pennycross, Mrs Donald MacPherson and Arnish Light from the MacLea...
Send us a text Gary brings you highlights from this year's MacLean MacLeod Memorial Piping Championships held recently at the University of Delaware, and run by the United States Piping Foundation. Playlist Nick Hudson with Invergordon’s Welcome to HM Queen Elizabeth II, P/M Hector MacLean and Sandy Cameron Bruce Gandy with P/M Karen MacLean, Caledonian Society of London and John Garroway. Bruce Gandy with Lament for the Children Cameron MacDougall with the Clan MacColl, Cabar Feidh a...
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