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Well, after patiently waiting for one of the internet piping radio shows to play the track for months, I finally got lucky last week! Crunluath, the weekly piping show on the gaelic-language BBC radio Alba, featured “I Am Proud To Play a Pipe”, played by Allan MacDonald. The tune is essentially the title track of Allan’s new CD, . . . → Read More: Dastirum gu Seinnim Piob! The games season is in full swing in the Scottish Highlands, and that means lots of piping! Two of the biggest competitions in the solo piping year happen at games a week apart: The Argyllshire Gathering, in Oban, took place last week, and The Northern Meeting, in Aviemore, is this Thursday and Friday. Richard Hawke of New Zealand . . . → Read More: Oban – Home of the Argyllshire Gathering Inspired by my compadre Justin (see below) I have updated my links section a little. Check out the various links under “Listen Carefully”. These are the main piping shows I listen to online. Each one has a slightly different flavor, but you’ll hear piping of the highest quality on . . . → Read More: New Links – Piping on the Web The weekly BBC Radio Scotland piping show, Pipeline, was on hiatus this week. In its place was a live concert broadcast from the Celtic Connections Festival, a two-week festival of celtic music in Glasgow. The concert was titled Scotland’s Music Live, and featured various “celtic” performers, sometimes playing with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. I paid . . . → Read More: Orchestral Piping I made a discovery the other day. Someone on the Bob Dunsire Forums asked a question about a tune they had heard on a piping show called Crunluath. I responded (perhaps rather too smugly) that the piping show they were enquiring about does not exist, and perhaps they were thinking of something else. Turns out, . . . → Read More: All Gaelic, All the Time Interesting and consistently-maintained piping blogs seem to be hard to find, but here’s a cool one: Wetootwaag’s Podcast of Bagpipe Power:When It’s about Bagpipes and Scotch, everyone wins Actually, this is a podcast – Wetootwaag has a blog too, with possibly the strangest name ever. In any case, Wetootwaag appears to be Jeremy Kingsbury from Bemidji, MN. Among . . . → Read More: Wetootwaag’s Wild World |
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