Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

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Gary brings you up to date with what's happening out and about in the piping world in the weeks ahead, with great music to match.

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Breabach with Gig Face from Bann

Bleary and District with Mrs Mary Anderson of Lochranza, The Curlew, Haitian Sensation, Biddy for Sligo, I Hear thy Welcome Voice, Lady MacKenzie of Gairloch, AA Cameron’s Strathspey, Lexy MacAskill, Tom Bowen’s Reel and Lexy MacAskill Reprieve from World Pipe Band Championships 2004 Vol 2.
 
Callum Armstrong with Butterflies from Pipers Gathering 2015
 
People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band Drum Corps with Drum Fanfare from Cabar Feidh
 
Louise Mulcahy with O’Calloghan’s Low, Ms Crotty’s from Tuning the Road

Louise Mulcahy with The Cabin Hunter, Jim Kennedy’s Favourite and the Road to Ballygirreen from Tuning the Road
 
Angus MacPhee with Zeeto the Bubbleman, The Hen’s March, Gaelic Air, Dalnahassaig, Buntata’s Sgadan, Pressed for Time, Dr Alasdair MacKenzie and Smelling Fresh from The Wheel of Fortune 2026, Enjoy Your Piping Recording.
 
Tryst with In Praise of the Pioneers (single release) 
 
Links
Breabach Tour Dates
Lowland and Borders Pipers Society Collogue
Raasay in Pitlochry Concert
Inverness Piping Society
Ceilidh the Musical
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More great pipe music from artists past and present, while Gary also announces the winner of the RG Hardie Heritage Viking practice chanter.

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The Scott Wood Band with Spice of Life from Upsurge

William Morrison with The Blue Cuckoo, Kenneth MacDonald and Donnie MacGregor from Pipers of Distinction Series

Dolphin Boy with Ghetto Pipe from The Highland Swing
 
Stuart Liddell with Maggie Cameron, Brown Haired Maid, the Stirling Mossie, Liddell's Fancy, I Cam I Saw I Conga’d from Garron
 
Chris Waite with The Gardener’s March, Up an Waur them aa Willie and Jenny Dang the Weaver from Borders Young Pipers
 
Royal Ulster Constabulary with Lord Alexander Kennedy, Maggie Cameron and John MacKechnie from Pipe Bands of Distinction Series
 
Kila with Baroki from Luna Park
 
 
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Gary brings you more great bagpipe music and discusses the future of the broadcasting of the world pipe band championships.

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Daimh with Locheil’s Awa tae France, MacIsaac’s Reel and De bha Sibh Ris, a Chaluim Mhoir? From The Hebridean Sessions
 
Ben Duncan with Rathven Market, Brae Riach, the Kitchen Maid and John Paterson’s Mare    from the Inverness Piping Society Recital February 2026
 
Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band with Axeman, Donald Cameron’s Powderhorn, The Cat and the Dog, Stew Piddidy’s Jig, Polyrythmically Challenged, Duncan Lamont, Blackley of Hillsdale, Sleepy Maggie and The Rejected Suitor from the World Pipe Band Championships 2006.
 
Gwir with Suite Bretonne from Liamm Keltiek 

Willie McCallum with The Big Spree from The 25th Glenfiddich Piping Championships
 
Harta with Låt till Far from Harta
 
 Links
Find the Daimh Scandinavian tour and ticket details here
Petition to the BBC to save their Worlds coverage  here
Find information and tickets to the Ben Duncan Broughty Ferry Recital here
Glenfiddich Piping Championships Info and Livestream Tickets here 
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Gary welcomes R G Hardie's Alistair and Isla to the bothy to catch up on news from the bagpipe factory, and look out for the chance to win a brand new Heritage Viking practice chanter. And there's more great music from the world of bagpipe, of course!

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Shotts and Dykehead with Carradale Bay, Arnish Light, Clueless, Philip Greer’s Big Week and Bessie McIntyre from Rise
 
Xavier Boderiou, Sylvain Barou and Antoine Lahay with Kernivingan Plinn from Liamm

Duncan Johnstone with Pipe Major James MacGregor, Malcolm Johnstone and The Rakes of Kildare from Bows and Drones
 
Neil Johnstone with Fair Pat of the Bens, The Smith’s a Gallant Fireman, The Shepherd’s Crook and Put Me in the Great Chest from Bows and Drones
 
Colin Stetson and Brighde Chaimbeul with Dirt Dance from All the Light in the World
 
P/M Ian Duncan with The Highland Wedding, Tulloch Castle and John Morrison of Assynt House from The Piping Centre 1997 Recital Series Vol 4.

 Links
See the fantastic RG Hardie practice chanter you can win here
Check out or buy All the Light in the World from Coliin Stetson and Brighde Chaimbeul here
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Gary completes his main coverage of this year's Raasay Restitution Competition 2026  with another full programme of highlights from Raasay House.

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Angus Nicolson with Nach Dannsa a’Mhinistear?, Jimmy Ward, Scare o Tatties and Nighean a Cailleach from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording

Rachel Gray with Mairi Bhan a Bhanaroch (Lady MacKenzie of Gairloch), Aird Ranters, Dolina MacKay, Cota Mor Ealasaid and Brown Haired Maid from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
Decker Forrest with 'S fhada mar seo a tha sinn, 's gun bhiadh 's gun deoch, a' feitheamh air droch phàigheadh (Too long in this condition) from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
James Duncan MacKenzie with Price of A Pig, Mrs Campbell of Shinness and Trad from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
 Ciar Milne with  Bha Mo Leannan Ann from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
Fionnlagh Mac a’Phiocair with Tàladh Dhòmhnaill Ghuirm from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
 Fionnlagh Mac a’Phiocair with Siud Mar Chaidh An Càl A  Dholaidh (That's how the Kale was Burnt),  Craig A' Bhodaich, This is How The Ladies Dance, Loch An Duin, Thoir A-Nall Ailean Thugam, Bodaich Odhar Hoghaigearraidh – (Defies direct translation (to me, maybe consult the mafia) - just a cracking North Uist Puirt) from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
Gary West with Mi Le M’uilinn Air Mo Ghluin from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
 Hazel Whyte with The Silent Performer, Rocking the Baby and Boys of Ballymote from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
Finlay Cameron with The Campbells of Bohuntin, Glen Roy (Bruce Cameron, NZ), Bogan Lochan Strathspey, Bogan Lochan Reel, Malt on the Optic (Hamish Moore), Piper Chris McCartney's Wedding Reel (A.T. Cameron, NZ) and The Flowing Bowl from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
Cameron MacNeil with I Would Have Preferred You First, but Now Now Sir, Ryan Lamey’s Jig, The Tripper’s Jig and Ceolas Craic from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
Ailis Sutherland with A’Mhisg a Chuir an Nollaig Oirn, Steve and Diane’s, Seana Bhean a’Cheannaich, Bual Suas na Maidean, Tha Toll air a’Bhata and the Sisters’ Reel from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2026, EYP Recording
 
 
 
 
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