Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

Send us a textGary pays tribute to P/M Ian MacLellan and P/M Jamie Troy, both of whom have passed away in recent days. There's also a taster or two from the brand new CD release from Stuart Liddell.PlaylistRura with Day One from Live at the FruitmarketStuart Liddell with The Bird Jigs – The Seagull, The Duck, The Geese in the Bog, The Skylark’s Ascension, The Hen’s March and The Curlew from Garron Stuart Liddell with Troy’s Wedding (as a hornpipe) from Garron. City of Victoria Pipe Band with Geritol Kid, Fiji Love Song, Master Sergeant Davie Laws, Tulloch Castle, Trad Reel,  Sally Wilson,  Troy’s Wedding, Weird Jig and Meg’s Fancy from World Pipe Band Championships 1987. Stuart Liddell with The Highland Wedding and the Cameronian Rant (as hornpipes) from Garron The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band with The Detroit Highlanders, Loch Loskin, MacanIrish, Barney’s Balmoral, Willie Roy’s Loomhouse, Morag Duncan, the Gold Ring, the Humours of Cork, and Capt Geddes’s Turnabout from the World Pipe Band Championships 1986. The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band with Miss Elspeth Campbell, Cameronian Rant, Pretty Marion from World Pipe Band Championships 1991. LinksPipers' Persuasion (interviews by Allan Hamilton)For Stuart Liddell's new CD, Garron, see hereSupport the show

Send us a textGary brings you a bumper episode this week, with all of the music recorded live at the Gordon Duncan Tribute Concert held in Mount Vernon, Washington State, USA and hosted by the Celtic Arts Foundation.PlaylistCraig Sutherland with Sir James of the Port, Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.Craig Sutherland with Andy Renwick's Ferret and the Fourth Floor, Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.Craig Sutherland with Zeeto the Bubbleman, Blow My Chanter, Jig o Beer, The 98 Jig and Alex's Haircut Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.The CAF Folk Band (Zephan Knickel, Vienna Scheyer, Cayley Schmid, David Lofgren, Zach Bauman and Gary West) with Wee Mary and Ian Green of Greentrax Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.The CAF Folk Band with Pitlochry High School Centenary, the Soup Dragon, Rory Gallagher and the Famous Barravan Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.The CAF Folk Band with Lorient Mornings, Davy Webster's 40th, Clueless, Break Yer Bass Drone and the High Drive Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.Tori Killoran with the Cullen Bay Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.Tori Killoran with the Breton Set Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.Tori Killoran with the Ass in the Graveyard, Going to the Well for Water, Calliope House,Abdoul's, Michael's Air, Silver Spear, In and Out the Harbour, The Thin Man, Yer a Kent  Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.Cameron Bonar with The Famous Barravan, The Edradour Stagger and The Last Tango in Harris Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.Cameron Bonar with A Maighdean Mhara, Tain in the Rain, Upside Down at Eden Court and Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.Cameron Bonar with Thunderstruck Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025.With thanks to the event sponsorsBagpipemusic.comDojo UniversityEnjoy Your Piping!Eucatastrophe Coffee and Used BooksGordon Duncan Memorial TrustModern PipingLee and Sons BagpipesMicah Babinski / Green Monster CollectionPiping ClubPiping Hot Summer DrummerTartantownSupport the show

Send us a textGary hosts another hour of top notch piping from a the airts.EYP 126 PlaylistBeolach 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 BorderJim MacGillivray with The Laird of Drumblair, Dalnahassaig, Stumpie, Frolics of Youth, O'er The Moorlands, Christie MacLeod, Struy Lodge, Willie MacKenzie's Reel, Walter Sammon's Grandmother, The Humours of Tulla, The Flowers of Red Hill from the World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 10 Paddy Keenan with The Steam Packet and MacLeod’s Reel from Paddy Keenan Bagad Kemper with Amzer Nevez from Live au Cornouaille  Craig Muirhead and Roddy MacLeod with the Desperate Battle of the Birds from a private recording Colin Melville with The Broom o the Cowdenknowes from 3 Smallpipes, Private Recording. Daimh with Lock and Load from Diversions  Support the show

Send us a textGary brings you highlights from the recent Lowland and Border Pipers' Society gathering in Dunkeld, Perthshire.PlaylistFinlay 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 Sidley, Stuart Letford and Tom Rust with MacCrimmon’s Lament from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury. Kyle Howie and  Liam Manion with  The Red Coat, Cuttie's Wedding, Because He Was A Bonny Lad, Cape Breton Fiddler's Welcome, The Contradiction and The Gladstone Reel from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury. Jeremy Kingsbury with Parcel of Rogues and the Surprise from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury. Fionnlaigh Mac a Phiocair with the Rolling Wave Set from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury. Fionnlaigh Mac a Phiocair and Sarah Hanniffy with a Gaelic Song from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury. Finlay MacDonald with Breton Tunes from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury. Hamish and Fin Moore with Thinkan an Daean (poem), Mary’s Tune and the Mill Mill O from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy KingsburyLinksJeremy Kingsbury's Weetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast Support the show

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