Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

Gary lends an ear to some of the great piping on offer at this year's Celtic Connections in Glasgow.PlaylistRoss Miller with Richard’s Gone Bananas, That Little Bit Extra, Ton Double and Laurie the Blaster from The RokeInveraray and District Pipe Band feat. Murray Henderson with Too Long in this Condition from A Night in that Land.Inveraray and District Pipe Band with John MacColl,’s March to Kilbowie Cottage, The Cameronian Rant and the Little Cascade from A Night in that Land.Malin Lewis with the Old Inn from HaloclineRoss Ainslie and the Sanctuary Band with All My Years (Lament for Ukraine) from PoolMartyn Bennett with 3 Sheeps to the Wind (Part 2) from Martyn BennettAlasdair 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, 2009The Lonely Busker with the Gravedigger's Suite (Listener's corner feature)Arise and Go with O’Neill’s March and the Dusty Miller from Meeting PlaceSupport the show

Gary welcomes you to another year of great music from the piping world.PlaylistDaimh with Puff Puff from Sula Rosalind Buda with Oran Arisaig, John Barber’s 50th and Nessie’s Rambles from Pipers’ Gathering 2018, Vol 1. The Scottish Gas Caledonian Pipe Band with The Kangaroo Interlude, The Banks of the Allan, The Lady in the Bottle, Charlie’s Calypso, Marseil Ri Laoise, Tullochgorm, MacPhedran’s, Moneagle’s Fancy and Jenny Dang the Weaver from Out of the Blue Assynt with Where From Here? From Where From Here? Eabhal with Swan’s Pool from Aisling Xenos with Lute, Lute and Buka Ere from Let the Swine Loose Angus MacColl with Donald MacLellan of Rothesay, Capt Colin Campbell and Fiona MacLeod from A Tradition of Excellence  LinksSchool of Daimh, Vermonthttps://www.pipersgathering.org/https://www.eabhal.com/https://rosalindbuda.com/home/https://www.celticconnections.com/Support the show

In this final episode of 2024, Callum Beaumont treats us to a full recital as a recent guest of the MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band in the Woodlands Hotel , Broughty Ferry. PlaylistCallum Beaumont with The Bloody Fields of Flanders, Lochanside and P/M Angus MacDonald from the MacKenzie Caledonian Recital November 2024Callum Beaumont with Andrew and Colin Lee, Ceilidh Lines, Pumpkin’s Fancy from the MacKenzie Caledonian Recital November 2024Callum Beaumont with Bonnie Dundee, the Atholl Highlanders, Steam Boat and the Bugle HornCeolbeg with The Sleeping Tune from An Unfair DanceCallum Beaumont with Mrs Duncan MacFadyen, Inveraray Castle and Bessie MacIntyre from the MacKenzie Caledonian Recital November 2024Callum Beaumont with Queen Elizabeth II’s Salute from the MacKenzie Caledonian Recital November 2024Callum Beaumont with The Banjo Breakdown, Allan MacPherson of Mosspark, Paddy’s Leather Breeches, the Seagull and the Curlew from the MacKenzie Caledonian Recital November 2024Callum Beaumont with Ananda Pa Gael, Breton Air, The Little Cascade and Francis Morton’s from the MacKenzie Caledonian Recital November 2024Support the show

Gary hosts a bus outing of members and friends of the Celtic Arts Foundation, Washington State, across the border to Canada. We visit Lee and Sons Bagpipes in the company of Jack and Andrew, and check out Terry and Alastair Lee's Tartantown emporium, where we're treated to some bagpipe music of the highest order.PlaylistJack Lee with Donald MacLean's Farewell to Oban from EYP recording Dec 2024Jack Lee with Echo Lake, Flett from Flotta and  Champion of the Sees from EYP recording Dec 2024Cameron Bonar with Anthem for the Wind and Water from EYP recording Dec 2024Cameron Bonar with Catlodge, The Bob of Fettercairn, Mrs MacPherson of Inveran and Alec C MacGregor from EYP recording Dec 2024Cameron Bonar with Donella Beaton, Lark in the Morning and The Mason's Apron from EYP recording Dec 2024Zephan Knichel with The Knightswood Ceilidh and Southall from EYP recording Dec 2024Zephan Knichel with John Paterson's Mare and Last Tango in Harris from EYP recording Dec 2024Alastair Lee with Hasten and Come with Me, Alan Duncan and Blue Cloud from EYP recording Dec 2024Support the show