Honours in Piping
Gary West celebrates some of the pipers and drummers recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours list, including Iain MacFadyen and the brothers, Tom and Peter Anderson.
Gary West introduces more top quality piping and drumming, past and present, and helps to celebrate the music of those players recently recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours list including Iain MacFadyen from Kyle of Lochalsh, and the Falkirk brothers, Tommy and Peter Anderson, all of whom have received the British Empire Medal. Iain’s contribution to the programme comprises two tracks recorded in session for the ±«Óãtv in 1985, including his interpretation of the harvest-related pibroch, Grain in Hides and Corn in Sacks. There are solo highland piping sets too from Robert Wallace and Brian Donaldson, pipe band music from the Boghall and Bathgate and Wallacestone and District, uillean piping from Cormac Cannon and Tom Delany, while the folk music genre is represented by innovative all rounders, Ross Miller and Lorne MacDougall.
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Music Used:
Artist: Ross Miller
Title: D Major MacKenzie, Rona’s Reel, Mornington
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Artist: Iain MacFadyen
Title:Ìý Colonel Andrew Duncan (1.34), Myles MacDonald’s Farewell to Skye (1.34)
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Artist: Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band
Title: Centennial, The People’s Anthem
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Artist: Iain MacFadyen
Title:Ìý Grain in Hides and Corn in Sacks
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Artist: Cormac Cannon and Finbar Naughton
Title: The Sailor on the Rock, The Sligo Maid, The Woman of the House
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Artist: Muirhead and Sons
Title: Colin Thomson, Caledonian Society of London, MacAllister’s Dirk
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Artist: Robert Wallace
Title: Highland Harry, Struan Robertson, Major Manson, Pretty Marion
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Artist: Lorne MacDougall
Title: Lament for Small Isles Bay
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Artist: Brian Donaldson
Title: The Abercairney Highlanders (1.56), Tulloch Castle (0.56), The Cockerel in the Creel (0.47)
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Artist: Tom Delany
Title: The Eavesdropper, The Morning Star, My Love is in America
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Broadcast
- Sat 11 Jun 2022 21:00±«Óãtv Radio Scotland
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