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Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

The very best of bagpipe music from Scotland and beyond. With live sessions, news, reviews and chat.

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Episode 107 - The Maclean MacLeod Memorial...

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/07/02

Send us a text Gary brings you highlights from this year's MacLean MacLeod Memorial Piping Championships held recently at the University of Delaware, and run by the United States Piping Foundation. Playlist Nick Hudson with Invergordon’s Welcome to HM Queen Elizabeth II, P/M Hector MacLean and Sandy Cameron Bruce Gandy with P/M Karen MacLean, Caledonian Society of London and John Garroway. Bruce Gandy with Lament for the Children Cameron MacDougall with the Clan MacColl, Cabar Feidh a...

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58:31

Episode 106 - Music & Chat from Bede Patterson

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2025/06/25

Send us a text Gary chats to Bede Patterson, one of the new generation of Australian pipers blazing a trail in fresh and exciting approaches to piping. Playlist Matt MacIsaac with Gaelic Air, The Old Woman’s Dance and the Firedrill from The Piping Album P/M John D Burgess with the Baldoozer, Center’s Bonnet, Cork Hill and John MacDonald’s Jig from King of the Highland Pipers The Whistlebinkies with Inner Sound from Inner Sound Fraser Fifield with The Piper’s Premonition...

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55:52

Episode 105 - Love and Drink

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2025/06/18

Send us a text Gary brings you more high-end music of the bagpipe (and plenty other instruments) with visits to Brittany, Ireland, USA - and Glasgow! Playlist Calum Stewart with Craigellachie Lasses from True North Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band with The Sandpiper, Archie Beag, Bronni’s Blue Brozzi, La Boume, Lady Madelina Sinclair, Stirling Castle, Sleepy Maggie, Tail Toddle, Frances Morton’s from Unplugged: Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Frances Morton with t...

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53:10

Episode 104 - Shoulder to Shoulder

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/06/04

Send us a text Join Gary as he invites you on another journey through the riches of the bagpipe traditions of the world. Playlist Daimh with Donnie MacGillivray’s Welcome to the 21st Century, Malcolm Johnston and Barbara’s Welcome Home from Diversions Major Gavin Stoddart with The Braes of Castle Grant and The Lochaber Gathering from The Piping Centre 1997 Recital Series Volume 3. Vicki Swan and Johnny Dyer with Logan Rock from Sliptease. Australia Highlanders with Stand Fast, NY Conn...

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56:16

Episode 103 - Cabar Feidh

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/05/28

Send us a text Gary brings you a sneak preview of the fantastic new live recording from the People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band, due to be released in June. Playlist Steven Blake with the 98 Jig, Armstrong’s, The Plagiarist and Fiona Anne MacDonald from the TMSA Young Trad Tour 2008. The People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band with Cabar Feidh from Cabar Feidh India Alba with Bellydancer from High Beyond. Bagad Kemper with Ela Ela from Hep Diskrog Pipe Major Alasdair G...

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57:38

Episode 102 - Sunny Days Are Here Again

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/05/21

Send us a text Gary brings you more great music of the bagpipe family, including trips to France, Asturias, Ireland and the USA. Playlist Old Blind Dogs with Jan Alexander’s Fancy, The Harris Dance and Miss Girdle from Four on the Floor Iain MacHarg with Blind Billy, Failte do'n Phiobaire, Drink the Wort and Spill the Beer, Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight and Piper’s Maggot from Ceol na Beinne Shotts and Dkyehead Caledonia Pipe Band with Donald Cameron, Cameronian ...

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53:25

Episode 101 - Knees Up

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2025/05/14

Send us a text Gary invites you to join him with the first episode of the next one hundred! Playlist Breabach with Knees Up from Frenzy of the Meeting Inverarary and District Pipe Band with The Snowball Jigs from Ascension Harta with When She Cam Ben and Wat Ye Wha I Met Yestreen from Harta Sarah Muir with Donald MacLellan of Rothsay, Arniston Castle and Roddy MacDonald’s Fancy from the Wheel of Fortune 2025 Jimmy Young with The Warrior’s Reel, Sir William Hardie’s Waltzu...

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56:49

Episode 100 - The First One Hundred

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/05/07

Send us a text Gary invites you to help him celebrate the milestone of having reached one hundred episodes of EYP, with some suitable music along the way. Playlist Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band with The First One Hundred, Century Bridge, Johnnie’s Jig, A Deal With the Devil, Heartland, Caledonian Society of London, Lady MacKenzie of Gairloch, Hazel Lassell, The Pivover Express and the Lost from the World Pipe Band Championships 2010. Sandy Cameron with The Sandpiper, Alex MacDon...

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57:56

Episode 99 - Wheel of Fortune 2025

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/04/30

Send us a text Gary brings you highlights from the wonderful and unique Wheel of Fortune contest run by the City of Edinburgh Pipe Band and held at the Danderhall Miners' Club in Midlothian. Playlist Cameron Drummond with Donald Maclellan of Rothesay, The Shepherd’s Crook and Drumlithie from EYP Recording Wheel of Fortune 2025 Sarah Muir with The Mad Hornpipe, Steve Byrne’s Jig, Alison’s Song, Unknown Polka, As I Went Out Upon the Ice, Dancing Feet, an un-named self penned tune and T...

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56:00

Episode 98 - The Moon's Daughter

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/04/23

Send us a text Join Gary as he invites you to take in more great music from Scotland, Northumbria, Ireland and Canada, and find out how you can win a brand new set of bagpipes! Playlist Heather MacIsaac with Kito’s Fancy, Director of Confusion and Hector’s Slippers from The Moon’s Daughter St Lawrence O’Toole Pipe Band with The Irish Sea, the Scenic Route and Going to the Well for Water from Evolution: Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Billy Pigg with Gypsy’s Lullaby, The Hawk, Mem...

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52:01

Episode 97 - Serendipity

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/04/16

Send us a text Gary returns from his Atholl Highlanders tour with more great music from his collection of all things bagpipes. Playlist The Battlefield Band with Tending the Steer, Sandy Thompson and the Calrossie Cattle Wife from Harps, Pipes and Fiddles The Scottish Power Pipe Band with MacLeod’s Oran Mor, Rory MacLeod, Donald Cameron’s Powder Horn and Donald, Willie and his Dog from Cathcart. Willie McCallum with The Knightswood Ceilidh, The Cameronian Rant and Charlie’s We...

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54:20

Episode 96 - Two Years and Counting

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/04/02

Send us a text Gary celebrates the podcast's second anniversary with plenty more great music from the world of bagpipes. Playlist Assynt with Assynt House from Where From Here National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland (Development Band) with P/M Sandy Spence, Cabar Feidh, Paddy’s Leather Breeches and Butterfingers from Thunderstruck John Mulhearn with Roon the Barras and Rip Them Up from The Pipe Factory Oban High School Pipe Band with Donald Maclean’s Farewell to Oban, Maggie Cameron and ...

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60:46

Episode 95 - Coffee & Sunshine (but no planes)

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/03/26

Send us a text Gary welcomes Tim Cummings and Fin Moore to the bothy for a chat and a wee tune. Playlist Rura with Rise from Dusk Moon Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band with Benn C Nevin, McPhedran’s Strathspey, AA Cameron, A Cup of Tea, Miss Girdle, The Swallowtailed Coat, The Cliffs of Doneen, Colum Ian, Merrily Danced the Quaker’s Wife and Queen of the Rushes from Debut. Timothy Cummings, Pete Sutherland and Brad Colodner with The Bird’s Flight from The Bird’s Flight The Far Nort...

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45:36

Episode 94 - Celtic Spring

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/03/19

Send us a text Gary brings you more highlights from Angus MacColl's recent recital hosted by the MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band, and invites you to eavesdrop on a couple of sets from the Celtic Spring Festival Tour in Austria Playlist Angus MacColl with the Cowal Highland Gathering, Maclean of Pennycross, 71st Highlanders, The Pap of Glencoe and The Highland Wedding from the MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Recital Series 2025 Angus MacColl with Gaelic Airs from the MacKenzie Caledonian Pip...

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54:48

Episode 93 - Oh Vienna!

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/03/12

Send us a text Gary reports in from his tour in Austria with some more great bagpipe music, old and new. Playlist Gary West with The Fourth Floor (private recording) Will MacMorran with Scott MacMorran’s, Trip to Nanjiang and Holston Ridge from Smallpipes Big Tunes Angus MacColl with Billy Connolly’s and the Hard Drive from MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Recital (private recording) Sgoil Bhágh a’ Chaisteal with Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships Freestyle Entry Angus MacColl w...

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60:34

Episode 92 - Tunes and Chat with Finlay MacDonald

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/03/05

Gary visits the National Piping Centre to catch up with Director of Piping, Finlay MacDonald. And of course there's plenty of music along the way. Playlist Brighde Chaimbeul with Doronoch Links, Catriona Bheag’s and Bonnie Bonnie is the Lass from The Piper and the Maker 2: Celebrating C Finlay MacDonald and Chris Stout with Border Crossing from The Cauld Wind National Youth Pipe Band with 400% from Thunderstruck: Live from the Perth Concert Hall Masters of Scottish Arts Folk Grou...

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56:32

Episode 91 - Brave New Music

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/02/26

With the recent publication of his new book, Brave New Music, Gary explores the life and music of the piper, classical violinist, composer and DJ, the late Martyn Bennett, and also pays tribute to the late Bill Livingstone who sadly passed away this week. Playlist 78th Fraser Highlanders with Competition Medley, World Pipe Band Championships 1987 Martyn Bennett with Swallowtale, from Martyn Bennett Martyn Bennett with Mary Kelly's, Glesga Tabla and Belle's Fancy from the Grand Concert o...

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Episode 90 - Ferrules and Ferries

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/02/19

More great music and chat from the world of bagpipes, as Gary pays another visit to the bagpipe factory of RG Hardie, and explores a lovely piece of brand new music composed to celebrate the recent launch of the latest addition to the Calmac fleet, MV Glen Sannox. Playlist Ann Gray with Dirty Little Harry, The Memphis Rendezvous, The Wise Maid and A Cup of Tea from Tales of Magpies and Ravens Iain Speirs with The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society and The Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band f...

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55:22

Episode 89 - Focus on Duncan Nicholson Part 2

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/02/12

Gary brings you the second instalment of his chat with Duncan Nicholson, touching on his time as pipe major of the Strathclyde Police and exploring some other musical projects he's been involved with over the years. Playlist Strathclyde Police Pipe Band with Dolina MacKay, the Goatherd and the Shepherd, The Gathering, Ho Ro 's Hug Oro Eile, Rodney Hull QC, Tulloch Gorm, The Lads of Mull, Ridhle Mo Nighean Donn from World Pipe Band Championships 2011. Greater Glasgow Police Pipe Band feat....

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Episode 88 - Focus on Duncan Nicholson, Part 1

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2025/02/05

Gary catches up with one of the great players of the pipe band and folk scene, Duncan Nicholson, who shares with us his music and memories. We chatted for so long, look out for Part 2 next week! Playlist Duncan Nicholson with He Ho Hi Rum, The Wee man who went to Stornoway, Duncan Nicholson – Private Recording Train Journey North with Skyeman's Jig, Skyelark Ascension, Alex MacDonald and Echoes of Oban from First Tracks Duncan Nicholson, Allan Henderson and Ingrid Henderson ...

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