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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 134 - Time to Spare

Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West ·

2026/02/04

Send us a text Join Gary for more quality piping including musical trips to both the USA and Canada Playlist Fras with Flylo from Flinne Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band with Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band and Bruce Gandy’s Farewell to the Iron Horse from At the Beach Duncan Johnstone with Duncan Johnstone, The Judge’s Dilemma and Donella Beaton from Bows and Drones. Jeremiah McLane and Timothy Cummings with Laride 6 Temps and Pixel from The Wind Among the Reeds Brian Donaldson with Lord Al...

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52:40

Episode 133 - Windy City

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2026/01/28

Send us a text Gary explores his CD shelves to bring you an eclectic range of music from the world of piping. Playlist James Harper with Cladach Uaine, Sultans Reel and Montelago Madness from Culzean Dr Angus MacDonald with When the Night is Falling, Crossing the Minch and I Laid a Herring in Saut from The Piping Concert Celtic Connections 1997 Stephanie Makem and Tiarnan o Duinnchinn with Ril an Eargail from Ceol is Piob The Clan Gregor Society with Lord Alexander Kenn...

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51:23

Episode 132 - In Conversation with Pipe Major Matt...

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2026/01/21

Send us a text Gary brings you an extended interview with Matt Wilson, following his debut season as pipe major of the Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band. Playlist Hamish Hepburn and Jack Houston with The Archina MacLennan Twoscore, The West Highland Liner and Lady Francis from Afore We Go Ben Duncan with The Duchess of Edinburgh, Thoughts of Burns and the Little Cascade (Ben Duncan Private Recording) Dollar Academy Juvenile Pipe Band with Donald MacLellan of Rothsay, Susan MacLeod and...

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58:16

Episode 131 - A Wee Bit Out of the Ordinary

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2026/01/14

Send us a text More great music from the world of piping as Gary takes you to Scotland, Canada, USA and Galicia. EYP Episode 131 Playlist Back of the Moon with Mrs MacLean from Fortune’s Road Roddy MacLeod with Brigadier General Ronald Cheape of Tiroran, The Piper’s Bonnet and Charlie’s Welcome from The World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 6. Milladoiro with Muniera de Chantada from Castellum Honesti Stuart Liddell with Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry from Garron &nbs...

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60:17

Episode 130 - Celtic Connections Preview 2026

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2026/01/07

Send us a text Gary looks ahead to the various piping treats to be found at Celtic Connections 2026. Playlist MacNaughtons Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with Molendinar, Susan MacLeod, Fleshmarket Close, Ca the Yowes and Tar the House from Live n Well India Alba with Donald, Willie and his Dog and the Elephant and Camel from Reels and Ragas John McSherry, Brendán Quinn, and Francis McIlduff with Liz Rowsome’s from Feile (Live) Brighde Chaimbeul with Bog an Lochan from Sunwise &nb...

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23:29

Episode 129 - Merry Christmas!

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2025/12/24

Send us a text A brief reflection on the EYP adventures of 2025, Marry Christmas to all, and happy 90th birthday to Gary's mum! Support the show

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63:07

Episode 128 - Farewell to Ian MacLellan & Jamie Troy

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2025/12/17

Send us a text Gary 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. Playlist Rura with Day One from Live at the Fruitmarket Stuart 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 Vi...

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88:05

Episode 127 - Gordon Duncan Tribute Concert Live

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2025/12/10

Send us a text Gary 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. Playlist Craig 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...

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53:33

Episode 126 - The Last Note

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2025/12/03

Send us a text Gary hosts another hour of top notch piping from a the airts. EYP 126 Playlist Beolach 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 Border Jim MacG...

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64:40

Episode 125 - Bellows in Dunkeld

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2025/11/26

Send us a text Gary brings you highlights from the recent Lowland and Border Pipers' Society gathering in Dunkeld, Perthshire. Playlist Finlay 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 ...

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59:31

Episode 124 - Let Piping Flourish

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2025/11/19

Send us a text Gary 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. Playlist Gordon 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 Lo...

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58:24

Episode 123 - Chasing the Sun

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2025/11/05

Send us a text Join Gary as he brings you both cheery and melancholy tunes and songs from Scotland and well beyond. Playlist Cantrip with the Duncan Johnstone Set from Undark Jack Lee with 93rd at Modder River, Susan MacLeod and the Little Cascade from The Piping Centre 1996 Recital Series Vol 1 Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with Tir Nan Og from Affirmation Archie Fisher with The Lassie o the Mornin from Off the Map The People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with...

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62:56

Episode 122 - This is How the Ladies Dance

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2025/10/29

Send us a text Gary takes you on another musical journey in the company of all things bagpipes. Playlist Eabhal with This is How the Ladies Dance, Stoddies Reel, Break in Borve and St Valery Pipes from This is How the Ladies Dance Stuart Liddell with The Highland Wedding and The Cameronian Rant from The P/M Alasdair Gillies Memorial Challenge 2021. Julian Goodacre with The Saunt from Some of Me Pipes Donald Black with Spogan from From My Heart Donald Black ...

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58:01

Episode 121 - Learning to Fly

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2025/10/22

Send us a text Join Gary as he brings you tunes from Brittany, Sweden ... and Motherwell! Playlist Den with L’Orient et Grand, from Just Around the Window. Johnstone Pipe Band with The Drunken Landlady, Michael Brady's Jig, Thief of Lochaber, Caledonia, AA Cameron's, Cutties Wedding, Cupair Thu, Tailler Thu, The Hole in the Bath from the 2023 World Pipe Band Championships Harta with Borgsjo Polska and Polska frän Halleforsnäs from Harta Lorne MacDougall with Learning to Fly from ...

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55:14

Episode 120 - The Tartan Army

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2025/10/15

Send us a text More great music of the bagpipe, including a quick trip to Hampden Park. Playlist Assynt with Rescues from Where From Here? Murray Henderson with AA Cameron’s Strathspey, Nelly’s Strathspey, Roes Among the Heather, Maclaine of Lochbuie’s Reel, Malcolm the Tailor and the Wind that Shakes the Barley from The World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 4. Annie Grace with ‘Tunes’ from The Bell. Closkelt with Lucy Cassidy, Butterfingers, Mrs MacDonald of Uig, South Georgia Whaling Song,...

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59:51

Episode 119 - Back on the Naughty Step

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2025/10/08

Send us a text Gary brings you more bagpipes delights from the Bothy. Playlist Dan Houghton with Drink, Debauchery and 200 Euros, Teigis agus Dealg Innte, Willie Murray’s Reel and The Fourth Floor from Bagpipe Personality Disorder. Greater Glasgow Glasgow Police Pipe Band with Lightly Swims the Swan, Miss Victoria Ross, Lady Margaret Stewart, Port a Beul, Lord McConnell of Lough Erne and Lochend from Ceolry. Mick O’Brien with Statia Donnelly’s, If I Will I Can and Patsy Geary’...

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Episode 118 - Orkney Anthem

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2025/10/01

Send us a text Refreshed from his wee break in Orkney, Gary brings you more great music from the world of bagpipe (and song!) Playlist Kirkwall City Pipe Band with Orkney Anthem from Anthems of a Peedie Nation Salsa Celtica with Cailleach from 25th Anniversary Big Band Live in Concert Stuart Liddell with Port Urlar from The Argyllshire Gathering 2025 (Peter McCalister recording) Malin Lewis with Tune 51 from Halocline Simon McKerrell with Domhnall nan Domhnall (from the si...

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62:19

Episode 117 - Back to Raasay

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2025/09/17

Send us a text Gary pays a return visit to the Restitution contest held on Raasay in early September, and explores the contribution that island has made to Scotland's creative culture more widely. Playlist Angus Nicholson with Barabel Phadruig, The Eavesdropper, Waulking the Floor and John MacDonald’s Exercise from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Decker Forrest with Siud an gaol a bh' agad orm, Janet tyed the bonnet tight, St. Anne's Reel, 'S e mo ghaol an gille d...

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Episode 116 - The Raasay Restitution 2025

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2025/09/10

Send us a text Gary brings you performances from the 2nd annual contest held on the isle of Raasay, organised by Hamish Moore. Playlist Finlay Cameron with Miss MacGregor's Favourite, Jerry's Pipes, Cailleach A’ Ghobhainn and Merrily Danced the Quaker’s Wife from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Angus Nicholson with A Mhairi Mhin Mo Mheallshuileach Dubh, Lucy Campbell (Lady Louden), Little Donald in the Pig Pen, The Bobbers of Brechin and Buachaille Dubh Fionnghala from...

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Episode 115 - The Captain John MacLellan Memorial...

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2025/09/03

Send us a text It's piobaireachd all the way this week as Gary brings you all four performances from this year's recital dinner celebrating the life and music of Captain John A MacLellan. Playlist Iain Speirs with A Welcome Home for Patrick Struan, EYP Recording from The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner, 2025. Cameron Drummond with the Edinburgh Piobaireachd, EYP Recording from The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner 2025. Ian K MacDo...

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