s7 E24 Halloween Special Episode With Guest Host John Charles, and contributions from Jenna Bagpipes, Leslie Anne Harrison, ChristianWandzala, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin and Eileen Budd
Tunes: William Campbell: Halloween, Smith’s Orange and Fork William Campbell: The Crown Prince, Lord St. Orville, Arabella, The Royal Visitors, John Sutherland: Alas Poor Soul, The Devil’s Dream, Abraham MacIntosh: The Witches Hill Joseph Lowe: The Warlocks, The Witches Jenna Dennison: Devil’s in the Corners Leslie Anne Harrison: Da Trowie Burn Christian Wandzala: Bonnie Susie Cleland Cassandre Balosso-Bardin: Water Nymph aka “Vittrans polska” by Emelius Lundberg Eileen Budd: Stories of Scottish Arthurian Legends John Charles: Am Bròn Binn +X+ Thanks to Beth Clark-McDonal, for the use of “Jock O Piper” for the Cover art, Check it out here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/jack-o-piper-beth-clark-mcdonal.html?product=poster +X+ This episode wouldn’t be possible without the efforts of John Charles! “Dr. Jeremy Kingsbury’s Official archivist and biographer!” Thank you John Charles. I join him in offering my sincere thanks to our guest performers whose links appear in chronological order: (Note that I am also indebted to the recordings of Leslie and Cassandre from their Performances at the Pipers’ Gathering, 2023, and the recording of Greg Lotta. You can check out Pipers’ Gathering Here: https://www.pipersgathering.org/ And Greg Lotta’s Work here: https://www.youtube.com/@glatta0 +X+X+ Jenna Dennison: Known on Social Media as “Jenna Bagpipes” I first met Jenna on Tik Tok where I saw her ripping High Bs on Highland pipes! She’s a delightful Bagpiper’s Bagpiper to follow on social media. If you want music to “Devil’s in the Corners” you can get it by joining her Patreon feed: Montreal Piping & Drumming School http://www.mpds.ca/en/ social media / website links https://www.youtube.com/@jennabagpipes https://www.tiktok.com/@jennabagpipes https://www.patreon.com/jennabagpipes https://www.jennadennison.com +X+X+X+ Leslie Anne Harrison: You can Check out Leslie Anne Harrison’s projects on her website: https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/ Be sure to check out her Flute books, “Playing Outside the Lines” https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/store and her “Irish Flute Library” https://www.leslieanneharrison.com/the-irish-flute-library I took the recording from Greg Lotta’s Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IHALOj6JhE&t=941s +X+X+X+ Christian Wandzala You can see some of Christian’s musical projects on Social media here: https://www.facebook.com/catandhare and his band, Leaky Bellows with his wife Emily Sine Nomine! (CONGRATULATIONS!) and John Charles Here: https://www.facebook.com/trollmoss X+X+X+X+X Cassandre Balosso-Bardin You can check out Cassandre’s extensive work on her website here: http://www.cassandrebalossobardin.com/ Be sure also to check out the “International Bagpipe Organization” which she founded: https://www.internationalbagpipeorganisation.com/ I took the recording from Greg Lotta, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrZ5h0lINI&t=195s +X+X+X+ Eileen Budd: You can check out Eileen on Social Media, she puts out stellar 60 second Scottish Stories on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eileenbudd/?hl=en She also has her own podcast, Scottish Folk: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scottish-folk/id1674005044 You should also check out her adaptation of the Ossian Poems: https://wideopensea.bigcartel.com/product/ossian +X+X+X+ John Charles: I’m sure John Charles has many sources for his playing of Am Bròn Binn, but I found this setting which sounds fairly similar after a quick search of his favorite archive, Tobar an Dualchais: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/43732?l=en +X+X+X+ Sources for the Jeremy Selections: 1795: Halloween from William Campbell’s Strathspey reels, waltz's & Irish jiggs for the harp, piano forte, & violin; with their proper figures as danced at Court, Bath, Willis's, Hanover Square Rooms, https://archive.org/details/strathspeyreelsw00camp/page/n15/mode/2up 1795: Smith’s Orange and Fork from William Campbell’s Strathspey reels, waltz's & Irish jiggs for the harp, piano forte, & violin; with their proper figures as danced at Court, Bath, Willis's, Hanover Square Rooms, https://archive.org/details/strathspeyreelsw00camp/page/n25/mode/2up +X+X+ 1815: The Crown Prince, Lord St. Orville, Arabella, The Royal Visitors From Campbell's favorite set of New Country Dances & Strathspey Reels for the year, 1815 https://imslp.org/wiki/New_Country_Dances_and_Strathspey_Reels_for_1815_(Campbell%2C_William) +X+X+ 1785: Alas Poor Soul, The Devil’s Dream From John Suherland’s Manuscript John Sutherland’s Manuscript available on Ross’s Music Page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html I highly Recommend Ross Anderson’s Introduction to Sutherland: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/Sutherland-Manuscript.pdf +X+X+ 1792: The Witches Hill, Abraham MacIntosh’s Thirty New Strathspey Reels, etc… https://www.highlandmusictrust.org/the-abraham-mackintosh-collections +X+X+X+ 1844: The Witches and The Warlocks from Joseph Lowe’s Collection of Reels, Strathpeys and Jigs Book IV. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015048251733&seq=113 +X+X+X+X+ Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! 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