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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 104 - Shoulder to Shoulder Jun 04, 2025

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Join Gary as he invites you on another journey through the riches of the bagpipe traditions of the world.

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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 Connection, Stand Fast, Rare Air, The Iron Man, The Caledonian Society of London, Dragan’s Lair, The Abyss and Rattle n Hum from Sans Peur.

Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhride and Griogair Labhruidh with A bhean adai thall from Guaillibh a’ Cheile

John MacLean with Kennedy Street March, The Miller o Drone, Lady Carmichael, Unknown, The Night we Had the Goats, Unknown and Marry Me Now from the Second Grand Concert of Piping

People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band with Mingulay Boat Song from Cabar Feidh

Wolfstone with The Road to Mount Tinnie Run, The Boys of Ballymote and Alan MacPherson of Mosspark from The Chase

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People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band

The Reeling Festival

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Episode 103 - Cabar Feidh May 28, 2025

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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.

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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 Gillies with Dickie MacPherson MacDonald and J Scott Skinner’s Welcome to Inverness from Lochbroom

The People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band with Mouth Music from Cabar Feidh

Hugh MacCallum with Lament for Mary MacLeod from the World’s Greatest Pipers, Volume 2.

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Link to People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band

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Episode 102 - Sunny Days Are Here Again May 21, 2025

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Gary brings you more great music of the bagpipe family, including trips to France, Asturias, Ireland and the USA.

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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 Rant and Pretty Marion from The Pipe Major’s Choice: Shotts and Dkyehead Caledonia Pipe Band

Seudan with the Cameronian Rant and Cabar Feidh from Seudan

Philippe Eidel feat. Eric Montbel with Pimbou from Les Agricoles

Jose Manuel Tejedor with Aviles to Cork from Lluz

Gordon McCready with The Waterhole, The Seagull, Fennyside Lassies, I Have it Somewhere, Sine Bhan, Innes and Fraser’s Reel, Concertina Reel and The Fourth Floor from Wheel of Fortune 2025, EYP Recording

Cillian Vallely with Cottage in the Grove, Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel and Master Crowley’s from The Raven’s Rock

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Old Blind Dog Tour Dates and Details

Vermont Institute of Celtic Arts

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Episode 101 - Knees Up May 14, 2025

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Gary invites you to join him with the first episode of the next one hundred!

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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 Waltzurka and Full-Rigged from Pipeworks

Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band with Morrison Avenue, Ye Jacobites by Name, The Leaving of Liverpool, Johnny With the Bandy Legs from The Pipe Major's Choice: Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band.

Brighde Chaimbeul with Bogan Lochan from Sunwise (pre-release)

Davy Spillane with Midnight Walker from Pipedreams

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Breabach Tour Dates

Brighde Chaimbeul's Sunwise Pre-Orders

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Episode 100 - The First One Hundred May 07, 2025

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Gary invites you to help him celebrate the milestone of having reached one hundred episodes of EYP, with some suitable music along the way.

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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 MacDonald, I Have it Somewhere, The Haughs of Cromdale, The Ferryman, The Night We Had the Goats, Becky Ewan from The Wheel of Fortune 2025, EYP Recording.

Cameron May with Duke of Roxburgh’s Farewell to the Blackmount Forest, and Mrs MacPherson of Inveran from The Wheel of Fortune 2025, EYP Recording.

Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with Zito the Bubbleman, Susan MacLeod, Cecily Ross, the Lintie, Balandran Air, Lorient et Grand and the Pitlochry High School Centenary from the World Pipe Band Championships 2001.

Cameron Drummond with Hi Ho ro Mo Nighneag, Inveran, Doctor MacInnes’s Fancy, Irish Polkas, Silver Spear, Richard Dwyer’s, The Kesh Jig, Irish Jigs from The Wheel of Fortune 2025, EYP Recording

Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band and the Porridge Men with the 93rd at Modder River and the Centenary Jewel from Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band in Concert.

Bruce’s March from The Bruce 700 Composed by Allan MacDonald and Neil Johnstone

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Episode 99 - Wheel of Fortune 2025 Apr 30, 2025

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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.

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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 The Fourth Floor from EYP Recording Wheel of Fortune 2025

Gordon McCready with the Stornoway Highland Gathering, the Piper’s Bonnet and Broadford Bay from EYP Recording Wheel of Fortune 2025

Ross Miller with P/M Donald MacLean of Lewis, Chloe’s Passion, Newly Wed at Newhall, Gaelic Air, Dora Watt, Jack Daniel’s, Bartender, Molly Rankin’s and the Flaggon from EYP Recording Wheel of Fortune 2025.

Brian Lamond with P.M J MacWilliams, Caledonian Society of London, and the Little Cascade from EYP Recording Wheel of Fortune 2025

John Dew with Loch MacLeod, Wee Man from Skye, LA Kent, Loch Duich, The Sesh Chest and Watch My Toe from EYP Recording Wheel of Fortune 2025

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Episode 98 - The Moon's Daughter Apr 23, 2025

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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!

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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, Memories and Coates Hall from The Northumbrian Smallpipes (Topic)

Skye Youth Pipe Band with Prince Charles’ Welcome to Lochaber, The Sweet Maid of Glendaruel, Teribus and McKay’s Polka recorded at the Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships 2025.

Michael Grey with Clach Mhin Mheallain, Buggerlugs, Dr Angus MacDonald’s Off to Skye, The Left-Handed Piper, The Sunday Post Highlander from Cuts From Traditional Cloth

Bruce Gandy with Bob of Fettercairn, The Islay Ball, Sound of Sleat and the Brown Haired Maid from My Father’s Son

Laoise Kelly and Tiarnan O’Duinnchinn with A Teelin Highland, Drowsie Maggie and the Ballinamore Reel from Ar Lorg na Laochra (On the Shoulders of Giants).

Peatbog Faeries with Abhainn a’ Nathair (River of Snakes) from Dust

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Skye Youth Pipe Band Fundraiser - get your tickets for the MacRae pipes here

Heather MacIsaac Album Available here

Information on Open Call for Emerging Talent at Piping Live 2025 here

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Episode 97 - Serendipity Apr 16, 2025

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Gary returns from his Atholl Highlanders tour with more great music from his collection of all things bagpipes.

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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 Welcome from Hailey’s Song

Steven Bodenes and Sylvain Hamon with Daou don Dans from Daou Don Dans

Hazel Whyte with Major Manson at Clachantrushal, Susan MacLeod and Alick C MacGregor from EYP Live at Piping Live

Beinn Lee with Lexy MacAskill, The Ben Kenneth Reel, Air an Fheill a-Muigh and The Fourth Floor from Osgarra

Jori Chisholm with Angus G MacLeod from Bagpipe Revolution

RS MacDonald with Good Drying from Good Drying

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Info and Nomination Form for the Maket Collective

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Episode 96 - Two Years and Counting Apr 02, 2025

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Gary celebrates the podcast's second anniversary with plenty more great music from the world of bagpipes.

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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 Alec C MacGregor from World Pipe Band Championships 2016, private recording

Gordon and Shona Mooney with Jimmy Allan, Geld Him Lasses, Coffee and Tea and Skint o Siller from Reclaimed: Pipe Music and Song from the Scottish Borders

Cristina Pato and Rosa Cedron with Heicho de Dar from Soas

Dr Angus MacDonald with Dh’ith na Coin na Maragan, Reel of Tulloch, Muilleann Dubh and Cailleach Liadh Ratharsair from Maidean Dubh’ an Donais

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Episode 95 - Coffee & Sunshine (but no planes) Mar 26, 2025

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Gary welcomes Tim Cummings and Fin Moore to the bothy for a chat and a wee tune.

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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 North Retreats Gathering feat. Mike Vass with ‘Air and Polka’ Field Recording March 2025

Tim Cummings, Fin Moore and Gary West with March of the King of Laoise (EYP Bothy Recording)

Teresa Horgan feat Seumas Begley with Eamonn an Choic from Amethyst

John Patrick with The Conundrum, Miss Tracey Lundie, Dougie Ferguson’s Reel and John Burgess’s Reel from the Piping Centre Recital Series 1997 Volume 2.

Cairdeas Summer School, Vermont

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