Road to the North
This week's Pipeline takes you to the North and West of Scotland, with a stopover in the coalfields of Lanarkshire and the oilfields of the North Sea.
Gary West takes you on a piping tour of Scotland, with his gaze fixed firmly on the North and West, with musical visits to Assynt, Plockton, Moidart, Skye, Lewis, South Uist and Clachnacuddin! The lowlands do get a look in too, with a stopover in the coalfields of Lanarkshire courtesy of a classic album from the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band. There's a taster of music with roots that may just stretch back six centuries to the earliest days of the bagpipe's story in Scotland, as well as an emotive composition which commemorates those who lost their lives in the Piper Alpha tragedy of 1998.
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Music Used:
Artist: Assynt
Title: Fiend and the Hound, A Race to the Top, Deadlines
Artist: Willie Morrison
Title: The Right Honourable Alan J MacEachan, Sandy Thomson of Alva, Ludovic Morrison’s Favourite
Artist: George Watson’s College
Title: The Train Journey North, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, The Back of the Moon, Leaving Ireland, The Fiddler, The Burnside Jig
Artist: Sgoil Chiuil na Gaidhealtachd
Title: In Praise of Plockton / In Praise of the Pencil
Artist: Griogair Labhruidh
Title: Clach Eanraig, MacAlasdair’s Dirk
Artist: Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia
Title: Piper Alpha
Artist: Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia
Title: P/M Willie Gray’s Farewell to the Glasgow Police, Dora Macleod, The Cockerel in the Creel
Artist: Allan MacDonald
Title: Lament for Red Hector
Artist: Colin MacLellan
Title: The Fairie’s Hornpipe, John F Kennedy, The Clachnacuddin Hornpipe
Artist: John Dew
Title: Connor’s Debut, The Hamilton Wonders, A Jig Inspired by Duncan Johnston
Artist: Gordon Duncan
Title: Lorient Mornings, Grand Nuit de Port de Peche, Davy Webster’s Fortieth
Broadcast
- Sat 4 Dec 202121:00BBC Radio Scotland
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