Festivals on Our Minds
Gary West brings you more high quality music from the international bagpipe family, as he explores a range of festivals on both sides of the Atlantic.
Gary West takes you on a visit to a range of festivals on both sides of the Atlantic to take in some of the finest piping performances of recent times. Piping Live and Celtic Connections represent the Scottish scene, the USA gives us Winter Storm in Kansas City and the Pipers’ Gathering in Vermont, Armagh in Northern Ireland hosts the William Kennedy Festival, while the beautiful west coast of Brittany calls us to the Festival de Cornouaille. The cast of pipers we hear from includes Chris Armstrong, Gordon Duncan, Fred Morrison, Alasdair Gillies, Andy May, Anxo Lorenzo, Kathryn Tickell and Paddy Keenan, as well as the Inverarary and District and Field Marshall Montgomery pipe bands. The Baghad Kemper treat us to the rich, vibrant sounds of Brittany, while Brighde Chaimbeul gives us a taster of what we might expect from her performance at the opening night of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival.
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Music Used:
Artist: Brighde Chaimbeul
Title: The Old Woman’s Dance, Skylark’s Ascension
Artist: Chris Armstrong
Title: The Piper’s Bonnett, Cabar Feidh, The Sheepwife, John Morrison of Assynt House
Artist: Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band
Title: Cabar Feidh, The Mason’s Apron, The Fiddler’s Rally
Artist: Paddy Keenan
Title: The Flagstone of Memories, Anderson’s, Molly Bawn, The Bucks of Oranmore
Artist: Bagad Kemper
Title: Scottisch
Artist: Alasdair Gillies
Title: Munlochy Bridge, Le Petit Cheval Rouge, John MacLean, Elizabeth;s Big Coat, West Mabou Reel
Artist: Andy May
Title: Holy Ha’Penny
Artist: Anxo Lorenzo and Kathryn Tickell
Title: Ledicias da Vila de Ortegan, A Camposa
Artist: Gordon Duncan
Title: Am Breamatain Tobhain Dubh, Port Sean Seasamh, Blow my Chanter, The Baravan, The Jolly Tinker, The Contradiction, The Ash Plant, The High Level Hornpipe, Trad Irish, Richard Dwyer’s
Artist: Inveraray and District
Title: The Links of Forth, The Bob of Fettercairn, Charlie’s Welcome
Artist: Fred Morrison Trio
Title: Mark Sheridan’s, Frances Morton’s
Broadcast
- Sat 9 Apr 202221:00BBC Radio Scotland
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