Pipe Band Special
Gary West turns his attention to the pipe band world to help celebrate the return of the first major band competition in Scotland since 2019 to be held in Greenock on May 21st.
With just one week to go before the first major pipe band contest for almost three years, Gary West celebrates their return with a reminder of some of the great band sounds of the past. The industrial communities of the central belt of Scotland are well represented with sets from Dysart and Dundonald, Polkemmet Colliery and the eight-times world champions through the 1950s and 60s, based in a Grangemouth paper mill, Muirhead and Sons. Canadian bands the 78th Fraser Highlanders and the Dowco Triumph Street go through their musical paces too, and there’s a stop off in Melbourne, Australia, for a set from the Victoria Police. Away from the pipe band scene, we dip into some classic recordings from Robert Mathieson, Yorkshireman John Walsh, and the Breton bagpipe and bass guitar duo of Patrick Molard and Alain Genty, while we bookend this week’s programme with two highly charged, full octane offerings from The Scott Wood Band and Rory Campbell & Malcolm Stitt.
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Artist: Scott Wood Band
Title: Dr Alasdair MacKenzie, Barber Avenue
Artist: Dysart and Dundonald
Title: Leaving Lunga, The Shepherd’s Crook, The Rookery
Artist: Muirhead and Sons
Title: Piper’s Prayer, Cockney Jocks, Bonnie Lass o Fyvie
Artist: Patrick Molard and Alain Genty
Title: Port Urlar
Artist: Polkemmet Grorud Pipe Band
Title: Glensanda, Mathieson’s Farewell, Tom Billy’s Jig, The Swaggering Jig, Campbelltown Kiltie Ball, Mac ‘n Irish, The Easy Club Reel, Itchy Fingers
Artist: Robert Mathieson
Title: The Radical Road, Partners in Time
Artist: 78th Fraser Highlanders
Title: He Man Du, Morrison’s Jig Reel, Farewell to Nigg
Artist: John Walsh
Title: Dr Ross’s 50th Welcome to the Argyllshire Gathering, Jean Mauchlin, P/M Donald MacLean of Lewis
Artist: The Victoria Police Pipe Band
Title: Acid Piper, The Bulgarian Bandit, Adrian’s Obsession
Artist: Dowco Triumph Street
Title: Dugald MacColl’s Farewell to France, Atholl Cummers, Pretty Marion
Artist: Rory Campbell and Malcolm Stitt
Title: An T Ord Gallach, Don Manson’s Reel, Paul’s Apple Tree, The Islay Ranters, Tar the House
Broadcast
- Sat 14 May 202221:00BBC Radio Scotland
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