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Podcast: Keeping The Tradition Alive

Gary West looks at the theme of passing on the music – exploring how the tradition of piping music is transmitted from one generation to the next and via teacher and pupil.

In this sixth edition of The Piping Season podcast , Gary West looks at the theme of passing on the music – exploring how the tradition of piping music is transmitted from one generation to the next and kept alive through special musical relationships that exists between teacher and pupil. We also hear from German piper Anna Kummerlow, one of the winners at this year's Northern Meeting in Inverness, alongside musical flavours from Cristina Pato, Angus MacColl and Ross Ainslie performing with Brighde Chaimbeul & Steven Byrnes.

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29 minutes

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Artist: Chris Armstrong

Title: Parker’s Welcome to Perthshire

BBC Recording Northern Meeting 2023

Artist: Alex Gandy

Title: Jimmy Young

BBC Recording, Northern Meeting 2023

Artist: Angus MacColl

Title: John MacDonald of Glencoe

BBC Recording, Northern Meeting 2023

Artist: Cristina Pato

Title: Escornabois

Album: Xilento

Artist: Robert Brown

Title: The Desperate Battle

Album: Masters of Piobaireachd Vol 2

Artist: Bruce Gandy

Title: Lament for the Earl of Anapool

BBC Recording Northern Meeting 2023

Artist: Simon Fraser University Pipe Band

Title: Hugh Kennedy

BBC Recording World Pipe Band Championships 2023

Artist: Ross Ainslie, Brighde Chaimbeul and Steven Byrnes

Title: Dod’s

Album: Las

Artist: Chris Armstrong

Title: Cecily Ross

BBC Recording Northern Meeting 2023