Small Tunes Podcast: “Home Rule” by Vince Janoski

It’s been quite a while since the last Small Tunes Podcast. Let’s catch up with “Home Rule,” a tune that dates from Ireland of the mid- to late 19th century. Home Rule was a powerful political idea that stood at the heart of much of the social turmoil in Ireland from about the 1860s to [...]

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Small Tunes Podcast: “Hodin Hiotra,” One of the Cragich, from the Campbell Canntaireachd by Vince Janoski

On this episode I present an unpublished piobaireachd interpreted directly from the Nether Lorn Canntaireachd, or Campbell Canntaireachd as it is known. The two volumes of the Campbell Canntaireachd have been an inexhaustible resource for students of piobaireachd for nearly two hundred years. The original manuscripts still exist at the Royal Library in Edinburgh and [...]

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Small Tunes Podcast: “Johnnie, Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver” by Vince Janoski

I think this tune title ranks up there with “Thump the Bitches” as my favorite of all time! By all accounts, this tune is a very old melody. If you were to do any research on the tune you would come up with numerous, incorrect attributions to Robert Burns composing the song and lyrics in [...]

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Small Tunes Podcast: “My Lady’s Gown There’s Gairs Upon It” by Vince Janoski

I seem to be drawn to little strathspeys lately. And why not? The strathspey is a uniquely Scottish idiom and who better to underscore that than the most uniquely Scottish poet and bard Robert Burns. The line of the title “My Lady’s Gown There’s Gairs Upon It” is sometimes used as the title of a [...]

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Dojo Universe Podcast—All Sorts of Bagpipe Goodness by Vince Janoski

Those of you who listened in on last year’s Bagpipe Nation podcast (still available by the way; click the “Podcast” category at right) can now satisfy for your yen over at Dojo University with the new podcast “Dojo Universe.” Cohosts Andrew Douglas, Carl Donley and yours truly will be webcasting live at 12:00 noon every [...]

Small Tunes Podcast: “Thump the Bitches” by Vince Janoski

On this episode, I bring you the perky little tune “Thump the Bitches.” Oh my. This tune comes down to us from the eighteenth-century English pastoral pipe tradition. The English pastoral pipe is considered a bridge in the evolution between bellows-blown border pipes and the Union pipes of the 1800s and what would eventually become [...]

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Small Tunes Podcast: “Bung Your Eye!” by Vince Janoski

This happy little jig is often heard as “Lord Dunmore’s Jig” or simply “Lord Dunmore” but is predated by the tune “Bung Your Eye.” A “bung” is typically the hole in the whiskey barrel where the spigot inserts before bottling or dispensing. It could also be the act of inserting the spigot itself, thus the [...]

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Small Tunes Podcast: “The Haughs of Cromdale” by Vince Janoski

I love a good Jacobite rebel song, don’t you? Many of our classic bagpipe tunes got their start as bawdy, Scottish fighting songs during the Jacobite period of 1688 to 1746. The “Haughs of Cromdale” pulls from the melody of a song that commemorates a battle that took place on April 30, 1690. A tiny [...]

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