PipehackerSmall Tunes Podcast: “Kilmartin Castle”
Friday, October 17, 2014
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Small Tunes Podcast: “The Red Coat”
Friday, September 5, 2014
“The Red Coat†is tune that evokes the image of pressing red-coated English infantryman—something that has been forever burned into the American cultural consciousness. The “strathspey†is also something forever burned into the musical consciousness of all pipers. Download the score and listen to the podcast for more background and a rendition of the tune on the bagpipe.
Small Tunes Podcast: “Jack Ashore”
Friday, August 22, 2014
In this episode we travel to Victorian England and get a taste of life on the docks of London with “Jack Ashore,†a tune composed by Harry B. Murray in 1909. The term “Jack ashore†was a common reference to a sailor or sailors, or a Jack Tar, who had come into port with the carousing and antics one would expect after being at sea for many months. Download the score and listen to the podcast for more background and a rendition of the tune on the bagpipe.
Small Tunes Podcast: “He’s O’er the Hills That I Love Well”
Friday, March 28, 2014
We open this episode with an old joke that slags bagpipers but is connected to the very old melody “Over the Hills and Far Away.†Listen to the podcast for more background and a rendition of the tune on the bagpipe.
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