The March 31, 2011 episode of Bagpipe Nation is below for listening and downloading. Hosts Vince Janoski and Andrew Douglas chat with special guest Nate Wahlgren in a lively discussion on the current logic of the EUSPBA’s Grade 4 full-tune piobaireachd rule—what it might do to competitors, how many contests have canceled the event entirely, and what is in store for the future in an alternate bagpiping universe. Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or directly in your feed reader by clicking here.
Editor’s note: Long ago, a collection of wise (or demented) random thoughts (or ravings) was discovered beneath a pile of stale chips in a remote corner of a famed Highland games site. Smelling of fish, they are believed to have been penned by one Angus Óg, self-dubbed “piping prophet.” Angus himself has been lost somewhere in the mists of time, or at least in the dust of a well trampled beer tent. They are reprinted here to touch the minds and hearts of pipers everywhere.
Angus Óg awoke in cold sweat, trembling from a vision of the future. It was apocalypse. A wasteland of neglect and decay. A horrible disease had wiped out most of humanity and turned them into mindless animals stumbling their way through the ruins of civilization looking to feed on the few who remained—the bagpipers. Read More
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