Bagpipe Nation January 27, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
The January 27th installment of Bagpipe Nation is ready for listening below. On this week’s show hosts Andrew Douglas and Vince Janoski have an excellent disscussion on the…
The January 27th installment of Bagpipe Nation is ready for listening below. On this week’s show hosts Andrew Douglas and Vince Janoski have an excellent disscussion on the…
This Thursday’s Bagpipe Nation will feature long time teacher, player, adjudicator, and director of the Invermark school Donald Lindsay. Hosts Andrew Douglas and Vince Janoski will unlock the mysteries…
Sometimes a great story adds so much more to a good tune. Certainly some of the better piobaireachds have great stories (true or not!) behind them. That just means that they should be on display at all times! Here is your first poster of “Great Tunes, Great Tales.” Download the image for “The Unjust Incarceration” for display as your desktop background or, better yet, buy the full size, full color poster over at the Piper’s Dojo.
A little Sunday afternoon piobaireachd, “A Flame of Wrath for Squinting Patrick,” expertly played by Roddy MacLeod.
Quick poll: How many pipers play piobaireachd by taking their instructor’s interpretation and/or following the Piobaireachd Society setting without question? One of the more interesting aspects you find upon deeper study of ceol mor is the fact that the interpretations of the tunes are not fixed and have been expressed differently by just about every individual who has compiled or taught the tunes over the centuries.