Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West

Send us a text Join Gary for more quality piping including musical trips to both the USA and Canada Playlist Fras with Flylo from Flinne Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band with Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band and Bruce Gandy’s Farewell to the Iron Horse from At the Beach Duncan Johnstone with Duncan Johnstone, The Judge’s Dilemma and Donella Beaton from Bows and Drones. Jeremiah McLane and Timothy Cummings with Laride 6 Temps and Pixel from The Wind Among the Reeds Brian Donaldson with Lord Alexander Kennedy, Bob of Fettercairn and Mrs MacPherson of Inveran from Glenfiddich Piping Championship Ceol Beag 1990.   Ann Gray with the Starcraft Trip to Glencoe, White Balloons and Black Leather, Kelvinhaugh Street Spirits and The Convoy to Oban from Shouting at Magpies Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band with Colin Thompson, Caledonian Society of London and MacAllister’s Dirk from 25 Years of World Pipe Band Champions John Walsh with Time to Spare, Barney’s Balmoral, Sleepy Maggie, Archie Brown, Piper’s Despair, Poor Man am I, Korgie from Time to Spare Daimh with The Hag at the Churn, Fosgail an Dorus, Zito the Bubbleman and The Wise Maid from Moidart to Mabou Support the show

Send us a text Gary explores his CD shelves to bring you an eclectic range of music from the world of piping. Playlist James Harper with Cladach Uaine, Sultans Reel and Montelago Madness from Culzean   Dr Angus MacDonald with When the Night is Falling, Crossing the Minch and I Laid a Herring in Saut from The Piping Concert Celtic Connections 1997   Stephanie Makem and Tiarnan o Duinnchinn with Ril an Eargail from Ceol is Piob   The Clan Gregor Society with Lord Alexander Kennedy, Dora MacLeod and John Morrison of Assynt House from World Pipe Band Championships 2006   Winter Storm Pipers (led by Jack Lee) with Andrew MacNeil of Colonsay from Winter Storm Concert, Kansas City 2026.   Brian Lamond with Windy City and Eddie the Penguin from Another Day at the Office    Patrick Molard with Suite de Loudeac from The Piping Concert Celtic Connections 1997   Sketch with Out of My Cage from Shed Life   Support the show

Send us a text Gary brings you an extended interview with Matt Wilson, following his debut season as pipe major of the Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band. Playlist Hamish Hepburn and Jack Houston with The Archina MacLennan Twoscore, The West Highland Liner and Lady Francis from Afore We Go Ben Duncan with The Duchess of Edinburgh, Thoughts of Burns and the Little Cascade (Ben Duncan Private Recording) Dollar Academy Juvenile Pipe Band with Donald MacLellan of Rothsay, Susan MacLeod and Lt Col DJS Murray from Scottish Pipe Band Championships 2023 (private recording)   Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band with The Richard Parkes Tribute Medley from European Pipe Band Championships 2025 (private recording)   Matt Wilson with the Cameronian Rant Jig from The Eagle Pipers 2010   Matt Wilson with The Argyllshire Gathering, Cabar Feidh and Lt Col DJS Murray from Winter Storm Gold Medal Contest 2023.   Links  Stirling Junior Solo Piping Competition Saturday March 8th 2026 https://stirlingpiping.weebly.com/#/  Craig Muirhead   craigmuirhead90@hotmail.co.uk King Robert Hotel, Stirling 01786 811666 Support the show

Send us a text More great music from the world of piping as Gary takes you to Scotland, Canada, USA and Galicia. EYP Episode 131 Playlist Back of the Moon with Mrs MacLean from Fortune’s Road Roddy MacLeod with Brigadier General Ronald Cheape of Tiroran, The Piper’s Bonnet and Charlie’s Welcome from The World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 6. Milladoiro with Muniera de Chantada from Castellum Honesti   Stuart Liddell with Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry from Garron   Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band with A Wee Bit Out of the Ordinary, Blackley of Hillsdale, The Braes of Forbes, Willie Bacach MacLeod of Stornoway, The New Paradigm, Salute to Cap Caval, Susan MacLeod (waltz & jig), Donald McKillop, Mrs MacPherson of Inveran (jig) from Impact: Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.   Susana Sevaine with Marcha Procesional dos Mato from Susana Seivane   Andrew and Jack Lee with Murdo MacKenzie of Torridon, The Hen’s March and The Braes of Mellenish from MidWest Highland Arts Fund Winter Storm 2007.    Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton with Pongu from Symbiosis 1       Support the show

Send us a text Gary looks ahead to the various piping treats to be found at Celtic Connections 2026. Playlist MacNaughtons Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with Molendinar, Susan MacLeod, Fleshmarket Close, Ca the Yowes and Tar the House from Live n Well India Alba with Donald, Willie and his Dog and the Elephant and Camel from Reels and Ragas   John McSherry, Brendán Quinn, and Francis McIlduff with Liz Rowsome’s from Feile (Live)   Brighde Chaimbeul with Bog an Lochan from Sunwise   Bagad Cap Ceaval with their competition set from Championnat National des Bagadou, Lorient 2016 Xabier Diaz and Adufeiras de Salitre with La Nina de la Arena from Nóro    Malin Lewis with Elision from Hallocline   Calum Stewart with As, a Thoisich from True North   Support the show

Send us a text A brief reflection on the EYP adventures of 2025, Marry Christmas to all, and happy 90th birthday to Gary's mum! Support the show

Send us a text Gary pays tribute to P/M Ian MacLellan and P/M Jamie Troy, both of whom have passed away in recent days. There's also a taster or two from the brand new CD release from Stuart Liddell. Playlist Rura with Day One from Live at the Fruitmarket Stuart Liddell with The Bird Jigs – The Seagull, The Duck, The Geese in the Bog, The Skylark’s Ascension, The Hen’s March and The Curlew from Garron   Stuart Liddell with Troy’s Wedding (as a hornpipe) from Garron.   City of Victoria Pipe Band with Geritol Kid, Fiji Love Song, Master Sergeant Davie Laws, Tulloch Castle, Trad Reel,  Sally Wilson,  Troy’s Wedding, Weird Jig and Meg’s Fancy from World Pipe Band Championships 1987.   Stuart Liddell with The Highland Wedding and the Cameronian Rant (as hornpipes) from Garron   The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band with The Detroit Highlanders, Loch Loskin, MacanIrish, Barney’s Balmoral, Willie Roy’s Loomhouse, Morag Duncan, the Gold Ring, the Humours of Cork, and Capt Geddes’s Turnabout from the World Pipe Band Championships 1986.   The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band with Miss Elspeth Campbell, Cameronian Rant, Pretty Marion from World Pipe Band Championships 1991.   Links Pipers' Persuasion (interviews by Allan Hamilton) For Stuart Liddell's new CD, Garron, see here Support the show

Send us a text Gary brings you a bumper episode this week, with all of the music recorded live at the Gordon Duncan Tribute Concert held in Mount Vernon, Washington State, USA and hosted by the Celtic Arts Foundation. Playlist Craig Sutherland with Sir James of the Port, Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. Craig Sutherland with Andy Renwick's Ferret and the Fourth Floor, Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. Craig Sutherland with Zeeto the Bubbleman, Blow My Chanter, Jig o Beer, The 98 Jig and Alex's Haircut Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. The CAF Folk Band (Zephan Knickel, Vienna Shire, Cayley Schmid, David Lofgren, Zach Bauman and Gary West) with Wee Mary and Ian Green of Greentrax Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. The CAF Folk Band with Pitlochry High School Centenary, the Soup Dragon, Rory Gallagher and the Famous Barravan Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. The CAF Folk Band with Lorient Mornings, Davy Webster's 40th, Clueless, Break Yer Bass Drone and the High Drive Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. Tori Killoran with the Cullen Bay Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. Tori Killoran with the Breton Set Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. Tori Killoran with the Ass in the Graveyard, Going to the Well for Water, Calliope House,Abdoul's, Michael's Air, Silver Spear, In and Out the Harbour, The Thin Man, Yer a Kent  Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. Cameron Bonar with The Famous Barravan, The Edradour Stagger and The Last Tango in Harris Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. Cameron Bonar with A Maighdean Mhara, Tain in the Rain, Upside Down at Eden Court and Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. Cameron Bonar with Thunderstruck Live at the  Celtic Arts Foundation December 2025. With thanks to the event sponsors Bagpipemusic.com Dojo University Enjoy Your Piping! Eucatastrophe Coffee and Used Books Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust Modern Piping Lee and Sons Bagpipes Micah Babinski / Green Monster Collection Piping Club Piping Hot Summer Drummer Tartantown Support the show

Send us a text Gary hosts another hour of top notch piping from a the airts. EYP 126 Playlist Beolach with The Cape Breton Slip Set – An Drochaid Chliuiteach,  Scottsville Reel, Foxhunter and Walking the Floor from Beolach   Iain MacDonald and Iain MacFarlane with Miss Elspeth Campbell, Danced with Me the Beautiful Maiden and the Rejected Suitor from First Harvest.   Gordon Mooney with Souters O Selkirk, Seeking the Galloway and Jock O the Side from O’er the Border Jim MacGillivray with The Laird of Drumblair, Dalnahassaig, Stumpie, Frolics of Youth, O'er The Moorlands, Christie MacLeod, Struy Lodge, Willie MacKenzie's Reel, Walter Sammon's Grandmother, The Humours of Tulla, The Flowers of Red Hill from the World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 10   Paddy Keenan with The Steam Packet and MacLeod’s Reel from Paddy Keenan   Bagad Kemper with Amzer Nevez from Live au Cornouaille    Craig Muirhead and Roddy MacLeod with the Desperate Battle of the Birds from a private recording   Colin Melville with The Broom o the Cowdenknowes from 3 Smallpipes, Private Recording.   Daimh with Lock and Load from Diversions    Support the show

Send us a text Gary brings you highlights from the recent Lowland and Border Pipers' Society gathering in Dunkeld, Perthshire. Playlist Finlay MacDonald, Fionnlagh  Mac A Phiocair, John Saunders and Sarah Hanniffy with Annie’s New Heart, Turf Lodge from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury.   Ian Kinnear with The Bloody Fields of Flanders and Lochanside from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury.   Rhiona Sidley, Stuart Letford and Tom Rust with MacCrimmon’s Lament from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury.   Kyle Howie and  Liam Manion with  The Red Coat, Cuttie's Wedding, Because He Was A Bonny Lad, Cape Breton Fiddler's Welcome, The Contradiction and The Gladstone Reel from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury.   Jeremy Kingsbury with Parcel of Rogues and the Surprise from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury.   Fionnlaigh Mac a Phiocair with the Rolling Wave Set from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury.   Fionnlaigh Mac a Phiocair and Sarah Hanniffy with a Gaelic Song from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury.   Finlay MacDonald with Breton Tunes from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury.   Hamish and Fin Moore with Thinkan an Daean (poem), Mary’s Tune and the Mill Mill O from the LPBS Gathering, Dunkeld, November 2025, Recorded by Jeremy Kingsbury Links Jeremy Kingsbury's Weetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast  Support the show

Send us a text Join Gary as he brings you both cheery and melancholy tunes and songs from Scotland and well beyond. Playlist Cantrip with the Duncan Johnstone Set from Undark Jack Lee with 93rd at Modder River, Cabar Feidh and the Little Cascade from The Piping Centre 1996 Recital Series Vol 1 Simon Fraser University Pipe Band with Tir Nan Og from Affirmation Archie Fisher with The Lassie o the Mornin from Off the Map The People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band with the Drum Fanfare from EYP Recording Band Practice.   Simon Chadwick with An Tarbh Breac Dearg (the Red Speckled Bull) from Tarbh.   Hevia with Busindre Reel from Tierra de Nadie / No Man’s Land   Skerryvore with the Rut and the Drambulance from Chasing the Sun    Cantrip Tour Dates 6   Nov   Buckman Performing Arts Centre, Memphis, TN  7   Nov   Club Possum, Mountain View, AR,  8   Nov   Café Paradiso, Fairfield, IA  9   Nov   Muso, Madison, WI  10 Nov   Mt. Horeb Public Library, Mount Horeb, WI  11 Nov   Leak Lake House, Milwaukee, WI  12 Nov   Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL  14 Nov   Maud’s Closet Concerts, Ashfield, MA  15 Nov   Old Songs, Voorheesville, NY  17 Nov   Club Passím, Cambridge, MA     Support the show

Send us a text Gary takes you on another musical journey in the company of all things bagpipes. Playlist Eabhal with This is How the Ladies Dance, Stoddies Reel, Break in Borve and St Valery Pipes from This is How the Ladies Dance    Stuart Liddell with The Highland Wedding and The Cameronian Rant from The P/M Alasdair Gillies Memorial Challenge 2021.   Julian Goodacre with The Saunt from Some of Me Pipes   Donald Black with Spogan from From My Heart   Donald Black with The Melness Reel, Raven’s Rock and Traditional Reel from From My Heart   Polkemmet Grorud Pipe Band with The Hen’s March, The Flame in the Fiddle and Castles in the Fire from From Celtic Roots   Beinn Lee with Davy Webster’s 40th, Clueless, Andy Renwick’s Ferret and The Ferry Road Shenanigans from Osgarra   Gary West with The Stirlingshire Militia, Brig. Gen. Ronald Cheape of Tiroran and Drum Major Alister Walker, Atholl Highlanders from the MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Recital Evening October 2025   Gary West and Chris Wright with The Last Trip Home the MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Recital Evening October 2025   Arise and Go with Major George Morrison DSO, The Acadian Reel, Le Voyage and Jack Daniels’ from Meeting Place     Support the show

Send us a text Join Gary as he brings you tunes from Brittany, Sweden ... and Motherwell! Playlist Den with L’Orient et Grand, from Just Around the Window. Johnstone Pipe Band with The Drunken Landlady, Michael Brady's Jig, Thief of Lochaber, Caledonia, AA Cameron's, Cutties Wedding, Cupair Thu, Tailler Thu, The Hole in the Bath from the 2023 World Pipe Band Championships Harta with Borgsjo Polska and Polska frän Halleforsnäs from Harta   Lorne MacDougall with Learning to Fly from Hello World   Vale of Atholl Pipe Band with Eileen Mary Connolly, Mrs Stewart of Grandtully, The New Reel, O’Rourke’s Reel, Electric Chopsticks and Good Drying from Live n Well: the Motherwell Concert.   Fin Moore and Sarah Hoy with Jimmy n Jigs from The Piper and the Maker 2: Celebrating C           Support the show

Send us a text More great music of the bagpipe, including a quick trip to Hampden Park. Playlist Assynt with Rescues from Where From Here? Murray Henderson with AA Cameron’s Strathspey, Nelly’s Strathspey, Roes Among the Heather, Maclaine of Lochbuie’s Reel, Malcolm the Tailor and the Wind that Shakes the Barley from The World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 4. Annie Grace with ‘Tunes’ from The Bell. Closkelt with Lucy Cassidy, Butterfingers, Mrs MacDonald of Uig, South Georgia Whaling Song, Balmoral Castle, Fiona MacDonald, The Swall-Tailed Coat, Alick Cameron Champion Piper and Drumlithie from 2025 Scottish Pipe Band Championship (Drone Chorus Recording). Hazel Whyte (and the Tartan Army!) with Flower of Scotland (a snippet)   Hazel Whyte with Rocking the Baby and The Boys of Ballymote from the Raasay Restitution 2025, EYP Recording. Alen Tully with As I Went Out Upon the Earth and The Kerry Polka from The Best of Piping Live Recital Series 06/07 Andy May with Da Slockit Light from The Yellow Haired Laddie   Adrian Melvin Spirits of Old Pulteney, Major AF MacGillivray, Doune of Invernochty, Is it Long till the Wedding, The Brolum, Dr MacPhail’s Reel from Victoria Police Pipe Band Live in the Rockies       Support the show

Send us a text Gary brings you more bagpipes delights from the Bothy. Playlist Dan Houghton with Drink, Debauchery and 200 Euros, Teigis agus Dealg Innte, Willie Murray’s Reel and The Fourth Floor from Bagpipe Personality Disorder.   Greater Glasgow Glasgow Police Pipe Band with Lightly Swims the Swan, Miss Victoria Ross, Lady Margaret Stewart, Port a Beul, Lord McConnell of Lough Erne and Lochend from Ceolry.   Mick O’Brien with Statia Donnelly’s, If I Will I Can and Patsy Geary’s from May Morning Due   Gary West with Mrs Stewart of Grandtully, Glen Tilt Lodge, The Devil in the Kitchen, Captain Horne, Smith of Chilliechassie, Uist Reel and Smelling Fresh from the Raasay Restitution 2025, EYP Recording.   MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band with Straloch Turkeys, Adrian’s Obsession, The High Drive from A Big Step Forward   Baghad de Vannes with Barc’hadur from Liviou     Donald MacPherson with The Lochaber Gathering, Arniston Castle and Mrs MacPherson of Inveran from Donald MacPherson Plays Ceol Beag.     Peatbog Faeries with The Naughty Step from Dust              Support the show

Send us a text Refreshed from his wee break in Orkney, Gary brings you more great music from the world of bagpipe (and song!) Playlist Kirkwall City Pipe Band with Orkney Anthem from Anthems of a Peedie Nation Salsa Celtica with Cailleach from 25th Anniversary Big Band Live in Concert   Stuart Liddell with Port Urlar from The Argyllshire Gathering 2025 (Peter McCalister recording)   Malin Lewis with Tune 51 from Halocline Simon McKerrell with Domhnall nan Domhnall (from the singing of Jenna Cumming arr. McKerrell) Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Simon McKerrell with Ghillie Callum, Muileann Dubh, Ruidhle mo Nigheann Donn, An T-Ord Gallach (The Ord of Caithness), The Bird's Nest from Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Breabach with Changing World from Fàs     Support the show

Send us a text Gary brings you performances from the 2nd annual contest held on the isle of Raasay, organised by Hamish Moore. Playlist Finlay Cameron with Miss MacGregor's Favourite, Jerry's Pipes, Cailleach A’ Ghobhainn and Merrily Danced the Quaker’s Wife from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Angus Nicholson with A Mhairi Mhin Mo Mheallshuileach Dubh, Lucy Campbell (Lady Louden), Little Donald in the Pig Pen, The Bobbers of Brechin and Buachaille Dubh Fionnghala from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Ailis Sutherland with Bruadar Dheirdre from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Dr Brendon Eade with The Gathering, Thunderhead and Chridhe ur Anna from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Angus MacColl with strathspeys and reels from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Decker Forrest with Cailleach Beinn a' Bhric from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Ciar Milne with Ardrishaig, Hang Up the Kilt,* Xenia Corum’s,* Loch Goil, Hamish the Carpenter, Sheila’s Hanky Trail,* The Primrose Lass and Finlay Rowe’s* from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. (* composed Ciar Milne) Calum Alex MacMillan with Piobaireachd Dhomhnaill Duibh from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Simon McKerrell with Atholl Cummer (jig) and Tubular Peat from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Gary West with Fhir a Chinn Duibh and Cumha na Cloinne from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording. Hazel Whyte with Craig-a-Bodich, Suid Mar Chaidh an cal a Dholaidh, Pitnacree Ferryman, Gravel Walks and Buntàta’s Sgadan from the Raasay Restitution Contest 2025, EYP Recording.   Support the show

Send us a text It's piobaireachd all the way this week as Gary brings you all four performances from this year's recital dinner celebrating the life and music of Captain John A MacLellan. Playlist Iain Speirs with A Welcome Home for Patrick Struan, EYP Recording from The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner, 2025. Cameron Drummond with the Edinburgh Piobaireachd, EYP Recording from The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner 2025. Ian K MacDonald with The Phantom Piper of Corrieyairick, EYP Recording at The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner 2025 Jamie Forrester with Farewell to the Queen’s Ferry from EYP Recording at The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner 2025 Support the show

Send us a text Gary invites you to this year's Piping Live Festival in Glasgow to eavesdrop on his 78th Fraser Highlanders Live in Ireland 'listening party'.  Playlist to follow Support the show

Send us a text Gary brings you more top drawer music from the world of bagpipes, including extracts from a production commemorating the emigration of 1500 people from the Hebrides to Canada in 1923. Playlist Trail West with Francis Street Jig, The Travers and P/M Jimmy MacGregor from From the Sea to the City Martyn Bennett with The Magic Flute from the Grand Concert of Piping   The Metagama Ensemble with extracts from Metagama: an Atlantic Odyssey (MacGregor’s Weeping, Murdo MacAskill’s, Am Braighe and The Lewis Society).   James Duncan MacKenzie with Lament for the Iolaire from James Duncan MacKenzie   Nick Hudson with Patrick Og MacCrimmon’s Lament from the USPF MacLean MacLeod Memorial Contest 2025. Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band with Clan MacRae, Atholl Cummers and MacAllister’s Dirk from 12000 Miles    Links Captain John A MacLellan Memorial Dinner Tickets  Metagama: An Atlantic Odyssey CD   and for info and tour dates see here Gary at the Edinburgh International Book Festival   Support the show