3 fantastic tunes written by the 'Prince of Pipers' Tom Clough (1881-1964).
Played on G pipes made by Kim Bull.

Memories/Nancy/Mr Kennedy-North (T. Clough)

For September 2024 TOTM, a tune with a titled person in the title.  There are a hundred times many more tunes in the Scottish repertoire named after aristocrats than in the Northumbrian small pipe repertoire.  I took a Scottish tune that is named "The Duchess of Sutherland's Welcome to Taymouth Castle", which is "Ow'r the Water to Charlie" under a different name.  It was common for pipers to take a familiar tune and rename it after a wealthy patron.  I assume that is what happened here.  My arrangement is suitably Northumbrian, I hope.

Duchess of Sutherland

New try out of piper Dave Rowlands' harmony to my slow air. Nightfolds are the old drystone animal shelters you see dotted around northern hillsides.
© Iain Gelston

Nightfolds

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Tynedale Dawn

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From Dixon, played on my new set of smallpipes.

Little Wee Winking Thing

Tom Clough/Thomas Todd setting of he Corn Rigs

Corn Rigs

Sleepy Meggy

The melody to this song was collected from a street singer in Newcastle in 1821 by Thomas Doubleday. It is presumed that he wrote the words.

The Snows They Melt the Soonest

I play several different kinds of bagpipes, including Northumberland smallpipes, Scottish smallpipes, Lowland pipes, Highland pipes, as well as the two row button accordion, whistles and geegaw.  I live on Vashon Island in Puget Sound near Seattle and Tacoma in Washington State.  The wonderful singer-song writer, Kat Eggleston, is my wife.

Duchess of Sutherland

John Dally

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