TOTM for September. Two simple tunes played by Joe Hutton on a computer 3D printed chanter by Neale Blevins

Walter Ogilvie's Album

Lodging is on the Cold Cold Ground/ Lovat Scouts

Bellingham Fair/Stagshaw Bank Fair

Piper's Honour/Wedding of Blyth/Andrew Carr

A set of variations for Northumbrian small pipes by Chris Ormston, of The Lass that Made the Bed to Me, a song by Robert Burns.

THE LASS THAT MADE THE BED TO ME

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

Two new compositions. A clappy bridge is a single piece of stone laid over a stream or burn, this particular one living in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Old Bewick, crossing the Kirk Burn. The Lads' Wherry is a small bay by Souter Ligthouse, between South Shields and Whitburn. © Iain Gelston 2020

The Clappy Bridge / The Lads' Wherry

Two reels from The New Shields Garland Vol II. © Iain Gelston 2021

Cleppie Bells - Jack the Hammer

Three tunes composed between 2019 and 2021, all named after places formerly in South Shields.
© Iain Gelston

River Branin / Bogle Bo House / Pan Ash Quay

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

The classic tune, "The Girl I Left Behind Me", played as a slow air and set in a minor key.  This is my contribution to the NSP FB forum Tune of the Month for December 2024.  

The Girl I Left Behind Me

Mostly self-penned tunes on Border & Northumbrian Small Pipes, bouzouki, mandola with the occasional whistle and accordion.

We're a 5-piece Cambridge folk band: English, Irish, Scottish, Shetland and Northumbrian tunes and songs. Greg Smith (fiddle), Edric Ellis (Northumbrian small pipes, border pipes), Andrew Burn (melodeons, Northumbrian small pipes), David Somerville (Northumbrian small pipes, keyboards), and Brian Cleary (guitar, gazouki).
More at www.camusmusic.net

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.

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