Prize announcement!
Thanks again, to everyone who helped make the album happen - and to everyone who bought copies too!
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Here's a list of the prizes and their winners:
Adrian Melvin Reeds: Sarah Campbell
BagpipeSwag GC (1): JD Ingraham
Bagpipe Swag GC (2): Kevan Saunders
Bagpipe Swag GC (3): Rachel Barber
BC: Bodhran Course: Siobhan Williams
D'Addario Accessory Pack: Camille Layt
GBR: Tune Workshop: Rod Nevin
Generation Eb: Bruce Grice
Generation Bb: Camille Layt
Generation C: Rod Nevin
Generation D: Rod Nevin
Generation F (1): Andrew O'Sullivan
Generation F (2): Rachel Barber
Generation F (3): JD Ingraham
Generation F (4): Christian Rummelhoff
Generation G Brass (1): Sarah Campbell
Generation G Brass (2): Stuart MacKay
Generation G Brass (3): Rachel Barber
Generation G Nickel: Susan Kelley
Generation GHB (1): David Åsbrink
Generation GHB (2): Jeremy Kingsbury
Generation GHB (3): JD Ingraham
Generation GHB (4): Camille Layt
Generation GHB (5): Rachel Barber
Generation Tabor Pipe: Siobhan Williams
Maverick PC: JD Ingraham
MK Low-D: Mark Zabolotny
PTMI Cotopaxi mug: JD Ingraham
PTMI Cotopaxi Tumbler: Rachel Barber
PTMI Guitar Pick Necklace: Sarah Campbell
PTMI Lavender, sticker, bookmark: Rod Nevin
PTMI Polishing Cloth: Rachel Barber
Thanks again Melvin Reeds Bagpipe Swag Blayne Chastain D'Addario and Co. getbagpipeready.com @Generation+MUSIC maverickglasgow.com Mk Whistles for the prizes, and many thanks to everyone who helped promote the album too.
Thanks again, very much. To continue helping Peace through Music International
Get ready for Bandcamp Friday, this is going to be great!
We've assembled a truly excellent collaborative album featuring guests from Droning On's initial 100 episodes.
The music is amaaaaaaaazing.
Even better: the whole thing is benefitting Peace through Music International - a charity that helps war-effected kids learn music all around the world.
Bonus: We've got a ton of very exciting prizes, we're doing a drawing on St. Patrick's Day, so get yourself a copy of the album so you'll have a chance of winning!
Prizes include whistles from Generation+MUSIC and Mk whistles, guitar accessories from D'Addario and Co., gift cards from Bagpipe Swag, a practice chanter and case from Maverick, and more
Guests on the album include:
Timothy Cummings
Judy Barker
Tyler Johnson
Erin Woolf
Jeremy Kingsbury
Eamon Hegarty
Michael Roddy Music
Craig Weir
Ross Ainslie
Jesse Ofgang
Kyle Hampson
Quality Piping with JD Ingraham
Laura "Piper"
Joe Brady
David Duncan
Jeremiah McLane
Liam Winnett
Jeff Mann
Jenna Bagpipes
Rod Nevin
Ross Miller Music
Alec Chisholm
Chat GPT
Andrew O'Sullivan
Robert Macdonald
Benjamin Elzerman
This video has all the details - it's a bunch of great music and great prizes, and a great cause on top of all that!
(I'm not a bit offended if you want to share this post... a lot... everywhere... repeatedly...)
081: The Leisel Episode
She's a piper, she's a drummer, she's a home builder, and she was once 16 going on 17 -- it's Leisel! A truly lovely human giving her precious time to join me for a truly lovely interview. I apologize that due to my own technical difficulties the sound quality isn't pristine in this episode. I do hope it's at least reasonably palatable because it was a joy to get to know Leisel a bit more and I hope everyone's able to join in on the joy here.
Tune into this episode to hear Leisel confess that her family was at least a little VonTrappy...
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080: Tim Fowers, the Man with the Powers
Tim is a unique guy living a unique life doing unique things - bagpipery and otherwise! I feel really bad I had to rush this interview. A rare thing I usually try to plan to not do, but there were some technical difficulties on the day of recording that not only restricted our conversation time, they also forced me to use a different platform and hardware than I usually do, and it was all rather a hasty last-minute plan-B arrangement. Therefore: I do apologize for the somewhat, "roomy," audio on my half of the conversation. But there's no reason to be paying attention to that half of the conversation anyway, Tim's got a lot of cool and interesting ideas, experiences, etc and we just got a taste in this interview - here's to another interview with Tim in the near future! In the meantime, enjoy!
Tune into this episode to hear how Tim has managed to become possibly the loudest, "double-agent," ever to attend a protest...
Check out Tim's website of games he's designed here: https://www.fowers.games/
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079: The Scott Episode
It's a three-episode month!It was a delight to get to know Scott during this episode - in spite of living in the same part of the country and having a lot of mutual friends, Scott and I had never spoken before this interview. He's a long-time bagpipe, a long-ago accordion, and he's one of the very, very few people in the world who can say he works for a railroad in Nebraska, USA.
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078: The Jenna Bagpipes Episode
Jenna is a talented multi-instrumentalist bagpiper, instructor, composer, and is generally willing to just try quirky stuff, especially when it comes to music, and especially-especially when it comes to bagpipes.
The opening track on this episode is Pacolet performed by Jenna, originally written by PM Don Bradford. The closing track is just a taste of Scodatura, written and performed by Jenna.
Tune into this episode to hear the show's first ever keyboard-based-dialogue...
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077: The Mann, Jeff Episode
I wish I'd come up with some great April Fools joke, it'll be a while before another episode releases on April Fools... Still, I hope this is an enjoyable interview, I sure enjoyed chatting with Jeff!
Tune into this episode to hear me refer to Jeff's piano playing as, "unique..."
*I'm not sure where, precisely, Jeff's album will be available when it releases, but I'll be sure to post about it on social media, so follow the show on Facebook/Instagram for that and other posts in future. Links blow.
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076:The Liam Winnett Music Episode
Liam Winnett is a whistle kid turned accordion man turned uilleann piper abroad & he's a delight to talk to as well! You may have seen him playing his uilleann pipes inside a horse trailer... if not, there's a link below...I apologize this episode's out a bit late, St Patrick's Day did me dirty this year. But to make it up to you, I'm giving away a $35 BagpipeSwag.com gift card!DETAILS FOR THE GIVEAWAY:-Pick a favorite episode from the past-Share it on social media-Tag @droning.on.podcastThen, first of April we'll look back at all mentions and draw a winner from that pool!
Tune into this episode to hear - no joke this time: the first ever Droning On Live Performance of any kind, and it's a great tune on a great set of pipes from a great piper!
Here's the list of uilleann pipers Liam sent me, for anyone interested in listening some more:-Padraic Keane-Louise Mulcahy-Colm Broderick-Ronan Browne-Sorcha Ni Scolai-Mark Redmond-Robbie Hannan-Padraig McGovern-Cormac Cannon
Here are some links where you can find Liam around the internet:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@liamwinnettmusic3867Insta: https://www.instagram.com/liamwinnettmusic/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@liamwinnett999This is the track we were playing at the beginning of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdy-GzoZMQAnd here's the solo from the middle of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-5pcDn4NkAnd most important of all, the horse-box video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WIJKs8TTWc
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075: Bruce of E-Bellow, the EBelaire
Through unpredictable twists and turns of fate Bruce's accumulated experience prepared him uncannily well to address the challenge faced by one of his close friends when he (the friend,) could no longer inflate his pipe bag.Bruce is a delightful human and I hope you'll enjoy learning about not only his very cool invention, but about him as well!
Tune into this episode to hear Bruce reveal what's, "the most fun you can have with your clothes on"!
Here's a link to Bruce's website: https://e-bellow.com/Here's a great demo of the E-Bellow in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCvWQ-zhRu4
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074: The Wind Among the Reeds with Accordionist Jeremiah McLane
One half of the, "Wheezer & Squeezer," duo, ( https://wheezerandsqueezer.com/ ) Jeremiah McLane plays a bellows-blown reed instrument, but it ain't bagpipes... but he plays along with bagpiper Timothy Cummings.It's often (delightfully) surprised me how many pipers also play accordion, or want to play accordion, so I thought talking with an accordionist would be fun - especially one with so much experience making music with bagpipers.
Tune into this episode to hear about the amazing true story of when bagpipers and hurdygurdiers rose-up to drive back the Parisian accordionists -- in a story-book surprise, peace was found unexpectedly between the pipes & accordions with a marriage between members of the next generation...
APPLICABLE LINKSThis album, "The Wind Among the Reeds":https://wheezersqueezer.bandcamp.com/album/the-wind-among-the-reeds
Jeremiah's website:https://www.jeremiahmclane.com/A great video of, "Wheezer & Squeezer," performing some tunes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPfzyEmomcY
The Clayfoot Strutters:https://www.jeremiahmclane.com/band/the-clayfoot-strutters/*Note: Pete Sutherland, who made music with Jeremiah and Timothy, recently passed away, (between recording and releasing this episode). He made a lot of great music, and I'm sure Jeremiah would've noted this when Pete came up in the conversation, but chronologically, the sad event had not yet occurred. Here's a remembrance piece: https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/arts/2022/12/02/pete-sutherland-obituary-vermont-fiddler-musician-performer-mentor/69695404007/Nightingale:http://www.nightingalevt.org/A T-shirt that Jeremiah might want to buy for himself and all his friends:https://www.scatterbraintees.com/products/four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-parody-tshirt
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073: Andrew Douglas of The Piper’s Dojo
You've almost definitely heard of today's guest and almost as definitely heard his voice as well, whether you were looking for help to improve your piping, just starting your piping journey and seeking instruction, or possibly a really tasteful quote played from the soundboard at opportune moments on the Chanter Rant podcast...In any case, get ready to hear Andrew Douglas a lot more in this marathon interview pushing the 3hr line. If you need a break to go work on your tachums or something half way through, feel free to hit pause and come back, we'll still be here!
Tune into this episode to hear Andrew say, "...in this case spanking is referring to..."
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071: Dr. Stephanie Burns
Some people dedicate their whole life to one art, skill, craft, or area of research-focus. Steph has, somehow, managed to cram multiple whole-lives-of-focus into one and she's still not done!Having recently released, "The Beginner Years," the third in her series of excellent music-related, (often bagpipe/drum-specific,) books, we're excited to release this episode at the beginning of a new year. May 2023 be your most musical year yet, friend!
We'll be trying out a, "book club," reading of "The Beginner Years," from the release of this episode through to the end of February. If you'd like to join in, join us via email or social media (links below).
Tune into this episode to hear Jim turn a 3hr phone call with a genuine professional into a personal coaching session!
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(also available on Amazon, Kindle, at book shops, pipeband supply shops, etc)
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070: Quatre Christmas Chansons pour Cornemuse avec le Chef
Jeff has returned! You may well remember him from his excellent shortbread recipe and more in past episodes - today he's come back to share some background about & recordings of four familiar holiday tunes that fit on the pipes!Several of the recordings you'll hear in this episode are based on Timothy Cummings' settings in his holiday collection available here:https://birchenmusic.com/product/on-this-day-earth-shall-ring-printed-collection/
Tune into this episode to hear James misplace yet another Shakespeare quote!
The recording of Veni, Veni is from an arrangement my good buddy Scot, (also a past guest of the show,) did for organ to accompany pipes. It was interesting: we used a Bb chanter and tuned the bass drone up to C, so it came out in c-minor. There's a video of the performance, (from which we pulled the audio in this episode,) available here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlnMudvXJE
And if you liked that tune at the end of the episode, that's our take on, "Cornish Wassail," and you can listen to (and buy, if you so desire,) that track on BandCamp here:https://wassailiens.bandcamp.com/track/cornish-wassail-single
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069: Katie (The Wheeled Piper)
Katie's been entertaining and inspiring folk in and out of piping since she started her impressively fast-paced bagpipe journey. From busking to competing, to recently joining the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland: follow her on social media platforms, (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc) to see what's next @thewheeledpiper
Tune into this episode to hear Katie say, of learning to play bagpipes at school, "...it got me out of History which I didn't really enjoy very much..."
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Bonus: Holiday Marathon
Just for fun: a mega marathon of all past Holiday Episodes!If you're not into it, no sweat, the regularly scheduled episode will be out next week.To get one of these cool North Pole & District T-shirts at the special promo price of $15, just go to BagpipeSwag.com, there'll be a banner at the top of the site through the rest of December, 2022.Or go to this link.Thanks, Happy Holidays friends!
068: Band Master F. U. Joe Brady
The Chanter Rant guys have done a lot of terrible things, and a lot of awesome things. Among the latter is helping this man's philosophy, work ethic, strategizing, and handsome face come more fully into the awareness of the international competitive pipe band community.
Tune into this episode to hear Joe promise, on record, to never play Cajun Grace again...
Here's a link to Wake & District's website: https://www.raleighpipeband.com/And, because it came up so often in the show, also MacLellan Bagpipes: https://www.raleighpipeband.com/
*Allow me to suggest following both on Instagram. Wake puts out great content, and it's a lot of fun to look through the progress photos of MacLellan's move-in to their new location. Not to mention the beautiful sets of pipes that get posted there regularly.
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067: 3D Printed Bagpipes with David Stanley
Given his background in aviation one might assume that Dave's, "drone work," has to do with the kind that fly around in the sky - but no, Dave's been hard at work perfecting both design and production methodology to bring solid, reliable, good-sounding 3D printed GHB drones to the masses!Dave was recently featured in Big Rab's episode #299, (also, congrats to Rab on 300 - holy moly!) There's a link over to Rab's show down below.
Tune into this episode to hear David & James both do some terrible South Park voices!
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Dave's Big Rab Interview (episode 299): https://www.thebigrabshow.com/copy-2-of-guests
Video of the sound sample played at the end of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K5ie4xaOZI
And, of course, Dave's website: https://www.3dprintedbagpipes.com/
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064: Pipe Sergeant -ing with Marc
Marc's back!No marriage proposal this time, but plenty of great insight, stories, and ideas about how to be a good Pipe Sergeant!
Tune into this episode to hear Marc sum-up the duties of a Pipe Sergeant as, "be the sheepdog".
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063: The JD Episode
If you haven't heard of JD, you've probably at least heard JD (he's the new voice of the Weekly Drone on The Big Rab Show) - and if you haven't heard JD there's at least a chance you've been in a plane that he touched at some point during production...
Tune into this episode to hear about the time JD played pipes for a porn star... and the time he played at a (I'm guessing) illegal cage fight... and much, much more...
This episode opens with a bit of a tune JD wrote, "Mrs Maria Ingraham," and it closes with another JD original, "A Georgia Peach and a Texas Rose".Enjoy, friends!
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