Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West
The very best of bagpipe music from Scotland and beyond. With live sessions, news, reviews and chat.
Episodes
127 episodes
Episode 127 - Gordon Duncan Tribute Concert Live
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.PlaylistCr...
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Episode 126 - The Last Note
Gary hosts another hour of top notch piping from a the airts.EYP 126 PlaylistBeolach with The Cape Breton Slip Set – An Drochaid Chliuiteach, Scottsville Reel, Foxhunter and Walking the Floor from Beola...
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Episode 125 - Bellows in Dunkeld
Gary brings you highlights from the recent Lowland and Border Pipers' Society gathering in Dunkeld, Perthshire.PlaylistFinlay MacDonald, Fionnlagh Mac A Phiocair, John Saunders and Sarah Hanniffy with Annie...
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Episode 124 - Let Piping Flourish
Gary is back after his week off (or wee cough!) with more chat and music from the piping world, including an in-depth chat with Head of Piping Studies at the National Piping Centre, John Mulhearn.PlaylistGordon D...
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Episode 123 - Chasing the Sun
Join Gary as he brings you both cheery and melancholy tunes and songs from Scotland and well beyond.PlaylistCantrip with the Duncan Johnstone Set from UndarkJack Lee with 93rd at Modder...
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Episode 122 - This is How the Ladies Dance
Gary takes you on another musical journey in the company of all things bagpipes.PlaylistEabhal with This is How the Ladies Dance, Stoddies Reel, Break in Borve and St Valery Pipes from This is How the Ladies ...
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Episode 121 - Learning to Fly
Join Gary as he brings you tunes from Brittany, Sweden ... and Motherwell!PlaylistDen with L’Orient et Grand, from Just Around the Window.Johnstone Pipe Band with The Drunken Landlady, ...
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Episode 120 - The Tartan Army
More great music of the bagpipe, including a quick trip to Hampden Park.PlaylistAssynt with Rescues from Where From Here?Murray Henderson with AA Cameron’s Strathspey, Nelly’s Strathspe...
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Episode 119 - Back on the Naughty Step
Gary brings you more bagpipes delights from the Bothy.PlaylistDan Houghton with Drink, Debauchery and 200 Euros, Teigis agus Dealg Innte, Willie Murray’s Reel and The Fourth Floor from Bagpipe Personality Dis...
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Episode 118 - Orkney Anthem
Refreshed from his wee break in Orkney, Gary brings you more great music from the world of bagpipe (and song!)PlaylistKirkwall City Pipe Band with Orkney Anthem from Anthems of a Peedie Nation...
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Episode 117 - Back to Raasay
Gary pays a return visit to the Restitution contest held on Raasay in early September, and explores the contribution that island has made to Scotland's creative culture more widely.PlaylistAngus Nicholson with Ba...
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Episode 116 - The Raasay Restitution 2025
Gary brings you performances from the 2nd annual contest held on the isle of Raasay, organised by Hamish Moore.PlaylistFinlay Cameron with Miss MacGregor's Favourite, Jerry's Pipes, Cailleach A’ Ghobhainn and Mer...
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Episode 115 - The Captain John MacLellan Memorial Recital 2025
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.PlaylistIain Speirs with A Welcome Home ...
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Episode 114 - On the Road with the Kiwis
Join Gary as he tours Scotland with 17 lovely Kiwis, with appropriate music along the way!PlaylistInverarary and District Pipe Band with The Miniscus, the Kesh Jig Waltz, the Kesh Jig, Steve Byrne’s, The Water is...
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Episode 113 - EYP at Piping Live 2025
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
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Episode 112 - An Atlantic Odyssey
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.PlaylistTrail West with Franc...
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Episode 111 - Piping Live 2025 Preview
Gary takes a look ahead to this year's Piping Live festival running in Glasgow from 11th - 17th August.PlaylistCala with Dusty from From the RiverShotts and Dykehead Caledonia with Show...
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Episode 110 - Ruffled Feather
Gary is back in the bothy after a few weeks on the road - join him for some more top drawer piping from a the airts.PlaylistBreabach with Knees Up from Frenzy of the MeetingSimon Fraser...
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Episode 109 - Glenfiddich Champions' Recital from the Celtic Arts Foundation
Gary introduces a recital from three of the world's top players who gathered at the Celtic Arts Foundation, Mount Vernon, Washington. Sit back and enjoy sets from Callum Beaumont, Willie McCallum and Stuart Liddell. Pl...
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Episode 108 - Troy's Wedding
Gary reports in from Duncan, Vancouver Island, bringing you music and chat from British Columbia and well beyond.PlaylistJohn Dew with The Ruins of Gylen Castle from Na Caismeachdan
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Episode 107 - The Maclean MacLeod Memorial Championships 2025
Gary brings you highlights from this year's MacLean MacLeod Memorial Piping Championships held recently at the University of Delaware, and run by the United States Piping Foundation.PlaylistNick Hudson with Inver...
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Episode 106 - Music & Chat from Bede Patterson
Gary chats to Bede Patterson, one of the new generation of Australian pipers blazing a trail in fresh and exciting approaches to piping.PlaylistMatt MacIsaac with Gaelic Air, The Old Woman’s Dance and the Firedri...
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Episode 105 - Love and Drink
Gary brings you more high-end music of the bagpipe (and plenty other instruments) with visits to Brittany, Ireland, USA - and Glasgow!PlaylistCalum Stewart with Craigellac...
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