S4 E31: Halloween Edition! Fairies, Ghosts and Devilish Pipers Special Halloween Episode
Robert Burns: Tam O’Shanter Bremner: Jenny Nettle, What the De’il Ales you? Vickers: Deval Stick the Minister John Sutherland: Devil Stick the Minister, The Devil’s Dream William Gunn: Jenny Nettles Bland And Weller: The Fairies Revel Thompson: Love Sick Polly Padraic Ganly: The Fairy’s Bagpipe Seamus Ennis: Queen of the Fairies Cover Art from This 1775 Political Cartoon: Three noblemen dance round a tall thistle as the devil plays the bagpipes; representing Scottish influence on the British policy towards American independence. Engraving, 1775. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/kdbr6gua Robert Bremner: What the De’il Ails you? https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003032 Tam O Shanter Story: http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/tamoshanter.htm And the Lovely Youtube Animated Telling of the Poem: https://youtu.be/dkiZbpd9stw De’il Stick the Minister From Sutherland: (Download PDF Link and Tune #128): http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-41-80.pdf The Devil’s Dream From Sutherland: (Download PDF Link and Tune #46): http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf Deval Stick the Minister (Vickers): (clicking link may not work, but copying it in should) http://www.farnearchive.com/detail.asp?id=R0300901 Story of The Devil’s Dream Playing Fiddler From Jabez Allies, On the Ignis Fatuus: Of, Will-o’-the-wisp, and the Fairies (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, London: 1846)31-32. https://books.google.com/books?id=4C-_AQAACAAJ&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false Scots Musical Museum Jenny Nettles: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94624348 Robert Bremner’s Jenny Nettles: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003175 William Gunn’s Jenny Nettles (The Tailor’s Daughter): (PDF Download from Ceol Sean) https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book02/Book02%2025.pdf Fisherman Dances for a Year Stories can be found in John Gregorson Campbell, Superstitions of the highlands & islands of Scotland (Glasgow: John MacLehose and Sons, 1900) 61-35. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61730/61730-h/61730-h.htm#CHAP_II_SEC_7 Bland and Weller’s The Fairies Revels: https://archive.org/details/BlandWellers24CountryDancesForTheYear1803/page/n7/mode/2up Love Sick Polly from Thompson’s Complete Country Dances 1773-1780: https://archive.org/details/ThompsonsCompleatCollectionOf200FavouriteCountryDancesVol41773-80 For the Various versions of the Changeling in the Cradle playing the bagpipes see below: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008860/4961500 https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009342/5008794/5130359 https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4493687/4410669 More Complex Version from Barry O’Neill: Johnnie In the Cradle on page 203: https://pdfslide.net/documents/british-folk-tales-and-legends.html The Fairy’s Bagpipe from Padraic Ganly: https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/score/ganly-82 I heard about this cool collection “Poblacht na hÉireann” from Argentina during the SCUPC piper’s Sunday with Pamela Schweblin. This collection of original compositions composed by Padraic Ganly about a hundred years ago has some of the best titles for tunes, and pretty cracking melodies too. You can look through them all at ITMA: https://www.itma.ie/features/notated-collections/ganly-poblacht-na-heireann “The Fairy Warning” story from the Duchas site: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4602676/4594563/4615015 You Can Read the Peter Laban’s Transcription of Seamus Ennis’s playing in Sraith 2 Uimhir 29 Marta 1986 of An Piobaire: https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=1011&mediaId=25931 Please take advantage of the Tune Collection tab: https://www.wetootwaag.com/tunesources Also Please take a minute to leave a review of the podcast! Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGASupport Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast