Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary West
The very best of bagpipe music from Scotland and beyond. With live sessions, news, reviews and chat.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 116
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
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.
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Finlay Cameron with Miss MacGregor's Favourite, Jerry's Pipes, Cai…
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.
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Iain …
Episode 114 - On the Road with the Kiwis
Join Gary as he tours Scotland with 17 lovely Kiwis, with appropriate music along the way!
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Inverarary and District Pipe Band with The Miniscus, the Kesh Jig Waltz, the Kesh Jig, …
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'.
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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.
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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.
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Cala with Dusty from From the River
Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia with Show…
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.
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Breabach with Knees Up from Frenzy of the Meeting
Simon Fraser…
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, Willi…
Episode 108 - Troy's Wedding
Gary reports in from Duncan, Vancouver Island, bringing you music and chat from British Columbia and well beyond.
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John Dew with The Ruins of Gylen Castle from Na Caismeachdan
Andr…
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.
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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.
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Matt MacIsaac with Gaelic Air, The Old Wo…
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!
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Calum Stewart with Craigellachie Lasses fro…
Episode 104 - Shoulder to Shoulder
Join Gary as he invites you on another journey through the riches of the bagpipe traditions of the world.
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Daimh with Donnie MacGillivray’s Welcome to the 21st Century, Malcolm Jo…
Episode 103 - Cabar Feidh
Gary brings you a sneak preview of the fantastic new live recording from the People's Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band, due to be released in June.
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Steven Blake with the 98 Ji…
Episode 102 - Sunny Days Are Here Again
Gary brings you more great music of the bagpipe family, including trips to France, Asturias, Ireland and the USA.
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Old Blind Dogs with Jan Alexander’s Fancy, The Harris Dance and …
Episode 101 - Knees Up
Gary invites you to join him with the first episode of the next one hundred!
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Breabach with Knees Up from Frenzy of the Meeting
Inverarary and District Pipe Band with The Snowball …
Episode 100 - The First One Hundred
Gary invites you to help him celebrate the milestone of having reached one hundred episodes of EYP, with some suitable music along the way.
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Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Ban…
Episode 99 - Wheel of Fortune 2025
Gary brings you highlights from the wonderful and unique Wheel of Fortune contest run by the City of Edinburgh Pipe Band and held at the Danderhall Miners' Club in Midlothian.
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Ca…
Episode 98 - The Moon's Daughter
Join Gary as he invites you to take in more great music from Scotland, Northumbria, Ireland and Canada, and find out how you can win a brand new set of bagpipes!
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Heather MacIsaac…
Episode 97 - Serendipity
Gary returns from his Atholl Highlanders tour with more great music from his collection of all things bagpipes.
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The Battlefield Band with Tending the Steer, Sandy Thompson and th…