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 36 - Happy New Year!
Gary celebrates the beginning of a new year of piping with a look ahead to this year's Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow which runs from 18th January - 4th February.
Playlist
The Fr…
Episode 35 - Reflections on 2023
Gary takes a look back at the story so far here on EYP as he revisits some of the highlights of the piping year as it draws to a close.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Guid…
Episode 34 - New Dawn
Join Gary for more high end music from the world of bagpipes, featuring tunes from Dysart and Dundonald and Alberta Caledonia Pipe Bands, from Andrew Carlisle, the Peatbog Faeries and a…
Episode 33 - Live at the Celtic Arts Foundation
Gary is on his travels again, and brings you great music and chat from one of his 'homes from home', the Celtic Arts Foundation in Mount Vernon, in the Pacific North West of the USA. Th…
Episode 32 - Atlantic Bridge
Join Gary for more top class music from the world of bagpipes, with tunes from Davy Spillane, Simon McKerrell, Bonnie Rideout & Allan MacDonald, Dr Angus MacDonald, Beolach, the Battlef…
Episode 31 - Bedlam
Join Gary as he brings you more great music from that family of instruments we call the bagpipe. At the more traditional end of things, there’s classic tunes from Murray Henderson and w…
Episode 30 - The Keeper of the Light
Join Gary as he brings you more great music from bagpipes great and small! There's a double helping from the Northumbrian tradition, a flavour of the Himalayas, up tempo tunes from the…
Episode 29 - Flooers o the Forest
Gary brings you more high quality music of the bagpipe kind, with tunes from Rura, The Finlay MacDonald Band, Iain MacFadyen, Fred Morrison and Canadian band, Iron Brew. There's a gorg…
Episode 28 - Eilidh Sings You to Sleep
Following on from last week's Halloween shenanigans things are a bit more chilled in this episode - although maybe not quite as chilled as the title might suggest! There's fine music fr…
Episode 27 - We're Going Guising
Join Gary for a Halloween special, and hear about some of the deep rooted traditions associated with the festival and what lies behind them. And of course there is plenty of appropriate…
Episode 26 - The Nights are Fair Drawin In
Gary returns after a week’s break with more top-drawer music from the world of bagpipes. There’s a taster of two new albums, True North from uillean pipe maestro, Calum Stewart, and the…
Episode 25 - Bellows all the Way
Gary helps to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society by taking a look at the development, decline, and revival of the bellows bagpipe tradition in Scot…
Episode 24 - The Yowie's Horn
Join Gary for more music from the world of bagpipes, this week with two fine voices thrown in for good measure! These belong to Andy Hunter, who gives us his rendition of the song versi…
Episode 23 - Pipes and Pubs
Gary brings you tunes from Angus MacColl, Ann Gray, Shotts and Dykehead, Hecla, Hamish Moore, the Vale of Atholl and a folk classic from Dick Gaughan. And there are musical visits to t…
Episode 22 - The Piper o Dunkeld
More great tunes and tales of all things bagpipes, including the story behind the house for sale in Dunkeld, Perthshire, which was built in the 18th century for the piper to the Duke of…
Episode 21 - Cheery Tunes
Gary introduces more top drawer music of the bagpipe variety, with sets from Seanaidh MacIntyre and Ewen Henderson, Cantrip, Alasdair Gillies, Megan Henderson - and himself! And listen …
Episode 20 - Purely Piobaireachd: Celebrating Captain John
It's piobaireachd all the way this week as Gary introduces music he recorded at the Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd Recital and Dinner held recently in Edinburgh. This annual…
Episode 19 - The Bothy Sessions 1 Featuring inB
Gary welcomes the brand new bellows-pipe quartet, inB, to perform the very first Bothy Session from the shores of the Firth of Forth. Top uillean pipers Louise Mulcahy and Tiarnán Ó Du…
Episode 18 Live from Piping Live!
Gary presents the podcast in front of a live audience in the Street Cafe at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow as part of the Piping Live Festival. With sets from Finlay MacDonald, J…
Episode 17 - It's All Happening in August
Gary looks ahead to a range of live events across the central belt of Scotland as we reach the sharp end of the piping season with Piping Live in Glasgow and the Fringe in Edinburgh. Th…