Darth Piper’s eighty-three comments

Is it just me that misses a nice bodhran player each time a cahon basher rocks up? more…

https://fb.watch/c8Z-I0CkGF/ sone cultural tips from Jack Whitehall 😂 more…

Loads of events back on in Ireland for 2022. The Willie Clancy Summer School and the Feakle Festival are just two highlights of many. In England, the Sidmouth Folk Festival is great fun, especially the final night with the WickerMan- esque torchlight proc... more…

In this lovely 2 part interview, Alasdair Fraser covers some of this ground. How in his youth he was taught the written version of tunes was THE WAY to play them, a very different approach to the living, Irish tradition. https://m.soundcloud.com/wtju/epi... more…

Michael, sounds so good with the piano suppressed! more…

I’ve been away for a few days, amazing work already! more…

In the era of youtube mash ups and home studios surely even an amateur sound engineer could get hold of the mighty recordings of Morrison, Coleman et al and remove the awful plonking piano ruining it? I struggle to listen to many of these recordings of se... more…

Hope you are still going in the Summer and we can cone and visit! more…

Great session in London recently. Felt like (and treated like) a human again! more…

Jeremy from the Bagpipes and History podcast has kindly released my interview with low whistle and pipemaker, Brian Howard. https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e27 more…