Does anyone know where one can find recordings (trans: audio files) of Francis McPeake I playing the pipes and singing? Does anyone know of other people singing with their pipes?
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Singing with the Pipes: McPeakes and others?
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FTX-176 - THE RIGHTS OF MAN is the one to own of Francie. That's the Folktrax label. You can find the McPeake Family's LPs on eBay from time to time, on labels like Fontana. There's a very valuable Topic LP, last I saw it went for about $60 US.
There's a column in An Piobarie, Sing a Song of Piping, which mentions the current crop of piping singers. I sometimes sing along with the pipes myself. Drones are good to drown out the sound of the dogs howling...
There's a column in An Piobarie, Sing a Song of Piping, which mentions the current crop of piping singers. I sometimes sing along with the pipes myself. Drones are good to drown out the sound of the dogs howling...
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Looks like a good one. I've a track or two from the old saydisk, dubbed to cassette and then rerecorded to CD in the great cassette burn of 2006. However, three months ago the combined move/major reno threw my stuff in such an uproar I can't find the bulk of it easily.Kevin L. Rietmann wrote:FTX-176 - THE RIGHTS OF MAN is the one to own of Francie. That's the Folktrax label.
I've always thought that this was the most singular pipe style I'd ever heard; the least like everyone else, in other words.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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McPeake CD
There is a CD with 18 tracks called Francis McPeake -The Singing Piper of Belfast (Folktrax-176) available from www.folktrax.org Inspirational music
Sin é go direach.
The 20 min clip the BBC lets you listen to has Francie singing Come All you Gallant Drivers (with Peggy Seeger backing on banjo), but not the song Just a Note; which song is worth the price of the CD (it was re-issued on Topic in 1999). There's also Seamus Ennis singing Hot Asphalt if you need more reasons.
The 20 min clip the BBC lets you listen to has Francie singing Come All you Gallant Drivers (with Peggy Seeger backing on banjo), but not the song Just a Note; which song is worth the price of the CD (it was re-issued on Topic in 1999). There's also Seamus Ennis singing Hot Asphalt if you need more reasons.
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Listening now. I'm might have to break down and buy the radio ballads, but it's close. Does the beeb sell them in a batch for less?
If they were in a box with the original shows on CD or DVD, and an auxilliary CD had the songs and music (perhaps un-truncated full takes, if those exist) extracted and treated like a standard music CD, that would be a compelling offer.
I love the original form, but I know that CDs with mostly music are just more durable* that CDs with lots of talking.
*From an "I wanna play this again" POV.
If they were in a box with the original shows on CD or DVD, and an auxilliary CD had the songs and music (perhaps un-truncated full takes, if those exist) extracted and treated like a standard music CD, that would be a compelling offer.
I love the original form, but I know that CDs with mostly music are just more durable* that CDs with lots of talking.
*From an "I wanna play this again" POV.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
C.S. Lewis
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I don't know if the Beeb sells them at all--I found nothing in the Shop.
They are all on Topic
(see http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/acatalog/index2.html)
Shouldn't be too hard to get them.
They are all on Topic
(see http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/acatalog/index2.html)
Shouldn't be too hard to get them.