Starstruck by Anders Norudde! Luthier and for some known from the group Hedningarna that in my opinion were ahead of their time. Great concert at Kampen Bistro yesterday ! #folkmusic #swedishfolkmusic #bagpipes #tagelharpa

Today’s exciting delivery - hummelchen! That is to say bagpipes in G with the same fingering as my Swaynes, but that are quiet enough for me to, in good conscience, actually practice regularly as they aren’t deafening.

Scenes from Highland life: yesterday was 10's first ever solo chanter competition.

Thing about learning to play the chanter and ultimately the bagpipes is that you have to play without the sheet music.

A bunch of 10+ year olds playing solo in public for the first time without music to hand... Let's just say they were all very brave and did great. Lots of potential there (once the tears have been mopped up).

Shocked? I hope so...

Thunderstruck + It's a Long Way to the Top | AC/DC Bagpipe Cover - Goddesses of Bagpipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5thH8rNGzg

Never fails to move me, so, all the better for International Bagpipes Day.

#bagpipes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMsdssVwwSc

10 March is International Bagpipe Day!

Why to St. Paul’s, my Dear? What make you chuse
A Church that Jacobites and Papists use,
Where English Mass is lyrick’d o’er by Boys,
And Popish Bagpipes make a hideous Noise?

—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/the-scottish-bagpipe-political-and-religious-symbolism-in-english-literature-and-satire/

I don't have anything new for #BandcampFriday, but if anyone is interested in my album of instrumental music, mainly fiddle tunes, played by celtic musicians Saskia Tomkins, Steafan Hannigan, here's the link:

https://annedelong.bandcamp.com/album/the-loons-call-tunes-from-the-north-shore-by-anne-delong

There are also three books of fiddle tune sheet music on the merch page.

Aldous Fiore – El Alquimista
#World #antigua #bagpipe #bagpipes #drums #folk #medievalfolk #middeastmusic #music #mystical #neomedieval #Germany
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://aldousfiore.bandcamp.com/album/el-alquimista

Bagpipes at Lake Michigan #bagpipes #PureMichigan #Music #Nature

Carbony Celtic Winds (https://carbony.com/) coming to the House of Musical Traditions (https://hmtrad.com/), 7010 Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD, Monday, February 17, 2025. Owner Rob Gandara will be there plying his craftmanship.

I has been a while since I shared personal and work stuff on social media. I want to give Mastodon a try, so here's something I've done back in 2020.

It's a detail from the album art I did for Gambuzinos's medieval music album Discussões Com Jograis.

More on https://mafaldamaia.com/Discussoes-Com-Jograis

Oh yeah, I forgot about the hashtags! #art #portugal #illustration #medieval #bagpipes

Loup Uberto / Lise Barkas – Manufacture (SB027)
#Acoustic #Experimental #Folk #Improvisation #bagpipes #cornemuse #drone #fieldrecording #harmonium #homemadeinstruments #organ #orgue #traditional #Strasbourg
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
https://soleilsbleus.bandcamp.com/album/manufacture-sb027

I've been on the Fediverse since January 2017. I initially ran a single-user instance of Mastodon. In March 2020 I started to write Ktistec, my own implementation of an ActivityPub server in Crystal (a language with the ergonomics of Ruby but the speed of Go) because I wanted something more supportive of writing. This #introduction was written and published on Epiktistes, my Ktistec instance.

I'm an Engineer by training but now I run teams for companies in climate-tech.

I love #music, #sciencefiction and #fantasy literature (yes, I'm an R. A. Lafferty fan), attend fan conventions like #worldcon and #dragoncon, and do regular #weightlifting. I am also learning to play the #bagpipes, and I'm (re)learning #japanese.

It's Bandcamp Friday, the day that Bandcamp sends ALL of the proceeds from music sales to the musicians!

Here's a link to the tunes in my album "The Loon's Call", where you can listen for free:

https://annedelong.bandcamp.com/