Kathryn Tickell - 'Lads of Alnwick' video free download

Darren A. Marcus

First tune is Lads of Alnwick. However, what's the second?

condaly

Irish uileann pipes.

Debbie Lough

Wow. a little 18th century song about a little town in a corner of the debateable lands causing all this debate again...As far as I know (and I'm far from an expert in music) bagpipes and smallpipes are different instruments, though with similar roots. I believe that what became Northumbrian pipes were first written of in about the 16th century - about the same time as Scottish smallpipes. Not sure of when bagpipes first came across here - although I know the Romans had them so possibly earlier. It'd be logical to me (though I'm purely conjecturing) that the smallpipes developed so that one person could play and sing.As to the "tartan" (and this I do know about, as costume and fashion history is my job), Northumbrian, or Border tartan isn't really a tartan - it's a basic check. Tartan is really an interworking of several checks, and obviously the 'Northumbrian' only has one.It came to be known as 'Northumbrian tartan' because the Percies (Dukes of Northumberland) adopted it for their servants clothing. Really it's exactly the same as the Falkirk 'tartan', and the find dates the pattern as being around at least by the C3rd AD - it doesn't confirm who had it first, or whether it was known elsewhere. Of course, in reality, it's all the same pattern, and it was in use long before the 3rd C, and over half the world, as it's a very simple pattern to weave. Similarly patterned textiles have been found in China and dated to the Iron Age as well as much earlier; in Ancient Celtic finds (6th-8th BC); and of course, there's Thorsbjerg. It's impossible to tell, but as the same kind of pattern was known by the Romans, it's probably that it came here (British mainland) with them - and / or the Celts, who also used it, and it spread. Likely the same applies to Ireland.Wherever it originated (and that's lost in the mists of time, although I suspect it developed concurrently in different places), it is probably the forerunner of every check and tartan that we know today.True tartans, on the other hand, didn't really appear until roughly the 16th C.

socalserf

So wonderful to listen to a masterful piper.

Craig Chadderton

Go on Joss lad!

bonzo874

left with me parents in 64 as did a whole lot , regretted it ever since

AngusOnkel

would'nt mind to buy an Northhumbrian Pipe.... :-)

Peter Kane

Great sound, thank you.

Victoria Bieber

really really love this!! thx so much for sharing!

Alexandra Potter

Haha sounds like old style barrel organ music.

googleisshittoss

Northumberland FOREVER!

Radiant Silver Labs

love the lads of alnwick!! are they northumbrian bag pipes?

Tim Isaksson

Amazing performance! Thank you!

CelticMurphy1313

John Taylor. You are not living. You do not have the fortitude to enjoy life without measurement. A real measurement of life is how much you enjoy life and how much enjoyment you bring to life. So here is a real measurement of who you are.You are a slack ass piece of shite barking shite about as though you have anything to be proud of because some ancestor of yours from 10 generations of go might of done something. You will never be a hard enough worker to live up to be as proud as Irish, Scottish, Mexican, African American, Chinese, Japanese, Asians in general, Germans, Scandanavians, Middle Easterns, among many others. You do not bring anything of substance to this world. Your life is spent in finding and displaying self glorifications.

Sid Bloom

Well, John Taylor, I may have opinions on culture similar to yours, but I don't make it anyone's problem. You're selfish for denying me the right to feedback on this lovely performance, you know. And your pathetic for displaying to us all that your too half-assed to have an actual debate away from your computer screen. I enjoyed the history lecture, however, and would be inclined to discuss what I know with you if I didn't already think so low of you. My advice is, if you want people take you seriously, sign out of youtube.

tttm99

HSTFA. Too many listens. Think I just broke the internet.

itsstolenmoney nitwit

This is strange: John Taylor sometimes states facts, like a person who is interested in history, and sometimes makes dismissive generalisations, like a racist. I don't think I've read all his comments, which would probably be a bit of a chore, but can I just put things straight, or in perspective. Without getting into too much detail, "everybody knows" (this phrase really applies to people like me-please forgive any apparent arrogance) that bagpipes were so widespread in ancient cultures as to be almost universal. Of course there were English bagpipes long before they were distinguished as Celtic (or Humbric), but that's not because one culture gave them to another; it's because their use died northwards out, and eventually became restricted to, and so identified with, more old-fashioned parts of the British Isles. Thus Shakespeare refers to them as the "Lincolnshire bagpipes", Lincoln being, to the London of his day, comparatively faraway. (He also uses the phrase "Lincolnshire shithouse"--sorry.) Everybody knows, however, that the bagpipes were not originally English or French. Everybody has read the passage in the Book of Daniel (those of us who are lucky enough in the Ancient Hebrew) with a list of instruments for public, or royal, music, including the "SMPN". The old translators used to render this "symphonium", of course, but probably with an ecclesiastical axe to grind; and everybody knows it really meant the bagpipes, being related to the modern "zampone", still used in odd corners of the Mediterranean. (Yes, yes, it was really a Greek word merely adopted into Hebrew, "sum-phonee", I know: and the meaning, "together-sound", was a reference to the multiplicity of pipes coming out of a single sack.) And everybody's heard of the (Babylonian?) narrative wall carving (though I've never seen it) which shows a military band playing instruments including what look like bagpipes during the siege of a city (sometimes rather romantically identified with Jericho). I mean what's the argument all about? Everybody knew all of this stuff years ago. Does John Taylor enjoy putting himself up above other people, by (a) presenting himself as an authority and (b) rubbishing certain cultures? He would be better occupied learning the Spanish bagpipes (I'm too fuddy-duddy to call them anything else). I hope he's not going to come back at me mercilessly, for this, with more facts from the Bumper Book of Knowledge!

John Taylor

Who cares.

Seleuce

Um, yeah, how nice. I'm German, too. ;)

John Taylor

The philibeg or small kilt, also known as the walking kilt (similar to the modern kilt) was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire named Thomas Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s for the use of the Highlanders

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