Active Set List:

Amazing Grace - 4/4 March & 3/4 version

Pipers around the world are asked to ply this hymn written by John Newton (1725-1807). Newton was an English Anglican cleric, a captain of slave ships who later became an investor in the slave trade but subsequently became an abolitionist. He served as a sailor in the Royal Navy for a period after forced recruitment.

Atholl Highlanders / Bonnie Dundee / Steamboat

77th Highland Regiment - The Atholl Highlanders - was raised in 1778 and served in Ireland and was not engaged in active service, though its garrison services were apparently useful in freeing other units for the conflicts with America and France.

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Bonnie Dundee is the title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honor of John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688. In 1689, he led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero.

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Steamboat

The Bells of Dunblane /Wha' Saw the 42nd [2/4]

Composed in 1996 by Pipe Major Robert Mathieson, this slow air is a reminder of the bells of Dunblane Cathedral that were rung to honor the 16 students and a teacher that died on March 13th 1996 at Dunblane Primary School.

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"Wha Saw the 42nd" recounts the bedraggled appearance of the 42nd Regiment, The Black Watch as they departed from the Broomielaw pier in Glasgow

Wha Saw ye the Forty-Second? Wha Saw ye them gaun awa'?

Wha Saw ye the Forty-Second Marching to the Broomielaw?

Some o' them had boots an' stockin's, Some o' them had nane ava;

Some o' them had tartan plaidies, Marching to the Broomielaw.

Cock of the North [6/8]

The title comes from the nickname of Alexander Gordon the 4th Duke of Gordon, who founded Gordon Highlanders. At the Siege of Lucknow, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, 12-year-old Drummer Ross of the 93rd Highlanders signaled the arrival of his regiment to the besieged garrison, by climbing the spire of the Shah Najaf Mosque and playing "Cock o' the North" on his bugle, while under heavy fire from the rebel forces.

Duncan McInnes [2/4]

God Bless America / America the Beautiful [4/4]

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Lochanside [3/4]

This tune was composed by the Pipe Major John McLellan who won the Distinguished Conduct Medal (the UK's second highest medal after the Victoria Cross) for his courageous conduct during the Battle of Magersfontein (1899) in South Africa, where he rallied the troops at the sound of his pipes while he was seriously wounded at the ankle. In memory of this moment, which inspired him, he later wrote Lochanside.

Minstrel Boy / Wearing of the Green / Let Erin Remember [4/4]

Pikeman's March / Battle of Waterloo [4/4]

Scotland the Brave / Rowan Tree / Wings [4/4]

The Battle of the Somme / Heights of Dargai

Irish sets for St. Patrick's Day parades:

• Garry Owen / Men of the West / When Irish Eyes are Shining [6/8]

• Kelly the Boy / Rakes of Mallow / No Awa te Bide Awa [4/4]

Other Tunes We Love:

Bluebells of Scotland / Rainbow Country [4/4]

It was written by "Dora Jordan" (1761-1816,), an English actress and writer whose real name was Dorothea Bland, the mistress of King William IV the uncle and predecessor of Queen Victoria.

O where and O where does your highland laddie dwell;

O where and O where does your highland laddie dwell;

He dwells in merry Scotland where the bluebells sweetly smell,

And all in my heart I love my laddie well

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"Rainbow Country"

Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle

The Dark Isle

Highland Cathedral

Lord Lovat's Lament