Mitchell Kilt Hire and Highland Wedding Pipers

Bagpipe tunes and Wedding Tunes

There are many, many bagpipe tunes suitable for playing at weddings.

A few stand out for traditional reasons. In our area the following are requested most often.
Mairi's Wedding, Highland Wedding, Amazing Grace, Scotland the Brave,
Mull of Kintyre, My Love is but a Lassie yet.

The playing of tunes that people recognise is important. To people unfamiliar with bagpipe music, many tunes may initially sound indistinguishable. Conscious changes in tempo, key and rythym help people to distinguish you're playing a selection of tunes. Esoteric piping tunes are generally avoided in favour of those most likely to be known by non-pipers.
We also try to find out tunes likely to have significance to parents or grand-parents, or special relatives or guests. We often "learn" tunes specifically for a wedding, even if it means transcribing them off a tape or CD if the tune cannot be found in a bagpipe music book or on a recording. A tune can even be composed for your wedding.
The following lists are just a few tunes, to help you think about what to select. I also suggest people listen to a few piping recordings to see if they recognise, or prefer any particular tunes. The couple is welcome to come and listen to tunes (played practice chanter and/or pipes) and to discuss what they want played for whichever part of the ceremony.

Scottish Tunes All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border ~ March Amazing Grace ~ Slow Air / Hymn As the Deer pants for water ~ Air / Hymn Black Velvet Band, The ~ Air Blue Bells of Scotland ~ March Bonny Dundee ~ March Bonny Lass of Fyvie ~ March Brown Haired Maiden ~ March Cailin mo Ruin-sa (The Maid I adore) ~ Air Cock O’ the North ~ March Comin’ thro’ the Rye ~ March Corriechoillies’ Welcome ~ March Echo Lake ~ Air Haste to the Wedding~ March Heykens’ Serenade ~ March Highland Cathedral ~ Air Highland Laddie ~ March Highland Wedding ~ March Lord of the Dance ~ March Mairi’s Wedding ~ March Maggie ~ Air Meeting of the Waters ~ March Mingulay Boat Song ~ Air Mrs Scott Skinner ~ March Mull of Kintyre ~ Air Murdo’s Wedding ~ March My Love is but a Lassie Yet ~ March O Flower of Scotland ~ Air O Joy to the World ~ Air / Hymn Ode to Joy ~ Air / Hymn Old Rustic Bridge ~ March Rab’s Wedding ~ March Road to the Isles ~ March Scotland the Brave ~ March Skye Boat Song ~ Air Sweet Maid of Glendaruel ~ March Swing of the Kilt ~ March Teribus O’ Terioden ~ March Tiree Love Song ~ Air Westering Home ~ Air Whistle o’ the Lave O’t ~ March Wi’ a Hundred Pipers ~ March Wooed and a married a’ ~ March

Irish Tunes A Quarter to Four/Anika’s visit home (Jig)(NZ) Back to Donegal, (6/8 March) Banjo Breakdown (Jig) Black Bird, The /Liverpool Hornpipe (Hornpipe) Black Velvet Band, The (6/8) Brian Boru's March to Clontarf (March) Danny Boy (4/4 Air) Fields of Athenree (Air) For Ireland I’d not tell her name (6/8 Air) Garry Owen (6/8 March) Green Hills of Antrim, The (12/8 Slow Air) Greenwoodside, The (2/4) Irish Washerwoman, The (Jig) Last Rose of Summer, The (Air) Leaving of Liverpool, The (4/4 March) Maggie (2/4) March Down the Aisle (4/4 March) Minstrel Boy, The (Air) Oft in the Stilly Night (Jig) Oh Dear what can the matter be (6/8) Paddy’s Leather Breeches (Jig) Paddy McGinty’s Goat (Hornpipe) Paddy O’Rafferty (Jig) Paddy Wack (Jig) Rakes of Marlowe (2/4) Rose of Tralee (6/8 Air) Spanish Lady (2/4 Air) Star of County Down (Air) Sweet Molly Malone/In Dublin’s Fair City (Air) Those Endearing Young Charms (Air/ Waltz) Waltzing Matilda (Aust/Irish) (2/4) When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (6/8 Air) When Johnny comes Marching Home (6/8 March) plus many others.... Such as those listed on the .. Cambridge & Districts Pipe Band tune list See also B. Mitchell, Piper and others around NZ.

Hear Bagpipe Tunes on the net....option coming...

Copyright © 2009 Mitchell Kilt Hire

MKH Home Page

Wedding hire info Page

Top

Contact Us

Other Links