International Bagpipe Day

9 March 10:00 - 16:00 / FREE.

What connects Chaucer’s Miller, Henry VIII, Alastair Campbell and Bob Dylan?

Bag Pipe Day
Well, it’s bagpipes of course. And, If you thought bagpipes were exclusively Scottish, think again! Bagpipes have been played since Antiquity and are found right across Western and Eastern Europe, in North Africa, the Middle East and India.

International Bagpipe Day is an annual celebration of the world’s bagpipes and piping traditions initiated by the Bagpipe Society in 2012. This year we warmly invite you to come and celebrate International Bagpipe Day at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Events will run all day from 10:00 till 16:00, all are free, and will include:

  • a chance to try or buy a bagpipe
  • demonstrations by some of the UK’s best bagpipers
  • Storytelling
  • makers’ and societies’ stalls
  • a series of public talks by experts in their field

 

Lecture Theatre

Balcony Performances

Museums’ Annexe
  10.30-11.00 Graham Wells ‘Why not English Smallpipes?’ 10.15-10.30 Manolo Panforreteiro ‘The Galician Gaita’  
  11.10-11.40 Pete Stewart ‘Scotland’s other bagpipe and its music’ 11.15-11.30 Andy Letcher & Jo Hamilton ‘English Border Pipes’ 11.30-12.00 Vicki Swann ‘Swedish bagpipes’
  11.50-12.20 Clive Matthews ‘The English play bagpipes too!’ 11.30-12.00 Richard York ‘Bagpipe tales’  
  Lunch break 12.15-12.30 Oxford NSP group ‘Northumbrian Smallpipes’ 12.30-13.00 Andy Letcher/Wod ‘Southern English border pipes’
    13.15-13.30 Cassandre Balosso-Bardin ‘Mallorcan bagpipes’  
  14.00-14.30 Sean Jones ‘How to build a bagpipe’ 13.30-14.00 Richard York ‘Bagpipe tales’ 13.30-14.00 Dirk Campbell ‘Bagpipes of the East’
  14.40-15.10 Jane & Eric Moulder ‘A 17th C. bagpipe mystery’ 14.15-14.30 Julian Goodacre ‘English Double Pipes’ 14.30-15.00 Mano Panforreteiro ‘Galician Gaita’
  15.20-15.50 Julian Goodacre ‘British double-pipes’ 15.15-15.30 Dirk Campbell ‘Bagpipes of the East’ 15.30-16.00 Cassandre Balosso-Bardin ‘Mallorcan bagpipes’