Droning On Podcast
1) 139: A Whistle Wonderland with Cedar Dobson
Cedar Dobson returns to the Droning On podcast to talk through, and hear samples from, her excellent holiday album, "A Whistle Wonderland". Cedar's done some very cool, "tradifying," of familiar holid...Show More
2) 138: Holiday Tunes with Andrew O'Sullivan
Andrew O'Sullivan is back to play through, (and talk through,) some more Holiday tunes!Tune into this episode to hear Andrew talk about fiddles, smallpipes, and "fiddling around with smallpipes".This ...Show More
3) 137: Robert Macdonald on "Music From the Dead"
Robert Macdonald came on the show back in January of 2024. We talked then about his bagpipe journey, his music making with Pennyland, and more -- including the fiddle playing & tune-making of Cape Bre...Show More
4) 136: Music from the Dead, The Tune-Making of John MacDougall by Robert Macdonald
Robert Macdonald came on the show back in January of 2024. We talked, then, mostly about his music making with Pennyland.We talked a bit about his scholarly work on the compositions of fiddler John M...Show More
136: Music from the Dead, The Tune-Making of John MacDougall by Robert Macdonald
48:11 | Nov 10th, 2025
5) 135: Halloween Special: "Pipers and the Supernatural" with Stuart McHardy (Author of The Silver Chanter)
With around 40 books published to date, Stuart combine the roles of writer, storyteller and lecturer in Scottish history, folklore and geomythography. Additionally, Stuart has had a fair amount of po...Show More
6) 134: Tunes for the Soul with Sean Patrick Reidy
Sean is a woodworking, re-enacting, tunesmithing multi-instrumentalist & delightful conversationalist. In this episode we talk about, (and hear samples from,) their recently-released album, Tunes for...Show More
7) 133: The Mikey Beale Episode
Mikey is an artist in many ways. Two of those ways: bagpipes & hair.Tune into this episode to hear some universally-applicable wise advice. Truly. Try to find a situation where this isn't applicabl...Show More
8) 132: Aaron Bergen of the Grinning Barretts
Competitive soloist, steam engineer, punk rocker, and orthotics-enthusiast: Aaron Bergen is here! We get some stories, and we sample some tracks from an album Aaron did with The Grinning Barretts.Tun...Show More
9) 131: Rufus Harley with America & David (Part 2)
This is the second part of a two-part interview with America Patton & David Duncan regarding the life, philosophy, and music of Rufus Harley.Tune into this episode to hear some more of Rufus' bagpipe ...Show More
10) 130: Rufus Harley with America & David (Part 1)
This is the first part of a two-part interview with America Patton & David Duncan regarding the life, philosophy, and music of Rufus Harley.Tune into this episode to hear some of Rufus' bagpipe music,...Show More