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Ian & Gordon Duncan

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RECITAL: Sat 29th April 1994:   Ian & Gordon Duncan
Venue - ......................., Moston, Manchester.


This recital was only the 6th since the inception of the Society and our guests on this occasion were the Pipe Major and Pipe Sergeant of the Scotrail Vale of Atholl Pipe Band. While Ian was leading this Grade 1 pipe band to ever greater heights his brother Gordon was also making a mark for himself as a composer and a virtuoso beyond the competition field.
 
It was only in 2007 that we revisited the now historic video footage taken by Owen Nash on that night and processed it in order to make it available for you to view here.
 
What follows is virtually the entire recital, as it happened. Pull up a chair, make yourself comfortable and enjoy this performance by these two extremely gifted pipers, just as we did on that day in 1994.
 
(If you can't see the clips yet, be patient. There is usually a short delay as the 15 videos load up from YouTube).

1. Gordon plays 3 jigs - Old Wife of the Mill Dust, Tatter Jack Walsh, Donald Cameron's Powder Horn

2. Ian playing a set of 4/4 Marches

3. Gordon playing a slow air and set of jigs and hornpipes

4. Ian playing the piobaireachd 'Too Long in This Condition'

5. Gordon playing two 2/4 Marches:

6. Gordon plays a Hornpipe and Jig - Jimmy Tweedie's Sealegs & John Patterson's Mare

7. Ian plays a piobaireachd and a hornpipe (Showacho).

8. Gordon really gets down to business now... a set of reels - sitting down.

9. Ian playing a March Strathspey & Reel

10. Gordon plays a set of strathspeys and reels

11. Ian plays a Slow Air and a set of Jigs and Hornpipes.

12. Gordon plays a set of jigs.

13. Ian plays a set of reels.

14. Ian & Duncan playing together: a set of jigs.

15. And finally, to top it all: Gordon plays three reels, including his own composition, Andy Renwick's Ferret, with several variations you may not have heard before. :)

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