Boderiou Bagpipes - Slow Air & Jigs
Tunes : Mhairi Bhan Og - Trad. PM Jimmy McGregor - J. Scott Maidean Dubh An Donais - A. MacDonald
Recorded in Lambader, March 2015
Produced by Torr-Penn Production (Vincent Tanneau & Romain Le Bleis)
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