Northumbrian Piper Andy May

[MarcelGomesPan]

I guess that makes my country a "worse" part of Europe since Scandinavia never had any big Celtic populations, while all of the British isles has a large Scandinavian heritage.

There was differing opinions through time when it comes to national borders around Northumbria where both Scotland and England claimed the same territories. This was however later and Northumbria had already been both Anglish and later "Danish".

[MarcelGomesPan]

@MarcelGomesPan At it´s biggest, the Northumbrian kindom of the Angles actually streched into what is now the Scottish lowlands (almost all the way to Edingburgh). The Saxon areas where more to the south (Sussex, Wessex, Essex and so forth. Either way, ALL of these peoples (and more) should have influenced both English and Scottish culture.

[trojan73able]

god bless us angles,and the old kingdom.

[johnicester]

Napolean May!

extrodinary!!

[northman585]

I say Mr Comenowmrbond, what load of bollocks! Northumberland derives it's name from north of the Humber land and the people are hence Northumbrians. Once an ancient kingdom that stretch north from the Humber to Edinburgh, and lasted some 300 years.

[johnicester]

PROPER TUNING and played well ...good SAXON on ya !!!

[comenowmrbond]

[facepalm]

"Northumbria" is actually a Hittite word for "Malaysians who speak with Finnish

Tongue". It was founded in 500BC by the Ottoman Zulus, originating from what is now North Korea; they arrived in MDF shortboats after wintering in Skegness, and then killed and displaced the indigenous Finno-Malaysians, using their skins for bags and their thigh bones as drones. Fact.

[seonidh]

Actually no Monsoon Mally Northumbria was a seperate country from saxon England till it was taken by England. Scotland and England bittery fought over the country for centuries the treaty of Perth in the 11th century fixed the border. So much fighting went on that Northumbrians "Sting included" and he's from New-castle-upon-tyne says he feels neither A Scot nor English but a Geordie or from the North East. The Northumbrian spirit is well and alive.

[Springer177]

@seonidh Not a separate country but a separate kingdom. The concept of country was still in the future then. The later Viking invasions eliminated all the separate kingdoms except Wessex (the kingdom of the West Saxons), who later re-conquered these lands and thus brought about a united kingdom of England for the first time. Athelstan (of the line of the West Angles) was the first king of all England in the early 900's.

[richtrophicherbs]

Brilliant. Proper piping with proper tuning.

[trevafolk]

Andy May, we love you.

[fagottist]

hte one horned sheep sounds a little bit like the jog of slurrs

[24bronte]

Bagpipes were not only used in the Celtic lands but were extensively used throughout Europe, possibly brought there from the middle east.

[24bronte]

While'st Northumbria was Inhabited by the Saxon people from the late 6th cent. whose tribe was called' the Angle's'. From the late 8th cent. the Viking's had a very strong presence in the Northumbrian homeland and those people could therefore be styled, Anglo - Scandinavian . Much of the distinct Northern vocabulary has it's rise in the marriage of the Saxon and Viking communities. The Northern peoples of England have a different way of looking at life from their Southern brethren.

[leethatswho6145]

Andy can also be found playing as part of Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies. Youtubes of them are online too.

[MonsoonMally]

Northumbria is, and always has been, a kingdom in northern England. Whilst it is close to, and has inter-relations with Scotland, it is not Scottish or Irish, more of Saxon origin, and influence.

A little more research into the subject would aid what is otherwise a good video.

[inaband]

Hahah, nice one MonsoonMally. Obviously 'ScotchIrishFool1' really is the fool this time. - Im not sure why many Americans still insist on shouting and singing about their Celtic descendants- I don't blabber on about my Saxon origins...

[Springer177]

MonsoonMally is very nearly right - Northumbria was actually the kingdom of the North Angles, not the Saxons. As a matter of passing interest, the Staffordshire Hoard (Google it) may quite possibly be loot taken by Penda (king of Mercia, the kingdom of the West Angles, from Oswiu, king of Northumbria.

[seonidh]

@Springer177 that would be correct about the hord as it does show a high sophistication of knot work design that is still evident in the Lidesfarn gospels. Northumberland should get both these back.

[Springer177]

@seonidh Knot (!) so much knotwork - that's a slightly later fashion though not by much. The Staffordshire Hoard shows the same artistic style as the Sutton Hoo treasure - very Anglian in nature. By Anglian, one should bear in mind that this doesn't so much apply to a region as to a people. What is now thought of as Anglia (East Anglia) was only a part of the lands settled by the Angles in what is now England.

[Gwynsek]

@inaband Being proud of one´s ancestry is not false pride,but something healthy.if you have Saxon ancestry,do research and preserve your roots,cause they are beautiful,too.Unfortunately,fe­w know about the Angle´s side of it,in Northumbria and the sorroundings.

[harrignos]

@MonsoonMally  Anglic, actually, not Saxon. General point is correct though. It's not stolen from the Scots or Irish.

[spettro9]

@MonsoonMally

We really should be talking music, and not this ethnic childishness,

but

England, like Ireland and Scotland, Wales, and the better part of Europe for that matter has undeniable Celtic history, namely before the Romans.

There have been studies saying that most of the blood, the stock of the British Isles was there even prior to the Celts, and analogous to this, the same with Europe and Indo-European speakers....

Anyway, bagpipes happened much later, in dark or middle ages...

[seonidh]

@MonsoonMally Nope Northumbria was an independent kingdom till the Danish invasion in 867 and became part of the Danelaw. It was not a part of England in 927 when the English nation was established. English, Norse and Norse-Gaelic kings fought for it until it was finally absorbed by king Eadred in 954. Ceded to Scotland in 1018 and then to England with Norman kings in the 11th century. The region continued revolt and rebellion as seen in the Rising of the North in Tudor times.

[ScotchIrishFool1]

My name is Harlan Ross May, I am an American from Mississippi. I am proud of my Scotch-Irish Ulster roots, and Celtic music. This Andy May is not the only one by that name that I know, there is another from Tennessee, here who plays a Celtic Folk and American Mountain music. I take pride in sharing a culture with them both, but I think ours is of German descent.

[jimdoyles]

chap is a legend

[iamlondon]

Is all English folk music so tragically boring?

So...clipped.

Avast me hearties! Tis only one type o' tune thems English has and it sounds like....ANOTHER SHANTY!!!!

God...how boring.

Try another by Mike O'Brien on the Uilleanns.

[JimBell1984]

You view on English folk music is uneducated and ignorant.

[Tiwaz81]

yep. Especially has this sounds nowt like a shanty. You couldn't do any work to this.

[bs5750]

Change your hearind aid.

[seamuslynn]

Superb playing!

[BluegrassForte]

Beautiful playing! 5*

Gretsch'n

[mirovomike]

This really is great, where can I get a set of pipes and roughly how much will they cost?

[sichapman32]

This Guy came round to my house and played his pipes once. He Rocks!

[danjahproductionz]

made me think of tynemouth

am at uni in huddersfield n miss the area

absolute class

[26095]

Howay!

Reet canny, like!

[enzedbrit]

Brilliant! Helps make me proud to be a Northumbrian!!

[spidergem1]

wow absoluterly exquisit :)

[simmo303]

This is good. Lovely sound. Must get a set of 'pipes.