Honeymoon Bridge
Dear friends, thanks for joining me here. It’s mid December all of a sudden, and I’m recalling how we got here. This time last year, I was getting ready to travel to Ardgour, to record what would become Two Boats Under the Moon with my friend Roo Geddes.
A lot has happened since then, as you’ll know again this month if you’re a reader of BBC Music Magazine - where John Lusk gave the album five stars this month - or Folk London Magazine, where Nygell Packett chose Two Boats as his Album of the Year!
And with Alasdair Roberts & myself just having completed a short UK tour at the end of October, we were delighted to see Welcome Home My Dearie, our duo album released that month, begin its own run of reviews with an 8/10 in Uncut Magazine.
At the same time, I’ve gone from a humble 1,000 followers on Facebook, to just over 11,000! Anything now seems possible…
So what better way, I thought, to see out the Auld Year, than with a crowdfunder for the sequel to Two Boats Under the Moon - Honeymoon Bridge!
Honeymoon Bridge – new double album
Honeymoon Bridge, is intended as a double album of Scots songs and tunes on the Lindsay System smallpipes and fiddle, with Roo Geddes. In my head it sits as the sequel to Two Boats Under the Moon – the same close, careful atmosphere, but this time the pipes are right at the centre. Song will still lead the album - albeit alongside a few more tune sets than on Two Boats - and this time I’ll be accompanying myself on the pipes, rather than the guitar.
If you only do one thing after reading this, please have a look at the crowdfunder and, if you can, pre-order the album:
Honeymoon Bridge – Crowdfunder / pre-order
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/honeymoon-bridge
Every pledge helps us book more time at Watercolour in the Highlands, cover fees & expenses, and get the record mixed, mastered and manufactured.
Celtic Connections – 18 January
In January I’ll be back in Glasgow for Celtic Connections.
On Sunday 18 January 2026 I’m at The Glad Café with a programme called “How’ve You Been? and Outwith” – live music with two short films drawn from the last few years: How’ve You Been? examines the experience of “living apart from the world” on Ascension Island during 2020/21. It’s a gentle, poetic and visually beautiful short film, and will be soundtracked by myself alongside a small group of old friends from the Glasgow free improv community.
Outwith, picks up where “How’ve You Been?” leaves off, and is concerned with what it means to take a heavily contextualised instrument like the pipes, out of context to a place where nobody takes root permanently, at all.
Details and tickets here:
https://www.celticconnections.com/event/1/donald-wg-lindsay-howve-you-been-and-outwith/
Lessons on the Lindsay System
A quick practical note: I’m now offering one-to-one online lessons through Lindstruments, for anyone who’d like to work more closely with the Lindsay System smallpipe chanter (or just get their smallpipes going more smoothly).
That covers:
foundation chanter work and ear-led tune learning
developing technique and repertoire for the Lindsay System
extended range, semitones and more open approaches to tunes
More detail here:
https://lindstruments.com/products/one-to-one-lessons
Summer 2025 dates
We’re beginning to sketch summer 2025 dates; one that’s already fixed is Birnam Arts on Friday 14 August, with Alasdair and myself returning there together. More dates will be forthcoming soon, so keep an eye on the “Live Dates” page on my site.
For now, the focus is Honeymoon Bridge. If you’ve enjoyed Two Boats Under the Moon or Welcome Home My Dearie and would like to hear where this goes next, I’d be very grateful if you’d consider backing the crowdfunder, or passing it on to anyone – pipers, singers, festivals, broadcasters – who might be interested. Shares, mentions, and even likes, all help the word travel!
Thanks for your time, and I hope you have a warm and relaxing holiday season!
All the best,
Donald
Honeymoon Bridge: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/honeymoon-bridge
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