By Jonathan Corum

Feb. 26, 2026

“The Village Walk” is my first tune for Scottish smallpipes. It’s a simple pipe jig that I composed in 2023 during a Christmas vacation in Naples, Florida.

I tried to walk from my mother-in-law’s condo to a neighboring development for lunch, but kept running into unexpected fences and locked gates in Naples’ car-centered landscape. If this tune is about anything, it’s about a long and roundabout walk when a beer and some food seem just out of reach.

On the two-mile walk back, I started singing the first line of a jig. I recorded a voice memo and adapted it into this tune.

Simplified tune without gracenotes

Download sheet music.