Foot Stompin Free Scottish Music Podcast

Here's our April 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. April is a podcast of virtually all new releases! We start of with the Original Transatlantic Sessions, then hear Jim Malcolm, Alyth McCormack, harpist Rachel Hair. We celebrate the 10th anniversary of Isles FM with Runrig and finish up the podcast with an oldie - Magnificent 7 by Blazin' Fiddles. Visit footstompin.com for all you Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our Mid March 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We're featuring contemporary renditions of Scottish music in this podcast. We start off with the great Martyn Bennett from his Grit CD, then follow on with the new Lau CD Arc Light. We then then visit Martin Green Machine's world and follow with Paul Mounsay's Nahoo 3. We finish the podcast up with the classic Celtic Connection Suite by Simon Thoumire. Visit footstompin.com for all you Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our March 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We have a good mixture of young, old and classic artists on the podcast. First up we have Dual by Gaelic singers Julie Fowlis and  Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Lori Watson and Rule of Three, new Gaelic song compilation Oran Ur do Mhuile, legend of the Scots fiddle Hector MacAndrew, young Scottish band Koda, the one and only  Dougie MacLeanand finishing up with the Tannahill Weavers. Visit footstompin.com for all you Scottish music needs.

Here's our mid-February 2009 Free Foot Stompin' Scottish Music Podcast. We have a feast of Scottish music in this programme. First up is Breabach from their Big Spree CD, then Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers play George from their Out All Night album. Next up is guitar maestro Tony McManus, then the Paul McKenna Band featuring the 2009 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award winner Ruairidi Macmillan, then a selection of Scottish psalm singing meets gospel (Salm and Soul) and we finish up with Box Club. Visit footstompin.com for all you Scottish music needs.

Here's our February 2009 Free Foot Stompin' Scottish Music Podcast. We're looking at the bagpipes this time and we start off with the Finlay MacDonald Band from their great Pressed for Time CD. We then feature the one and only Gordon Duncan from his Circular Breath playing the chanter, then champion piper Alasdair Gillies from his CD Lochbroom. After this we have Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson dueting on Scottish and Irish pipes simultaneously and then go back in time to the Bobs of Balmoral and their oral pibroch instruction. We finish up with the great Fred Morrison from his Up South CD. Visit footstompin.com for all you Scottish music needs.

Here's our Mid January Free Foot Stompin' Scottish Music Podcast. We're starting off with Salsa Celtica who will have the whole of Celtic Connections dancing in the next few weeks, next is Rod Paterson singing Robert Burns's Ye Banks and Braes, then a classic fiddle re-release from Debbie Scott and Peerie Willie Johnson from Shetland. We then move back to Robert Burns and hear Sheena Wellington singing Ae Fond Kiss, then Luke Plumb's A Splendid Notion and finish up with the Battlefield Band's Home is Where the Van Is.

Here's our January 2009 Free Foot Stompin' Scottish music podcast. Happy new Year! We've a bit of a highlands and islands thing going here featuring Scots Trad Music Awards Folk Band of the Year  - Orkney's The Chair followed by brilliant Shetland fiddling by Bryan Gear and Violet Tulloch, beautiful Western Isles Gaelic singing from Catriona Watt. Award winning piping from Inverness Niall Matheson, more Award winning from Orkney's Kris Drever and finishing up with the dancing Deoch n Dorus. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Here's our December Free Foot Stompin' Scottish music podcast. In this programme you'll hear the classic Shooglenifty - Venus in Tweeds, a beautiful version of The Beatles' Blackbird by Julie Fowlis, a flanging set of tunes from Storm in a Teacup by Harem Scarem, Shona Mooney's The Shee, Skye fiddler Ronan Martin's debut CD and finish up with bluesman Mike Whellans' Fired-Up & Ready CD. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Here's our Free Foot Stompin' Scottish music podcast. In this programme we're featuring the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. We'll play a nominee from a selection of the categories. We start off with the rockin' Peatbog Faeries (Live Band of the Year category) and continue with Maeve Mackinnon (Gaelic singer of the Year category), next up is  Blair Douglas(Composer of the Year category), then Mick West (Scots Singer of the Year category) and finish with  Session A9 (Folk Band of the Year category). All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Here's our Free Foot Stompin' Scottish music podcast. This podcast we're featuring the new Before the Ruin by  Drever, McCusker & Woomble, classic Blood is Strong by Capercaillie, Catriona Watt's new CD Cadal Cuain, Sonas by MacGregor, Brechin & O' hEadhra, The Linties - Waitin for a Bus and blasting off with new the Red Hot Chilli Pipers CD and DVD. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Here's our Free Foot Stompin' Scottish music podcast. This week we're hosting a Scottish fiddle podcast featuring Shetland's Filska, Scottish Borders fiddle from Shona Mooney, Perthshire fiddling from Pete Clark, Orkney style and interview from Jennifer Wrigley and finishing off with Allan Henderson's Estab. 1976 CD. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Free Scottish music podcast featuring Wolfstone's Terra Firma, Malinky's new CD Flower & Iron, swinging dance music from Deoch 'n' Dorus, beautiful Gaelic song from Ishbel McCaskill, St Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band and the classic Anthem for the Common Man from the Battlefield Band. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Free Scottish music podcast featuring the Scottish harp or clarsach. Includes great harp players Catriona McKay, Ailie Robertson, Alison Kinnaird, Corrina Hewat (interview and new CD) and Savourna Stevenson. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Free Scottish music podcast featuring Nusa (with DJ Extra), Fiona MacKenzie from Lewis and her Elevate CD, The Best of Aly Bain, the new compilation from John McCusker, An Iomall from Alyth McCormack and Scottish Women from Experience Scotland CD. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Free Scottish music podcast featuring the award winning Karine Polwart from her debut Faultlines CD, the very talented Daimh (pronounced Dive) from their Crossing Point CD, and then another award winning singer Julie Fowlis. We have a live interview with The Cast's Mairi Campbell followed by a track from the band's Greengold CD. We finish up with Kris Drever singing Steel and Stone from his very popular Black Water album. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Free Scottish music podcast featuring Findlay Napier's Queen Anne's Revenge from their Just One Umbrella CD, the Strathspey Queen Sarah Jane Summers and her new 'Nesta CD', Radio 2 Young Folk Award winning duo Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller from their debut CD In a Bleeze, Field Marshall Montgomery and their winning March, Strathspey and Reel set from the 2007 World Pipe Band Championships, a beautiful Calum Kennedy Gaelic song and finishing off with the amazing Unusual Suspects. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Free Scottish music podcast featuring the Scottish band Bodega from their brand new Under the Counter CD, Scotland song album Love Songs and Fighting Talk by Janet Russell, master fiddle player Duncan Chisholm plays music from his Farrar release, Gaelic singer Donnie Munro from his Live CD, more Scottish song from Archie Fisher and Windward Away and we finish with with Roddy MacDonald on bagpipes from his Good Drying CD.All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

features exciting folk music tracks from Scottish records - Blazin' Fiddle Live, Auld Lang Syne and Sex and the City (from The Cast). Alasdair Gillies solo piping recital, Gaeldom favourite Blair Douglas's new CD, Harpist Allie Robertson and Out for the Night with the Battlefield Band.

features exciting folk music tracks from Scottish records - The Vatersay Boys, Andy M Stewart, Lau, Scottish Traditions and A Celebration of Gordon Duncan

features exciting folk music tracks from Scottish records - Fiddling sessioneers Session A9, Dick Gaughan Live at the Trades Club. Ceol Uibhist, Shetland fiddler extraordinaire Steven Spence and the supreme talent of the TMSA Young Trad Tour.