Foot Stompin Free Scottish Music Podcast

Hi there, Here's our latest Foot Stompin' podcast featuring Daniel Thorpe's new CD The Curiosity Shop. Up next is the latest Emily Smith - Traivellers Joy followed by Bonnie Rideout's double CD Harlaw, Scotland 1411. Next up is TMSA Young Trad Tour 2010 and Hannah Phillips and then The Colour of Dreams by Eric Bogle. We finish the podcast with a live track from Scots band Keep it Up. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Hi there, we're back after the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow with a feast of new releases. We start off with Steele The Show - Songs From The Heart Of Scotland a new compilation of songs by the late Davy Steele, the the latest release from Julie Fowlis Live from Perthshire Amber festival. We follow this with a debut release from Stevie Palmer called Heartprint Shadow and then My Edinburgh by Anna-Wendy Stevenson. Our last two tracks are The Speaking Heart by Lucy Pringle & Chris Wright and finishing off with The Sunday Night Sessions by Sandy Brechin & Friends. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Hi there, Foot Stompin's back with more new and classic releases from the Scottish music scene. We start of the show with a rockin' track from piping combo Seudan. Next up is the new release from Annie Grace called The Bell followed by another new release from Alyth McCormack and Triona Marshall singing Delirium from their Red and Gold CD. We then look at the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Award finals which is on the 5th February and play a track from the 2010 winner Daniel Thorpe. Our penultimate track is Duslach Is Or (Dust & Gold) by Isobel Ann Martin and we finish up the podcast with the classic Blazin' Fiddles playing Miss Johnstone from their Magnificent Seven CD. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Happy New Year! Here's our latest podcast featuring 'lookouts' for 2011. Hope you enjoy. We start of with The Shee from their Decadence CD then go into Between Two Worlds from Paul McKenna Band. Next Up is Findlay Napier and Nick Turner's Just One Umbrella and then Mairead Green's Passing Places. Karine Polwart sings a beautiful Scots song and we finish up with the late great Kenneth McKellar and Bonnie Wee Thing, Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our December 21st 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Christmas and New Year Podcast. I thought I would play some of my favourite tracks from 2010 starting off with Man's Ruin by Calum MacCrimmon, then Mark the Hard Earth by Kris Drever. We follow this with a beautiful air by Duncan Chisholm's Canaich album. Next is the long awaited debut album from Sandy Wright and a great set of jigs from Matheu Watson. We finish off the podcast Ewan Robertson's  Some Kind of Certaintyalbum. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our December 7th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We've a range of releases in this podcast. We start with Scottish Folk Band of the Year 2010 Malinky singing Pad The Road Wi Me. Next up is the winners of Venue of the Year - The Skipinnish Ceilidh House in Oban with their CD The Sound of the Summer. We follow this with another west coast band Diamh singing a song from their Diversions CD and then we have Rua MacMillan playing Traditionally Incorrect from his debut Tyro CD. Drever, McCusker & Woomble sing Silver and Gold from Before the Ruin and we finish with the Old Blind Dogs singing Loughe Erne's Shore. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our November 17th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We featuring mainly new releases this week.  Fistly we have Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller's new CD Shadows Tall. Then a Gaelic compilation Urachadh. We follow this with Wendy Weatherby's A Shirt Of Silk Or Snow and new release Crossing the Spey by Raemond Jappy. Next up is How's the Craic? by Gary Innes featuring the great singing of Darren MacLean and we finish up the show with Hello World from Lorne MacDougall. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our November 3rd 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. In this edition we're featuring the launch of the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Voting has just opened we would love to encourage you to go along and vote! Do so here! We're featuring Uam by Julie Fowlis which is nominated in the Album of the Year category. John McCusker who is nominated in the Instrumentalist of the Year. Fred Morrison who is in Folk Band of the Year. Bel Canto by Eilidh MacKenzie who is nominated in Gaelic singer of the Year. Matheu Watson is in the Up and Coming Artist  and we finish off with Skerryvore who are nominated in the Live Act of the Year. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our October 20th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We start off with the new album Decadence from The Shee then we have Music for the Kilted Generation by the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. Then we hear from Music of Arran by Gillian Frame and friends and then something slightly different from Gavin Pennycook and his Celtic Nycelharpa CD. To finish off the podcast we have Michael Marra and Mr McFalls Chamber and then St Laurence O'Toole from the World Pipe Band Championships 2010 CD. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our September 30th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We've got a varied podcast this edition. We're starting of with the Red Hot Chillie Pipers in an anticipation of their new release Music for the Kilted Generation due out October 17th. We follow this up with an old but true classic CD Beneath the Beret by Blair Douglas. We then have two new releases Transatlantic Sessions Series 4 Vol 3 and Home by Ciaran Dorris. We finish up with  Fire On!by Blazin' Fiddles and Gathering Pace by Relativity. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our September 15th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. This week we're featuring the Old Blind Dogs, George Duff and Adam Jack from the Ceilidh House Sessions, Ah'm Askin' by Glencraig Scottish Dance Band, The Seedboat  by Maggie MacInnes & Colum Sands, Escape - The Story Of Jan Baalsrud And The Shetland Bus  by Jenna and Bethany Reid and finishing with the Edinburgh Military Tattoo CD 2010. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our September 1st 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. The 6 tracks we're featuring this week are the Angus Nicolson Trio and his new CD Lasses That Baffle Us. We follow this with another new release Slide Show by The Burns Unit. And then yet another new release Ewan McLennan - Rags & Robes. Finlay MacDonald Band then plays us a track from his Re-Echo CD, Lizzie Higgins sings us Three Gypsies and we finish off with Sandy Meldrum's  Scottish Piano FusionCD. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our August 18th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  We got a load of new Scottish music releases for you this week. We start of with the new CD Portrait from Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham and follow it with some beautiful singing from Davie Robertson on his Lowland Souch CD. Next up is Dawning of the Day by St Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band who won the World Pipe Band Championships at the weekend. Our next selection is a golden oldie from The Lochies and their Tir Aluinn LP/CD which is followed by the Willie Hunter Sessions. We finish up this podcast with Under the Counter from Bodega. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our July 23rd 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  We're featuring all new releases this edition - Skerryvore, Duncan Chisholm, Captain DJ Mackinnon, Chris Stout and Catriona McKay, Muriel Johnstone and Kevin Murray. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our July 7th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  For this edition we're at Tinto Summer School in Wiston, South Lanarkshire. Tinto is residential youth school where young people from 12-18 come along and learn trad music from some of Scotland's top musicians. We asked some of the kids and staff to pick their favourite tracks for the podcast. We start of the show with the Peatbog Faeries What Men Deserve to Lose followed by Between Two Worlds by Paul McKenna Band. Next up is The McCalmans' Don't Sit On My Jimmy Shands and Bottlenecks and Armbreakers by Session A9. Our penultimate track is from Ewan Robertson's  Some Kind of Certaintyand we finish off with Synergy by Deaf Shepherd. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our June 23rd 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  Featuring Gary Innes, Fine Friday ft Kris Drever, Donnie Munro, Birlin' Fiddles, Father Sydney MacEwan, Finlay MacDonald. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our June 10th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  Featuring The Desperate Battle Of The Birds by Breabach, Uam by Julie Fowlis, new release Eclection by Gabe McVarish, another new release The Bothy Top Twenty and another new release Braes of Badentarbat by Ali Beag MacLeod & Kevin Macleod. We finish off with a modern classic - Faultlines by Karine Polwart. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our May 27th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  Featuring new release Birds & Beasts (Music by Martyn Bennett and Fraser Fifield) by Mr McFall's Chamber, and then Christine Primrose's classic Aite Mo Ghaoil (Place of My Heart). Next up is Tune In by Nuala Kennedy and then we go mainstream with Mark Knopfler's Get Lucky. We leave the mainstream after this and play some Gaelic airs from Robert Wallace. We finish up the show with Dan Tyminski singing Man Of Constant Sorrow on Transatlantic Sessions Volume 4. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our May 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  Featuring the exciting new release Diversions from Daimh, a beautiful Gaelic collection of songs from Runrig, another new release - Tyro - from Rua MacMillan, The Better o' a Sang from the late Jim Reid. Midwinter Live from Boys of  the Lough and to finish the show we have the late great Martyn Bennett from his Hardland album. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our mid April 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  Featuring Claire Mann and Aaron Jones, The Sangsters, Bobby Brown and Scottish Accent, Kenneth Mckellar, Gordon Duncan and finishing off with Up South by Fred Morrison & Jamie McMenemy. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.