Foot Stompin Free Scottish Music Podcast

Hi there, The Foot Stompin' Podcast in this edition is featuring Goodnight Ginger from John McCusker, beautiful Gaelic singing from Alyth McCormack , Daimh's fiddler Gabe McVarish from his Electic solo album. We then turn back the time to hear the Glasgow Orpheus choir and Jeannie Robertson . We finish up with the show with Shetland band Fullsceilidh Spelemannslag . Visit www.footstompin.com for a...

Hi there, Here's our latest Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast and we start off with the late, great Ishbel MacAskill and then Rory Campbell and Malcolm Stitt's Nusa . Next is Saltfishforty , Mike Vass's String Theory and then Brian McNeill's No Gods . We then have a classic performance from Sheila Stewart and finish off the podcast with The Ghillies . Visit www.footstompin.com for all your...

Hi there, we're back to more new releases this week. We start of with a track from Guaillibh A' Cheile by Doimnic MacGiolla Bhridhe and Griogair Labhruidh and follow it with The Grit that makes the pearl by Hugh Marwick and Stuart MacKintosh. Next up is the new album from Mairi Campbell and then way play a classic release from Paul Mounsey - Nahoo 3 - Notes from The Republic . Then it's another ne...

Hi there,  I have had a look back this week at our Foot Stompin' Records back catalogue and picked out a few of my favourite tracks. We start of with Lumsden's Rant from Back of the Moon's Luminosity CD. Next up is Don't Sing Love Songs by Maeve Mackinnon and then a beautiful air from fiddler Shona Mooney's Heartsease . We follow this with fiddle/guitar/banjo virtuoso Anna Massie from her Missing...

Hi there, Here's another eclectic selection of Scottish music. We start of the show with Reunion from Matheu Watson . Next up is Stramash from Colin Steele and then we pair it down to a solo from singer Elspeth Cowie . And then we have something completely different with The Extraordinary Little Cough by John Mulhearn. We follow this with a top performance from Archie Fisher and finish the podcast...

Hi there, We've a set of new releases this week! Starting off with Jennifer and Hazel's Idiom and then we're on to Songs of Scotland's Martyrs, Rogues and Worthies by Alan Reid. Then we've a set of jigs from Kenneth & Angus Mackenzie's Piob Is Fidheall . We've got classic Gaelic from George Clavey on the Gold Medalists All and then Highlander's Farewell by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haa and we fi...

Hi there, Celebrating International Women's Day on 8th March here's a selection of Scottish music featuring women. We start off with a set of tunes from Jamie Smith, Roisin Anne Hughes & Alistair Cassidy on the new Friday Night Sessions CD. Next up is Scottish Women Live singing Canan Nan Gael. Next up is Mairi Campbell and The Cast singing their classic version of Auld Lang Syne quickly followed...

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....

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 Edinburg...

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...

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...

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 f...

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...

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 grea...

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...

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 Marr...

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 Se...

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 Militar...

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 u...

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...

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 Peatbo...

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...

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...