Foot Stompin Free Scottish Music Podcast

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...

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.

Here's our April 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  Includes latest release from Ewan Robertson , a classic track from Deaf Shepherd , jazzy swing from The Bevvy Sisters , piping from Simon Fraser University Pipe Band , lovely harp music from The Duplets and finishing off with An Dealachdh (The Parting) by Calum Martin. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and cultur...

Here's our Mid March 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. Featuring new release Mark the Hard Earth by Kris Drever, Glenfinnan, Songs of the '45 by Capercaillie followed by Emily Smith singing Gloomy Winters Noo Awa from The Complete Songs of Robert Tannahill vol 2 . Then we have Chris Wood singing Sandy Wright's Beads and Feathers and Sandy Wright singing This Old House both from The S...

Here's our March 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. Featuring this week is the new release from Outside Track - Curious Things Given Wings , then a relative oldie   No Gods from Brian McNeill, new release Trust the  Sea to Guide Me from Iain Morrison followed by award winning fiddler Duncan Chisholm and his Farrar CD. We then have some beautiful Gaelic song from Catriona Garbutt and f...

Here's our mid February 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. Featuring this week are Calum MacCrimmon with his new CD Man's Ruin , Joy Dunlop's Dusgadh (Awakening) . Next  up is a couple of golden oldies - Kenneth McKellar from 1960 singing My Love's like a Red Red Rose and Jim Cameron and his Scottish Dance Band (from 1951) with Corn Rigs. We move to the present with fiddle maestro Ala...

Here's our February 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. This podcast features all new releases. We start with the new CD from Breabach -  The Desperate Battle Of The Birds which is followed by  Mairearad and Anna . Next is Conrad Ivitsky's Stringjammer and then  Ma Sgaoil (Unleashed) by Bi Beo. Then it's Scapa Flow by Ronald Anderson Band and we finish off the programme with Folk 'n' R...

Here's our mid January 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  In this podcast we feature Gun Stad by Na h-Oganaich followed by duo Mairearad and Anna , We then have beautiful Gaelic singer Rachel Walker from her Air Chall :Lost CD. We seque into The Perpetual Horseshoe by Ingrid & Allan Henderson, then Maidean Dubh' an Donais (The Black Stick of the Devil) by Dr Angus MacDonald. We finis...

Happy New Year! Here's our January 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  We open up with Finlay MacDonald Band's Pressed for Time CD and follow it up with I'm Gonna Do it All from Karine Polwart's Scribbled in Chalk .   Alasdair MacCuish and the Black Rose Ceilidh Band then play a set of reels and Steve Byrne sings The bonnie lass o Cairnie from his Songs from Home CD. We highlight Celt...

Here's our mid December 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We start this podcast with Bruce Guthro rockin' out and follow it with Smith Byrnes O'Sullivan playing a set of jigs. Next up is Eilidh Mackenzie and Bel Canto new release. We've another new release with a set of reels from the Transatlantic Session Series 4 Cd Vol 1 . Continuing the party is Jim MacLeod's Hogmanay Party . Nex...

Here's our December 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. Here's the playlist. Adoon Winding Nith by Emily Smith and Jamie MacLennan Track - Gala Water Love and Reason by Macmaster / Hay Track - Thograinn Thograinn Passing Places (CD &DVD) by Mairearad Green Track = Full Tilt Jigs Sark o' Snaw by Mick West Band Track - Matt Highland Shouts by Gary Innes and Ewan Robertson Track - "Can't...

Here's our Mid November 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We have a fair selection of music in this edition. We start of with Wolfstone rocking out to a traditional Scottish march, then follow with Wind and Rain from Julie Fowlis's new CD Uam . Next up is an old release from Malinky - 3 Raven's, and the rock out again with Peatbog Faeries ' Scotch on the Rocks. We slow things down wi...

Here's our November 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We're featuring the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2009 which was launched on the 2nd November. We're playing all 4 album of the year nominees starting with Fiddlers' Bid - All Dressed In Yellow , Dual by Dual : Julie Fowlis, Ross Martin, Muireann NicAmhlaoibh, Eamon Doorley, The Maker's Mark by Tony McManus and   Pur (Katie Mack...

Here's our October 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We've a range of new releases in this podcast. We start with the fanfare from Edinburgh Tattoo 2009 and then head into a new compilation of fiddler Archie McAllister . We then play a new duo called Tattie Jam followed by the debut release by pianist Mhairi  Hall . Following this we play the new Pur CD, the new concept album Zama Za...

Here's our mid September 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We featuring a diverse range of music in this  podcast starting with Donald Grants new CD The Way Home . We then play Joan Osborne from Transatlantic Sessions volume 3 followed by The Ancient Harp of Scotland by William Jackson. Then it's Cathal McConnell and Boys of the Lough singing the West of Ireland and something differe...

Here's our September 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We are featuring Scottish bands in this edition and we start of with Deaf Shepherd in a rousing set from their Even in the Rain CD. After this we have another classic band Jock Tamson's Bairns from their most recent CD May You Never Lack a Scone . Next up is a beautiful song from Dochas 's debut and then an exciting set of reels...

Here's our Mid April 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We've got quite a relaxed podcast this time around. We start of with Scots song band Malinky and follow them with short lived but very interesting band Shine . We then feature two choirs - Glasgow Orpheus and Lasair Dhè (Flame of God). We follow this with the Battlefield Band's Alan Reid's new CD The Rise & Fall O' Charlie and fi...

Here's our August 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.. Everything on today's podcast is a new release! We start of with the long awaited new release from Brian McNeill The Baltic Tae Byzantium . Next up is the The Extraordinary Little Cough by John Mulhearn and then Sgoil Roc by Fionnar. We then feature Pipers' Ceilidh by Pipe Major Donald MacLeod and Duncan Johnstone followed by Acros...

Here's our July 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We've got a range of new and classic releases for you and we start of with Nae Sleep Tae Regent Street by The Dangleberries and the track - The Screamin' Yab Dabs! We follow this with Fiona J MacKenzie's new CD A Good Suit of Clothes (Deagh Dheis Aodaich) and then an album Double Take that you will have to dance to! Next up is Norland...

Here's our mid June 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. In this edition we're starting off with amazing singer, the late, great Davy Steel singing Farewell to the Haven . We  follow this with a new track from the Maggie MacInnes CD Leaving Mingulay (A Fagail Mhuighalaigh) , then to new Klub releases, the first The Collection from The Iron Horse and second The Collection by Tannas . The...

Here's our June 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  We're featuring the fiddle in this podcast. We start off with the Anna Massie Band , and follow it with Lauren MacColl's new CD Strewn with Ribbons . Next we have Duncan Chisholm's Farrar , then Archie McAllister and Ross Kennedy's The Gathering Storms . We then feature a vintage  CD from James Scott Skinner and close the podcast wit...

Here's our May 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We start of this show with Billy McIsaac's debut release Songs for Lochaber , and follow it with Eddi Reader's latest CD Love is the Way . We then completely change direction with the new release from Catriona McKay & Olov Johansson called Foogy . Next up is Lost in this Song by Give Way, Jimmy Shand at his Best and then finish the pro...

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 yo...

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...

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 M...