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 with Donald Grant's The Way Home, and keep it down for a beautiful Calum Kennedy Gaelic song. We finish off with 'He's such a Sweetie' from Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 Mackenzie and Shona Donaldson). We follow with with nominees Session A9 who are nominated in the Live Act of the Year and Fraser Fifield who is nominated in Instrumentalist of the Year. Go to Hands Up for Trad to have your say!  Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 Zama by Battlefield Band and finish off with the new double album from Shooglenifty. New New New!!! Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 different from City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Black Bear Salute. We finish up with Goodnight Ginger from John McCusker. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 from Keep it Up. Our last song of the podcast comes from  Shineand we finish up with another classic band The Whistlebinkies. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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Here's our mid August 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. First up we have Twelve Thousand Miles by Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band, then the new fiddle release from Alistair McCulloch. Then Old Songs & Bothy Ballads: Grand to be a Working Man with Often Drunk sang by Jimmy Hutchison. Then we have Dance for Joy by Reel of Seven and Legacy by the Winnipeg Police Pipe Band. We finish up with Stramash by Colin Steele. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 Across the Troubled Water by David Ferrand. We slow things down with a couple of airs from Flying Fiddles and finish up the show with a track from Shetland band Fullsceilidh Spelemannslag. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 Wind by the late Jim Reid and then Dougie MacLean's rendition of Robert Burns' Ca' the Yows. We finish up the podcast with The Chair. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 next song is from This Feeling Inside by Mairi MacInnes and we finish up the podcast with Silence from Michael Marra. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 with Jenna Reid's The Laughing Girl. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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Here's our Mid May 2009 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. David Heavenor gets us started off with Between the Eyes, then accordionist Gary Innes and Ewan Robertson's new release Shouts. We then play a classic track from Mackenzie's Famosa Clamosa. Next up is the brand new Peatbog Faeries - Live release followed by another new release from Wendy Stewart and Gary West - Hinterlands. We finish up with the classic Four Minute Warning from Anthem for the Common Man by the Battlefield Band. Visit footstompin.com for all you Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 programme with Croftwork from the Peatbog Faeries. Visit footstompin.com for all you Scottish music and culture needs.

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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 finish the  podcast with award winning singer James Graham. Visit footstompin.com for all you Scottish music and culture needs.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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features exciting folk music tracks from Scottish records - Scots songbird Karine Polwart, firey pipe duo Ross Anslie and Jarlath Henderson, new Gaelic sensations Mary Ann Kennedy and Na Seoid, top piper Dr Angus MacDonald, the beautiful music of Margaret and Martyn Bennett and kicking jigs from the Long Notes.

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features exciting folk music tracks from Scottish records - Shetland fiddler Jenna Reid, Gaelic singer Margaret Stewart, Orkney Islands' The Chair, Perthshire's Doris Rougvie, Highland fiddler Lauren MacColl and Red Hot Chili Piper Stuart Cassells.

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features tracks from Scottish records - Battlefield Band, Karine Polwart, Catriona MacDonald, Chic Murray, Marie MacArthur, Dàimh.

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features tracks from Scottish records - Red Hot Chilli Pipers - We Will Rock You, Maeve MacKinnon - The Diver Boy, Catriona McKay - Laebrack, Mary Smith - Cul Do Chinn, Lau - Hinba, The Corries - Fallady.

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features tracks from Scottish records - The Big Spree by Breabach, Don't Sing Love Songs by Maeve Mackinnon, The New Shoes by Nuala Kennedy, Dastrium by Allan MacDonald, An t-ionnsachadh Òg by Fionnar, Dail-riata by Griogair Labhruidh.

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features tracks from Scottish records - Devil's Advocate by Chris Stout Quintet, Handful of Earth by Dick Gaughan, A Dancing Master Remembered by Jennifer Wilson, Best of Ossian by Ossian, Fiddlers Rock by Archie McAllister, What Men Deserve To Lose by Peatbog Faeries.

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features tracks from Scottish records - Caledonian Hardy Sons by Silly Wizard, Stepping Out by Alasdair MacCuish and the Black Rose Ceilidh Band, In Memory of Lizzie Higgins by Lizzie Higgins, Third Flight Home by Simon Thoumire and David Milligan, Everything You See by Runrig, ReEcho by Finlay MacDonald Band.

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features tracks from Scottish records X-TREME by Chris Armstrong, Once Upon A Time In Scotland, Allan Water by Tom Speirs, Singing Sands by Tony McManus and Alain Genty, Flowers of Edinburgh by Eilidh Shaw, Ross Martin and Leo McCann.

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features tracks from Scottish records Heartsease by Shona Mooney, Cuilidh by Julie Fowlis, Suibhal by James Graham, Junction Pool by Junction Pool, Tam O'Shanter and Other Tales by Jim Malcolm, The Old Style by Blazin' Fiddles.

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features The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Acquaintance by Jim Malcolm, The Wilderness: Fiddle & Piano from Shetland by Margaret Scollay, Mar a tha mo chridhe by Julie Fowlis, Scotland - The Music & The Song by Compilation, 5 Hand Reel

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features Intrepid by Rory Campbell, Kintulavig by Jenna Cumming, Lightweights and Gentlemen by Lau, Honk Toot Suite by Eamonn Coyne & Kris Drever, No. 1 Scottish - Traditional Music from the RSAMD, Executive Club by Marie Fielding.

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features Sirius by Aidan O'Rourke, Jock Tamson's Bairns, Daybreak on the World's End by Wendy Weatherby, Luminosity by Back of the Moon, Fhuair Mi Pog by Margaret Stewart and Allan MacDonald, Ceilidh Minogue by Ceilidh Minogue.

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features Calum Kennedy, Battlefield Band, Icker in a thrave, Siobhan Miller, Sir Harry Lauder, Dochas.

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features Finlay MacDonald Band, Anna Massie Band, The Cast, James Ross, Fine Friday, Salsa Celtica.

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features Jamie Smith, Steve Byrne, Martyn Bennett, Jemma Cummings, Anna Wendy Stevenson, Cliar.

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