FootStompin.com Scottish Music Podcast

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 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 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.

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 culture needs.

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 Songs of Sandy Wright. We finish of with Fiona J Mackenzie's A Good Suit of Clothes. Visit www.footstompin.com for all you Scottish music and culture needs.