FootStompin.com Scottish Music Podcast

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 Godsfrom 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 finish off the show with Phil Cunningham's Palamino Waltz. Visit www.footstompin.com for all you Scottish music and culture needs.

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 Alasdair White's CD An Clàr Geal (The White Album) and finish off with Salsa Celtica and The Great Scottish Latin Adventure. Visit www.footstompin.com for all you Scottish music and culture needs.

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' Reel. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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 finish off with Fraser Fifield's Stereocanto. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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 Bandthen play a set of reels and Steve Byrne sings The bonnie lass o Cairnie from his Songs from Home CD. We highlight Celtic Connections and the True North Orchestra by playing composer Jim Sutherland's band The Easy Club and finish of the show with another Celtic Connections classic The Unusual Suspects. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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 JimMacLeod's Hogmanay Party. Next is Inge Thomson's new CD Shipwrecks & Static and we finish off with Fred Morrison's new CD Outlands. Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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 sing tonight I've left my teeth at home" Corachree by Jimmy Hutchison Erin-Go-Bragh Visit footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.