We have another special Foot Stompin' Scottish Music podcast again for you! This podcasts features all 20 album releases in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards Album of the Year. During the month of October 2015 the public and our panel and judging these 20 releases which will be reduced to a 10 album shortlist and be announced on November 2nd on the Scots Trad Music Awards website. If you would like to vote you can do that here as well! Click on the links below to learn more about the releases.
Upsurge by Scott Wood Band
Track - Spice of Life
Urram by Karen Matheson
Track - Gura mise tha gu dubhach
Off the Beaten Track by Tom Orr Band
Track - Thunderstruck
Far Better Days by Malinky
Track - Son David
Da Fishing Hands by Inge Thomson
Track - Paper Sea
North by Blazin’ Fiddles
Track - Arran Ceilidh
The Bell That Never Rang by Lau
Track - Ghosts
In the Wake of Neil Gunn by Mike Vass
Track - Quiet Voices
When the Day is on the Turn by Dallahan
Track - The Chosen and the True
Despite The Dark by RURA
Track - The Smasher
Gràs by Mairi MacInnes
Track - Battle (Còmhrag)
The Voyage of The Hector by Feis Rois and John Somerville
Track - The Gathering
Clype by Clype
Track - The Internationale
Light Up the Dark by The Outside Track
Track - Peter’s Dream
Blackhouse by Peatbog Faeries
Track - Spiders
Flight of Time by Siobhan Miller
Track - January Man (Dave Goulder)
Remembering by Ross Ainslie
Track - Change
Swimmings of the Head by Kate in the Kettle
Track - Grow Down
Grind by Treacherous Orchestra
Track - Masters
The Untied Knot by Shooglenifty
Track - The High Road to Jodhpur / Am Bothan a Bh'aig Fionnghuala
Read more and vote about the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards.
The Foot Stompin' Scottish Music Podcast is a Hands Up for Trad project. Keep up to date with all our podcasts at www.scotpodcast.com.
This is a special edition of the Foot Stompin' Podcast where we listen to the 2015 inductees of the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. Read about the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame at www.halloffame.scot Featuring:
Dove Across the Water by Ossian
Track - Duncan Johnstone/The Duck/The Curlew
A Better Class of Folk by Iain Macintosh
Track - Ballad of Joe Hill
Legendary Scottish Dance Bands Vol.1 by Angus Fitchet Scottish Dance Band
Track - Lamb Skinnet: Original / Captain White / The Marchioness
Lewis Folk by The Lochies featuring Seonaidh MacMillan
Track - Oran Na Beairt (Song of the Loom)
Old Songs & Bothy Ballads 3: Some Rants o Fun by Maureen Jelks
Track - Bonny Glenshee
The Willie Hunter Sessions by Willie Hunter and Violet Tulloch
Track - The Love o' da Isles
Just for Gordon by Gordon Duncan
Track - Edinburgh Volunteers / Cameronian Rant / Mrs MacPherson Of Inveran
The Shepherd's Song by Willie Scott
Track - The Kielder Hunt
Matt McGinn - The Best of by Matt McGinn
Track - The Red Yo Yo
Light on a Distant Shore by Ossian
Track - Jamie Raeburn / The Broomielaw
Greatest Hits Vol 1 by The Singing Kettle
Track - Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny Aff a Bus
It's great to be back with another Foot Stompin' Scottish music podcast. We start of the show with Hounds from top Scottish band The Treacherous Orchestra. Next up is Cathy-Ann MacPhee singing a beautiful Gaelic song - An Ataireachd Ard (Eternal Surge Of The Sea). We follow this with a brand new release from Aberdeenshire band Clype singing Down with May. Next is Skippinish's latest top of the charts single The Island followed by Rachel Sermani's new single Run from her new album Tied to the Moon. We finish off the podcast with Boys of the Lough's brand new release - The New Line.
Visit www.handsupfortrad.scot for all the latest Scottish music news.
Here is the latest Foot Stompin' podcast from Hands Up for Trad featuring lots of great Scottish music. We start of the podcast with new band Dosca who all hail from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Next up is a song from Jim Sutherland's Struileag project. It's called Oran a’ Khookaburra (The Song of the Kookaburra) and features many great Gaelic singers. We have another new release from clarsach player Rachel Hair Trio called Trì followed by Twelfth Day who also feature clarsach and fiddle. Next up is Stuart Cassells and Blown Away. Congratulations to him on the birth of his first child! We finish the podcast with John Sommerville's Voyage of the Hector.
Visit Hands Up for Trad for all the latest Scottish music news.
How are you all today? Here's some great music from Scotland! First up is Malinky and Brisk Young Lad from their Far Better Days new album. Then its a charity single from Gary Innes and friends - Our Heroes followed by Back In Love Again from Lau's new album The Bell That Never Rang. The we have 2014 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award winner Robyn Stapleton new album Fickle Fortune. Our second last track is from Skerryvore - Happy to Be Home featuring Sharon Shannon and we 'blast off' the podcast with the brand new Peatbog Faeries release Blackhouse.
Keep up to date with Scottish traditional music news at www.handsupfortrad.scot
In this latest Foot Stompin' podcast we have a fab range of music from Scotland. We start of with the swinging new release from Tom Orr Scottish Dance Band - Off The Beaten Track. Next up is the new album from The Poozies. Despite the Dark is the single from their Into The Well release. Then a release from 2014 - Mike Vass's In The Wake Of Neil Gunn followed by Alistair Ogilvy's new release July Moon. Then it's the Torlum Sessions by John Alex MacKay & Seonaidh MacIntyre and we finish up the podcast with the brand new release from Rura - Despite the Dark.
To keep up with all things Scottish musical visit our website www.handsupfortrad.co.uk.
Hi there, Welcome to our latest Scottish music podcast. Featuring a nearly all girl podcast (with one guy!) this month - like our Scottish political leaders! We start of with new Orcadian band Fara playing a tune about Billy's Short Leg! Next up is a new release from Barluath and their At Dawn of Day album. Next up is Hannah Read is coming to teach at Tinto Summer Schools. This song is from her Wrapped in Lace album. At Hands Up for Trad we have lots of awards and this next artist Fraser Fifield has just received our Ignition Award for innovation within traditional music. We then have a new release (Shift) from Scots singer Kirsty Law and we finish with a slightly older release from The Shee's Decadence album.
Listen to and download all our other Foot Stompin’ Scottish music podcasts at www.handsupfortrad.co.uk. Thanks for listening!
Listen to and download all our other Foot Stompin’ Scottish music podcasts at www.handsupfortrad.co.uk. Thanks for listening!
Listen to and download all our other Foot Stompin’ Scottish music podcasts at www.handsupfortrad.co.uk.