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We've got a great selection of Scottish music for you in this podcast. We start of with the classic Relativity of the 80s and another older release of Barbara Dickson and Gerry Rafferty singing a Bob Dylan song together. There's a set of tunes from BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Winner Ewan Robertson with Gary Innes and their album Shouts. The current BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award Semi-Finals will be on Saturday 5th October 2013 in Coulter Hall, South Lanarkshire at 7.30pm. If you would like to come along visit www.youngtrad.co.uk for more information. After Shouts we have Music from BBC Hebrides programme by Donald Shaw and then a great song from Mick West's new album A Scots Chorus. We finish off the podcast with a set from Session A9.
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We're featuring the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame Dinner on 11th October, Oran Mor, Glasgow in this podcast. If you would like to come you can get a ticket at www.tradmusichall.com.
The music featured in the podcast comes from Willie Hunter (inducted 2013) tutored Fiddlers' Bid and their magnificent All Dressed in Yellow CD. Next up is Kenna Campbell (inducted 2005) tutored Catriona Watt and we follow this with Ross Ainslie's new CD Wide Open. Ross was mentored by Gordon Duncan (inducted 2010). We then play an unreleased track from Salt House and then a song from one of my mentors Nick Brennan. We finish up the podcast with Insomnia from global bagpipe stars Red Hot Chilli Pipers.
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Here's another programme of fantabulous Scottish music. We start off with a Intro from Rura. This is the demo before the album - I've always loved it! Next up is the brand new release - At the Heart of it All from Capercaillie then a lovely song - Eggshells from Rachel Sermanni. Then it's a brand new release from James Duncan MacKenzie and then the iTunes chart topping hit The Shinty Referee by Fergie MacDonald. We finish off this podcast with BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award Winner Daniel Thorpe's The Curiosity Shop.
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It's August and time for the Foot Stompin' Podcast! Featuring in this edition we have new CD Breath from Laura Beth Salter and then we're up with The Halton Quartet - Based on True Events. Then we have a real classic from Fine Friday - Gin I were a Baron's Heir. We have another new release from fiddle quartet Rant and then Ruith Na Gaoith from Arthur Cormack. We finish the podcast with a great set of tunes from The Tannahill Weavers.
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Here's out latest Foot Stompin' Podcast! We start off with the new album from fantastic fiddler Adam Sutherland. It's called Squall and well worth buying! Next up is a classic from Ossian called I will Set My Ship in Order sang by Tony Cuffe and we follow this with another new release Doubling from Mairearad and Anna. Kintulavaig by Jemma Cumming is next and then a modern classic Caniach from fiddler Duncan Chisholm. We finish of the podcast with Notes from Ma Heid from piper Chris Armstrong.
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Here's our latest Foot Stompin' summer podcast. We feature the great new CD from Battlefield Band - Room Enough for All, and the totally classic Handful of Earth from Dick Gaughan. Up next is another classic from Jock Tamson's Bairns and we then feature a new band The Scott Wood Trio. We then move back to a classic from Calum Kennedy from his Songs in Gaelic CD and finish up with the thoroughly modern Treacherous Orchestra and Superfly.
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More great music in this podcast starting off with the brand new release The Test from Scottish supergroup Manran. We follow this with another brand new release Elements from The Paul McKenna Band. Next up is a modern classic - First O' the Darkenin' by Chris Stout and then we celebrate the births of two babies from Scottish musicians Emily Smith and Gillian Frame. I finish of the podcast in fine dancing form with The Breton Set from Finlay MacDonald Band.
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Lots of great music this week starting off with the legendary Shooglenifty with their genre changing album Venus in Tweeds. Next is The Cast performing their version of Auld Lang Syne that featured in the Sex and the City movie and we follow this with fiddler John McCusker's Boys in the Puddle from his Yella Hoose album. We then feature Lori Watson and the song Maggie from her album Three and then back to the fiddle with a great set of reels from cMc's Snap n Roll album. We finish of the podcast with the Peatbog Faeries - What Men Deserve to Lose.
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Here we go with our May 8th Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. Featuring a great set of reels from from Manran and then Karen Matheson singing a beautiful song from the album The Battle of Prestonpans 1745. Next up is a set of jigs from Matheu Watson's self-titled debut album and then a beautiful song - Kings Fareweel from Andy Hunter. Aly Bain then plays Shetland air Margaret Anne Robertson and we finish the podcast with a set of fiddle tunes from Russell Hunter, Eilidh Shaw, Simon Bradley and Angus Grant Jnr. Great stuff!
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Here's our April Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music podcast. Featuring some top music from The Halton Quartet, Kris Drever, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, Gaelic singer James Graham, Bobby Macleod and finishing with Breabach. Hope you enjoy :-)
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Here's the latest Foot Stompin' Scottish music podcast. This month we have the Glenfinnan Ceilidh Band followed by Gaelic supergroup Cruinn. Next up is the Simon Bradley Trio and then a beautiful version of Morag a Dunbheagan sung by the great George Clavey. After that it is Adam McCulloch singing Sally Wheatley and we finish off with the fabulous Blazin' Fiddles.
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Our Foot Stompin' Free Scottish music podcast this features the new release from The Chair - The Road to Hammer Junkie and we follow it with An Dealachdh (The Parting) By Calum Martin. Next up is Love at the Swimming Pool by the Nuala Kennedy band and then a kind of members of Breabach celebration! First up is Ewan Robertson (Breabach singer) singing Vincent Black Lightning from his solo album Some Kind of Certainty and the we play Some Boy John from Calum MacCrimmon's (Breabach piper) debut CD. We leave Breabach to finish the podcast with Simple Life by Skerryvore.
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The latest Foot Stompin' podcast features Marie Fielding's An Tra, Eddie Reeder singing Dragonfiles, a set of tunes from the new Session A9 Live DVD, a beautiful song from Billy McIsaac - Lochaber, an air from the Battlefield Band and we finish off with a rockin set from Bags of Rock!
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We're in the middle of Glasgow's fabulous Celtic Connections festival with so much great music going on. This podcast features a sample of what Scotland has to offer with our brilliant music! We start of with a classic track from Deaf Shepherd who are 20 years old this year. We then celebrate Robert Burns with Ye Banks and Braes from the classic Rod Paterson and follow it with Burns' Gala Water sang by Dumfriesshire songstress Emily Smith. We then slow things down with an air from Shetland's Fiddlers' Bid and speed things up again with Lorne MacDougall's Hello World. We finish the podcast with another Scots song from Gordeanna McCulloch.
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The first Foot Stompin' podcast of 2013 features Gaelic singer Maeve MacKinnon, Borders Young Pipers - James Thomson and Chris Waite, Shetland guitarist Brian Nicholson, Argyll Gaelic Choir Coisir Ceann an Tuirc, Orcadian fiddler Eric Linklater and we finish off with award winning Shetland fiddler Gemma Donald. Happy New Year!!
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This Foot Stompin' podcast is a celebration of the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards winners featuring Session A9, Kathleen MacInnes, Paul McKenna Band, Breabach, Duncan Chisholm and Julie Fowlis. It was a great night on Saturday 8th December with some brilliant music.
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This month's podcast features some amazing new and old music from Sillly Wizard - Live Again, brand new songs release from Nuala Kennedy, Race The Loser from Lau, contemporary harp music from Macmaster / Hay, beautiful Gaelic singing from Riona Whyte and we finish off with Field Marshal Montgomery playing their winning medley from the World Pipe Band Championships.
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The latest Foot Stompin' podcast features a host of new records. We start of with Blair Douglas's new CD Leanaidh Mi (I Will Follow). Next up is the new release from Session A9 and we then play Scott Murray's new CD Evenin's Fa'. Then it's Wooden Flute & Fiddle by Calum Stewart & Lauren MacColl and then a classic Hamish Imlach CD and we finish up a new release from Maeve Mackinnon - Once apon an Olive Branch.
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The latest Foot Stompin' podcast features releases from Sandy Meldrum's Piano Fusion, The Glasgow Gaelic Music Association, the new release - Affric from fiddler Duncan Chisholm, Rod Paterson singing The Bleacher Lass o' Kelvinhaugh, Skyedance from Alasdair Fraser and we finish off with Welcome to Dunvegas by the Peatbog Faeries.
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The latest Foot Stompin' podcast features new releases from Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, Karine Polwart, new compilation - Scots In The Spanish Civil War - No Pasaran!, Marie Fielding, Kilmarnock Edition and a golden oldie from Savourna Stevenson.
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We're back with the our 103rd Podcast featuring new releases from Kathleen MacInnes, folk rockers Face the West, harpist/singer Rachel Newton, accordion legend John Carmichael, Fiona J Mackenzie and finish off with a nearly new CD from TMSA Young Trad Tour 2011!
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We're back with the latest Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We start off with new release Shed Life from Sketch and follow it with Emily Portman singing a song from Old Songs & Bothy Ballads. Next up is Out All Night from Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers and Over the High Hills from Shepheard, Speirs and Watson. Next is Portrait from Phil Cunningham from Aly Bain and we finish with Dick Gaughan singing No Gods and Precious Few Heroes.
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Welcome to the 101th Edition of the Foot Stompin' Podcast. I realised I missed out a few more of my favourites so here are a few more! We start of with All Dressed in Yellow from Fiddlers' Bid followed by the Lassies Reply by Pur. Next up is a real classic from Capercaillie - Crosswinds and then Happ by Fribo. Next up is a modern classic from Maeve Mackinnon - Don't Sing Love Songs and we finish up with the brilliant Blazin' Fiddles.
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This weeks podcast is our centenary edition! It features tracks that I love and have influenced me. It starts with The Easy Club followed by The Battlefield Band. Then another golden oldie from Polkemmet Ground Pipe Band and then the only modern track is from Julie Fowlis! Next up is Rod Paterson singing the Birks of Invermay and I finish up with my favourite band of all time - Silly Wizard!
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This weeks podcast (no 99!) features new CDs The Band from Rockall by Runrig's Calum & Rory Macdonald, Griais by Gillie Mackenzie, Contours of Cairngorm Live by Mhairi Hall and Patsy Reid, The Adventures of John Paul Jones by Alan Reid and Rob van Sante, Out Of His Box by Sandy Brechin and finishing of with Stramash by Colin Steele.
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