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Have you heard the latest Foot Stompin’ Scottish music podcast?

The latest Foot Stompin’ Podcast is here! Featuring some beautiful music and song from Malinky, Our Heroes, Lau, Robyn Stapleton, Skerryvore and Peatbog Faeries. Listen at www.scotpodcast.com Complete playlist below. June 2015 (Download the podcast) Far Better Days by Malinky Track – Brisk Young Lad iTunes | Amazon Our Heroes by Gary Innes and friends Track – Our Heroes iTunes | Amazon The Bell That […]

The Fiddlers’ Bid Ode to Joy by Fiddlers’ Bid

Fiddlers Bid – All Dressed in Yellow: The Shetland Band’s latest release All Dressed in Yellow is an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary styles, both in melody and arrangement, played by a mature, innovative band combining outstanding musicianship. The album could be described as a suite of music lasting almost 45 minutes where the […]

Shell Story by Twelfth Day

The title track from Twelfth Day’s new mini-LP Shell Story, out 18 May 2015. Shell Story features three new tracks as well as four remixes from their 2014 album The Devil Makes Three. The title track is based on a short story of the same name by George McKay Brown, from his collection Winter Tales. […]

Contemporary Scottish Collection for Piano

New Collection of Six Sheet Music Books & Three CD Albums by composer/pianist Stephen J. Wood Pianist and composer, Stephen J. Wood’s distinctive new collection “Contemporary Scottish Collection for Piano” (Eklectica Publishing and Records, 2015) features more than seventy piano arrangements of traditional Gaelic and Scottish melodies, written with a fusion of jazz and contemporary […]

Dark Bonnymuir by Alan Dickson

Reputedly written by Allan Barbour Murchie, one of the participants in the ‘Battle of Bonnymuir’ when a band of Scottish Radicals marched to take over the Carron Iron Works, near Falkirk, in April 1820 to protest against worsening economic and social conditions, and to campaign for more voting rights. It was sung by Chartists in […]

Scottish Gathering for Piano by Stephen J. Wood

Skye Boat Song is the first single taken from composer-pianist Stephen J. Wood’s stunning CD album ‘Scottish Gathering for Piano’ released this Spring (Eklectica Records). A frequent visitor to family and friends in the Western Isles and Scotland over many years, Stephen J. Wood has drawn his inspiration for this album from live traditional musicians […]

The Travelling Nation’s Pride by Sylvia Barnes and Brian McNeill

The Travelling Nation’s Pride came from a story told to Brian one summer’s night over a pint in the Dutch Inn in Skinflats. The teller, an old gentleman in his cups, said the balmy summer weather had reminded him of it, but insisted that it was ‘about a friend’ of his. the tale intrigued Brian […]

Anada pa Gael by Duncan Chisholm, Xose Manuel Tejedor

Wonderful slow air Composed by Xose Manuel Tejedor Duncan Chisholm began to study the fiddle aged 8 under the tutelage of Donald Riddell. Duncan recorded his debut album in 1988. His break came as fiddler, and instrumental frontsman with Wolfstone, and he toured the world with them for many years. 10 years after his debut […]

The Coffee House by David Grubb

A fiddle led observation of the customers who come and go in a coffee shop and their characters. Slide Guitar, Double Bass, Piano and percussion give the piece a lasting jazz feel, however the dominant fiddle melody keeps the track rooted in traditional territory. “An album of wondrous beauty from start to finish” – Folk […]

My Love is Like a Red Red Rose by Ceolbeg with Davy Steele

Robert Burns left us many beautiful love songs but this, it is suggested by many, is his greatest. This outstanding and definitive version is sung to heart breaking effect by Davy Steele, accompanied beautifully by his friends in the band Ceolbeg Artist website: http://www.greentrax.com Single title: My Love is Like a Red Red Rose Album […]