Here’s our April 2009 Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast. April is a podcast of virtually all new releases! We start of with the Original Transatlantic Sessions, then hear Jim Malcolm, Alyth McCormack, harpist Rachel Hair. We celebrate the 10th anniversary of Isles FM with Runrig and finish up the podcast with an oldie – […]

Here’s our Mid March 2009 Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast. We’re featuring contemporary renditions of Scottish music in this podcast. We start off with the great Martyn Bennett from his Grit CD, then follow on with the new Lau CD Arc Light. We then then visit Martin Green Machine’s world and follow with Paul […]

Here’s our March 2009 Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast. We have a good mixture of young, old and classic artists on the podcast. First up we have Dual by Gaelic singers Julie Fowlis and  Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Lori Watson and Rule of Three, new Gaelic song compilation Oran Ur do Mhuile, legend of the Scots […]

Here’s our mid-February 2009 Free Foot Stompin’ Scottish Music Podcast. We have a feast of Scottish music in this programme. First up is Breabach from their Big Spree CD, then Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers play George from their Out All Night album. Next up is guitar maestro Tony McManus, then the Paul […]

Here’s our February 2009 Free Foot Stompin’ Scottish Music Podcast. We’re looking at the bagpipes this time and we start off with the Finlay MacDonald Band from their great Pressed for Time CD. We then feature the one and only Gordon Duncan from his Circular Breath playing the chanter, then champion piper Alasdair Gillies from […]

Here’s our Mid January Free Foot Stompin’ Scottish Music Podcast. We’re starting off with Salsa Celtica who will have the whole of Celtic Connections dancing in the next few weeks, next is Rod Paterson singing Robert Burns’s Ye Banks and Braes, then a classic fiddle re-release from Debbie Scott and Peerie Willie Johnson from Shetland. […]

Here’s our January 2009 Free Foot Stompin’ Scottish music podcast. Happy new Year! We’ve a bit of a highlands and islands thing going here featuring Scots Trad Music Awards Folk Band of the Year  – Orkney’s The Chair followed by brilliant Shetland fiddling by Bryan Gear and Violet Tulloch, beautiful Western Isles Gaelic singing from Catriona […]

Here’s our December Free Foot Stompin’ Scottish music podcast. In this programme you’ll hear the classic Shooglenifty – Venus in Tweeds, a beautiful version of The Beatles’ Blackbird by Julie Fowlis, a flanging set of tunes from Storm in a Teacup by Harem Scarem, Shona Mooney’s The Shee, Skye fiddler Ronan Martin’s debut CD and […]

Here’s our Free Foot Stompin’ Scottish music podcast. In this programme we’re featuring the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. We’ll play a nominee from a selection of the categories. We start off with the rockin’ Peatbog Faeries (Live Band of the Year category) and continue with Maeve Mackinnon (Gaelic singer of the Year category), […]

Here’s our Free Foot Stompin’ Scottish music podcast. This podcast we’re featuring the new Before the Ruin by  Drever, McCusker & Woomble, classic Blood is Strong by Capercaillie, Catriona Watt’s new CD Cadal Cuain, Sonas by MacGregor, Brechin & O’ hEadhra, The Linties – Waitin for a Bus and blasting off with new the Red Hot […]