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), […]