Hi there, Here's our latest Foot Stompin' podcast featuring Daniel Thorpe's new CD The Curiosity Shop. Up next is the latest Emily Smith - Traivellers Joy followed by Bonnie Rideout's double CD Harlaw, Scotland 1411. Next up is TMSA Young Trad Tour 2010 and Hannah Phillips and then The Colour of Dreams by Eric Bogle. We finish the podcast with a live track from Scots band Keep it Up. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Hi there, we're back after the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow with a feast of new releases. We start off with Steele The Show - Songs From The Heart Of Scotland a new compilation of songs by the late Davy Steele, the the latest release from Julie Fowlis Live from Perthshire Amber festival. We follow this with a debut release from Stevie Palmer called Heartprint Shadow and then My Edinburgh by Anna-Wendy Stevenson. Our last two tracks are The Speaking Heart by Lucy Pringle & Chris Wright and finishing off with The Sunday Night Sessions by Sandy Brechin & Friends. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

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Foot Stompin's back with more new and classic releases from the Scottish music scene. We start of the show with a rockin' track from piping combo Seudan. Next up is the new release from Annie Grace called The Bell followed by another new release from Alyth McCormack and Triona Marshall singing Delirium from their Red and Gold CD. We then look at the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Award finals which is on the 5th February and play a track from the 2010 winner Daniel Thorpe. Our penultimate track is Duslach Is Or (Dust & Gold) by Isobel Ann Martin and we finish up the podcast with the classic Blazin' Fiddles playing Miss Johnstone from their Magnificent Seven CD.

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Happy New Year! Here's our latest podcast featuring 'lookouts' for 2011. Hope you enjoy. We start of with The Shee from their Decadence CD then go into Between Two Worlds from Paul McKenna Band. Next Up is Findlay Napier and Nick Turner's Just One Umbrella and then Mairead Green's Passing Places. Karine Polwart sings a beautiful Scots song and we finish up with the late great Kenneth McKellar and Bonnie Wee Thing, Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our December 21st 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Christmas and New Year Podcast. I thought I would play some of my favourite tracks from 2010 starting off with Man's Ruin by Calum MacCrimmon, then Mark the Hard Earth by Kris Drever. We follow this with a beautiful air by Duncan Chisholm's Canaich album. Next is the long awaited debut album from Sandy Wright and a great set of jigs from Matheu Watson. We finish off the podcast Ewan Robertson's Some Kind of Certaintyalbum. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our December 7th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We've a range of releases in this podcast. We start with Scottish Folk Band of the Year 2010 Malinky singing Pad The Road Wi Me. Next up is the winners of Venue of the Year - The Skipinnish Ceilidh House in Oban with their CD The Sound of the Summer. We follow this with another west coast band Diamh singing a song from their Diversions CD and then we have Rua MacMillan playing Traditionally Incorrect from his debut Tyro CD. Drever, McCusker & Woomble sing Silver and Gold from Before the Ruin and we finish with the Old Blind Dogs singing Loughe Erne's Shore. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our November 17th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We featuring mainly new releases this week. Fistly we have Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller's new CD Shadows Tall. Then a Gaelic compilation Urachadh. We follow this with Wendy Weatherby's A Shirt Of Silk Or Snow and new release Crossing the Spey by Raemond Jappy. Next up is How's the Craic? by Gary Innes featuring the great singing of Darren MacLean and we finish up the show with Hello World from Lorne MacDougall. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our November 3rd 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. In this edition we're featuring the launch of the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Voting has just opened we would love to encourage you to go along and vote! Do so here! We're featuring Uam by Julie Fowlis which is nominated in the Album of the Year category. John McCusker who is nominated in the Instrumentalist of the Year. Fred Morrison who is in Folk Band of the Year. Bel Canto by Eilidh MacKenzie who is nominated in Gaelic singer of the Year. Matheu Watson is in the Up and Coming Artist and we finish off with Skerryvore who are nominated in the Live Act of the Year. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our October 20th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We start off with the new album Decadence from The Shee then we have Music for the Kilted Generation by the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. Then we hear from Music of Arran by Gillian Frame and friends and then something slightly different from Gavin Pennycook and his Celtic Nycelharpa CD. To finish off the podcast we have Michael Marra and Mr McFalls Chamber and then St Laurence O'Toole from the World Pipe Band Championships 2010 CD. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Here's our September 30th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We've got a varied podcast this edition. We're starting of with the Red Hot Chillie Pipers in an anticipation of their new release Music for the Kilted Generation due out October 17th. We follow this up with an old but true classic CD Beneath the Beret by Blair Douglas. We then have two new releases Transatlantic Sessions Series 4 Vol 3 and Home by Ciaran Dorris. We finish up with Fire On!by Blazin' Fiddles and Gathering Pace by Relativity. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.