Listen to the Foot Stompin Free Scottish Music podcastHi there,
Here’s the latest podcast. We’re featuring Scottish bands in this edition. There are not so many CDs coming out at the moment but 2 to look forward to are ‘They Dressed in Yellow‘ by Fiddlers’ Bid and Donald Grant’s The Way Home. Both ate fantastic fiddle [...]
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Listen to the Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 38
Hi Everybody – not been as regular as I would like apologies. Is anybody else busy but can’t remember what they’ve been doing? That’s me! Anyway the podcast is still coming every two weeks and over the last two weeks I’ve been experimenting with Ustream. [...]
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Listen to the Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 35.
Hi Folks,
We’ve had a busy few weeks with our Distil project. We had our annual residential weekend in New Lanark with tutors Ken Hyder, Stephen Deasley and Carina Normanssen and had a great time. You can read more at the link. On that weekend I [...]
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It’s an exciting time in Scotland at the moment with the launch tomorrow of the new Scottish Gaelic channel BBC Alba. Hands Up for Trad is one of the lucky recipients with the Scots Trad Music Awards being shown on in the 3rd week of December. It’s our first year on telly – the thing we’ve [...]
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The other week I went along to the Tracy Emin retrospective exhibition at the Edinburgh Festival. I try to attend events like this as I’m always looking for some new creative spark to bring to my music. As it happens I didn’t take much away from this exhibition – far more shocking than genuinely creative [...]
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