A quick note to say I’ve just realised that the foot stompin podcast has reached 50 – woo hoo!!
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Merry Christmas and a Happy NewYear and we will see you in January!
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The BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award is 10 years old this year and again we have a great lineup of young musicians for the semi-finals. From pipes and song to fiddle, accordion and harp we’ve got an excellent night of music ahead on Saturday 3rd October in South Lanarkshire.
The musicians are:
Steven Blake – [...]
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Listen to the Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 43
Hi Folks,
Summertime’s always busy when the kids are off school. I always feel very guilty working with them in the house. Working at a computer is such a non sharing activity. You just look ahead and see nothing but the screen. Hanging out the washing, [...]
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Listen to the Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 41
We’re back again with the podcast. I took a couple of weeks out there to be at Hands Up for Trad’s 10th Tinto Summer School. It was a great success with our highest roll ever at 61 young people. It was held at Wiston Lodge [...]
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Listen to the Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 40
Wayhay we’ve made it to 40 podcasts! Actually there are more podcasts than this kicking around as I seem to have been doing this for years now. I must find them all – surely I must have them backed up…
Anyway here is the podcast playlist.
People [...]
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Listen to the Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 39
It’s been a busy few weeks. The major thing that has happened is THE SUN IS SHINING! When the sun shines I notice the number of work emails slow down as people head outside! In fact I’ve just been sitting in a deckchair and felt [...]
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Just back from the Scottish fleadh in Motherwell. What an amazing amount of talent from our young musicians. Hosted by Taylor High School (surely the ugliest high school ever built – closer to a nuclear bunker than a school), there were hundreds of young people playing amazing tunes. I really enjoyed just entering the place. [...]
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I mentioned briefly in my last post that I’ve been trying to listen more. I used to spend a lot of time sitting, staring and listening. I’ve always thought that whilst sitting in a room or on a park bench you can hear the most beautiful music all around you. Sometimes it might be abstract [...]
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Listen to the Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 33
A quick blog today! I’m just checking out Spotify – very interesting. For me the best thing about this new piece of software is that you can post playlists to the web and using this I hope to get some Scottish music out there to [...]
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Listen to the Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 32.
We’re starting off this programme with Breabach. I’ve loved this band ever since I heard their (very attractive) demo. In fact I think the tune we play on the podcast – Chloe’s passion was on it. Also each member of the band has entered the [...]
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