Posted on July 16, 2009 by Simon Thoumire
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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Posted on January 20, 2009 by Simon Thoumire
Listen to the Foot Stompin\' Free Scottish Music Podcast No 30
In preparing this podcast I had two things in my mind – Celtic Connections and Robert Burns 250th birthday. I started of by choosing Salsa Celtica who play the Old Fruitmarket on the 24th January. I’ve always loved the bands fusion of latin and celtic. [...]
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Posted on January 6, 2009 by Simon Thoumire
Listen to the Foot Stompin Free Scottish Music Podcast
All of the bands/singers on this podcast come from the Highlands and Islands. I’ve started of the programme with the energetic The Chair from Orkney. Their win in Folk Band of the Year category of the Scots Trad Music Awards 2008 topped and amazing year for the [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2008 by Simon Thoumire
Listen to the Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast
The first 2 weeks of October have just rushed by! It’s been a busy time with the semi-finals of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician. We had a great time a an excellent concert. Our curry party afterwards was good as well. The six finalists are:
Adam [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by Simon Thoumire
Listen to Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 24
I’ve enjoyed putting together the Foot Stompin’ October podcast. I’ve started the show with Wolfstone, a folk rock band who have been around for a few years now. I first met them properly when my band Keep it up toured Canadian festivals at the same time as [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2008 by Simon Thoumire
Play Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast 22 I can’t believe it – September is here! How many days to Christmas???????????? Anyway on with the podcast.
The first track I play is Nusa by Nusa on an album called – you’ve guessed it Nusa! I think this is one of the most orginial tracks of the [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2008 by Simon Thoumire
Play Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast 21 We’ve made the decision to make our Scottish music podcast a fortnightly affair however the question was should it be different from the usual podcast at the start of every month. Well the answer we came up with was yes and what we’re going to do is [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2008 by Simon Thoumire
Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast 20 (click to play)
Here’s our latest Scottish music podcast. I’ve enjoyed putting it together as I have to go through all the different CDs new and old and decide what to play. I chose Queen Anne’s Revenge because I’ve admired Findlay Napier’s work for a long time especially in [...]
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