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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When I look at the business of Scottish trad/folk music I often worry. I do this because a lot of the non-performance industry (by this I mean record company owners, publishers etc not musicians) are run by folks in their 60s and older. From a www.footstompin.com point of view many of our suppliers are in [...]
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I’ve just been watching BBC ALBA and the programme Rapal. It looks at the current contemporary Scottish music scene. THe first band on it Theatre Fall were great, full of attitude and personality. It made think of the difference between traditional musicians and ‘pop’. Would we get our ideas over to the public (and sell more [...]
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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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Hands up for Trad and their panel of industry judges are once again on the lookout for the very best in traditional music for this year’s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Since 2003, Hands up for Trad have been celebrating the best in Scottish traditional music from across the country and are proud to [...]
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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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Well what I actually mean is where have all the semi-pro bands gone? When I started playing in Scottish folk band Seannachie in 1987 the scene seemed to be full of semi-pro bands. We all had jobs and we played at night in the folk clubs and at festivals – mainly folk clubs. To me [...]
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I just wanted to do a quick blog on Greentrax Recordings. This record company has pretty much held Scottish music together over the last 20 odd years continuously releasing music every month of the year. They’ve recorded most of the main Scottish bands and have a great reputation for honesty and integrity. It’s not easy [...]
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