Podcasts about Aly Bain

I was honored to chat with Bruce Molsky on the Fiddle Studio Podcast this month. Bruce has a new album out with Darol Anger called Lockdown Breakdown. We talk about getting into Old-Time and sticking with it over the years, trying to sound like your heroes, picking up new tunes, the Berklee American Roots music department, and what he listens for in old recordings. Bruce breaks down singing and fiddling at the same time and how to develop that slippery skill. We hear a track from the new album, Can I Change My Mind.Bruce Molsky has been playing and studying Old-Time music for 50 years, and for much of that time teaching as well. He famously learned fiddle and banjo from folks down in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina in the 70s, including Tommy Jarrell among others. He's been performing and collaborating ever since, has over dozen great albums to check out, and he teaches Old-Time music at the Berklee School of Music and online at Peghead Nation.You can see Bruce on the BBC TV “Transatlantic Sessions” with Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas, and on “David Holt's State of Music” on PBS. He stays active touring and recording with longtime collaborators Darol Anger, Tony Trischka and Mountain Drifters' Allison de Groot. Bruce Molsky: http://brucemolsky.com On Facebook: http://facebook.com/brucemolskyPeghead Nation CourseLockdown Breakdown on BandcampYoutube: http://youtube.com/brucemolskymusic Email:  bruce@brucemolsky.comLet me know what you think!Support the showEmail me at meganbeller@fiddlestudio.com.Listen and subscribe on Apple Music, Spotify, or Buzzsprout. Find me on YouTube and Bandcamp. Here are my Fiddle Studio books and my website Fiddle Studio where you can find my courses and mailing list and sign up for my Top 10 Fiddle Tunes!

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I'm your host Ray Shasho. Three-Time GRAMMY Nominee and Blues Legend Eric Bibb Readies New Live at The Scala Theatre Album for April 5 Release on Stony Plain Records, Under Exclusive Worldwide License from Repute Records A three-time Grammy nominee with multiple Blues Foundation awards, Eric Bibb is known and revered globally for having carved his own musical destiny with honesty and power. Eric's father, the late Leon Bibb, was an activist, actor, and folksinger who marched at Selma with Dr. Martin Luther King. Eric's youth was spent immersed in the Greenwich Village folk scene. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger were visitors to his home. He was deeply influenced by Odetta, Richie Havens and Taj Mahal, and he has synthesized all of that into his very own style. Eric Bibb is one of the world's most prolific Blues troubadours, with an illustrious career spanning 5 decades and over 40 albums. Bibb has received three Grammy nominations, multiple Blues Foundation ‘Artist of the Year' and ‘Album of the Year' awards, and countless more accolades along the way. As Eric reflects on his musical journey, gratitude pervades. Evolution is evident in his voice and guitar playing, with his words providing grounding in truth and fostering a vision of unity amid a world filled with divisive rhetoric. Eric Bibb is more than a blues troubadour; he is a storyteller and philosopher. His legacy is not just in the notes he plays or the stages he graces, but in the questions, he poses and the hope he instills. His latest release is Eric Bibb Live at the Scala Theatre in Stockholm. The album will be officially released on April 5th but is currently available for preorder. PLEASE WELCOME THREE-TIME GRAMMY NOMINEE… BLUES TROUBADOUR/GUITARIST/SONGWRITER/ ERIC BIBB TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS … PREORDER ERIC BIBB LIVE AT THE SCALA THEATRE STOCKHOLM Official release April 5th Preorder Now at https://stonyplainrecords.com/ericbibb/ Live at The Scala Theatre is the latest recording from blues troubadour Eric Bibb, which follows 2023's Grammy nominated album, Ridin'. Performed and recorded in front of a live audience at Stockholm's Scala Theatre on September 30, 2022, the atmosphere captured in these recordings is electric. With a career now spanning five decades, three Grammy nominations, a multitude of Blues Foundation awards and countless more accolades, Eric Bibb has secured his legacy as a legendary figure in the blues and roots genre. “ERIC BIBB IS A NATIONAL TREASURE! HIS LATEST RELEASE ‘LIVE AT THE SCALA THEATRE' -STOCKHOLM IS THE MOST EXCEPTIONALLY ENGINEERED LIVE ALBUM I'VE HEARD IN DECADES. I GENUINELY FELT AS THOUGH I WAS SITTING FRONT ROW CENTER. BIBB'S PERFORMANCE WAS INSPIRING, ENRICHING AND GRATIFYING. ERIC BIBB IS A LEGEND IN HIS OWN TIME!”  5 STARS!  …BY MUSIC JOURNALIST RAY SHASHO   ALSO PURCHASE ERIC BIBB'S  2024 GRAMMY Nominated Album RIDIN' The follow-up to his multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed 2021 album, Dear America, Ridin' is a continuation of the vision and ethos that informs Bibb's artistry as a modern-day Blues troubadour, receiving a GRAMMY nomination in the 'Best Traditional Blues' category. Available at amazon.com   FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC BIBB VISIT https://www.ericbibb.com/ Official website https://www.facebook.com/EricBibbMusic Facebook https://www.instagram.com/ericbibbmusic/ Instagram   https://open.spotify.com/artist/2uNcfNhlVJUyEX0t0NG1m1?si=EEDYb5oxRuyccp7Do_UUpQ&nd=1&dlsi=c273367ca4fd4bd4 Spotify https://www.youtube.com/@EricBibb YouTube   ERIC BIBB DISCOGRAPHY Studio albums Ain't It Grand (MNW, 1972) Rainbow People (Opus 3, 1977) Golden Apples of the Sun (Opus 3, 1983) Me to You (Code Blue, 1997) Home to Me (Ruf, 1999) Roadworks (Ruf, 2000) Just Like Love (Opus 3, 2000) Painting Signs (Manhaton/EarthBeat!, 2001) Natural Light (Manhaton, 2003) A Ship Called Love (Telarc, 2005) Diamond Days (Telarc, 2006) 12 Gates to the City (Luna, 2006) Get On Board (2008) Spirit I Am (2008) Booker's Guitar (Telarc, 2010) Blues Ballads & Work Songs (Opus 3, 2011) Deeper in the Well (Stony Plain, 2012) Jericho Road (Stony Plain, 2013) The Haven (Luna, 2011) Blues People (Stony Plain, 2014) Migration Blues (2017; nominated for a Grammy as Best Traditional Blues Album) Global Griot (double album, 2018) Dear America (Provogue, 2021) Ridin' (Repute, 2023)   Collaborative albums Cyndee Peters & Eric Bibb: Olikalikadant (Caprice, 1978) Eric Bibb & Bert Deivert: April Fools (Opus 3, 1979) Eric Bibb & Bert Deivert: River Road (Opus 3, 1980) Eric Bibb & Friends: Songs for Peace (Opus 3, 1982) Eric Bibb & Bert Deivert: Hello Stranger (Opus 3, 1983) Cyndee Peters & Eric Bibb: A Collection Of Cyndee Peters & Eric Bibb (Opus 3, 1991) Eric Bibb & Needed Time: Spirit & The Blues (Opus 3, 1994) Eric Bibb & Needed Time: Good Stuff (Opus 3, 1997) Leon & Eric Bibb: A Family Affair (Manhaton, 2002) Eric Bibb, Rory Block, & Maria Muldaur: Sisters & Brothers (Telarc, 2004) Eric Bibb & Friends: Friends (Telarc, 2004) Leon & Eric Bibb: Praising Peace: A Tribute to Paul Robeson (Stony Plain, 2006) Habib Koité - Eric Bibb: Brothers in Bamako (Stony Plain, 2012) Eric Bibb & Andrew Maxfield: Celebrating Wendell Berry in Music (2013)[18] Eric Bibb, Ale Möller & Knut Reiersrud: Blues Detour (2014) Eric Bibb & JJ Milteau: Lead Belly's Gold (Dixiefrog, 2015) Eric Bibb & North Country Far with Danny Thompson: The Happiest Man In The World (Dixiefrog, 2016) Eric Bibb, Ale Möller, Knut Reiersrud, Aly Bain etc.: Jazz At The Berlin Philharmonic - Celtic Roots (ACT, 2016)   Live albums Live at the Basement (2002) An Evening with Eric Bibb (2007) Live À FIP (a.k.a. Live at FIP) (Dixiefrog, 2009) Troubadour Live with Staffan Astner (Telarc, 2011) Live at the Scala Theatre Stockholm (2024)   DVDs Up Close With Eric Bibb (2008) Live At The Basement (2010) The Guitar Artistry Of Eric Bibb (2011) Support us on PayPal!

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Halloween to some, Samhain to the Celts. We’re celebrating the holiday with the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. David Pedrick, Harmundi, Poor Man's Fortune, Cara Wildman, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tannahill Weavers, The Homespun Ceilidh Band, Blame Not the Bard, Andrew Finn Magill, Marc Gunn, Mary Vanhoozer, Water Street Bridge, Madison Metricula Roberts, Trip McCool, Medusa's Wake, Melanie Gruben I hope you enjoyed this week's show. If you did, please share the show with ONE friend. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is here to build our community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, buy the albums, shirts, and songbooks, follow the artists on Spotify, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Remember also to Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. Every week, you will get a few cool bits of Celtic music news. It's a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Plus, you'll get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free, just for signing up today. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. Just list the show number, and the name of as many bands in the episode as you like. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2020 episode.  Vote Now! THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:04 - "Banish Misfortune" by David Pedrick from On the Way 2:13 - WELCOME 3:23 - "Werewolf Set" by Harmundi from Um Orvalho Boreal 7:46 - "The Unquiet Grave" by Poor Man's Fortune from In Good Times 14:09 - "March of the Min an Toitean Bull/Tuttle's/Brenda Stubbert's" by Cara Wildman from Cara Wildman 19:57 - "Bedlam Boys" by The Merry Wives of Windsor from Buy Yourself Another 23:53 - CELTIC FEEDBACK 27:59 - "The Ghost of Mick McDonnell" by The Tannahill Weavers from Orach (The Golden Anniversary) 32:58 - "Nine Points of Roguery / Gravel Walk / The High Reel" by The Homespun Ceilidh Band from Demo 37:10 - "The Banshee" by Blame Not the Bard from Soundcheck 39:52 - "Lament for Staker Wallace" by Andrew Finn Magill from Drive & Lift 42:35 - "O'er the Way" by Marc Gunn from St Patrick's Day 46:29 - "Fairie Caper" by Mary Vanhoozer from Bard and Ceilidh 49:52 - CELTIC PODCAST NEWS 52:30 - "Brown Eyed Ghoul" by Water Street Bridge from Filkers Handbook 56:39 - "All the Pretty Horses (Drowning Song)" by Madison Metricula Roberts from Single 58:49 - "John Barleycorn Must Die" by Trip McCool from Hang Me Out to Dry 1:04:09 - "Banshee's Wail" by Medusa's Wake from Rascals and Rogues 1:08:26 - CLOSING 1:09:47 - "Take Me to Fae" by Melanie Gruben from A Faery Song The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. The show was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. WELCOME TO CELTIC MUSIC * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a Celtic musician and podcaster. This show is dedicated to the indie Celtic musicians. Please support these artists. Share the show with your friends. And find more episodes at celticmusicpodcast.com. You can also support this podcast on Patreon. CELTIC PODCAST NEWS Interview coming on the Working Musician Podcast with David Pedrick. Do you know any Celtic musicians with podcasts? Email me. In sad news, Fungie the famed Dolphin went missing a couple weeks ago from his home in Dingle, Ireland. It seems he’s been found finally. I guess he was bummed by the decreased tourism. I’m just happy he’s been found. THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! Because of Your kind and generous support, this show comes out every week. Your generosity funds the creation, promotion and production of the show. It allows us to attract new listeners and to help our community grow. As a patron, you get to hear episodes before regular listeners. When we hit a milestone, you get an extra-long episode. You can pledge a dollar or more per episode and cap how much you want to spend each month over on Patreon. A super special thanks to our newest patrons: Bruce C, Michael K, Thom S, Keaton You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com. If you’re looking for another way to support the podcast, you can also buy an Irish & Celtic Music Podcast t-shirt in our store. Every shirt you buy will also get you a free download of one of my albums. The 2018 shirt is on clearance for just $7 and you’ll also get a copy of my St Patrick’s Day album. MageRecords.com TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you're doing while listening. Email a voicemail message to celticpodcast@gmail.com Jared Ulmer emailed: "Hi mark, long time listener and big fan here. I had a quandary I was curious if you had any insight on. I've recently started collecting vinyl, however my Celtic record collection is much smaller than I like. It seems like alot of older artists are out of print and newer artists distribute mostly digitally. Are you aware of any resources to find groups, perhaps ones featured on your podcast that offer music in this format?" David Turner replied to the Celtic Music Magazine: "Hello Marc, Thank you so much for your podcast which has been a constant companion these past few months. It’s very weird listening to pre Covid episodes with you expressing all the freedom of looking ahead with anticipation! Ah weill . Now favourites could be a long list! However, I still get prickles remembering the immense, involuntary roar at the conclusion of a concert by The Battlefield Band in Port Fairy in 1991, a roar not generated in the vocal chords, but deep from the core, as Big Iain and Wee John finally brought their frenzied duet to a close, the entire tent vibrating and humming with exhilaration. Tears in my eyes again! Yes, what a band, so my fave Scottish band. Honorary mentions to Dick Gaughan, Aly Bain and Dougie McLain. To Ireland, and Mary Black. Now this choice could well be clouded by my intense infatuation, but her Song for Ireland stops me in my tracks every time. Andy Irvine is also a hero. Keep up the good work Marc, we need good people like you! Warm regards. David” Bill Wall emailed a photo: "Cead Mille Failte. (I probably misspelled that) I'd been meaning to subscribe for a while, but when I heard a few people drop off I knew I needed to step up. The music of your podcast stirs up many emotions in me. I have been sober for 5 years now, and I listen to your podcast driving to one of my favorite 12-step meetings about 40 minutes away from my house. For all of the Wild Roving I've done, with Celtic music in the background, it's great to hear the music on the way to centering myself. The drive is from my stereotypically suburban environment into a wooded canyon where we meet at a monastery. The monastery has green hills behind it for a beautiful hike, which reminds me of my time in Ireland. Since I know you like pictures, I thought I'd include these two. Thank you for all you do to keep bringing the happy war songs and sad love songs."

Recorded on March 6th, 2019. We are star struck today with our guest Joe Newberry who is a North Carolina transplant and bit of a celebrity in songwriting circles. His achievements musically are nothing short of impressive. He has had songs recorded by The Gibson Brothers“Singing As We Rise,” featuring guest vocalist Ricky Scaggs, won the 2012 IBMA “Gospel Recorded Performance” award. In 2013, Joe shared co-writing honors with Eric Gibson for the IBMA Song of the Year, “They Called It Music.” Joe was often a frequent guest on Garrison Keillor A Prairie Home Companion (now called Live from Here), and was recently featured on the Transatlantic Sessions tour in the United Kingdom with fiddler Aly Bain and Dobro master Jerry Douglas. We are honored to have him here at Neville's Quarter. Joe will be playing his tunes: "The Marks", "The Darker the Night, the Better I See", and " Singing As We Rise".We will be playing “Bluegrass On My Mind” and “Chasing Crickets”Hosted by Lex Headley and Brian Moyer.

This episode, the last in Series One, features Ethel Hofman, author of Mackerel at Midnight: Growing up Jewish in the Shetland Isles (Revised edition Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 2006), the Shetland Fiddlers Society, and young Shetland fiddler Amber Thompson. I set myself a challenge - to make a podcast during a trip to Shetland and Orkney rather than go back to recordings from last year like my last 6 podcasts - and I've done it! My podcast series subtitle is "Fascinating Conversations and Traditional Music". There's very seldom a week goes by when I don't come into contact with some traditional music. But last week in Shetland I was particularly lucky to find some AMAZING musc - there was a Shetland Showcase in the community centre, featuring the long-established Shetland Fiddlers Society (established in 1960 by Aly Bain), and a fabulous young fiddler, Amber Thompson - to hear her play you'd never believe she's only twelve. And I LOVE her teacher Eunice Henderson's piano accompaniment that's so typical of Shetland fiddling, a style I first heard with Violet Tulloch accompanying Aly Bain on the 1978 Topic "Shetland Folk Fiddling" record. Playlist Amber Thompson (Fiddle) Eunice Henderson (Piano) Gig for Frances by Debbie Scott/Simon Thoumire's jig by John McCusker [Amber's favourite jig of all time!]/Izzy's Jig by Margaret Scollay [Eunice's favourite] The Calgary Fiddler's Welcome to Shetland by Andrew Gifford/52 weeks of fiddle - written for Amber by Steven Smith to commemorate her year-long Shetland fiddle project - find it on youtube here/Cape Breton visit to Shetland (also known as "Welcome to the Cape Breton Fiddlers") by Willie Hunter.* The Shetland Fiddlers Society Da Ferry Reel/Lay Dee at Dee Acknowledgements Thanks to BBC Radio Shetland and David Gardner, to Shetland Library and Archives and Marghie West, and to the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC) who sponsored the tour. And of course many thanks to Ethel Hofman - and her brother Roy Greenwald. Production notes Fiona's podcast no 7: Growing Up Jewish on Shetland - was recorded in Lerwick, Shetland on 12th - 14th August 2019, and mixed August 20th - 22nd 2019 in London, where I'm staying while I'm at Klezfest, a week long Klezmer festival which this year is directed by Alan Bern (interviewed on Fiona's Travels Podcast episode 2!). This is the last one in the first series of Fiona's Travels Podcasts. Please subscribe to hear about the next series. And if you're listening on Apple Podcasts please leave us a review! *when you've finished listening to this podcast, you can watch the late Willie Hunter himself playing his Cape Breton Visit to Shetland tune, accompanied by Violet Tulloch, here.

Sporting your reel Celtic music on #397 of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.   http://bestcelticmusic.net/ ChildsPlay, Cady Finlayson, Tami Curtis, Wicked Tinkers, Tullamore, Paddy Glackin, Rambling Sailors, The Tea Merchants, Beth Patterson, Patrick O'Flaherty, Claire Roche, Redhill Rats, Skelpin, Rise, Event Horizon, An Triur I hope you enjoyed this week's show. If you did, please share the show with ONE friend. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is dedicated to growing our community and helping the incredible artists who so generously share their music. If you find music you love, buy their albums, shirts, and songbooks, follow them on Spotify, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Remember also to Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. Every week, I'll send you a few cool bits of Celtic music news. It's a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Plus, you'll get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free, just for signing up today. Thank you again for your Celtic Kindness. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 With the new year comes a new votes in the Celtic Top 20. This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. Just list the show number, and the name of as many bands in the episode as you like. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2019 episode. Vote now! THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:02 "The Noodle Vendor /Sweetest Blooms / Avery's Mazurka" by ChildsPlay from The Bloom of Youth 4:58 "Sporting Paddy/Baltimore Salute/Lexie McAskill" by Cady Finlayson from Irish Coffee 8:06 "The Mickey Dam" by Tami Curtis from Cavort 11:28 "Weird Jigs & B-52" by Wicked Tinkers from Whisky Supper 14:38 "I'll Lay Ye Down, Love" by Tullamore from The O'Malley's Sessions 19:49 CELTIC FEEDBACK 22:25 "The Moving Bog/Jenny Picking Cockles/The Hornless Cow" by Paddy Glackin from In Full Spate 25:03 "Where Am I to Go M'Johnnies" by Rambling Sailors from Kenway's Favorites 26:25 "Light My Hornpipe" by The Tea Merchants from One Lump or Two? 32:24 "Mon Bon Vieux Mari/Jig of Slurs" by Beth Patterson, Patrick O'Flaherty from Caelic 37:07 "Down By The Salley Gardens" by Claire Roche from Dancing in the Wind 40:33 CELTIC PODCAST NEWS 42:49 "My Father Was a Werewolf" by Redhill Rats from Some Heroes 47:06 "Rua/Rojo" by Skelpin from Rua Rojo 51:13 "Thinking About You" by Rise from Uncertain Wonders 55:28 "Type 2 Civilization" by Event Horizon from Event Horizon 1:03:05 "The Floating Crowbar / Paddy Taylor’s / Cooley’s" by An Triur from Three People The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/.   CELTIC PODCAST NEWS * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a Celtic musician and podcaster. This show is dedicated to the indie Celtic musicians. I want to ask you to support these artists. Share the show with your friends. And find more episodes at celticmusicpodcast.com. You can also support this podcast on Patreon. We hit 500 subscribers this week on our YouTube channel. How would you like to celebrate St Patrick's Day on the beach with me? My band Kilted Kings are performing at The Hangout in Gulf Shores, Alabama on Sunday March 17th. KiltedKings.com for details and you can find an event page attached to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast page on Facebook. THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is listener-supported. Instead of filling your ears with advertisements, I make this show free and let you, the listener, support the podcast through your kind patronage on Patreon. You can make a per episode pledge and cap how much you want to spend each month supporting this podcast. Your generosity funds the creation, production, and promotion of the show. Best of all, you get episodes before regular listeners, discounts on merch, and when we hit a milestone, you get extra special episodes. Thanks to Pamela H., Samuel G who raised his pledge. Thanks to Murphy B, Allison W, Nancy W our newest patrons. You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast at http://patreon.com/celticpodcast. TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through it's culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos.  2019 is the Celtic Invasion of Star Wars. 2020 is the Origins of Celtic Invasions. You can find out more about these two exciting trips. Join the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/   I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you're doing while listening. Email a voicemail message to celticpodcast@gmail.com Bill Crews emailed on Facebook: "I've now listened to every one of your podcasts. Around September I started playing them, in reverse sequence, at work to drown out the din of the "open office" environment. Last week I finished the last of them. Now I'm ready for the encore season." Dave Cooper emailed on Facebook: "Marc - wanted to say a big thank you for putting us (Flowers of Edinburgh)  in the podcast a couple of weeks ago.  We were thrilled to have made the cut." Alexander Randall 5th emailed a photo: "Im sitting in my home on water island in the us virgin islands watching the Queen Mary 2 sailing into the sunset. I just found your podcast, im listening to #371 and loving it. I love rollicking instrumental celtic music and you are spot on. This is great. I will begin exploring all the others. I already subscribed and in the morning ill figure out how to send money. Here is a picture of what i am doing while listening. Many years ago i was producing concerts, Boys of the Louch, Aly Bain.. In that era i was listening to Fairport Convention and Sandy Denny, dave Swarbrick.. a couple of years back i made trip to Cropredy for Fairport festival and treked to Shetlands for a dose of their music... Celtic Stone is a favorite, especially “ an old man came in and sat down.” Fabulous piece. Thank you for making this music available to people who are far removed from the isles and cant get it locally.  Wonderful of you. Alex Randall Www.water-island.com

Sharing a tune and some food together this St. Andrews Day, Scottish traditional music legend and curry fanatic Phil Cunningham joins Sumayya Usmani and Ghillie Basan on the Curry Club to indulge himself in his lifelong obsession with curry. On the road in the early days of Silly Wizard the only places still open to get food after a gig were the curry houses of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. Before long the band had become connoisseurs of the takeaway menu. In the years that followed Phil and good pal Aly Bain started making their own curries, roasting their own spices and using each other as guinea pigs for their latest curry experiments in the kitchen. While they have both become global legends of the Scottish music scene, within the traditional music world, Phil is now a curry king. He describes his love to Sumayya and Ghillie while getting some top tips for his own kitchen. To keep our stomachs full for St. Andrews Day celebrations, Sumayya and Phil make a Scottish take on shalgham ghost together, a spicy version of venison stovies. Meanwhile, Ghillie explores a very Scottish spice, juniper.

Calum Malcolm Has Recorded Some Of The Biggest Names In Music. Hear What He Has To Say About Music, Tech., Education & More. Calum Malcolm is without doubt one of the finest recording engineers/producers in the world today. From his work with "The Blue Nile", to "Fish", Mark Knopfler, Aly Bain, his numerous orchestral recordings and more, Calum's thoughts on the recording industry, technology, education and the future of recording need to be listened to. Podcast Ep 6 – Table Of Contents 1.08 Early introduction to recording. 4.80 The first studio in Edinburgh, Scotland. 8.37 The size and weight of equipment in the sixties. 7.08 Working in a HI-FI shop. 9.18 Starting a degree at the Leeds College of Music. 10.18 The first paid recording sessions. 12.15 Astronomy no more. 16.12 Studying electronics at college. 17.05 The creation of Castle Sound 1974. 21.00 Recording different types of music. 22.50 Thoughts on sound production education courses. 26.37 What sound production trainees need to know. 32.30 Working with Linn Records? 34.50 Working with Stéphane Grappelli. 36.20 Military recordings. 38.40 Neve desks. 42.49 Favorite microphones 43.30 The march of technology and thoughts on early DAWs 50.18 Listening to music. 53.56 The future of audio recording. More About Calum You can find out all about Calum's past and present work at his website Calum Malcolm. Check Out All Our Other Podcasts Check out our podcast page which includes all our podcasts to date with news on up and coming episodes.

Our 123rd episode, which aired on November 27, 2015. Celtic Ceili - Lord McDonald's, Last Night's Fun T with the Maggies - Wedding Dress, T with the Maggies Aly Bain with the Boys of the Lough - Kerryman’s Daughter/O’Keefe’s Plough/The Sligo Maid/The Humours of Ballinahinch/Gravel Walk/Out by East Da Vong, Aly Bain & Friends Aodan Coyne - Welcome Poor Paddy Home, If We Only Knew Tommy Basker - The Braes of Auchentyre/The Glen Where My Love Lives/Miss Scott, The Tin Sandwich Dmitri Alano - The Coal Miner/Speed the Plow/The Sally Gardens, The End of the Evening Interview with Dmitri Alano, part one Dmitri Alano - The Middle Reel/The End of the Evening Interview with Dmitri Alano, part two Dmitri Alano - The Lilting Banshee/Conroy's/Dunkeld House, The End of the Evening Ron Hynes & Wonderful Grand Band - Sonny's Dream, CBC television appearance Ron Hynes - Atlantic Blue, Cryer's Paradise

PODCAST: 20 Nov 2016 01 Wreckers On The Shore - Mawkin - The Ties That Bind 02 Aunt Sally - Luke Jackson - Tall Tales And Rumours 03 What's The Use Of Wings? - Jackie Oates & Megan Henwood - Wings 04 The Atlantean - John McSherry  - The Seven Suns 05 England's Last Apprentice - Chris Manners - Temporary Filling 06 Train On The Island -  Hannah Shira Naiman - Know The Mountain 07 Night Hours - Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith - Night Hours 08 What You Do With What You’ve Got  - Dick Gaughan - Outlaws & Dreamers 09 The Witch Of The Westmorland - Kate Rusby - Life In A Paper Boat 10 Caradon Hill - The Changing Room - Picking Up The Pieces 11 All Things Are Quite Silent - Steeleye Span - Dodgy Bastards 12 Bede's Sparrow - Kathryn Tickell & Friends - Water Of Tyne 13 Munster Buttermilk / Mrs O’Sullivan’s - Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham - Portrait 14 Stealin' - Dave Van Ronk - Ragtime Jug Stompers 15 Éilís Kennedy - Factory Girl - Time To Sail 16 Dance Me To The End Of Love - Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits

PODCAST: 29 Mar 2015   01 Confederation - Le Vent Du Nord - Tétu 02 John Blunt - Jackie Oates -  The Spyglass and The Herring 03 Bring Your Clothes Back Home - April Verch - The Newpart 04 Munster Buttermilk/Mrs. O'sullivan's- Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham - Portrait 05 Bonniie Highland Laddie - Ian Bell - Forget Me Not When Far Away 06 Rap Her To Bank - The Watersons - Early Days 07 Tiny Fishes For Japan - Michelle Holding and Bonz - 11 Crosses 08 Diggin My Potatoes - Washboard Sam - Swinging The Blues 09 The Bonny Black Hare - Carthy and Swarbrick - Byker Hill 10 Get Em From The Peanut Man - Jake Leg Jug Band - Everythin’s Jake 11 The Old Soldier - Merry Hell - The Ghost In Our House and Other Stories 12 Tousle Your Kerchee / The Holm Band Tune - Polkaworks - Borrowed Shoes 13  Age Of Steam - The Jaywalkers - Weave 14 The Handloomweaver and The Factory Maid - Megson - The Longshot 15 Ain’t No Trouble - Luke Jackson - This Family Tree 16 Noce Tragique - Le Vent Du Nord - Tétu 17 John O’Dreams - Bill Caddick - Unicorns

PODCAST: 02 Nov 2014   01 - Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl  - Black and White: The Definitive Collection  02 - The Man That Waters The Workers' Beer - Paddy Ryan - Voice and Vision 03 - All For Me Grog - A.L. (Bert) Lloyd - English Drinking Songs 04 - I Was A Young Man - Martin Carthy - Shearwater 05 - Dill Pickles Rag - Martin Carthy / Dave Swarbrick / Diz Disley  -  Rags Reels and Airs 06 - 1913 Massacre - Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Rambling Jack 07 - Nell - Billy Bennett - Almost a Gentleman 08 - Oldham’s Burning Sands - The Oldham Tinkers - A Fine Old English Gentleman 09 - The Little Pot Stove - Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs 10 - Higher Germany - Phoebe Smith - The Voice of the People - I’m A Romany Rai  11 - The White Cockade - The Watersons - Early Days 12 - Handful of Earth - Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth  13 - The Spinners Wedding - Ray Fisher - The Iron Muse 14 - Palaces of Gold - Martin Simpson - Voice and Vision 15  - Da Auld Restin' Chair / Hamnavoe Polka / Maggie's Reel - Tom Anderson and Aly Bain - The Silver Bow 16 - Joe Hill - Paul Robeson - Voice and Vision 17 - Some Old Salty - Lal Waterson and Oliver Knight - Once In A Blue Moon  

PODCAST: 14 Sep 2014 01 - The Lazy Boy Chant - The Chair - Hunka 02 - Both Sides The Tweed - The McCalmans - The Greentrax Years 03 - No Gods And Precious Few Heroes - Dick Gaughan - Sail On 04 - Och’ Is Duine Truagh Me - Battlefield Band - Dookin’ 05 - Queen Among The Heather - Belle Stewart - Three Score And Ten  06 - The Twa Sisters  - Emily Smith - Echoes 07 - Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway - Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty - Best Of The Humblebums 08 - Leezie Lindsay - Eddie Reader - Peacetime 09 - Till Tomorrow - Dougie Maclean - Till Tomorrow 10 - A Man’s A Man - Ewan McLennan - Rags And Robes  11 - Turas San Lochmor - Julie Fowlis - Live At Perthshire Amber 12 - Three Nights And A Sunday - Matt McGinn - If It Wasnae For The Union 13  - Da Slockit Light / Smith O‘Couster / Da Grocer - Tom Anderson and Aly Bain - The Silver Bow 14 - The Scottish Breakaway - Hamish Imlach - Border Lands 15 - Freedom Come A’ Ye - Kris Drever - Mark The Hard Earth 16 - Caledonia - Frankie Miller - Caledonia

PODCAST: 31 Aug 2014 01 - Hal-An-Tow - Oysterband - English Folk Collection 02 - Boll Weevil/Yelling In The Shoats - Aly Bain, Ale Moller, And Bruce Molsky - Meeting Point 03 - Horo Johnny -Niamh Parsons - In My Prime 04 - The Mouth Of The Tobique - Jon Hicks - Chasing The Bear 05 - Moon On The Water - Bill Lloyd - Willy Ruby 06 - The Nailmaker's Strike (Part 2) - Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin - Mynd 07 - Bold Doherty - Noirin Lynch - Echotones 08 - Railboard Worksong - The Notting Hillbillies - Missing....Presumed Having A Good Time 09 - Madgie In The Summerlands - O'Hooley and Tidow - The Fragile 10 - The Dundee Cat - Hamish Imlach - Cod Liver Oil And Orange Juice - The Transatlantic Anthology 11 - Mary And The Soldier - Paul Brady - The Missing Liberty Tapes 12 - Drag Her Around The Road/The Silver Spire/The Congress Reel - Brendan Power - New Irish Harmonica 13 - Thirty Foot Trailer - Nancy Kerr & James Fagan - Strands Of Gold 14 - Green Grow The Laurels - Ed Rennie - Narrative 15 - Old Joe Clarke - The Barely Works  - Best Of The Barelyworks

Spring seems to have finally visited Scotland and we have some great music to celebrate! We start off the podcast with Transatlantic Sessions 2 by Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas. Next up is singer Emily Smith's new CD Echoes followed by Who He? by Ian Carr and the Various Artists. Then it’s Angels Without Wings from Heidi Talbot and then the virtuoso clarsach player Catriona McKay from her new CD Harponium. We finish up the podcast with the new release No Time Like Now from Cherrygrove. Visit www.handsupfortrad.co.uk for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Hi there, Here we go with our May 8th Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. Featuring a great set of reels from  from Manran and then Karen Matheson singing a beautiful song from the album The Battle of Prestonpans 1745. Next up is a set of jigs from Matheu Watson's self-titled debut album and then a beautiful song - Kings Fareweel from Andy Hunter. Aly Bain then plays Shetland air Margaret Anne Robertson and we finish the podcast with a set of fiddle tunes from Russell Hunter, Eilidh Shaw, Simon Bradley and Angus Grant Jnr. Great stuff! Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Hi there, Here's our April Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music podcast. Featuring some top music from The Halton Quartet, Kris Drever, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, Gaelic singer James Graham, Bobby Macleod and finishing with Breabach. Hope you enjoy :-) Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Hi there, We're back with the latest Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. We start off with new release Shed Life from Sketch and follow it with Emily Portman singing a song from Old Songs & Bothy Ballads. Next up is Out All Night from Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers and Over the High Hills from Shepheard, Speirs and Watson. Next is Portrait from Phil Cunningham from Aly Bain and we finish with Dick Gaughan singing No Gods and Precious Few Heroes. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Hi there, The Foot Stompin' podcast's back with another set of great Scottish music recordings. We start of with the fantastic Treacherous Orchestra and their brilliant Origins CD. Next up is a great titled track Boat full o' goats from Fribo's Happ. Then there's the classic Mo Mhatair from Calum Kennedy's Songs in Gaelic followed by Tryst by Iain MacInnes. We then play the debut CD In a Bleeze from Siobhan Miller and Jeana Leslie and finish up with Aly Bain and Friends. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

I learned this lovely Shetland Islands (Scottish) waltz from the playing of Aly Bain & Willie Johnson.

I learned this lovely Shetland Islands (Scottish) waltz from the playing of Aly Bain & Willie Johnson.

Here's our August 18th 2010 Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast.  We got a load of new Scottish music releases for you this week. We start of with the new CD Portrait from Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham and follow it with some beautiful singing from Davie Robertson on his Lowland Souch CD. Next up is Dawning of the Day by St Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band who won the World Pipe Band Championships at the weekend. Our next selection is a golden oldie from The Lochies and their Tir Aluinn LP/CD which is followed by the Willie Hunter Sessions. We finish up this podcast with Under the Counter from Bodega. Visit www.footstompin.com for all your Scottish music and culture needs.

Free Scottish music podcast featuring Nusa (with DJ Extra), Fiona MacKenzie from Lewis and her Elevate CD, The Best of Aly Bain, the new compilation from John McCusker, An Iomall from Alyth McCormack and Scottish Women from Experience Scotland CD. All these albums are available from footstompin.com.

Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, who will embark on their 20th touring year together in 2007 are best summed up in the words of Mike Russell, who wrote in The Glasgow Herald "They are simply the best traditional musicians you are ever likely to hear" The Savoy Doucet Cajun Band Marc and Ann Savoy, along with Michael Doucet create and interpret authentic old-time Cajun music, from popular dancehall tunes to soulful ballads, drawing upon each member's rich historical connection to their native southern Louisiana. Catching this expert, unpretentious trio is about the closest most of us will ever get to hearing an authentic Cajun bash on a screened-in bayou porch. Bengan Janson & Bjorn Stabi Bjorn Stabi is without doubt a legend among folk music fiddlers in Sweden and was probably the first traditional Swedish fiddler to perform in the United States. Bengan Janson is one of Sweden's greatest virtuosi on the accordion. With his evident ability to to embrace all musical styles he has collaborated with Björn Ståbi over the last ten years together developing a genuine folk music style of their own.