How are you? It’s been an awful wet summer here in Edinburgh. Luckily you don’t have to go outside to shop at Foot Stompin’! All orders sent out within 24 hours.
1. New Releases: Includes Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2008, Kris Drever Live DVD
2. Treasure from the National Library of Scotland
3. Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast
4. Book Feature: Songs and Ballads of Dundee
5. The World Pipe Band Championships 2008 – The Results
6. Snippets: Includes Jim Johnstone RIP
7. Reviews. Includes Deaf Shepherd ‘Live’
8. Foot Stompin' Celtic Music Discussion Forum includes ‘What’s the difference?’
9. Events
10. Testimonials
1.NEW ARRIVALS AT FOOT STOMPIN'
BY THE RIGHT QUICK MARCH - The Edinburgh Military Tattoo Audio CD has been marched into the office! The CD of this year’s spectacle is now in stock! If you are fond of the sound of the bagpipes, love the Royal Marines brass band, then this CD is for you! We were on the castle Esplanade for the first night of the show, as proud as can be, and found it very stirring (despite being nearly drowned by the bucketing rain!) No doubt about it, hearing the skirl of the Massed Pipes and Drums coming out of the old castle twang the heartstrings every time. £12.60 (£13.99 for first time customers).
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Please note: The 2008 Edinburgh Military Tattoo DVD will be available to buy at Foot Stompin’ in late October
IT’S CONCERT TIME!! The Kris Drever ‘Live’ DVD has just arrived. This full band performance of Kris’s highly acclaimed album 'Black Water' was filmed at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow in January 2008. It feels just like going to a great concert! The star of the show is guitarist and BBC Horizon Award winner Kris Drever. He’s got, John McCusker (fiddle), Ian Carr (guitar), Andy Cutting (diatonic accordion), Donald Shaw (Wurlitzer) and Roddy Woomble, Heidi Talbot, Karen Matheson (backing vocals) with him. Some lineup! The ‘Black Water’ CD was definitely special and we think you will enjoy watching Kris and his band in full flow. The DVD has lots of extra features including the inimitable Sandy Wright's with his original great version of 'Steel & Stone' . £15.29 (£16.99 for first time customers).
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BONES & DRONES!! Blackwood & Hickory from the Mid Argyll Pipe Band takes its name from their sell-out '80th Anniversary' concert. Recorded in 2007, this bold CD steps into new territory for a pipe band with youthful and innovative arrangements. You will appreciate that this is a great young band when we say they were winners of ‘Scottish Pipe Band of the Year’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards. £11.25 (£12.50 for first time customers).
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ROYAL MUSIC!! Clarsach na Banrighe is a CD of early harp music played by Simon Chadwick on an exact replica of the famous "Queen Mary" harp. The original (regarded as one of Scotland's national treasures) can be seen in the National Museum in Edinburgh. The description of the instrument sounds amazing down to its intricate 'latten' brass, sterling silver and 18 carat gold decoration. The music is medieval and 18th century Scottish and includes the complete repertory of John Robertson of Lude, Perthshire. It was he who owned and played the 'Queen Mary' harp in the early 18th century. There’s great sleeve notes packed with fascinating information from Simon who is a specialist in the traditions, history and performance of Scottish and Irish harp music. £11.70 (£12.99 for first time customers)
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CLASS ACT!! The Royal Oak - Best of Folk: If you are fancying a wee singsong The Royal Oak in Edinburgh is the place to go. It is probably the number-one pub in Scotland for folk singing. Situated in Infirmary Street in the Capital's southside there’s music all the way, both in the public bar at street level and downstairs in the lounge. (which is also home to the world's smallest folk club) This CD, featuring 14 singers and groups who frequent the hostelry, boasts sleeve notes by the Edinburgh author and folk fan, Ian Rankin. £11.25 (£12.50 for first time customers).
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BY POPULAR REQUEST!! Tir Aluinn – The Lochies: At the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, Gaelic folkgroups emerged, inspired by the wider folk revival. The quartet of John Macmillan and Donnie MacInnes (vocals); Angus MacMillan (guitar) and Steven Carcary (keyboard, accordion, bass and drums) known as ‘The Lochies’ were a folk group from the Island of Lewis and we think you will enjoy their collection of new and old favourites. £11.25 (£12.50 for first time customers).
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2. Treasure from the National Library of Scotland
A Pride of Islands: A DVD with three wonderful colour films from the Scottish Screen Archive. The films depict the scenery, history and culture of Scotland's islands. The first film from 1957, ‘Enchanted Isles’, narrated by Fulton MacKay takes you on the steamer from Oban. You can see the islands of Iona and Staffa as well as the awe-inspiring ‘Fingal's Cave’ and Tobermory in Mull. You will also enjoy wool-spinning in Harris, a beautiful Hebridean sunset, South Uist and Eriskay. Re-trace the steps of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and see the birthplace of Flora MacDonald near Lochboisdale. £17.99 (£19.99 for first time customers).
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3. Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast
Our mid- August Free Scottish music podcast is now online. You can hear
the award winning Karine Polwart from her debut Faultlines CD
Daimh (pronounced Dive)
Julie Fowlis
a live interview with The Cast's Mairi Campbell
Kris Drever
http://www.footstompin.com/radio
You can read an extended discussion on these CDs in our blog http://footstompin.wordpress.com/.
4. Book Feature: Songs and Ballads of Dundee:
You will find this book so much more than a song collection – it is also a fascinating read. It is a classic collection of over seventy folk songs and ballads. There’s music and extensive notes with carefully chosen photographs to illustrate key periods in the history. Throughout the songs there unfolds the story of the men of the sea. The great clipper fleets, the whaling ships, the rise and fall of the jute mills and the women who supplied their workforce are all in the book. This is also the story of the great characters of Dundee. Let’s not forget Bonnie Dundee through McGonagall to the elusive Piper O' Dundee, with, of course, the full rich tapestry of worthies and rogues. The result is a marvellous and unique picture of the vibrant life and times of one of Scotland's most colourful and distinctive communities. Full of humour and life, these songs, anecdotes and stories convey, as no dry narrative history can, the energy and character of the people and place that is Dundee.
Collected and arranged by Nigel Gatherer with a foreword by Peter Shepheard
£8.99 (£9.99 for first time customers).
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5. The World Pipe Band Championships 2008 – The Results
The winners of the 2008 World Pipe Band Championships were The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band from British Columbia, Canada. The band won the Medley event, was 2nd in the March, Strathspey & Reel and, won the World Drum Corps Championship. Congratulations to Pipe Major Terry Lee, Lead Drummer Reid Maxwell, and all the band members who worked so hard to achieve this outstanding result. Over 40,000 spectators enjoyed a day of thrilling competition and watched over 200 bands from around the globe.
Grade 1: 2008
1st Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (Canada)
2nd Field Marshal Montgomery (Northern Ireland)
3rd Shotts and Dykehead (Scotland)
4th Boghall and Bathgate (Scotland)
5th St. Laurence O'Toole (Ireland)
6th Strathclyde Police (Scotland)
Grade 2: 2008
1st Bagad Cap Caval (France)
2nd Ravara (Northern Ireland)
3rd Torphichen and Bathgate (Scotland)
4th Oran Mor (USA)
5th Bagad Brieg (France)
6th Buchan (Scotland)
Check out our World Pipe Band Championships CDs and World Pipe Band Championships DVDs.
CDs: http://www.footstompin.com/collections/music/bagpipe_music/world-pipe-band-championships
DVDs: http://www.footstompin.com/collections/dvds/bagpipe_dvds/worlds
Find out the previous championships results (back to 1929) with our World Pipe Band Championships results page. http://www.footstompin.com/public/article/world-pipe-band-championships/world-pipe-band-championships-results
6. Snippets
Jim Johnstone RIP
Accordionist, composer and dance band leader Jim Johnstone has died. A wonderful musician, the sound of his generation who leaves a great legacy, he was one of the first musicians to be in inducted into the Scots Trad Music ‘Hall of Fame’
http://www.tradmusichall.com/JimJohnstone.htm
Ronnie Drew RIP
An icon of the folk scene, Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners has passed away after a long illness.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=261248
Mains of Fintry Pipe Band in Beijing
Hands up those who were surprised to hear some great Scottish tunes swirling out across the Birds Nest Stadium at the Olympic Games opening ceremony ? The best-kept secret by Scotland’s Mains of Fintry Pipe Band from Dundee who, not only were they chosen to represent the UK, but the whole of Europe. What a great gig!
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=260962
Well done Angus MacColl!
..who beat off stiff challenges from fellow ace pipers Chris Armstrong, Alasdair Gillies and Stuart Liddell to win the increasingly popular ‘Lord Todd Bar Recital Challenge’ at Piping Live! 2008.
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The Red Hot Chilli Pipers ‘Live!’
The highly successful ‘bagrockers’ have recorded their first DVD. Filmed at a sell-out show in Glasgow last week, Foot Stompin’ hear it will be released in late October. Were you there?
http://www.footstompin.com/artists/red_hot_chilli_pipers
Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop Scoops National Award
Shortlisted last year for the prestigious Third Force News Scottish Charity awards, this year they went one better, picking up the Community Action Award. This excellent organisation now teach 70 children in five local schools and through 30 Come and Try Sessions, have given 200 other children the chance of a free ‘taster’ on fiddle, mandolin and tin whistle. LFW believe that by widening the curriculum they are helping local communities build a sustainable cultural and educational future..
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=261077
Music classes in Edinburgh
The Scots Music Group is a community-based charity based in Edinburgh, offering classes, sessions, ceilidhs, performances and other social events. It was voted ‘Community Project of the Year’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards in December 2007.
Enrolment opens on Monday 18th August 2008. More info;
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=261203
John Wright Memorial Concert
A star studded galaxy of Britain's top songwriters will pay tribute to the late singer songwriter John Wright at a unique Newcastle concert to celebrate his life and music. The concert - "Long Hellos ... Short Goodbyes" will take place on Friday September 5th at the Journal Tyne Theatre, Newcastle.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=261283
7. Reviews
Live Concert – Deaf Shepherd at the Acoustic Music Centre, Edinburgh Fringe. Jim Gilchrist The Scotsman
YOU know what to expect with a Deaf Shepherd gig: a high-energy line-up – seven-strong on this occasion – of Highland pipes, whistles and twin fiddles propelled by guitar, bouzouki and bodhran, with the tempo generally notched up to full speed ahead. And that's pretty well the formula at their St Bride's appearance, leavened occasionally by the fine singing of John Morran. Finlay MacDonald opens the show with a lordly pibroch prelude and they're off, like a whippet out of a trap at the kind of rate you might expect for the finale (and, yes, that was pretty fast too). Reels, and particularly pipe jigs, were the tunes of choice, one set especially agile, with the jig passing deftly between the pipes, fiddles (Claire McLaughlin and Gillian Frame) and whistles (Marc Duff) as the rhythm section cranked up the tension with the help of Mark McGuire's bodhran.....Read the full review:
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CD: In A Bleeze – Siobhan Miller & Jeana Leslie: Reviewed for Scotland on Sunday by Norman Chalmers
Young Siobhan Miller is a great singer of traditional song. With singer, pianist and fiddler Jeana Leslie she's formed a special partnership – heard to beautiful, poignant effect in their spare, voices-with-piano setting of the Willie Scott favourite 'Time Wears Awa'. Elsewhere Leslie takes solo vocals in the lightly accompanied, atmospheric 'Three Sailors', Miller sings a cappella, and the tracks are cleverly arranged, as in the voices-in-the-head 'Bedlam Boys'. This pair deserve all the awards they are already starting to garner.
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CD: Windward Away – Archie Fisher. Customer Review 4 stars
So many of us singers were inspired by Archie and his music, and in my youth he inspired me also.This album could have been recorded years ago..as Archie's voice is still as warm and tuneful as ever. If you don't buy it borrow a friends copy and LISTEN to the voice of "Scottish folk music"...cheerydavie
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CD: Aye! – Skelpaig: Reviewed for The List by Kenny Mathieson
Liley's individual and inventive fiddle lines and Adam 's energised pipes and flute soar over the solid foundation provided by Sutherland 's rhythmically poised and harmonically acute guitar work (guest Peter Hunter adds mandolin and mandola on a couple of tracks). The material is drawn from a variety of sources, both traditional and contemporary, and includes several of Liley's attractive compositions. A very promising debut....Kenny Mathieson...
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CD: Far, Far From Ypres – Various Artists: Reviewed for The Scotsman by Kenny Mathieson
THIS thoughtfully constructed but rather specialised double CD set documents songs, poems and pipe music from the First World War. It is intended as a tribute to soldiers of the UK and Commonwealth who fought and died in the battlefields of Europe, with a strong but not exclusively Scottish slant. Disc one features The Scottish Pals Singers (essentially the McCalmans and friends) performing songs sung by the troops and music hall pieces. Disc two draws on songs about the war by the likes of Eric Bogle, Dick Gaughan and The McCalmans. http://www.scotsman.com
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8. Foot Stompin' Celtic Music Discussion Forum:
Our Discussion forum is a lively place! Here are some of the topics under discussion at the moment on our Foot Stompin' Celtic Music Forum. Feel free to join in! http://www.footstompin.com/forum?forumid=3
What’s the difference?
Excuse my ignorance but can someone tell me what is the difference the Highland pipes and the Great Highland War pipes please?
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=261273
Scottish fiddle music to listen to and learn?
I've been playing mostly Irish fiddle music for many years, but I've suddenly decided I'd like to learn some Scottish stuff, and I am looking for suggestions about who to listen to.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=248862
9. Events
20th – 24th August: Marymass Festival, Irvine Ayrshire. Concerts, sessions, community events and more. Guests Tam White, Johnny Silvo & Hans Groswold, Heather Heywood, Lyra Celtica, The buskers & more.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/article/festivals/august/obj150914
21st - 24th August 2008: Mull of Kintyre Music Festival. This is an exciting festival in Campbeltown with lots of action, outdoor events, kids stuff, parades, beer tent as well as top notch concerts and ceilidhs & workshops. Guests include Bodega, Skipinnish.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/article/festivals/august/obj150916
23rd August: The Kilt Walk: Sets off at 12 noon from the Ross Theatre in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. Includes a whole range of entertainment including a ceilidh. In aid of The Rock Trust a charity which helps homeless and vulnerable young people.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=187376
23rd August: Alasdair White the brilliant fiddler from The Battlefield Band will be playing a wee concert at Coda Music in Edinburgh. Starts 3pm
http://www.footstompin.com/artists/alasdair_white
1st September: ‘Calling the tune’ National Library of Scotland. Roderick Cannon tells how Scottish pipers managed the transition from an oral to a printed tradition. Illustrated with manuscripts and books from the NLS collections. Free event. 7pm, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh Tel 0131 623 4675
5th - 7th September: TMSA Kirriemuir Festival of Music and Song. The Kirriemuir Festival is run by the TMSA (The Traditional Music & Song Association) and takes place the first weekend of September. A friendly festival where visitors are warmly welcomed. In addition to concerts on Friday and Saturday nights, there are lots of competitions, sessions and several ceilidh's.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/article/festivals/september/obj151023
10. Testimonials
Thank you for excellent service. Book arrived this morning. Grace Fraser
Thanks - arrived today - the toffee was a nice touch. Chip Chamberlain
Thank you for your helpful and friendly service over the phone. The Scottish dance cd arrived the very next morning. The wedding went like a dream and the dance section we slipped in was so much fun. For those a bit sceptical or timid a good number joined in and gave it a go, with everyone impressed and applauding. Once again thankyou for your efficient and excellent service. yours thankfully Mrs Elaine Crane
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