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1. Sexy Folk Music! The Cast
2. New Releases at Foot Stompin'
3. Amazing website audio
4. DVD of the Week: The Year of the Flood - Runrig
5. Festival Spotlight: Blas Festival
6. Books we think you might like! Robert Burns - Farmer, Burns Supper Companion, Amazing Graces
7. Snippets
8. CD Reviews: On Safari, Sound of Vatersay
9. Foot Stompin' Celtic Music Discussion Forum: includes 'Ouch'
10. Events
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1. SEXY FOLK MUSIC !!
Congratulations to 'THE CAST'! We've heard this week that the new 'Sex and the City' movie have chosen the Scots duo of Dave Francis and Mairi Campbell's version of the Robert Burns classic 'Auld Lang Syne' (from their album 'The Winnowing) to play a major part in the film. Their version is very beautiful and poignant and is fantastic in the film. Watch the video, listen to the track at footstompin.com £11.25 (£12.50 for first time customers)
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2. NEW AT FOOT STOMPIN'
A LONG TIME COMING!! The Skye based musician and composer Blair Douglas releases his fifth studio album 2 June. Internationally acclaimed, with musical compositions that have resonated across the globe and across the genres, Blair is still, in many ways, Gaelic culture's best kept secret. Stay Strong/ Bithibh Laidir / Rester Fort is a mainly song based album featuring a variety of guest vocalists such as Michael Mara, Eddi Reader, Cookie Rankin, Kathleen McInnes and Runrig's Bruce Guthro and Rory Macdonald. The album will be at Foot Stompin' with the next few days. £11.70 (£12.99 for first time customers)
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Checkout the interview with Blair Douglas: http://www.footstompin.com/artists/blair_douglas
MASSES OF MUSIC!! The Celtic Collection (double album)- Compilation: With this release KRL are celebrating 30 years in the business of recording folk music and have drawn together a host of tracks from artists such as The Old Blind Dogs, Gaberlunzie, Chris Armstrong, Coila, The Iron Horse and many more. £11.25 (£12.50 for first time customers). Have a listen for yourself.
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SKIRLIE BEAT!! Piping All Over The World (double album): More celebrating from record Label KRL with this excellent compilation. In all there are 36 amazing tracks featuring pipe bands from all over the world. If you can't get enough of the skirl of bagpipes then this double album is for you! £11.25 (£12.50 for first time customers). Have a listen for yourself.
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CATHEDRAL MUSIC!! Sacred Choral Works (Sir Peter Maxwell Davies) - Tough, uncompromising and of surpassing beauty, these major contributions to the Anglican repertoire are given thrilling voice by those fearless champions of contemporary liturgical music, Matthew Owens and the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. The Choir has been described by The Sunday Times as 'one of the UK's finest cathedral choirs'. It is unique in Scotland, in maintaining a daily choral tradition and singing over 250 services every year. £11.70 (£12.99 for first time customers) Have a listen for yourself.
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ALWAYS GOOD!! The Living Tradition Magazine - Issue 79: A great 'read' for folk fans with consistently fine articles, reviews, insights and more into the world of traditional music. This issue includes an interview with Scots singer Sylvia Barnes and articles about Sean nos singing, the history of Flatpicking guitar, archive photographs and Australia's Bush Dance tradition. £2.93 (£3.25 for first time customers).
http://www.footstompin.com/products/books/the_living_tradition_issue_79
3. Amazing website audio
We've spent the last few weeks working into the small hours to bring you MP3 CD audio clips across the site. You can now not only hear clips on all the CD pages but you can now hear a sample in all the collections eg click on Fiddle Music, choose West Coast / Highland Fiddle Music and you will see all the CDs in front you and you can hear them! We love it! Give it a try and tell us what you think.
4. DVD of the Week: The Year of the Flood (DVD) - Runrig
RUNRIG hit the Top Spot! - No1 in the UK DVD music charts with 'The Year of the Flood'.
The long awaited DVD of the Beat The Drum concert, filmed at Drumnadrochit, Loch Ness on 18 August 2007. Year Of The Flood will bring back many memories of an unforgettable day when a sell-out audience of 18,000 people gathered to celebrate the band's flagship event of Highland Year Of Culture 2007. It was to prove to be the wettest day for the area in living memory. A day of music and celebration - a day of relentless deluge - an event that none present would ever forget! For those who have never experienced a Runrig concert over the past 35 years, this DVD is as close as you'll get to sampling the adrenaline-pulsing atmosphere of one of Europe's top rock acts. £14.40 (£15.99 for first time customers)
http://www.footstompin.com/products/dvd/runrig__year_of_the_flood_dvd
5. Festival Spotlight: Blas Festival 2008: 5th - 13th September
Blas Festival, which celebrates the culture of the Scottish Highlands through music and language, has launched its programme for September and what a programme it is! This festival is rapidly establishing itself as the Highlands' premier Gaelic and traditional music festival. Blas takes place in venues across the Highlands - - in Badenoch & Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross-shire, Skye & Lochalsh, and Sutherland - and includes an eclectic line-up of local, national and international artistes. Amongst the many artistes appearing are The Chieftains, the Peatbog Fairies, Daimh, Cherish the Ladies, the Jenna Reid Band, Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, Breabach, Shooglenifty, the Finlay MacDonald Band, Rona Lightfoot, The Vatersay Boys to name but a few... Read more.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/article/festivals/september/obj150982/obj151070 .
Did you see fiddler Bruce MacGregor in a plane on TV last week launching the September Blas Festival? Well here's his brilliant album packed full of great fiddle tunes. (You can listen to a bit of the track he played too)
http://www.footstompin.com/products/cds/101_reasons_to_do_nothing
6. Books we think you might like! Robert Burns - Farmer, Burns Supper Companion, Amazing Graces
Two very interesting books each relating to Scotland's National Poet Robert Burns have come our way this month.
Robert Burns - Farmer: Few readers of Burns' poetry appreciate the rigours of the farming life to which he was brought up. Farming in Ayrshire in the latter part of the eighteenth century involved an arduous and demanding routine. The domestic architecture, the equipment, the animals, the techniques, the whole way of life, are all present in the most detailed and intimate way in Burns' poetry. Reading Gavin Sprott's account of all this, with its precise detail and its careful pointing to the reflection of the farming life in the poetry, we are given a new awareness of the context and meaning of what Burns wrote. This is a rare book. £4.05 (£4.50 for first time customers) http://www.footstompin.com/products/books/robert_burns_farmer
Burns Supper Companion: In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns' death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns Cottage in Alloway. By then an inn, it was in the 'auld clay biggin' where Robert Burns had been born that the first Burns Supper took place. They gathered to celebrate his extraordinary life and to gave thanks for his friendship. It was a simple evening, where they reminisced about his work, sang a few songs, roared with laughter remembering the fiery barbs from his skelpin' tongue, made speeches and drank toasts to his memory. Over the years the informal theme from that evening has developed into the mystical ritual known as Burns Night.. £5.39(£5.99 for first time customers)
http://www.footstompin.com/products/books/burns_supper_companion
Amazing Graces: The Very Revd. William J. Morris has become famous for his unique ability to pen graces appropriate for formal dinners and professional gatherings. This book consists of some 150 graces which can be used to enliven any event where a grace must be said. Over 150 graces for every sort of formal dinner occasion. The Very Revd William J Morris has been Minister of Glasgow Cathedral since 1967. . £4.05 (£4.50 for first time customers)
http://www.footstompin.com/products/books/amazing_graces
7. Snippets
Tickets on sale for Nòs Ur song contest
Tickets are now on sale for the first Celtic & Scots languages song contest to be held in the Highlands on 23rd June as part of a number of regional competitions across Europe. Nòs Ùr, means 'new style' in Gaelic received 42 entries of newly composed songs in Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Scots, Manx, Welsh and Breton..More info;
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=199795
Karine, Inge, Kirsty and Mat on The Tall Ship
Karine Polwart is one of Scotland's top roots music names and she is all set to keep her Glasgow fans happy when she makes a rare appearance in the company of some musical friends on The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour on June 8.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=199572
African Childrens Choir on tour in Scotland
T dozen 9 to 12 year olds from South Africa, most having lost one or both parents to AIDS. The kids are full of life, full of fun, and with a huge talent for song and dance.
They are performing all round Scotland and the UK over the next few months.
http://www.africanchildrenschoir.com/seechoir/seechoir.php?pageID=51&choir=20
Malinky celebrate 10 years with a new album
..to be recorded in late July at Dougie MacLean's Butterstone Studio. Meanwhile the band have a busy month ahead with gigs in Scotland, Denmark and England before heading off for a two weeks in the USA
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=199686
8. Reviews
CD: A Celebration of the Music of Gordon Duncan - Reviewed in The Scotsman
A SOUVENIR of the tribute concert held as a celebration of the music of the late Gordon Duncan at Perth Concert Hall last September, this warts-and-all live recording captures something of the mood of the night along with some fine music. Gordon's father, Jock, is no respecter of recording technology, and regularly wanders off-mic with his imaginary horses during his ebullient rendition of The Plooin' Match. It is rightly included despite that glitch, alongside songs from Maggie MacInnes, Kris Drever and Dougie MacLean. Needless to say, pipes of various descriptions are prominent, with Allan MacDonald, Jarlath Henderson and Ross Ainslie among the featured soloists, and the Atholl Highlander's Pipe Band and the National Youth Pipe Band supplying the ensemble variety.
http://www.footstompin.com/products/cds/a_celebration_of_the_music_of_gordon_duncan__a_national_treasure
CD: The Sound of Vatersay - The Vatersay Boys: Customer Review 5 stars
Love it! Love it!, Finally I have a copy of the Gael after years of dancing to it at their gigs. Superb album - highly recommend it....Susan
http://www.footstompin.com/products/cds/the_sound_of_vatersay
CD: The Old Style - Blazin Fiddles: Customer Review 4 stars
Again the fiddle group have 'Blazed' a trail through the music. The band set these classics on fire and give the genre an entirely new lease of life..Jo Buchan
http://www.footstompin.com/products/cds/the_old_style
CD: My Joy of You - Doris Rougvie: Reviewed for The Living Tradition by David Kidman
Her voice soars radiantly, whether on traditional or contemporary material: the disc strikes a healthy balance between these, with moving versions of songs by andy Mitchell, Robin Laing, Jim Douglas and Ian Davison..
http://www.footstompin.com/products/cds/my_joy_of_you
CD: On Safari - Keep It Up: Customer Review 5 Stars
I heard this in my brother's car and was so taken with it I made him burn me a copy. I never knew folk music could be this exciting. I love the way the sets build up and really get you going. Pure magic..ps I will BUY another of their CDs if they have one!...Ruth Barlow
http://www.footstompin.com/products/cds/on_safari
9. 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
Are bands like the Alexander Brothers traditional music or music hall?
.Do you think that the service they are doing is keeping music hall alive or are they tradition bearers? Do the young musicians today have a lot to thank the Alexander Brothers for as they have created a 'business' for them in keeping Scottish music on the map?
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=199236
Ouch!
One of the Foot Stompers was making his way home last night and came across an accident with an ambulance in attendance opposite Coda Music in Bank Street Edinburgh (that's the only musical part of this story).....
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=199748
10. Events
5th June: Box Club, Skerryvore and Red Hot Chilli Pipers at Falkirk Town Hall . Tickets from Box Office - 01324 506850
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=187459
6th June: RSAMD Juniors Scottish Music Concert-Free but ticketed. (0141) 332 4101. 7pm. Guiness Room in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama on Renfrew Street, Glasgow. A great night of music!
http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=199461
7th - 14th June: Nairn Book & Arts Festival: A lovely little festival in this beautiful Highland seaside town. Nairn is an excellent base for exploring the Scottish Highlands; the Moray Firth coastline; Inverness and Loch Ness. Includes a Traditional music night with the Vass twins and the Anna Massie band, Gaelic music evening, Appalachian and Scottish fiddle music played by Ian Hardie, The Howlin' Gaels.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/article/festivals/june/obj150674
13th - 15th June: Keith Festival. The little town of Keith lies on the A96 between Aberdeen and Elgin and every year, in June, it hosts a wonderful Scottish traditional music and song festival. As well as lots of ceilidhs there are also competitions, concerts, open air events, a special Sunday church service featuring the folk festival guests and more. Guests include The McCalmans, Scott Gardiner, Paul Anderson.
http://www.footstompin.com/public/article/festivals/june/obj150668
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