Season 3 of the Folk on Foot Podcast is well under way!

This award winning podcast brings together the passions of media executive and broadcaster Matthew Bannister. His love of folk music, walking and telling stories in sound are the basis of the podcast – which includes many of the UK’s top folk artists as they walk, talk, play and sing in spectacular locations ranging from mountain tops to remote white sand beaches. Folk on Foot have captured the sounds of the natural world in their podcast: curlews circling overhead, waves crashing on the shore, rivers burbling under bridges, campfires crackling and above all feet tramping through all kinds of terrain. The music takes on a new power when you hear it performed in the places that inspired it.

Folk on Foot invited Duncan to join them on a pilgrimage to Sandwood Bay. The full episode is available now. To listen, please visit the Folk on Foot website, available by clicking here.

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We are very excited to announce that Duncan has been invited to perform his music at the National Celtic Festival (NCF) – Portarlington, Australia!!!

This visit to Victoria will be the first time Duncan has performed in the Australian territory and he is thrilled to be performing live to new international audiences. As well as attending the festival as a performing artist, Duncan will also be there in the capacity of Artistic Director for a Feis Rois / NCF partnership project working with young creative people to produce a new short film. Based on the model of Duncan’s award winning Kin production, this project provides a rare opportunity to further connect young people with their local cultural heritage by exploring archive material, inspiring a new film and sound track.

Sincere thanks to everyone who has taken the time to attend live performances or listened to music from Duncan’s album Sandwood over recent months.  Thanks also for the support offered through nominations and voting at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2018.

Duncan is honoured to have been awarded the prestigious Album of the Year 2018 for Sandwood as well as Composer of Year 2018 at the STMA ceremony in Perth.  It is warming to hear how many people are enjoying the album and Duncan is thrilled to see his work – and that of the wider team of musicians and production involved – appreciated amongst his peers and industry professionals.

Thanks also to Hands up for Trad and Simon Thoumire for programming a stellar line up of live music at the ceremony which you can catch on the BBC iPlayer by clicking here.

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Duncan has been invited to perform as part of the the first Festival of Small Halls which will take place around Skye and Lochalsh over eight days, towards the end of November 2018.  This is a multi-art form winter festival, bringing big music to small halls.

People, place and performance are the themes of this festival which focuses on community spirit and promotes the relevance of Scotland’s traditional culture to present and future generations.  This festival will bring some of Scotland’s greatest traditional musicians, as well as writers and visual artists to small halls in remote rural areas.

Duncan will be joined on stage by Donald Shaw, Jarlath Henderson and Innes Watson during this tour.  Full box office details are available on our Live page.

Enjoy the music….