Folk on Foot Podcast with Duncan Chisholm

July 29, 2019/in news /by admin

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.

Enjoy the music….

About Duncan

Duncan Chisholm is one of Scotland’s most recognised and accomplished fiddle players and composers; Duncan’s music contains the rarest of chemistries, a glorious combination of invention, tenderness and passion. Born and brought up near Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland, Duncan has spent most of his life developing his unique musical voice. Fiddle playing at its best, Duncan’s feather-light handling of dynamics and ornamentation, allied with his pure-distilled tone, lend his characteristic spine-tingling magic to his music.

Winner of the 2018 Scots Trad Music Awards ‘Album of the Year’ for his album Sandwood, Duncan creates music which is sumptuously layered and awash with dazzling colours, textures and rhythms. It is music that requires no introductions or programme notes to carry you on its journey. The sound may be traditional but this is 21st Century traditional music which is sophisticated, exhilarating and meltingly beautiful.

Duncan’s well-established musical career has taken him throughout the UK, Europe and the USA, both through his solo work and while playing with other musicians and bands.

With such a personal interest in and connection to the Highland landscape that so deeply inspires him, Duncan has worked hard to instil great pride and passion into recording musical masterpieces influenced by Scotland’s wild places.

“My creative world widens with each passing year and the possibilities for self-expression are limitless. Enjoy the music.” Duncan Chisholm.