Bonus Episode: Folk on Foot Festival 3: TOGETHER AGAIN: Highlights

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Another extraordinary Bank Holiday Monday virtual Festival from Folk on Foot, this time re-uniting musicians who couldn’t play together during the lockdown. The Breath; Eliza Carthy and David Delarre; Johnny Flynn and his band; Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley and Duncan Chisholm; Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart and Inge Thomson; Kris Drever, John McCusker and Phil Cunningham; Lady Nade, Kit Hawes and Aaron Catlow; Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson and Andy Cutting; Peggy Seeger, Neill and Calum MacColl; Rachel Newton and Lauren MacColl; Sam Lee and his band; Show of Hands and Spiers and Boden. We have hand-picked the glorious highlights from seven hours of beautiful music for you to enjoy.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Myridae
0:06.0	The Welcome to the Folk on Foot Festival 3.
0:31.6	I'm Nancy Kerr and I'm going to be your host along with Matthew Bann, for the next seven or so hours of fantastic music.
0:39.0	And the theme of this festival is together again. And we have been reuniting musicians who
0:43.8	haven't been able to play together during the lockdown. No split screening, no special technology,
0:49.4	just musicians playing together in the same space. We're at the iconic Yellow Arch Studios in Sheffield,
0:55.9	which is where I'm going to be meeting up with my fantastic friends,
0:58.8	Martin Simpson and Andy Cutting, together again making music for you.
1:03.2	And we're going to be your house band throughout the whole festival.
1:06.8	But Martin and Andy are waiting inside. Let's get inside.
1:10.3	Great. April's sun on slapped and league
1:37.3	Between the lagoon and the haunted sea
1:40.3	I was thinking of war and cruelty.
1:45.0	When springs first swallow split the sky and I was lifted above all care as the swallow swung through the salted air
1:55.0	come from savannah and desert and sea to mark another year for me
2:07.6	Sailor's tattoo like a prayer on my arm to bring me home and safe from harm
2:15.6	though rocks may melt and seas may burn
2:19.3	Dark swift and bright swallow
2:21.3	She'll always return light swallow
2:24.3	Sweet spirit of stockyard and barn
2:27.3	You like our days with all in your charms
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