Festival of LOVE: The Covers

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

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

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

23 amazing folk acts each performing a cover version of a love song for the Folk on Foot Festival of LOVE on Valentine’s Day 2021, featuring Heidi Talbot: I Love You/Tom Waits and Allelujah/First of a Million Kisses/Fairground Attraction; Seth Lakeman: Beeswing/Richard Thompson; Lady Nade: I Remember Everything/John Prine; Kris Drever: Michelle/The Beatles; O’Hooley and Tidow: Teardrop/Massive Attack; Chris Wood: I Second That Emotion/Smokey Robinson; Bella Hardy: And I Love You So/Don Maclean; Sam Lee: Dream A Little Dream of Me/Mamas and Papas; Rachel Newton: I Will/The Beatles; Eliza Carthy: Colorblind/Irving Berlin; Beth Porter and the Bookshop Band: Under the Boardwalk/The Drifters; Gwilym Bowen Rhys: Pueblito Viejo/Jose Alejandro Morales; Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver: The Look of Love/Bacharach and David; Martin Simpson: Buckets of Rain/Bob Dylan; Kerry Andrew/You Are Wolf: Tender/Blur; Seckou Keita: No Woman No Cry/Bob Marley; Peggy Seeger: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face/Ewan MacColl; Kitty Macfarlane: Song To The Siren/Tim Buckley and Larry Beckett; The Breath: Lay Lady Lay/Bob Dylan; Steve Knightley: Romeo and Juliet/Dire Straits; Karine Polwart: Carey/Joni Mitchell; Jon Boden: I Want To Dance With Somebody/Whitney Houston; Nancy Kerr and James Fagan: You’ve Got A Friend/Carole King

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0:00.0	On Valentine's Day, we brought together an amazing 28 top folk performers to serenade you with love songs in our six-hour festival of love.
0:09.4	Each artist sang an original love song, a traditional love song, and a cover version of someone else's love song.
0:15.9	Well, now we've distilled the songs into three themed episodes of folk on foot.
0:20.9	This one brings together all the cover versions,
0:23.7	and we've listed the titles on the show notes for the episode.
0:27.1	So settle down, get in a romantic mood,
0:29.6	and relive the Festival of Love. I'm I'm I'm
0:38.3	the
0:40.3	I'm going to be able to be a good
0:57.0	I'm going to be a part of this folk on foot front room festival celebrating love. And I'm going to sing you some love songs and I would
1:30.8	like to sing these songs for any of you that are struggling with this lockdown. I know that I'm finding
1:37.8	it quite tough at the moment between homeschooling and being a mommy and trying to keep everything taken over.
1:46.9	So these songs I'm sending out to any of you that are finding it tough right now.
1:52.4	I know quite a lot of us are, but we're going to get there.
1:55.4	And until then we have love, love, love, love is the way, as Declan O'Rock says.
2:02.4	So, here I want is you, you, you, you.
2:35.0	All I want is you.
2:39.0	Give you stars above.
2:45.0	Sun on the brightest day. Give you all my love
2:55.6	If only you would say
2:59.6	I want you you
3:02.6	All I want is you you You All I want is you, you, you.
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