Festival of LOVE: The Original Songs
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
23 amazing folk acts each performing an original love song for the Folk on Foot Festival of LOVE on Valentine’s Day 2021, featuring Heidi Talbot: Easter Snow; Seth Lakeman: The White Hare; Lady Nade: Sweet Honey Bee; Kris Drever: When We Roll In The Morning; O’Hooley and Tidow: Blanket; Chris Wood: The Sweetness Game; Nancy Kerr and James Fagan: Seven Notes; Bella Hardy: Redemption; Sam Lee: Sweet Girl Macree; Rachel Newton: An Hour With Thee (words: Sir Walter Scott); Eliza CarthyNight Swimming; Beth Porter and the Bookshop Band: The 5th Knight and the Moon Princess; Gwilym Bowen Rhys: Clychau ‘r gog; Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver: Ruler of the Rest; Martin Simpson: An Englishman Abroad; Seckou Keita: Kana-sila; Peggy Seeger: Autumn Wedding; Kitty Macfarlane: Avona; The Breath: For You; Steve Knightley: You’re Mine; Karine Polwart: The Light On The Shore; Jon Boden: Honeysuckle Halo
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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. |
| 0:28.2 | Each artist sang an original love song, a traditional love song, and a cover version of someone else's love song. |
| 0:34.6 | Well, now we've distilled the songs into three themed episodes of folk on foot. |
| 0:39.2 | This one brings together all the original songs, and we've listed the titles on the show notes for the episode. |
| 0:46.2 | So settle down, get in a romantic mood, and relive the Festival of Love. |
| 0:50.7 | Music of love. |
| 1:29.1 | I had this image of dancing under the stars in the snow at night time with the music of the heavens playing above. So dance into the music of the heavens in the snow at night time. And I was like, |
| 1:34.7 | I'm going to try and put this in a song. So I was involved in a great project last year, a winter Christmas music project in Sweden with some fantastic musicians. And I wrote this song for the record that we made and I made the record |
| 1:47.1 | with Magnus and Sophia's Dinner Room and Rogatal Ruth. So it's called Easter Snow. Standing alone on the bike, I could frighten the fear |
| 2:17.8 | if I told the truth |
| 2:22.0 | and you believed |
| 2:24.3 | me tonight |
| 2:29.3 | with the snow falling in the side |
| 2:37.0 | I loved you once I lost you twice |
| 2:43.0 | The earth beneath the sadd her voice |
| 2:46.0 | The moon was covering our glow |
| 2:48.0 | Heaven above |
| 2:51.0 | I sang a song |
| 2:52.4 | As we dance in love alone |
| 2:54.0 | In love alone |
| 2:55.2 | In east of snow |
| 2:56.3 | Ooh |
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