
Festival of LOVE: The Covers
Feb 15th, 2021 by Folk on Foot
The UK’s top folk performers singing their unique versions of classic love songs. For the Folk on Foot Festival of LOVE on Valentine’s Day, 23 amazing folk acts each performed an original love song, a traditional love song and a cover version of someone else’s love song. They did it to raise money for musicians who’ve lost their livelihoods during the pandemic. You can donate at www.folkonfoot.com/festival. Now we’ve distilled the Festival into three podcast episodes. This one brings together all the cover versions. So, settle down with a drink and some snacks and get in the romantic mood. Here are the tracks:
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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