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The UK’s top folk performers singing beautiful traditional 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 traditional songs. So, settle down with a drink and some snacks and get in the romantic mood. Here are the tracks:   Nancy Kerr and James Fagan: The Streams of Lovely Nancy Heidi Talbot: The Blackest Crow Seth Lakeman: Portrait of My Wife Lady Nade: Good Looking/Hank Williams Kris Drever: Westlin’ Winds O’Hooley and Tidow: Lullabies for Flynn Chris Wood: A Cornish Young Man Bella Hardy: Low Down In The Broom Sam Lee: Blanafanen Rachel Newton: For Love Eliza Carthy: Bottle Beth Porter and the Bookshop Band: Tuesday Morning Gwilym Bowen Rhys: Gwen Iliw’r lili Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver: Rolling In The Dew plus tunes Martin Simpson: Donal Og Kerry Andrew: Pleasant and Delightful / The Loyal Lover Seckou Keita: Toubaka Peggy Seeger: Wedding  Dress Song Kitty Macfarlane: The Snow It Melts The Soonest The Breath: Brid Bhan Steve Knightley: Courting is A Pleasure (arr Nic Jones) Karine Polwart: Ae Fond Kiss (Burns) Jon Boden: Live Not Where I Love   The Folk on Foot podcast relies entirely on contributions from its listeners to keep going, so why not become a patron – make a small monthly contribution and get great rewards? More details here: www.patreon.com/folkonfoot.   Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram: @folkonfoot   Sign up for our newsletter at: www.folkonfoot.com