Walking Wales
870 miles | 2 musicians | 50 shows
CERDD // ED, an 870-mile walking tour of the Wales Coast Path, is a radical approach to sustainable touring. With the climate emergency sharply in focus and people looking for new ways of connecting post-covid, it is clear that the music industry needs fresh and imaginative approaches to touring. Folk duo Filkin’s Drift have found an answer in the ancient Welsh bardic tradition.In the Welsh language, ‘Cerdd’ means music and ‘Cerdded’ means to walk. To Filkin’s Drift, this suggests an intrinsic connection between the acts of roaming and creating music. Along the way, the duo will collect songs, stories, and tunes to incorporate into their gigs, weaving together a tapestry of shared experiences of the Welsh coast.
CERDD // ED solves a global problem in a local way. It will be a pioneering voice as the music industry changes its approaches to touring; It will bring communities closer together; and it will bring Wales to the fore, as the country pioneering this change.
We are supported by Help Musicians and Fusion Gig Bags, and are raising money for the charity Live Music Now.
Walking Wales
Keep up with Seth and Chris every step along the way…
We are releasing weekly vlogs to keep you updated with our 870 mile journey. Join us for long walks, live recordings and travelling tales.
See how the landscape of Welsh coast changes as we walk from North to South. How do we operate on a day-to-day basis? Get behind the scenes content from our performances and visits to rural communities.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to catch the latest videos!
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Follow our Journey
Keep up with Seth and Chris every step along the way…
We are releasing weekly vlogs to keep you updated with our 870 mile journey. Join us for long walks, live recordings and travelling tales.
See how the landscape of Welsh coast changes as we walk from North to South. How do we operate on a day-to-day basis? Get behind the scenes content from our performances and visits to rural communities.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to catch the latest videos!
Live in Concert
The best way to experience CERDD // ED is at one of our live shows.
After a busy summer touring at festivals, Filkin’s Drift bring their pizzicato grooves and intricate melodies to the Welsh coast. We are performing over 45 shows across the coast, join us for an evening of tunes, songs and stories from our journey.
Head over to the shows page to see our full concert listings.
Live ShowsLive in Concert
The best way to experience CERDD // ED is at one of our live shows.
After a busy summer touring at festivals, Filkin’s Drift bring their pizzicato grooves and intricate melodies to the Welsh coast. We are performing over 45 shows across the coast, join us for an evening of tunes, songs and stories from our journey.
Head over to the shows page to see our full concert listings.
Help Our Cause
Live Music Now is a charity that has been crucial to our development as musicians and people. We want to raise money for this charity to continue their amazing work connecting people, and nurturing socially-engaged musicians.
Their musicians connect with people experiencing social exclusion or disadvantage, working together to create engaging, interactive, evidence-based live music sessions that meaningfully enhance health and well-being, improve communication, strengthen relationships and deliver positive effects long after the last note has been played.
We hope that our walking tour of the Welsh coast will have a similar effect as we bring live music to rural areas that don’t often get visiting musicians, and connect with communities along the way.
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Help Our Cause
Live Music Now is a charity that has been crucial to our development as musicians and people. We want to raise money for this charity to continue their amazing work connecting people, and nurturing socially-engaged musicians.
Their musicians connect with people experiencing social exclusion or disadvantage, working together to create engaging, interactive, evidence-based live music sessions that meaningfully enhance health and well-being, improve communication, strengthen relationships and deliver positive effects long after the last note has been played.
We hope that our walking tour of the Welsh coast will have a similar effect as we bring live music to rural areas that don’t often get visiting musicians, and connect with communities along the way.
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CERDD//ED BLOG- Week 9
The Home Stretch and Beyond
After the triumphant home coming of the Cardiff gig, in the city where Chris and I studied and we could have sold out the Norwegian church at least twice over, there were still 3 days to go to complete the tour and …
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CERDD//ED Blog- Week 8
Changing Worlds
The stretch of coast we’ve reached now feels very different- lots of industry and built up areas, sometimes the artificial Ballardian landscapes of motorways and subways, suddenly appearing interesting just due to the variation they …
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CERDD//ED Blog- Week 7
Familiar Territory
We have now reached the penultimate numbered week and the not-insignificant milestone of 750 miles (ish). All the adventures you’ve read about in these blogs and watched here are behind us and something is beginning to happen. …
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CERDD//ED Blog- Week 6
Cow and Gate
On day 40, we walked from Neyland to Angle. It was a strange one, wandering through a somewhat neglected/unloved landscape of oil refinery perimeters, abandoned villages and quiet fields, all the while being totally disoriented by the …
CERDD//ED Blog- Week 5
Setting out my Stall
One of my primary roles on this tour is ticket/merch man, and by extension, lugging a stock of CDs as well as the laptop and card machine around all 870 miles on my back. Every gig, while Chris and Seth set up, warm up and …
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CERD//ED Blog- Week 4
Strange by Nature
Touring on foot, walking 10-20 miles every day means spending a lot of time outside. As such, we’ve seen some great wildlife, which you can read about HERE in my week 1 blog, and which we can now add grass snake to, but also some …
CERDD//ED Blog- Week 3
Nomads like Home
Throughout the first 3 weeks of this tour, we’ve stayed in a veritable smorgasbord of different structures. From yurts to caravans, roundhouses to just plain ol’ houses, it’s been a mini adventure every day within the bigger one as …
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CERDD // ED Blog- Week 2
Time and Space
Our perception of these dimensions has already become warped on this trip. We see and experience so much and meet so many people and are in so many places (despite moving relatively slowly) that our path-weary brains are finding it …
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