Filkin’s Drift (Wales)
- Mar 1
- 1 min read
Filkin’s Drift are a Welsh-English duo made up of Seth Bye (fiddle) and Chris Avery (guitar and vocals), whose music grew out of an 870-mile walk through the landscapes and traditions of Wales and England. Their blend of Welsh folk songs and English dance tunes, anchored by close vocal harmonies, has earned them national airtime on numerous BBC radio programs. They have performed at FolkEast, Warwick Folk Festival, and Llangollen International Eisteddfod, and recently formed Filkin’s Ensemble, a 15-piece orchestral-folk group.
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“Adar Mân y Mynydd” (The Little Birds of the Mountain) is a traditional Welsh song in which a dying woman named Gwen sends birds to carry word to her lover that she will not survive the summer. The song’s elegiac tone reflects a Welsh tradition of using nature as intermediary between the living and the dying: “The nightingale and the lark / And the little birds of the mountain / Will you go as messengers to the hue of summer / Who suffers from a new disease / Oh, tell him very softly / That the length of my life is to be short.”
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