Cerys Matthews: Where the Wild Cooks Go Tour 

Join Cerys Matthews - BBC broadcaster and music icon – as she takes us around the world, celebrating her love of food and music on a 6 date tour this September.

Cerys Matthews - Song-loving cook or food-loving musician? Either way, Cerys Matthews has been experimenting with music and food ever since she can remember.

With a childhood spent foraging and learning to make flapjacks and nettle soup, followed by a life of touring as a musician around the world and delighting in the delicious local delicacies discovered along the way, a love for food and cooking has always been central to Cerys Matthews’ life. And now, to mark the publication of her glorious new book, Where the Wild Cooks Go, she is bringing her culinary learnings from around the globe to multiple UK venues.

Cerys will be sharing the flavours, ingredients, cocktails and tunes that have inspired her over a lifetime of cooking and travelling. She will indulge us with some poetry readings and a sprinkling of singing, playing a few of her favourite songs from the countries that she has visited.

3rd September, Epstein Theatre, Liverpool

4th September, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff 

5th September, Quays Theatre, The Lowry, Salford Quays

24th September, Liberty Hall, Dublin

25th September, The Old Market, Hove

26th September, Cecil Sharp House, London

Cerys Matthews is a DJ on BBC World Service, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music where she programmes and hosts an award-winning weekly show. Cerys writes and presents documentaries for BBC Radio 4, 3 and 2 as well as BBC Television.  

She was the founder member of multi-million selling band Catatonia and duets with Sir Tom Jones on the perennial winter favourite, Baby its Cold Outside. Her self-produced album of traditional Welsh songs, ‘Tir’ is the biggest selling Welsh language album of the past ten years, the second volume, ‘Hullabaloo’ followed in 2013.

Her festival, The Good Life Experience, celebrates outdoor cooking. Bill Granger, River Cottage´s Gill Meller, Signe Johansen, Thomasina Miers, Anna Jones and Petershams Nursery´s Damian Clisby are just some of the chefs invited each year to cook on flames and charcoal.

Cerys is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Hook Line and Singer and children´s books Tales from the Deep and Gelert. She is vice-president for both Shelter and the Hay Festival, and recipient of a St David Award for Culture and an MBE.

Cerys cooks daily and lives in West London.

This event is produced by Penguin Live.

Penguin Live produces live experiences with the writers that readers love. Our events range from intimate gatherings to extensive tours, featuring comedians and novelists, chefs and big thinkers – from Ruby Wax, Reggie Yates and Caitlin Moran to Simon Sinek, Arundhati Roy and Nadiya Hussain.

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