Feature Length Cinematic Musical Experience : Bruce Trail -The Movie

Hiking The Bruce Trail End to End : A Journey Across Ontario

     The Bruce Trail has been hiked, end to end, a journey of 911 km or 550 miles across Ontario, documented in two seasons. 

    Season One is 19 episodes covering the first 450 km of the Bruce Trail from Queenston Heights (Niagara River) to Collingwood and Georgian Bay. Filled with scenes of the incredible Niagara Escarpment and the beautiful rolling hills of the Ontario landscape, original music is layered on scenes of the beautiful land.  S1 features songs from the albums "Upland" and "Steve Welch 2019" with some unearthed / unreleased retro classics from the archive all set to the spectacular scenes that were presented with each step in the first half of the Bruce Trail.

     Season Two also has 19 episodes beginning with a cold January hike in the amazing Kolapore Uplands. The season makes it's way through the great Beaver Valley, up and around Owen Sound and then into the magical, mystical, jaw dropping scenes along the Bruce Peninsula as the great trail reaches it's crecendo and this epic journey brought by a love of the land, goes to another level. The music in this series comes from the album "Vitality" along with a couple of special musical guests.  

    1 year and 7 1/2 months later we tagged the cairn in Tobermory, on a sunny bright October evening.  

Walking The Avon Trail - New Series!

The Avon Trail Series is a journey across rural Ontario, from quaint Conestogo along the Krampian Drain and past the Nith River, all the way to Stratford,  and across rolling hills and beautiful countryside, to St Marys at the Thames River.

I hiked the trail in sections from North to South and  picturesque scenes presented themselves in all their glory through the 120 km journey.

Check out the series at "Steve Welch Ontario" on YouTube or visit the Avon Trail Page here for more. . 

Promoting living a vital life - Inspired by nature.

 

Episode 8 Out Now - Krampien Drain

Episodes 5, 6 & 7 Out Now - Josephsburg / Sandhills / Nith River

Episode 2, 3 and 4 Out Now- Health Valley / St.Jacobs / Musselman Woods

Two New Music Videos from "Vitality" : Time to Find -filmed in Arizona & Winter Song -filmed in the frozen north. Fire and Ice.

The Bruce Trail Series : Words, Music and Film from the land.

I grew up close to the lake, the near the eastern point of Lake Ontario. Mount Nemo stood close to where the sun set. My grandfather lived near the escarpment in Waterdown, up the hill from Great Falls. The landscape was my main influence and it was such a cool area with the lake, the ancient cedars on the cliffs, and the four distinct seasons. Not far north from there are endless lakes and canoe routes.

The land is the thing that makes the most sense to me. It has inspired my music throughout my life as I strive to capture the experience the land provides and bring it back with me, to reinspire myself later. Playing my songs or listening back home brought the original inspiration out again - the original emotion brought by the land, the original pure thought captured in poem and song.

Many songs I had written over the years layered themselves effortlessly into the scenes of the Bruce Trail, filmed while completing the end to end hike. A journey of almost 1000 kilometers across the vast Ontario landscape along the Niagara Escarpment.

My hope is that the scenes of the land along the Bruce Trail speak for themselves and the words and music help to inspire a greater love, appreciation, and activity in others just as it has done for me. Or at the very least to provide a soothing distraction from modern life. A calming return to the real world. Where not much has changed and the seasons cycle on.  

The Final Hike of The Bruce Trail End to End Journey : Tobermory

New Album "Vitality" Out Now! LISTEN HERE FREE

Vitality

Steve Welch

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Vitality is the 2022 release from Steve Welch - The music is also featured in Season Two of the "End to End Hiking the Bruce Trail" series. Vitality is an album about learning how to live again. Living a vital life. In touch with the land and the seasons. To live free - and connected to the real world. "All you have to do is take that blindfold

Vitality is the 2022 release from Steve Welch - The music is also featured in Season Two of the "End to End Hiking the Bruce Trail" series. Vitality is an album about learning how to live again. Living a vital life. In touch with the land and the seasons. To live free - and connected to the real world. "All you have to do is take that blindfold off"

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NEW VIDEO FROM "VITALITY" The Man Who Trusts In God

New Release : Official Video for "Old Ontario"

New Video for the title track "Vitality"

New Video : Bruce Trail Song

The Way Back

The Way Back is on a Trail

Nothing has really changed

It's always been there. One of the lines in the song "Vitality" is "all you have to do is take that blindfold off". And that's kind of how it is. The world today is electrified but not plugged in. A meaningful life, one that makes sense, seems too far away. Walking across the landscape, logging the miles, hour after hour, over every hill, down every valley, up with the sun, burning in the mid day heat, freezing in the cold winter - got to keep moving - and walking deep into the sunsets, becomes, over time, your foundation. Upon which your life is built, that which your life revolves around. The earth, the sun and the moon. Always remember that this is always there. Every day the sun rises and every day the sun sets. Human activity is layered onto that. Not the other way around.  

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Upland

Steve Welch

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The 2021 Release "Upland" is music to return to the Earth by, packed with hits including : "Drop That Load", "More Time", "Alive Healthy and Free", "Things Are Happening", "Algorithm", "Country Road" and more.

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New t-shirt design in store now

"Natural Regeneration Area" Short-Sleeve Unisex T-Shirt
  • "Natural Regeneration Area" Short-Sleeve Unisex T-Shirt

"Natural Regeneration Area" Short-Sleeve Unisex T-Shirt

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New *Trail Inspired* T-Shirt in the shop! You've seen the signs out on the trail, now wear the shirt!

This t-shirt is everything you've dreamed of and more. It feels soft and lightweight, with the right amount of stretch. It's comfortable and flattering for all.

• 100% combed and ring-spun cotton (Heather colors contain polyester)
• Ash color is

New *Trail Inspired* T-Shirt in the shop! You've seen the signs out on the trail, now wear the shirt!

This t-shirt is everything you've dreamed of and more. It feels soft and lightweight, with the right amount of stretch. It's comfortable and flattering for all.

• 100% combed and ring-spun cotton (Heather colors contain polyester)
• Ash color is 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
• Heather colors are 52% combed and ring-spun cotton, 48% polyester
• Athletic and Black Heather are 90% combed and ring-spun cotton, 10% polyester
• Heather Prism colors are 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz (142 g/m2)
• Pre-shrunk fabric
• Side-seamed construction
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping

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