Episode 5 is here, and our illustrious host Jaxon Haldane along with our guests talk about how deeply our roots have penetrated into the hearts, and souls of our staff, volunteers, hosts, and artists.

Guest Interviews:
Jeffery Straker (2:40)
Jason Arkley (3:57)
Ava Kobrinksy (6:26)
Shari Ulrich (9:48)
Caroline Brooks (12:30)
Russ Kelley (25:00)
Leonard Podolak (31:40)

Musical Guest:
Double The Trouble (17:00)
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Tickets to the 2022 Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Concert Series can be purchased here

April 29 @ 8 PM ET
West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg
Bobby Dove • Double The Trouble • Del Barber
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Official Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Playlist
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Host: Jaxon Haldane
Producers : Jordan Moore (The Pod Cabin) and Tim Fraser (Murdoch Podcast Network)
Executive Producer : Jason Arkley (Home Routes)

Thank you to FACTOR and the Canadian Arts Council for funding this project, and to you for listening.

Episode 4 is all about the life-blood of Home Routes, our hosts and volunteers. Host Jaxon Haldane along with our guests talk about developing the Home Routes touring circuits, and the volunteers that make it all possible.

Guest Interviews:
Ava Kobrinksy (2:20)
Tim Osmond (3:20)
Leonard Podolak (4:35)
Tim and Elly Spencer (5:10)

Musical Guest:
Good Lovelies (9:16)
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Tickets to the 2022 Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Concert Series can be purchased here

April 22 @ 8 PM ET
National Music Centre, Calgary
Julian Taylor • Good Lovelies • Coco Love Alcorn
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Official Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Playlist
Spotify
Apple Music

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Please consider supporting Home Routes on Patreon
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Host: Jaxon Haldane
Producers : Jordan Moore (The Pod Cabin) and Tim Fraser (Murdoch Podcast Network)
Executive Producer : Jason Arkley (Home Routes)

Thank you to FACTOR and the Canadian Arts Council for funding this project, and to you for listening.

In Episode 3, host Jaxon Haldane talks about the glory of workshop sets at Canadian Folk Festivals and how the spirit of the spontaneous jam not only bring new life and excitement to the stage, but was instrumental in the formation on Home Routes.

Guest Interviews:
Leonard Podolak (4:24)
James Keelaghan (5:30)
Tim Osmond (7:49)
Russ Kelley (17:36)

Musical Guest:
Jeffery Straker (9:44)
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Tickets to the 2022 Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Concert Series can be purchased here

April 15 @ 8 PM ET
National Music Centre, Calgary
The McDades • Jeffery Straker • Jenny Allen
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Official Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Playlist
Spotify
Apple Music

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Please consider supporting Home Routes on Patreon
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Host: Jaxon Haldane
Producers : Jordan Moore (The Pod Cabin) and Tim Fraser (Murdoch Podcast Network)
Executive Producer : Jason Arkley (Home Routes)

Thank you to FACTOR and the Canadian Arts Council for funding this project, and to you for listening.

In Episode 2, host Jaxon Haldane sits downs with the Home Routes team to recount the days following the harsh realty of a global pandemic, and how they quickly overcame the obstacles to bring Home Routes into the emerging digital world.

Guest Interviews:
Ava Kobrinksy (2:36)
Leonard Podolak (3:19)
Graham Lindsey & James Keelaghan (11:43)

Musical Guest:
Ostwelve (4:50)
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Tickets to the 2022 Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Concert Series can be purchased here

April 8 @ 8 PM ET

Blue Frog Studios, Vancouver

BC World Music Collective
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Official Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Playlist
Spotify
Apple Music

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Host: Jaxon Haldane
Producers : Jordan Moore (The Pod Cabin) and Tim Fraser (Murdoch Podcast Network)
Executive Producer : Jason Arkley (Home Routes)

Thank you to FACTOR and the Canadian Arts Council for funding this project, and to you for listening.

In August 1980, Winnipeg Folk Festival founders Mitch Podolak and Ava Kobrinsky produced a tour across Alberta called The Travelling Goodtime Medicine Show. The tour was a school bus full of now legendary musicians - Sylvia Tyson, Stan Rogers, Connie Kaldor and Jim Post - travelling from town to town, bringing one-day mini-festivals to each of these communities. This tour was an important catalyst for the founding of The Calgary and Edmonton Folk Festivals, also laying the theoretical framework for an organization that would begin to take shape 25 years later: Home Routes

To celebrate their 15th anniversary, Home Routes is rekindling the name from those legendary concerts that laid the foundation for Canada’s folk music institutions, and creating a new concert series, along with this companion podcast mini-series.

In Episode 1, host Jaxon Haldane brings you back in time to interview those that were there for the birth of The Travelling Good Time Medicine Show.

Guest Interviews:
Holger Peterson (3:50)
Suze Casey (7:20)
Valdine Ciwko (14:23)
Jason Arkley (15:15)

Musical Guest:
Burnstick (8:20)
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Tickets to the 2022 Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Concert Series can be purchased here

April 1 @ 8 PM ET

West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg

The Small Glories

Burnstick

Sala
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Official Travelling Good Time Medicine Show Playlist
Spotify
Apple Music

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Host: Jaxon Haldane
Producers : Jordan Moore (The Pod Cabin) and Tim Fraser (Murdoch Podcast Network)
Executive Producer : Jason Arkley (Home Routes)

Thank you to FACTOR and the Canadian Arts Council for funding this project, and to you for listening.

In August 1980, Winnipeg Folk Festival founder Mitch Podolak co-created and produced a tour across Alberta called The Travelling Goodtime Medicine Show. The tour was a school bus full of now legendary musicians – Sylvia Tyson, Stan Rogers, Connie Kaldor and Jim Post – travelling from town to town, bringing one-day mini-festivals to a string of host communities. This tour was an important catalyst for the founding of The Calgary and Edmonton Folk Festivals, also laying the theoretical framework for an organization that would begin to take shape 25 years later: Home Routes.

To celebrate their 15th anniversary, Home Routes is rekindling the name of this legendary endeavour that laid the foundation for some of Western Canada’s folk music institutions. We’re creating a new concert series, unlocking novel artistic expressions and creative collaborations.

The 2022 version of the Travelling Goodtime Medicine Show is a series of 5 streaming concerts from premier music venues, available to everyone, everywhere.

For more information, please go to our website : https://homeroutes.ca/

Join Jaxon Haldane in conversation with Keri Latimer in this season’s Home Routes Podcast finale, as they discuss coping strategies used over the past year, what new opportunities arose from the lockdown and what the new live show reality might look like. Also Keri talks about her passion about the history of synthesizers, about laying down harmonies on other people’s projects and tells us about her experience with Stories to Songs project made in collaboration with Crescent Arts Centre.

Keri Latimer is a musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba and frontwoman of the band Leaf Rapids. She has been touring internationally for 15 years and has been recognized with numerous Canadian music awards most notably a JUNO.

Career highlights include featured theremin performances with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and contributing scores to films including Academy Award nominated, Frozen River; Guy Maddin’s, Only Dream Things; and Shelagh Carter’s feature film, Before Anything You Say for which she was awarded a 2018 Breakout West Award for Visual Media Composer of the Year.

With the help of Canada Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Manitoba Arts Council Keri is currently composing an album of music for theremin.

http://www.leafrapids.org/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/46dvYIERUrmJRFUihF6Wp1

https://www.instagram.com/leafrapidsmusic

https://twitter.com/leafrapidsmusic

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Jaxon and Cara discuss the realities of a post-pandemic future as Canadian touring musicians. Cara talks about her tiny house-on-wheels tour plans for this summer.

Juno award winning singer-songwriter-musician extraordinaire Cara Luft is that rare artist steeped in folk and traditional roots music almost from birth, yet willing to alter the fabric, stretch the boundaries and fearlessly bend genres and styles. A founding member of Canadian folk super-group The Wailin’ Jennys and the brainchild/bandleader of Winnipeg’s powerhouse duo The Small Glories, Luft deserves her solid reputation as one of Canada’s finest live performers whose engaging, down-home style comes wrapped in a delicious sense of humour. To quote the roots magazine No Depression, “Luft has a rich tradition in folk music – it’s safe to assume that she knows her stuff – and upon listening it becomes quite clear that she is indeed a formidable songwriter and performer… [The] lovely Ms. Luft sets the bar for the talented few who’ll follow in her footsteps.” Cara has a spirit that drives her to connect with people, and for this she is loved everywhere she goes. She’s the real deal, there’s nothing pretentious about her. And that sense of honesty, integrity, personality and spontaneity permeates both her music and her live shows. “Long may she reign!” (Lonesome Highway)

Web: http://thesmallglories.com

Video: https://youtu.be/iP7pB2kcCbU

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Z7M91Sk3DTaYnEqeDvlcw

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caraluft/

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