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Home Routes Radio is dedicated to celebrating Folk Music, the origins, the roots and the artists. The Podcast is also a champion of the Home Routes – Chemin Chez Nous House Concert circuits across the country connecting hosts, audiences and artists across the country. Check out www.homeroutes.ca for more info. Mitch Podolak is a living breathing Folk Music Encyclopaedia with the first hand experience in the Folk Music World that is renowned across the Country and beyond. The Wednesday Night Folk Show with Mitch Podolak is a production of Home Routes Radio. The weekly podcast is produced to connect the Home Routes hosts, artists and fans under one roof so that we can share music, ideas, and news about our growing Home Routes House Concert Circuits. The podcast is hosted by Mitch Podolak, creator and founder of Home Routes. Join Mitch and his guests each week to learn what he has in store for you, the Home Routes community.

  1. 04/06/2022

    Traveling Good Time Medicine Show - A History

    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)______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______Official Travelling Good Time Medicine Show PlaylistSpotifyApple Music ______Host: Jaxon HaldaneProducers : 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.

    Traveling Good Time Medicine Show - A History
  2. 03/30/2021

    Season Finale, Keri Latimer

    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 The post Season Finale with Keri Latimer appeared first on Home Routes.

  3. 03/17/2021

    Open, Honest, Frank Conversations with Cara Luft

    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/ The post Open, Honest, Frank Conversations with Cara Luft appeared first on Home Routes.

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Home Routes Radio is dedicated to celebrating Folk Music, the origins, the roots and the artists. The Podcast is also a champion of the Home Routes – Chemin Chez Nous House Concert circuits across the country connecting hosts, audiences and artists across the country. Check out www.homeroutes.ca for more info. Mitch Podolak is a living breathing Folk Music Encyclopaedia with the first hand experience in the Folk Music World that is renowned across the Country and beyond. The Wednesday Night Folk Show with Mitch Podolak is a production of Home Routes Radio. The weekly podcast is produced to connect the Home Routes hosts, artists and fans under one roof so that we can share music, ideas, and news about our growing Home Routes House Concert Circuits. The podcast is hosted by Mitch Podolak, creator and founder of Home Routes. Join Mitch and his guests each week to learn what he has in store for you, the Home Routes community.