The Travelling Goodtime Medicine Show

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Home Routes Radio — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:38:39 -0400

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/

Traveling Good Time Medicine Show - A History

Home Routes — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0400

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.

Virtually Home Routes - The Road Forward

Home Routes — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:00:00 -0400

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.

The Deep Roots of Creating a Cultural Renaissance

Home Routes — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 06:00:00 -0400

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.

The Founding of Home Routes

Home Routes — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 21:34:52 -0400

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

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

The Impact of Home Routes

Home Routes — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:37:30 -0400

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
Spotify
Apple Music

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