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.