The Travelling Good Time Medicine Show : Trailer

Welcome to the Travelling Good Time Medicine Show podcast.

The objective of this episode is to give you some insight on Home Routes, the Travelling Good Time Medicine Show, and why we’re creating this podcast in the first place.

Show Notes

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/

What is Home Routes Radio?

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.