Jeffery Straker
@jefferystraker
88 keys. Singer-songwriter-pianist & troubadour (folk-roots). Saskatchewan Music & Western Canadian Music Award Winner. Lover of pie & pretty much any home baked morsel I can get my mitts on. Nominated for 2025 Canadian Folk Music Award!
In this summer heat hold on to your holly cuz our friends at Casino Regina have just announced tickets are on sale for TWO nights of my "Very Prairie Christmas" show, Dec 12 & 13! #regina #christmas mytickets.casinoregina.com/eventperform...
Here’s the scoop: we like ice cream a lot. The Canada Food Guide erred in not giving it its own food group. #icecream #40degreescelcius
Holy smokes our wedding is coming up July 25! We got engaged on the coast of Northern Ireland 18 months to the day of the wedding. Love is the greatest thing. Let’s get married Mister Templeton!❤️ #marryme #engagement #love #ireland
Performed 2 concerts in an old prairie grain elevator! Audience arrived by train on the Southern Prairie Railway. Such a Saskatchewan afternoon #piano #saskatchewan #train #history
I'm headed to Little Britain Ontario for a show! (Kawartha Lakes, Lindsay, Port Perry) If you'll be in this neck of the woods, come on out to the concert. Also, there are buttertarts galore in this part of Ontario. I see many bakery stops in my future... haha. Aug 15, 7pm. RSVP required.
So grateful to be awarded tour support from FACTORCanada! Taking live music on the road across Canada is so expensive (with rental costs, fees, hotels, gas, promotions, etc). Funding awards go a long way to keeping live music at accessible ticket prices for everyone. Huge thk you! #factorfunded
Played 2 shows in the old 1922 grain elevator in Horizon SK- Audiences arrived by train on the Southern Prairie Railway. Thx everyone for selling out both shows! I Love shining a light on Saskatchewan heritage. Thx Kevin Klemenz for letting us use the elevator. Watch 4 more next year! #saskatchewan
Man oh man this year‘s birthday celebration just keeps going! Michael was in the field on my birthday so Sunday he baked me this killer rhubarb cheesecake with sour cream vanilla topping. Sorry I can’t hear you over the sound of me ignoring my diet. Wow,thx for this mister! I’m spoiled #cheesecake
Just 2 grooms ordering the booze for our July wedding! No one will go thirsty lol. I love that the Rouleau liquor store is part of the insurance office in the same insurance/liquor building as Corner Gas! We Procured some samples as part of our strict quality control measures🤣 #wedding
Feeling lucky - at a show in Humboldt Saskatchewan I received 2 gifts of homemade baking. Hannah baked me, homemade brownies & Andy baked me a Christmas pudding from his Belfast mom’s recipe. Holy smokes! I’ll be adding some extra kilometre to my running route. Thank you! #bake
Regina SK house prices are bananas ! Offers waaaay over asking, no conditions, it’s the Wild West! #realestate #yqr
Snapped this landing in Regina SK yesterday. The light loves this place because it can shine forever here. There’s nothing to get in its way💥 #saskatchewan
Backyard in Regina SK is coming along. The perennials are filling out, the canna lilies got a head start in the green house, the 100 year old elms got a trim last fall! Love this space day & night #yqr
Some say it’s just a sky. Sky views, southern Alberta and Saskatchewan ❤️❤️
New touch to my old 1910 house in Regina SK. Sanded and stained my front deck: driftwood grey. I’m liking this! Added some potted canna lilies that we started in the green house. She’s coming along!
Humboldt SK-the big annual diabetes fundraiser & marathon kick off. I accepted the challenge to run first 4 miles after the banquet & right before our 1st set. Ran, Quick cold shower, put on my suit, up to the piano & sweated through the set 😂🎹. All to raise funds for finding a cure for T1 diabetes!
This was a good read! Kind of old-ish(2012) but I've had it in a stack forever & wanted to give it a whirl. Lots of insight into the inner workings of newsrooms & the media circus. Everyone remembers Lloyd from anchoring on CTV but he started at CBC (6yrs) then made the leap! I'd recommend this
Holy smokes we get married in 2 months! Thoughtful gal Andrea Stewart in Cutknife SK sent us this beautiful afghan she made us as a wedding gift! 2 main colours (1 for each of us/also our wedding colours). And it's something that'll last if we take care of it; like love. So thoughtful! Thk U Andrea❤️
This cracked me up! At my holiday show in Yorkton these 2 brought me gifts: 1 brought ginger cookies & 1 brought butter tarts (SO good!). I joked in the 2nd set that those could be their nicknames. Fast fwd-they came to my concert in Regina last week wearing these tshirts - haha I love this so much!
Thank You Saskatchewan! Both shows in partner with the Southern Prairie Railway-where the audience rides a vintage train to a concert in the old Horizon grain elevator-have SOLD OUT a month before the date. Wow! Sounds like we could have done 3 or 4. So so grateful for your support!
I've got a positive Outlook on this summer. So I'm starting my summer outdoor shows early. This Saturday May 30 5-7pm I'm playing 2 sets at the 5th annual Prairie Fest in Outlook Saskatchewan-Free admission. Lots going on: musicians Jolie Blue, North of 50 (& more) + vendor trade show & Show-n-Shine
ELBOW SK! In my first year making music for a living (2006) one of the early shows I performed was in Elbow Sask! I loved it & I've been heading back to this great town ever since. June 18 we'll be there for an outdoor show. Bryn Besse joins me on guitar. Come on out for the evening! #saskatchewan