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Home Routes presents Scott Cook, Corin Raymond and Jonathan Byrd: The Stay-at-Home Troubadour Revue

Couldn't be more excited for this show! Joining my pals and inspirations Corin Raymond and Jonathan Byrd, our hosts from Home Routes, and all of you for a virtual house concert on Zoom! These shows are really special 'cause we can see you all, and we'll even have a little time for Q&A. Show starts at 8pm Eastern Time, which is 6pm here in Edmonton and will be noon on Wednesday in Wagga Wagga. Tickets start at $10, get yours at https://homeroutes.ca/product/feb-2-2021-troubadour-revue/ If you're on Facebook, you can help out by sharing the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1085864341857347 It's gonna be a night to remember.

Press Release: Join us for an evening with three great songwriters who've worked and played extensively together as co-writers, fellow travellers and when-not-at-home troubadours perform songs they've written with each other, for each other, and on each other (you shoulda been there for that). Join Jonathan Byrd, Scott Cook and Corin Raymond in the round as they share fan favourites, swap stories and road-test unheard new material without a road in sight.

Jonathan Byrd is a preacher’s son, Gulf War veteran, and award-winning songwriter from North Carolina. Scott Cook is an Edmonton-based roots troubadour who made his home on the road for thirteen years, until the pandemic made living in a van less appealing, and Corin Raymond is an Ontario-based singer/storyteller who by the end of the night you'll have known your whole life.

Proudly presented by Home Routes, this show will be broadcast live to your home or bubble, safely and securely via zoom. Tickets begin at $10 and are available for purchase at homeroutes.ca.https://homeroutes.ca/feb-2-2021-troubadour-revue. All ticket buyers will receive a purchase confirmation email, and another email with an access link to join the show within 24 hours of show time. If you are purchasing multiple tickets, please specify one individual email address per ticket.

Jonathan Byrd is a preacher’s son, Gulf War veteran, and award-winning songwriter from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Jonathan’s songs have been sung by Anais Mitchell, the Bros. Landreth, Sam Bush, and many others. For Valentine’s Day, Byrd is releasing his second book of poems, a collection that touches on the erotic called “Devotion.”

Edmonton's Scott Cook toured almost incessantly across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and elsewhere from 2007 onward, distilling his experiences into straight-talking, keenly observant verse. His sixth studio album Further Down the Line earned him a second CFMA nomination (English Songwriter of the Year), and came packaged in a 132-page book offering a look back, in words and pictures, on a decade of full-time travel. In 2020 he released his seventh collection, Tangle of Souls, packaged in a 240-page hardcover book of road stories and ruminations. The album spent two weeks at #1 on Alberta's province-wide community radio network CKUA, and its second single "Say Can You See" was the most-played song of August 2020 on Folk Alliance International's folk radio charts. Since coronavirus cancelled over a year of his tour dates, he's been living in Edmonton and performing monthly online shows with his quaran-team of housemates as Scott Cook and the Indoorables. In these uncertain times, he believes more than ever that songs can change your life, and your life can change the world. "He sings his heart and soul, and in doing so lets light flood into your own... Truly one of Woody Guthrie's children." -RnR Magazine

Corin Raymond is a stay-at-home troubadour who recites Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' for company on his morning escarpment walks, pays his rent each afternoon at his rhyming room table and thanks the Lord of Song for Patreon, fans like yourselves, the friends who forgive us, and the 'Cannonball Adderley Quartet in Chicago' on vinyl. Corin was born in Winnipeg, MB, began his life in Cochenour, ON, spent his deformative years in Georgetown and forged his career while headquartered in Toronto. He now lives in a three-storey bohemian castle of a house in East Hamilton, ON, where he's taking advantage of our current global catastrophe to work on a sequel to his celebrated one-man show 'Bookworm,' finish a trunkful of songs that've been asking politely for years to be wrapped up, and to write about himself in the third person. Corin's latest 10-song album is 'Dirty Mansions," which was produced by Scott Nolan at the Song Shop in Winnipeg and released just before the ten-thousand-pound #%&!-hammer came down. The 'Dirty Mansions' CD and download is accompanied by a 264-page liner note and goes well with Corin's previous albums. Only today, Corin completed a song he started in 2015 called "The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest" which he hopes to sing for you soon.

About Home Routes: Visit Home Routes website for our full Fall lineup and/or join our mailing list to be the first to hear about all the news, shows and events we are presenting. We present ticketed and donation style shows weekly, plus workshops and more! Since its inception in 2007, Home Routes/Chemin Chez Nous has received consistent funding from the FACTOR, Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Sport, Culture and Heritage,, Manitoba Arts Council, and SOCAN Foundation for which we are eternally grateful. Without their support this wonderful program would not be possible.

$10-25 per household, sliding scale