It’s the middle of summer, & that means one thing…Christmas is coming! (haha) So–we’re announcing a festive 5-city tour of my Dec holiday show: “Jeffery Straker – A Very Prairie Christmas”. Can I get a big sweaty August hohoho?! Go put on your ugly sweater and run through the sprinkler & get ready to get […]
With 30 new songs whittled down to a pool of 15 ‘contenders’, I’ve started to record a 10 song album. In early July I kicked it off, recording 3 tunes with producer, Russell Broom, in Calgary AB. BIG THANKS to my auntie Joyce and uncle Murray for letting me stay with them in […]
Check out the Youtube cover video of the classic song “Always on My Mind”. Jeffery on grand piano/vocals is accompanied by a string trio and double bass, in the beautiful sanctuary of Westminster United Church in Regina, Saskatchewan. Click on the video image to watch it. Help out and share the video […]
I’m happy to be working with the 1 & only Laurie Brown, of Porch Swing Entertainment! She’s a music manager extraordinaire, now doing management consulting with me & my music. Took this pic in front of her actual porch swing in Stony Plain, Alberta after meetings last week. Big, excellent things underway. Here we come: […]
I owe a big thanks to the Saskatchewan Arts Board for supporting some of my song-writing time in early 2019, through an Independent Artist Grant I received. I was able to write a LOT of new songs from which I’ll choose 10, for my upcoming 2019 recording. Creative […]
Check out the Youtube video performance of the classic song “Always on My Mind”. Jeffery on grand piano/vocals is accompanied by a string trio and double bass, in the beautiful sanctuary of Westminster United Church in Regina, Saskatchewan. Click on the video image to watch it.
I’m looking forward to this upcoming tour of Western Canada. If you know any folks in these locations who might like the show, please help me out and pass on some word. All dates/locations are listed in the graphic. Additional info is in the tour calendar on this website too. cheers! Js
I’m pretty excited for this tour of the Netherlands coming up April 4-14. If you know any folks in these locations who might like the show, please help me out and pass on some word. This is only my 2nd time performing there so all the word-of-mouth helps! I’ll have the talented […]
Coming up March 16, I’m excited to play the legendary Happy Nun Cafe in Forget SK. The food is incredible! I’ll be playing some new songs that night to test drive them. Come and hear them for the first time. A few people have asked about this: this show was […]
I’m looking forward to being part of Telemiracle 43 this week, hosting and performing on the broadcast. The annual telethon airs live on CTV across Saskatchewan from 9pm Sat Mar 2, to 5 pm Sunday Mar 3 & is of course available to stream on-line anywhere from the Telemiracle website CLICK […]
