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Shack Tales
I am very happy to announce the release of a 4-part podcast series of my one man show “Shack Tales”.
Between 2010 and 2011, I wrote the show twice. The first script was almost done but the writing didn’t ring true to me. In hindsight, I was feeling the pressure to follow up my first show and as it turned out, “Shack Tales” was the obvious sequel to “A Place to call Home.”
This second time around, I wrote about being a stay-at-home Dad, raising my two daughters with my life partner in an old town shack. The shack where we have lived for 35 years is the backdrop for this show. It was built in the late 1930s and has been a home to many families over the decades. After my daughters grew up and moved away, I came to recognize the passing and continuity of generations. I reflected on the lives of my parents and grandparents. As I researched my family story of moving north in 1964, I found similar stories with many of the families I grew up with in Yellowknife, leading me to articulate this life experience into a live stage presentation.
The script weaves together my own family story, my parent’s story and the shack’s story with all of the trials, tribulations and the risks taken to build a better life. It is a universal story of family and community.
I would like to express my gratitude to the City of Yellowknife Heritage Committee and to the NWT Arts Council for supporting this podcast series of “Shack Tales.”
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A Place To Call Home
Pat’s one-man performance piece, A Place To Call Home, transports audiences from their place to his place – the city of Yellowknife and the land of the Northwest Territories. Through story and song, Pat reflects on growing up in this northern mining town. There’s the family cabin; the “shacks and shanties of the Woodyard” in Yellowknife’s Old Town; the eccentric characters, musicians and old timers who called those shacks home; and there’s family, friends and loves, all finding their way as finely crafted bits in this acclaimed production.
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Children Stories
From The Fire
‘From the Fire’ stories innocently came into being during the early years of my daughters Jazzan and Elora’s lives. At bedtime, they would request that I make up a story to tell and decided they would be the ones to choose the main characters. The challenge for me was to create a story based on the suggested characters while at the same time incorporating some of life’s lessons and all staying awake long enough to enjoy the story’s ending. Some nights I was quite successful and over the years so dearly treasured all the memories as well as a selection of our favorite stories.
Often while scouring for gifts in children’s book stores, I discovered audio recordings of fables, narrated by well known voices teamed up with a composer who scored the sweet musical soundtracks. This format really resonated with me and my stories. From the Fire was originally released as a CD in 2003 and 10 years later a complimenting picture book was released in 2013. Now, almost another decade later I’m thrilled to provide these stories as a Podcast.
Ben and the Cougar
Two Buffalo
Muskox
Gift of the Songbird
Tina Beluga
Runt Wolf Pup
Musicians Of The
Midnight Sun
The Musicians of the Midnight Sun Podcast is a collection of interviews profiling the music makers from the Northwest Territories, from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s. The insights contained in the following interviews document how the time and influence of these revolutions resonated with these popular and traditional musicians of northern Canada..
This website is a collection of audio/transcribed interviews and visual media profiling some of the music makers from the Northwest Territories, (NWT) in the 1960s and 1970s. The musicians featured here are only the beginning of this collection. “Musicians of the Midnight Sun” vision is to create a living archive where the musical lives and stories of northern musicians of this time can be documented, easily accessed and most importantly, celebrated.
Contact
Pat Braden
P.O. Box 1086
Yellowknife, NT
X1A 2N8