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Jeffery Straker
Singer-songwriter pianist Jeffery Straker serves up a rootsy-storytelling brand of song that has been said to transport listeners – out onto a northern Canadian Lake or to the main street of a prairie town. With critical comparisons to the likes of Kris Kristofferson, Jackson Browne and Murray McLauchlan he’s twice been named ‘Roots-Folk Artist of the Year’ in the Saskatchewan Music Awards.
Straker released his 9th recording “Great Big Sky” in 2024 – steeped with themes of the Canadian prairies. AmericanaUK praised it saying “With emotional and sonic depth, Great Big Sky is an album we’d thoroughly recommend”. The album saw Jeffery win a 2025 Canadian Folk Music Award for ‘Contemporary Canadian Folk Singer of the Year’. Earlier this year a copy of the CD unexpectedly made its way into Buckingham Palace and found a fan in HRH King Charles III who sent Straker a message thanking him for the music. Straker also just returned from Japan where he was invited to perform a weeklong series of shows at the Canada pavilion at Expo25 in Osaka.
Wherever he performs the artist’s audience connections are stand-out and CBC Radio has said: “He has a way of drawing us into his world and making us feel like we’re an old friend he’s ready to catch up with.”
Presented by: The Empress Theatre’s Centre Stage Series
Doors at 6:45 p.m.// Showtime at: 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $40