Pat Braden
If ever you wanted a glimpse of life in Canada’s north, writer and musician Pat Braden will give you a captivating view. He weaves story into song and song into story, with spoken word resonating over a textural bed of music, a rolling chord pattern, or a shimmering soundscape, all generated on the Chapman Stick to create an extraordinary evocation of the north.
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.
Pat recently debuted his new show, Shack Tales, which tells the tale of the humorous and touching trials of a stay at home father by day and a bar musician by night, raising his two daughters in one of Yellowknife’s heritage homes; a 1930s squatter’s shack with no running water in the heart of the city’s Old Town.
“Our audience was spellbound by Pat’s enchanting style and the substance of his musical accounts of his life in the north. Pat’s performance was a highlight of our season. People are still talking about their encounter with a piece of our national culture […] he’s a documentarian of the soul of a people.”