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Next up at Home Routes: The Stacks on March 10

The Stacks, a husband-and-wife duo made up of New Yorker Andy Stack and Tania Elizabeth from Saskatchewan, are in Thompson March 10 for the second-last Home Routes concert of the season.
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The Stacks, a husband-and-wife duo made up of New Yorker Andy Stack and Tania Elizabeth from Saskatchewan, are in Thompson March 10 for the second-last Home Routes concert of the season.

The Stacks, a husband-and-wife duo made up of New Yorker Andy Stack and Tania Elizabeth from Saskatchewan, are in Thompson March 10 for the second-last Home Routes concert of the season.

They met in a prohibition-era blues club in New York City both having come to support a mutual friend who was playing there. A conversation about music turned into a four-hour jam session, and a duo, both professional and personal, was born. They now live in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The Stacks are a blend of old and new; blues and gospel bang smack into kitchen-party fiddle riffs. Tania's fiddle sound is made up of ghostly bowing and electric, Hendrix-inspired wails. A co-founder of the Juno and Grammy-award winning band The Duhks, she has been a full-time touring musician since age 15 when she started her own record company, released two albums back-to-back and began touring internationally, all within two years.

Tania still plays from time to time with The Duhks and also has a new project, the Tania Elizabeth Trio.

Thompson Home Routes concerts for the second season in a row are being held in volunteer hosts Tim and Jean Cameron's living room at 206 Campbell Dr. The couple moved here from Ashern two years ago. All concerts at the Cameron's place starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $20. For more information give Tim or Jean a call at 204-677-3574 or send them an e-mail at: cameron8@mymts.net. Home Routes, original venue was the Basement Bijou at Thompson Public Library, kicking off in Thompson on Sept. 22, 2009.

Performers typically do 11 shows in 14 days at their stops along the Borealis Trail circuit. Other stops on the Borealis Trail beside Thompson include Flin Flon, The Pas and Minitonas and Swan River Valley in Manitoba and in Saskatchewan, Buena Vista, Annaheim, Prince Albert, Napatak, Melfort and Greenwater Lake Provincial Park.

Other circuits on Home Routes include the Yukon Trail; Salmon-Berry in British Columbia; Cherry Bomb and Blue Moon in British Columbia and Alberta; Chautauqua Trail in Saskatchewan and Alberta; CCN SK in Saskatchewan; Central Plains in Saskatchewan and Manitoba; Jeanne Bernardin in Manitoba, Agassiz in Manitoba and Ontario; Estelle-Klein in Ontario and Québec and the Maritimes in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

Home Routes Inc. (also known as Home Routes/Chemin Chez Nous) is a national non-profit arts organization incorporated in February 2007 to create new performance opportunities for Canadian musicians and audiences, in the homes of volunteer house concert presenters organized in touring circuits through rural and urban, French and English communities in Canada. A national volunteer board of directors operates the arts-service and arts-delivery organization, along with a small professional staff in Winnipeg and more than 200 volunteer house concert hosts across Canada.

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