Jeffery Straker to perform benefit concert for the Walk to Fight Women’s Cancers
BBCN Staff
ellvie Productions, in association with The Acoustic Village, presents Toronto-based singer/songwriter Jeffery Straker in concert on Saturday, September 7 in a benefit to support the Yamaska Valley Optimist Club in their Walk to Fight Women’s Cancers. Straker performs over 100 shows per year across Canada, has recorded for CBC radio’s ‘Canada Live’, had a music video chart in the top 10 on Much More Music Canada and has toured internationally as far as Peru, Mexico and Chile.
His tour stops range from intimate house concerts to club and theatre shows and include recent sold-out concerts with several Canadian symphony orchestras, performing his own songs.
“Musically I’ve moved in a more rootsfolk direction, in some ways because that’s the sound I grew up with,” says Straker. “It seems like a really natural progression—dobro, banjo and acoustic guitar are featured, but piano is, of course, still at the core of most of my songs.”
Jeffery is currently working on his 6th album.
Straker returns to the Eastern Townships following a performance at Theatre Lac Brome in June of 2018, this time to support the Yamaska Valley Optimist Club’s annual Walk to Fight Women’s Cancers. In 18 years, the Optimist Club has raised over $865 000 for this cause, all through donations and local events.
The concert will be held at the Ferme Vitalité Sureau/elderberry Farm on Saturday, September 7. Show time will be 8 p.m. and doors will open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at www.jefferystraker.brownpapertickets.com. Seating is limited and non-alcoholic beverages will be available.
For information, call 450-558-6557 or email feedback@theacousticvillage.ca.