Happy Thanksgiving from Saskatchewan! Feeling healthy with 2 “salads” on the dinner table: Mandarin salad (w jell-o & dream whip) + Heavenly hash (w coloured marshmallows, dream whip, cocktail fruit). Always eat your salads kids😂🙌🏻💥 #thankful #salad

Spoiled rotten at our last 2 tour stops. A gift of home made eccles cakes in Kimberley BC & a gift of a home made carrot cake in Fort Macleod AB. Whoah! Feelin the love on the road, thank you ❤️❤️

A beautiful old preserved Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator in Creston BC #creston #bc

Driving the Slocan Valley to the show in Kimberley tonight. The views the views! #bc #slocan #piano

I take my running gear with me when on tour. So easy to carry. Went for a morning run along the ocean in Parksville BC. What a gorgeous morning, gorgeous town! #run #parksville

Shot a TV commercial for Saskatchewan’s charity, Telemiracle. Watch for it soon on CTV. This year is the 50th anniversary of this telethon that started out as someone’s ‘crazy little idea’. Big plans are in the works to mark half a century of changing people’s lives. Ring Those Phones!☎️❤️

A kind gent who came to a show offered to take us boating on Sproat Lake out here on Vancouver Island. Wow! Move over Muskokas. Sproat Lake wins the beauty pageant! (Even the Vanderbilts built a cottage here!) #bc

Victoria BC is such a gorgeous city!! And the Audience who came out for the show last night was fantastic too! Whoah what a crowd. Thank you for being amazing ! #victoria #piano

Seafood chowder & then a sold out show in Parksville BC. What a way to arrive on Vancouver Island! Thanks for the great great night. So wonderful on the west coast. Heading to play a show inVictoria tonight #pianoplayer #victoria

Harrison Hot Springs BC is so beautiful! Wow. And the Audience was also wonderful. What a town, what a great night. Thx Harrison Festival for the invite #pianoplayer #britishcolumbia

Fresh home made apple pie in Salmon Arm BC. Apples from the orchard right outside the kitchen window. Thanks Joan for the great meal on the road. Had a blast performing the show in Salmon Arm/Gleneden last night #okanagan

On the road on a western Canada tour. Folks are keeping us SO well fed along the way. Great Meals & road snacks - even some Saskatchewan style dainties in a tin! Feeling the love; thk u. Tonight we play in Salmon Arm BC #piano #livemusic #salmonarm

Home sweet home In Regina’s cathedral neighbourhood! Built in 1910 as a CPR workers house. By the early 2000s it was a crack house. I bought it for a song 18 years ago and gave it lots of TLC and…money (lol) and brought it back to life. Love this place #regina #home

My annual Holiday show "A Very Prairie Christmas" is making 8 stops across Saskatchewan this year. Plus a brand new 12-song Christmas album releases in Nov. Can't wait for some prairie fa-la-las. Info on my website: www.jeffstraker.com/shows/. Hope to see you in December! #Saskatchewan #Christmas

Early morning run around Regina’s Wascana Lake. Wow, She’s like glass this morning ! #regina #runner

Thanks @theradiobrock.bsky.social for spinning my new song on CKUA radio across Alberta today! Listen to the stream of her show here: ondemand.ckua.com/search/shows... #radio #alberta

Haha worst selfie ever! Thank you Saskatoon for that great night at The Bassment last night ❤️ We head out across Western Canada starting Tues in Medicine Hat. All the dates are on my website jeffstraker dot com C u soon!! #piano #livemusic

New music!! 'Keep on Climbing' is inspired by a memory of going for a walk with my mom when I was a kid. Her encouraging words have stuck with me for yrs & I turned them into this tune. Have a listen & if you like it pls share it with a friend🎹❤️: ffm.to/keeponclimbing

Saturday morning on the roof of a 13th century castle in County Galway Ireland. Sunday afternoon I’ll be in my house in Regina Saskatchewan. Life is a trip! “Not all those who wander are lost”☘️🙌🏻

A weekend wedding in an Irish castle from the 1200s in Co.Galway. In Irish fashion there’s a pre wedding party tonight, wedding party tomorrow & the post wedding party the next day😂☘️. Then I fly back to Saskatchewan with a very sore head #wedding #ireland

Got a brand new song that will release on all the streaming platforms on Sept 23. Gonna perform it for the very first time in....Saskatoon, Sept 25. YXE is lucky to have a venue like The Bassment; can't wait for this show! #piano #Saskatoon #newmusic

Started my day with a sweet run around Regina’s Wascana Park. Such a peaceful place in the early AM. Just me and all the pooping geese😂 #regina #runner #wascana

At shows at Expo Osaka (approx 200000 visitors/day) I'd say I was from Saskatchewan & ask (joking) if anyone was fr. SK. Answer was always a laugh/No. 1 night a girl shouted “I’m from Prince Albert!” I later learned it was Meath Park (popn 175). She was there on a high school exchange. Small world!💥

An actual photo of me after eating all the amazing food in Japan😂. What a country! Such. awesome. food. #japan

Oh Lordy, hohoho. Walmart in Regina has Christmas decorations out! Sept 10. Is this a new record ?! #earlybird #falalalala

Getting to perform at the Canada Pavilion at Expo25 in Osaka Japan was a gift! If you’ve not been to this city put it on your bucket list. It’s a feast for the senses #osaka #japan

On plane from Van. to Regina. Lady across the aisle watching video on phone volume full blast. Asked her to turn it down. She gave me a look of death & turned it down. I’ve been in Japan for 10 days,not 1 person watching phone w vol. blasting. Are N. Americans just inconsiderate? what’s the deal?

I waved the Saskatchewan flag high & proud @ my last shows at Expo25, Osaka Japan.Got the audience out in front of the Canada pavilion for a Saskie photo shoot. When I told em my partner is a farmer & that SK Canola & Wheat go to Japan there was bigtime applause.I LOVE these folks! #osaka #EXPO2025

Photos from last nights performance on the East stage at Expo25 Osaka Japan. What a crackin audience💥 Thx to the folks who brought me flowers❤️ And to the fella who had the tech in the audience to take a photo & print it on his portable colour printer! Amazing! #osaka #EXPO2025

I’m totally loving performing for the Japanese audiences in Osaka at Expo25 over here. What a hoot! And very grateful for Christian my translator who I get to banter with the crowd with. I don’t want this to end❤️🇯🇵🇨🇦 #osaka #EXPO2025

Had a day off from performing at Expo25 in Osaka Japan. Hopped a train to Kyoto (5 bucks!) and walked through an amazing city: wow! 🇯🇵❤️ #travel #japan

Performed at the Canada Pavilion at Expo25 Osaka Japan. An honour and a total blast repping Saskatchewan. Absolutely loving the Japanese audiences! Bantering with the audience via a translator is a hoot. More shows this week #osaka #saskatchewan

Performed my first show at Expo25 Osaka on the south stage. What a lovely audience! It’s so fun bantering with the crowd via a translator-thk u Christian. I’m Performing today at the Canada pavilion repping Saskatchewan! The Canada pavilion is fascinating & so well done🍁

In Osaka Japan performing at @expo2025_japan this week. Osaka is incredible. A few pics: Osaka Castle, Osaka by night, first meal-ramen, city centre crowds! #osaka

The Air Canada pod gods did their work for my flight to Osaka. Got upgraded to a luxurious sleeper pod to Japan! The 11 hrs whizzed by. Everything was so perfect it was like Mary Poppins was my flight attendant. Feeling lucky🍁

Here we go at Expo 25 in Osaka Japan! repping my home land of Saskatchewan #livemusic #piano #saskatchewan

I'm on the plane to Japan for a run of shows-pretty excited! After Japan my tour calendar has me jumpin across Canada: A SK/AB/BC tour, then over to QC + ON, & November is 9-dates through the Maritimes. Check out the graphics & if you 're near any of these places I hope you can make it to a show

The Time You’ve Got is a cowrite w Beverley Mahood & Mac Shepherd. Both my parents have passed away in recent yrs & ‘time’ has become a frequent pondering; asking myself “am I using my time the best I can?” Maybe you’re asking yourself the same question? Hope u like the excerpt; full song on YouTube

Tailgate harvest supper in the field near Rouleau-Dog-River with team Templeton. A fine crop of small green lentils coming off! #saskatchewan

Performed a set at the Coal Creek Festival at Roche Percee Sask today and finally got to see the actual roche percee. It’s fascinating! Put this on your Sask-sight-seeing bucket list🙌🏻 #saskatchewan

Pretty thrilled that my song ‘Dandelions’ (from my album Great Big Sky) was named a top 10 finalist in the 21st International Acoustic Music Awards! And I even got the piece of paper to prove it🙌🏻💥 Thx to the jury for listening 🎹 #saskmusic

Delighted to be heading to SASKATOON for a show at The Bassment. First show in YXE since releasing my record 'Great Big Sky' where I can finally perform the whole album. First show back on Cdn soil after a run of shows in Japan in Sept. Hope you can join us! #piano #livemusic

Thank you CTV Regina for the news story about my grain elevator concert series. Take a peek-it's short (2 mins): mailchi.mp/jeffstraker/... The series is now done for this year. Thx to folks who came to these shows. We've had interest for next summer in both Alberta & Manitoba! #piano #livemusic

Alberta and BC folks I'm headed your way Sep 30 to Oct 11 on tour! Hope to see you along the route. Be a pal and tell your friends in these parts. cheers!! Jeffery

The Wascana gardeners have some magical flower beds this year at the Saskatchewan Museum! Wow! I bloomin love this❤️🌸 #gardening #regina

Fun show performing in the old 1927 grain elevator in Val Marie Saskatchewan. Acoustics are off the scales in there! (Pun intended lol) #livemusic

A curious thing to visit in SK: the Sukanen Ship. Built by Finnish homesteader Tom Sukanen he planned to escape the 1930s dust bowl by sailing the Saskatchewan River to HudsonBay, back home to Finland. After 7 yrs of building he’d lost the strength to get it to water.Hope dies hard on the prairies!

This kind gal Karla baked up a KILLER treat and brought me some as a gift: Saskatoon Berry butter tarts! Holy smokes these are amazing! Thank you Karla ❤️💥 #buttertart

Hello Nova Scotia and New Brunswick folks! Can’t wait to head back to your beautiful part of Canada in November. Bringing my piano and we’re gonna make some music 🎹💥❤️ #saskatchewan #novascotia #newbrunswick

My last 2 'Grain Elevator Shows' of the summer are coming up. Aug 9 inside the beautifully restored Val Marie grain elevator and Aug 10 outdoors at the Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village south of Moose Jaw (with the old elevator as the backdrop). Prairie vibes will be off the scales!🤣