Home Routes

A non-profit organization

House Concert Circuits

Turn your living room into a mini concert hall.

Be a cultural leader in your town.

Become part of the house concert phenomenon that's sweeping the nation!

Join more than 200 hosts presenting concerts from Old Crow, Yukon to Canso, Nova Scotia.

Meet inspiring and interesting professional performing artists.

Have world-class performers come to your home and perform for your guests as they would in a soft-seat theatre.

Join us for an extraordinary amount of fun!

News

From Yukon to Brazil, Home Routes has brought professional artists into Thompson, MB since 2009 as part of the Borealis Trail in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan....

The Schotts Home Routes Tour Story...

The SchottsRed Square, Home Routes Tour 2013Well we started off in Water valleyWhere the Dalton Gang would hideThe path would leadto drink some meadit's sweet and that's no lie...
Would you like to host exciting acoustic concerts in your home for your friends and neighbours? Home Routes is starting to plan next season and now is the time to let...
Ugandan artist Kinobe informed us recently that upon his arrival to New York he abruptly slipped on the icy sidewalk and fractured his playing hand. He is in a lot...
West Virginian old-time fiddler Joe Herrmann and his wife Sam on guitar are coming to Manitoba this February 4-17 to tour the Central Plains circuit through North Dakota, southern Manitoba...

Host Kayla Luky tours the Red Square Route

This February will mark the first time a Home Routes host will tour one of the circuits. Kayla Luky of Grandview, MB has been hosting for three seasons now since...

New Facebook Page

NEW Home Routes Facebook Page launched today! Click above to follow the link....
Al Simmons wrote to us last summer, highly recommending cowboy vaudeville artist Sourdough Slim for a tour. We called him up and he jumped on board right away! ...

Linda McRae

Former 'Spirit of the West'er Linda McRae and her husband James Whitmire drove up from their home in Nashville this past October to tour the Estelle Klein Route in Southern...

Ariane Mahryke Lemire in Medicine Hat

Piet and Ina at Ye Olde Jar Bar taped this lovely video with the talented Ariane Mahryke Lemire a couple of days ago....

Kyle Carey and Craig Werth say thanks!

Kyle Carey & Craig Werth just finished the first round of the Borealis Trail. They were so excited by the experience, they wrote a song about it. ...

Scarlett Jane in Lumsden, SK

Well the first round of concerts is already past and the evidence is pouring in from artists and concert presenters from all over Canada. ...
Robert Paquette was awarded the Diamond Jubilee Medal of Queen Elizabeth II, created to mark  the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the Throne, for  his dedicated service to...

Season Six Fall 2012 - Spring 2013

As Home Routes goes into its sixth season of operation, there are enough volunteer house concert hosts across the country to fill 16 circuits worth of 12 concerts each. This...
Home Routes is looking for hosts in BC's west coastal region (Sunshine Coast, Vancouver Island, Vancouver & Lower Mainland, and Fraser Valley in general up to the Okanangan....
Hello Mel, Selena, Mitch and Ava (and the rest of the Home Routes crew), I just wanted to say "Thank you" for giving me the opportunity to do the Home...

Only 164 shows to go!

We're nearing the end of Home Routes' fifth season with the next round of concerts starting April 15th through to the 29th. This means only 164 concerts left to go,...

February round a huge success

Well the first round of concerts in 2012 is over and we're getting resounding feedback from artists and hosts alike from the two-week tours.  Newfoundland's The Once smashed the record for attendance...

Juno what's happening?

The 2012 Juno Award nominations are out and two of the nominees include artists that are on the current Home Routes lineup....

The New Home Routes website

Welcome to our new site. As you can see we are still an 'underground' organization! Feel free to look around and explore a little. Our webmaster Jason Boychuk has been...

Home Routes Classical

Home Routes Classical will be hitting the back roads of Manitoba and Saskatchewan this February reaching communities from Steinbach, MB to Estevan, SK to Flin Flon, MB. Artistic Director Mel Braun...
Being a house concert host is as much about making the artist feel comfortable in your home as it is about hosting your friends and neighbours. Here is an easy...
http://www.homeroutes.ca/hosting/apply/