November 16, 2025 • 19 mins
On this episode, BENJI STRAKER of HUGHES joins me from Yellowknife, north west territories Canada to chat about the Debut album, music and the latest single DESPITE THE DISTANCE.
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(00:24):
Well, I hope everybody's enjoying the music series
episodes coming out once again. A lot of artists lined up for
the rest of the year and look out for maybe 2 episodes a week
by the time we get into the December and into January, so
keep an eye for that. A lot of stuff coming up still a
lot of artists, a lot of music. The playlist is always there.
(00:45):
Go check that out and gets you all the songs and there will be
some commentary. Episodes squeezed in there also
because I want to finish the year strong.
Four hundredth episodes coming up. 60th anniversary is coming
up, so there's a lot of stuff still out there to be recorded
and published, so keep an eye for that.
If you want to support these artists, make sure you go
follow, like and subscribe. I mentioned the playlist, Go add
(01:07):
them to your own playlist. A lot of different genres for
everybody to enjoy. And of course, you're gonna
support me. And it's almost the holiday
season. There will be a lot of sales.
And at the merch store, go pick something up.
T-shirt hats and they have different types of hats now,
which is great. They have shorts.
I don't know if I would buy the shorts, just I don't know if I
(01:27):
wanna logo on shorts. It's just weird, OK, But it's
there. It's available a lot of
different things for merch. You can buy a lot of cool logos
and there's something for art inthe artist coming up maybe
before Christmas, definitely in the new year.
Keep an eye for that in the merch store.
I think it will be fantastic andI think it'll be great for the
community. So keep an eye for that.
Then. Thank you for supporting and
(01:48):
listening. Make sure you like and subscribe
or whatever podcast platform youare listening to this show on.
I appreciate you. So let's get to today's awesome
episode. So Yellow Knife up, up, up top
in Canada for the audience listening, you need to break out
a map and see how big Canada is and how beautiful it is.
(02:08):
But Yellow Knife is where my next guest comes from.
Benji from Hughes welcome. Yeah, Thanks a lot.
Thanks for having me on the show, Jacob.
I'm excited because I don't often get artists from certain
parts of Canada. It's very rarely that I get any
music from the northern territories.
(02:31):
So I'm I'm very excited and to get and share fantastic music
like this with the world, but I want to get to know you a little
bit more and give the audience alittle perspective.
So walk, don't you walk me through how you got started in
the music industry and how it all started.
Yeah, sure. Well, um, yeah, my name is Benji
(02:53):
Stryker. I'm actually born and raised way
up here in the subarctic of Yellowknife, Northwest
Territory. So I'm kind of grew up around
music. My parents are musical.
My mom sang, play guitar quite abit in the house.
There's always like an acoustic guitar kicking around.
Got into it a little bit seriously during high school,
you know, played, played with some friends a bit, but really
(03:14):
didn't get into it until my early 20s.
Started playing in some bands and then kind of my first love
is like heavy, heavy music. So did a lot of kind of like
punk and metal stuff and then took a bit of a break and really
didn't get into it again until seriously, I guess until around
the pandemic. Probably like a lot of people in
(03:36):
the arts, right? Like, found themselves with some
time and kind of dusted off the acoustic guitar and started
messing around a bit with writing and kind of learning how
to set up like a home studio anddid some of that for a bit.
And then I think once I decided like, OK, I have some of these
songs that are probably worth putting out there.
(04:00):
I think it was around 2022, I kind of formally started this
project that I called Hughes andjust the solo singer-songwriter,
you know, kind of folk, country vibe and started playing some
shows out, gained some traction.Ended up recording the four song
EP followed by a couple singles.And then just kind of snowballed
(04:22):
a bit from there locally and gotthe opportunity to kind of play
play out of town a bit. And then almost exactly a year
ago, I got back from a showcase playing in where was I,
Saskatoon. And I've been kicking around the
idea of putting a band together for this huge project.
And so, yeah, it's basically exactly a year ago, really lucky
(04:46):
to collaborate with some with some buds.
And now we're we're playing hugestuff in a full band setting.
And that kind of really informedthe kind of the vibe of some of
the songs I was playing and thatI had written that hadn't
recorded. And so kind of really motivated
me to to put this album out thatthat I released.
(05:08):
Oh man, when did this come out? June.
And yeah, so recorded most of these songs on on the
self-titled debut LP back in January this year.
And yeah, just kind of been going ever since Scott got the
chance to play, you know, a handful of festivals this summer
with the guys and just looking forward to kind of keep rolling
(05:29):
with that. So how do you find your
inspiration for the tracks on this They View album that you
put out this year? What's the some of the ideas and
concepts behind the songs and where do you pull that from?
Yeah, I think, you know, the songs on this album span over a
decade actually. So I, I like when I wasn't
(05:51):
really active as far as performing and recording, I was
still writing some music and there are at least two or three
songs on on the album that I wrote back in maybe 2010 ish,
like 15 years ago. So and then kind of on the
creative juices started flowing when I was getting ready to
record the album, I wrote another handful of songs.
(06:13):
So they kind of span over a decade really kind of, you know,
because they were spread over that span.
I don't think I really had like a concept of what the album
would be as a package. But they all kind of revolve
around, you know, personal experiences like love,
nostalgia, loss, connection withkind of where I'm from and the
(06:36):
landscape here in the North. So I think, you know, those
themes probably more shape the sound of the album than kind of
the lyrical content. So yeah.
Awesome. Let's talk about despite the
distance, that's the track you have for me today to put on the
show and then we'll be listeningto very shortly.
(06:57):
Walk me through the process of this one.
Yeah, so despite the distance was actually a single I recorded
and released in 2024 before I had a band.
So I recorded as a full band kind of vibe.
So I you know, I tracked the bass, drums, electric guitar,
acoustic and and did a little vocals myself.
But it's a it's a song I wrote kind of going through a
(07:20):
transition of fatherhood. I have two two daughters and
kind of reflecting on what that feels like, you know, looking
back and, and wondering, you know, hoping that you've done a
good job. And it's kind of like a point in
my life where I was kind of reflecting on on being a parent.
And so it was kind of a song dedicated to my girls and I
(07:43):
think kind of relevant to any parents out there.
And it also kind of is a bit more of a, you know, musically,
a bit kind of more upbeat kind of country swing vibe.
So I thought it be a good one toput out as a first single.
So anyway, Fast forward about a year after I I put the full band
(08:04):
together for Hughes, the song kind of morphed as it would when
you're playing with other musicians and I really like the
direction it was going. So I decided to rerecord that,
kind of bring it up to to where it was or where it is that we
play alive and ended up soundingreally great.
So we released it as the first single on the album earlier this
(08:27):
year. And it's got some good feel.
It's got some good reception andand we really like playing it
live and yes, focusing to dig it.
So yeah. Oh no, it's fantastic.
And I'm excited to put on the playlist right after the show
airs now for everybody to hear. And it's a great introduction to
how we're going to play the songright now.
(08:48):
So I think we just play it for everybody to listen to.
So let's do here is, despite thedistance hues right here on the
Senate Army. Time goes by so fast I wish it
(09:18):
wasn't so. Did I take for granted just how
fast you grow? Times together I'd rewind,
relive each moment I can't find my love for you can be divided.
(09:53):
Looking forward to the things that you will do on reading.
Stories are waiting there for you.
I feel pride every day. Despite the changes, we will
find our way. This all is always yours to
(10:16):
stay. Reply pictures in my mind seems
just like yesterday. I carry all these memories
(10:42):
forever to rebate changes can besometimes the thought of letting
go type this distance hope you'll always know.
Spread your wings and life can'tI have more time?
(11:04):
You are always mine. Only you.
God, God, empty room was on. Did I do right by you?
(11:36):
Beautiful in every way, amazing me everyday gift that I cannot
repay. We pictures in my mind seemed
(12:05):
just like yesterday. I carry all these memories
forever to replay. Changes can be hard sometimes, I
thought. Lady go.
Despite the distance I am here, I hope you'll always know.
(12:27):
Spread your wings and life. Can't I have more time?
You are always mine. Only you.
Only you. There you go.
(12:52):
That was despite the distance hues.
It'll be on the Spotify playlist.
Go listen like fall, subscribe, put it on your own playlist.
It's fantastic track. Support independent music,
especially from Canada. Now their year is almost over.
We have a couple more months in 2025.
We have a whole year coming up ahead of us.
What do you have planned? I yeah, since the album's been
(13:16):
out, we had a pretty active summer, played some festivals,
did some shows. So we've kind of been low key
the last couple months. But saying that two weeks from
now we are actually like kind ofhaving a belated album release
show here up up at home. Super fortunate to be playing
that with Wide C Lewis coming upfrom Calgary.
(13:38):
So you know, Polaris Prize finalist, really great folk
musician. So that's kind of the last thing
on our calendar for this year, but I'm definitely looking to
hopefully hit a bit of a festival circuit in 2026 and
talking now about setting up a bit of a Western Canadian little
(13:58):
run little tour sometime in the spring or fall next year.
So. And aside from from that, you
know, starting to kind of get inthe songwriting groove, as
everyone knows now I'm up in Yellowknife.
So it's a long cold winters and it's kind of easy to kind of
hunker down and get creative in the home studio.
(14:19):
So yeah, starting to think aboutarranging some new songs and
what that looks like. I'm not sure.
I think my goal is to actually, you know, get a recording,
whether it's a single or a EP ora string of singles and record
kind of live off the floor stylewith the band.
You know, now that I have these great musicians that I play
(14:43):
with, would be great to actuallyrecord with them.
So the LP I actually, you know, I'm, I'm a bit of a multi
instrumentalist. So I recorded all of all of the
album myself because that was early on when the guys kind of
came on. So really looking to collaborate
with those guys as as we look toget into the studio together and
record. So that's kind of the loose
(15:04):
plans right now over the next maybe 6 to 8 months.
Now just piggyback off that a little bit because I I've had a
lot of artists from Alberta and Saskatchewan that I've been on
the show and for you travel downthat ways is extremely possible
and probably closest to anywhereelse in Canada.
Now how is the music scene in Yellowknife in Northwest
(15:27):
Territories in itself? Is it the does those genres
blend more? Is there a big scene or a
growing scene? What is it like up there?
I'd say we have, you know, like I said, I was born and raised
here kind of in the music scene the last couple decades.
And I think it's probably comingback to its height where it was
kind of at its peak. A lot of bands playing right
(15:51):
now, like every weekend there's a show.
The tough thing about Yellowknife has been venues and
promotion. We don't have a lot of of music
venues, but we're starting to see some of the local clubs kind
of open up and trying to promotemusic and a couple local
promoters now that are putting on shows, bringing in artists
from the South to collaborate with northern artists.
(16:14):
So I'd say the local scene is doing really well right now.
A lot of variation, Like there'sa a really good heavy music
scene here. A lot of folk, you know, there's
some jazz music, pretty much everything.
And I think, you know, since thepandemic, like I said earlier,
it's just because of that, I think a lot of bands and artists
(16:37):
kind of got serious about their their craft.
And now we're seeing, you know, five years later, just well
rehearsed, good produced shows happening.
So locally it's great. Touring's really difficult being
from here. Logistically, it's actually a
lot easier than promoters and bookers in the South think.
(16:57):
So I think artists like myself and others are sometimes
overlooked by festivals and and tour bookers and shockers
because the assumption is that it's really hard and you know,
it's, it's a five day journey bydog sled to get to civilization.
Like, you know, whereas, you know, I could, I can be on the
(17:18):
road and be in Edmonton in 14 hours and that's kind of the
start of a good string of a little tour, right?
So, um, yeah, so that's, we're trying to kind of break that
barrier right now. The other band I'm in, you know,
we, we toured this summer and itwas no sweat at all to do that.
So we're kind of, you know, alsotrying to educate bookers and
(17:39):
promoters, you know, primarily in Alberta, I guess because
that's the closest that, you know, you don't have to pay us
an arm and a leg to get somewhere because, you know,
it's not that that difficult. We may have to add a day or two
at the start or the end of a tour just to kind of get it in
and out of home, but definitely doable.
And I think more artists here are looking to, it's kind of
(18:02):
tour Canada, but more than than we've seen in the past. 14 hours
not termination is not too bad. No, it's not at all.
It's doable. For sure, I want to be driving
out that way in the next couple years.
I want to make my way by across Canada from all the Deep South
over here because, yeah, I need to explore a little more of this
country. But that's, that's not too bad.
That's good to know. Now what I want to do is push
(18:25):
more of Canadian music and especially music from different
regions of the country online. So which social would you prefer
everybody listening to go to? Well, socializing on Facebook
and Instagram, so facebook.com/hughes Sounds.
And from there you can find me linked, linked on everything.
Kind of do most of my promotion through those channels.
(18:46):
But as far as music goes, all ofthe streaming services and band
camp as well. So pretty accessible and easy to
find. But yeah, you can start on
Facebook and kind of get the links to everything there.
Fantastic, that's what we all should do.
Support independent music nice and easy.
Click like follow subscribe Benji, thanks for coming on the
show and sharing Hughes music with.
(19:06):
Me, yeah. Thanks so much for having me on
the show. This is great and I look forward
to continuing to kind of hear what you're promoting across the
country. Oh for sure, it never stops.
Really.
Well, I hope everybody's enjoying the music series
episodes coming out once again. A lot of artists lined up for
the rest of the year and look out for maybe 2 episodes a week
by the time we get into the December and into January, so
keep an eye for that. A lot of stuff coming up still a
lot of artists, a lot of music. The playlist is always there.
(00:45):
Go check that out and gets you all the songs and there will be
some commentary. Episodes squeezed in there also
because I want to finish the year strong.
Four hundredth episodes coming up. 60th anniversary is coming
up, so there's a lot of stuff still out there to be recorded
and published, so keep an eye for that.
If you want to support these artists, make sure you go
follow, like and subscribe. I mentioned the playlist, Go add
(01:07):
them to your own playlist. A lot of different genres for
everybody to enjoy. And of course, you're gonna
support me. And it's almost the holiday
season. There will be a lot of sales.
And at the merch store, go pick something up.
T-shirt hats and they have different types of hats now,
which is great. They have shorts.
I don't know if I would buy the shorts, just I don't know if I
(01:27):
wanna logo on shorts. It's just weird, OK, But it's
there. It's available a lot of
different things for merch. You can buy a lot of cool logos
and there's something for art inthe artist coming up maybe
before Christmas, definitely in the new year.
Keep an eye for that in the merch store.
I think it will be fantastic andI think it'll be great for the
community. So keep an eye for that.
Then. Thank you for supporting and
(01:48):
listening. Make sure you like and subscribe
or whatever podcast platform youare listening to this show on.
I appreciate you. So let's get to today's awesome
episode. So Yellow Knife up, up, up top
in Canada for the audience listening, you need to break out
a map and see how big Canada is and how beautiful it is.
(02:08):
But Yellow Knife is where my next guest comes from.
Benji from Hughes welcome. Yeah, Thanks a lot.
Thanks for having me on the show, Jacob.
I'm excited because I don't often get artists from certain
parts of Canada. It's very rarely that I get any
music from the northern territories.
(02:31):
So I'm I'm very excited and to get and share fantastic music
like this with the world, but I want to get to know you a little
bit more and give the audience alittle perspective.
So walk, don't you walk me through how you got started in
the music industry and how it all started.
Yeah, sure. Well, um, yeah, my name is Benji
(02:53):
Stryker. I'm actually born and raised way
up here in the subarctic of Yellowknife, Northwest
Territory. So I'm kind of grew up around
music. My parents are musical.
My mom sang, play guitar quite abit in the house.
There's always like an acoustic guitar kicking around.
Got into it a little bit seriously during high school,
you know, played, played with some friends a bit, but really
(03:14):
didn't get into it until my early 20s.
Started playing in some bands and then kind of my first love
is like heavy, heavy music. So did a lot of kind of like
punk and metal stuff and then took a bit of a break and really
didn't get into it again until seriously, I guess until around
the pandemic. Probably like a lot of people in
(03:36):
the arts, right? Like, found themselves with some
time and kind of dusted off the acoustic guitar and started
messing around a bit with writing and kind of learning how
to set up like a home studio anddid some of that for a bit.
And then I think once I decided like, OK, I have some of these
songs that are probably worth putting out there.
(04:00):
I think it was around 2022, I kind of formally started this
project that I called Hughes andjust the solo singer-songwriter,
you know, kind of folk, country vibe and started playing some
shows out, gained some traction.Ended up recording the four song
EP followed by a couple singles.And then just kind of snowballed
(04:22):
a bit from there locally and gotthe opportunity to kind of play
play out of town a bit. And then almost exactly a year
ago, I got back from a showcase playing in where was I,
Saskatoon. And I've been kicking around the
idea of putting a band together for this huge project.
And so, yeah, it's basically exactly a year ago, really lucky
(04:46):
to collaborate with some with some buds.
And now we're we're playing hugestuff in a full band setting.
And that kind of really informedthe kind of the vibe of some of
the songs I was playing and thatI had written that hadn't
recorded. And so kind of really motivated
me to to put this album out thatthat I released.
(05:08):
Oh man, when did this come out? June.
And yeah, so recorded most of these songs on on the
self-titled debut LP back in January this year.
And yeah, just kind of been going ever since Scott got the
chance to play, you know, a handful of festivals this summer
with the guys and just looking forward to kind of keep rolling
(05:29):
with that. So how do you find your
inspiration for the tracks on this They View album that you
put out this year? What's the some of the ideas and
concepts behind the songs and where do you pull that from?
Yeah, I think, you know, the songs on this album span over a
decade actually. So I, I like when I wasn't
(05:51):
really active as far as performing and recording, I was
still writing some music and there are at least two or three
songs on on the album that I wrote back in maybe 2010 ish,
like 15 years ago. So and then kind of on the
creative juices started flowing when I was getting ready to
record the album, I wrote another handful of songs.
(06:13):
So they kind of span over a decade really kind of, you know,
because they were spread over that span.
I don't think I really had like a concept of what the album
would be as a package. But they all kind of revolve
around, you know, personal experiences like love,
nostalgia, loss, connection withkind of where I'm from and the
(06:36):
landscape here in the North. So I think, you know, those
themes probably more shape the sound of the album than kind of
the lyrical content. So yeah.
Awesome. Let's talk about despite the
distance, that's the track you have for me today to put on the
show and then we'll be listeningto very shortly.
(06:57):
Walk me through the process of this one.
Yeah, so despite the distance was actually a single I recorded
and released in 2024 before I had a band.
So I recorded as a full band kind of vibe.
So I you know, I tracked the bass, drums, electric guitar,
acoustic and and did a little vocals myself.
But it's a it's a song I wrote kind of going through a
(07:20):
transition of fatherhood. I have two two daughters and
kind of reflecting on what that feels like, you know, looking
back and, and wondering, you know, hoping that you've done a
good job. And it's kind of like a point in
my life where I was kind of reflecting on on being a parent.
And so it was kind of a song dedicated to my girls and I
(07:43):
think kind of relevant to any parents out there.
And it also kind of is a bit more of a, you know, musically,
a bit kind of more upbeat kind of country swing vibe.
So I thought it be a good one toput out as a first single.
So anyway, Fast forward about a year after I I put the full band
(08:04):
together for Hughes, the song kind of morphed as it would when
you're playing with other musicians and I really like the
direction it was going. So I decided to rerecord that,
kind of bring it up to to where it was or where it is that we
play alive and ended up soundingreally great.
So we released it as the first single on the album earlier this
(08:27):
year. And it's got some good feel.
It's got some good reception andand we really like playing it
live and yes, focusing to dig it.
So yeah. Oh no, it's fantastic.
And I'm excited to put on the playlist right after the show
airs now for everybody to hear. And it's a great introduction to
how we're going to play the songright now.
(08:48):
So I think we just play it for everybody to listen to.
So let's do here is, despite thedistance hues right here on the
Senate Army. Time goes by so fast I wish it
(09:18):
wasn't so. Did I take for granted just how
fast you grow? Times together I'd rewind,
relive each moment I can't find my love for you can be divided.
(09:53):
Looking forward to the things that you will do on reading.
Stories are waiting there for you.
I feel pride every day. Despite the changes, we will
find our way. This all is always yours to
(10:16):
stay. Reply pictures in my mind seems
just like yesterday. I carry all these memories
(10:42):
forever to rebate changes can besometimes the thought of letting
go type this distance hope you'll always know.
Spread your wings and life can'tI have more time?
(11:04):
You are always mine. Only you.
God, God, empty room was on. Did I do right by you?
(11:36):
Beautiful in every way, amazing me everyday gift that I cannot
repay. We pictures in my mind seemed
(12:05):
just like yesterday. I carry all these memories
forever to replay. Changes can be hard sometimes, I
thought. Lady go.
Despite the distance I am here, I hope you'll always know.
(12:27):
Spread your wings and life. Can't I have more time?
You are always mine. Only you.
Only you. There you go.
(12:52):
That was despite the distance hues.
It'll be on the Spotify playlist.
Go listen like fall, subscribe, put it on your own playlist.
It's fantastic track. Support independent music,
especially from Canada. Now their year is almost over.
We have a couple more months in 2025.
We have a whole year coming up ahead of us.
What do you have planned? I yeah, since the album's been
(13:16):
out, we had a pretty active summer, played some festivals,
did some shows. So we've kind of been low key
the last couple months. But saying that two weeks from
now we are actually like kind ofhaving a belated album release
show here up up at home. Super fortunate to be playing
that with Wide C Lewis coming upfrom Calgary.
(13:38):
So you know, Polaris Prize finalist, really great folk
musician. So that's kind of the last thing
on our calendar for this year, but I'm definitely looking to
hopefully hit a bit of a festival circuit in 2026 and
talking now about setting up a bit of a Western Canadian little
(13:58):
run little tour sometime in the spring or fall next year.
So. And aside from from that, you
know, starting to kind of get inthe songwriting groove, as
everyone knows now I'm up in Yellowknife.
So it's a long cold winters and it's kind of easy to kind of
hunker down and get creative in the home studio.
(14:19):
So yeah, starting to think aboutarranging some new songs and
what that looks like. I'm not sure.
I think my goal is to actually, you know, get a recording,
whether it's a single or a EP ora string of singles and record
kind of live off the floor stylewith the band.
You know, now that I have these great musicians that I play
(14:43):
with, would be great to actuallyrecord with them.
So the LP I actually, you know, I'm, I'm a bit of a multi
instrumentalist. So I recorded all of all of the
album myself because that was early on when the guys kind of
came on. So really looking to collaborate
with those guys as as we look toget into the studio together and
record. So that's kind of the loose
(15:04):
plans right now over the next maybe 6 to 8 months.
Now just piggyback off that a little bit because I I've had a
lot of artists from Alberta and Saskatchewan that I've been on
the show and for you travel downthat ways is extremely possible
and probably closest to anywhereelse in Canada.
Now how is the music scene in Yellowknife in Northwest
(15:27):
Territories in itself? Is it the does those genres
blend more? Is there a big scene or a
growing scene? What is it like up there?
I'd say we have, you know, like I said, I was born and raised
here kind of in the music scene the last couple decades.
And I think it's probably comingback to its height where it was
kind of at its peak. A lot of bands playing right
(15:51):
now, like every weekend there's a show.
The tough thing about Yellowknife has been venues and
promotion. We don't have a lot of of music
venues, but we're starting to see some of the local clubs kind
of open up and trying to promotemusic and a couple local
promoters now that are putting on shows, bringing in artists
from the South to collaborate with northern artists.
(16:14):
So I'd say the local scene is doing really well right now.
A lot of variation, Like there'sa a really good heavy music
scene here. A lot of folk, you know, there's
some jazz music, pretty much everything.
And I think, you know, since thepandemic, like I said earlier,
it's just because of that, I think a lot of bands and artists
(16:37):
kind of got serious about their their craft.
And now we're seeing, you know, five years later, just well
rehearsed, good produced shows happening.
So locally it's great. Touring's really difficult being
from here. Logistically, it's actually a
lot easier than promoters and bookers in the South think.
(16:57):
So I think artists like myself and others are sometimes
overlooked by festivals and and tour bookers and shockers
because the assumption is that it's really hard and you know,
it's, it's a five day journey bydog sled to get to civilization.
Like, you know, whereas, you know, I could, I can be on the
(17:18):
road and be in Edmonton in 14 hours and that's kind of the
start of a good string of a little tour, right?
So, um, yeah, so that's, we're trying to kind of break that
barrier right now. The other band I'm in, you know,
we, we toured this summer and itwas no sweat at all to do that.
So we're kind of, you know, alsotrying to educate bookers and
(17:39):
promoters, you know, primarily in Alberta, I guess because
that's the closest that, you know, you don't have to pay us
an arm and a leg to get somewhere because, you know,
it's not that that difficult. We may have to add a day or two
at the start or the end of a tour just to kind of get it in
and out of home, but definitely doable.
And I think more artists here are looking to, it's kind of
(18:02):
tour Canada, but more than than we've seen in the past. 14 hours
not termination is not too bad. No, it's not at all.
It's doable. For sure, I want to be driving
out that way in the next couple years.
I want to make my way by across Canada from all the Deep South
over here because, yeah, I need to explore a little more of this
country. But that's, that's not too bad.
That's good to know. Now what I want to do is push
(18:25):
more of Canadian music and especially music from different
regions of the country online. So which social would you prefer
everybody listening to go to? Well, socializing on Facebook
and Instagram, so facebook.com/hughes Sounds.
And from there you can find me linked, linked on everything.
Kind of do most of my promotion through those channels.
(18:46):
But as far as music goes, all ofthe streaming services and band
camp as well. So pretty accessible and easy to
find. But yeah, you can start on
Facebook and kind of get the links to everything there.
Fantastic, that's what we all should do.
Support independent music nice and easy.
Click like follow subscribe Benji, thanks for coming on the
show and sharing Hughes music with.
(19:06):
Me, yeah. Thanks so much for having me on
the show. This is great and I look forward
to continuing to kind of hear what you're promoting across the
country. Oh for sure, it never stops.
Really.
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