Revelstoke Mountaineer Podcast

The plan for my interview with B.C. musician Rachelle van Zanten was to podcast the audio interview with a brief bio interview. But as I learned during the interview, the new mother of two has settled into a homesteading lifestyle in a rural area near Francois, B.C., and that means off-the-grid reception and dwindling power at her solar-powered home, all factors conspiring against great audio. In the 1990s, van Zanten broke into the music scene as a member of Painting Daisies. After years in Painting Daisies and 17 years travelling the globe as an independent musician, she settled in Francois Lake, B.C. where she engaged in the issues taking place on the land, such as oil and gas development and pipeline projects. She brings a politically and environmentally-oriented message with her blues influenced music. Both are intertwined with her experience growing up in the north and living in northern Alberta, where resource extraction issues are at the front of mind. Now rooted in Francois Lake with two young chi