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SUMMARY:New Orleans Night
DESCRIPTION:World-class 8-piece brass band playing the music of New Orleans in a funky downtown honky-tonk. What more do you need to know?\n\n\nThe Dirty Catfish Brass Band bring New Orleans Night back to the Times Change(d)! Early and late shows! 10pm show features an opening set by the New Customs.
URL:https://accesswinnipeg.com/event/new-orleans-night/
LOCATION:Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club\, 234 Main St.\, Winnipeg\, MB\, R3C1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Small Glories
DESCRIPTION:The Small Glories at the West End Cultural Centre – Friday\, December 4 @ 8:00pm\n\n\n“Some things just work together: the Lennon and McCartney syndrome – and to witness a performance by The Small Glories is a rare opportunity to experience that indefinable quality that creates perfection…”  — David Allen\, Americana UK \nRoots powerhouse duo The Small Glories are Cara Luft & JD Edwards\, a musical tour-de-force partnership planted on the Canadian Prairies.  Thrown together purely by accident for an anniversary show at Winnipeg’s venerable West End Cultural Centre\, The Small Glories could almost make you believe in fate.  \nWith a stage banter striking a unique balance between slapstick and sermon\, these veteran singer-songwriters have a way of making time disappear\, rooms shrink\, and audiences feel as they are right there on the stage with the band — writing the songs\, living the songs\, performing the songs. It’s not uncommon for listeners to find themselves laughing\, dancing\, crying\, or caught up in a good ol’ fashioned sing-along.  “We’re folk singers\, we try to write stuff that people can relate to\,” says Edwards\, whose looming stage presence and penetrating eyes find him the yin to Luft’s petite\, snort-laughing yang. The material of a Small Glories concert is welcoming in terms of subject\, folk-pop melody and instrumentation — songs of love\, loss\, and environment\, delivered with soaring\, interwoven vocals on various combinations of stomping clawhammer banjo\, guitar and harmonica. However\, a Small Glories performance is really about what happens in-between the songs. “The feedback we get from a lot of audiences is that it’s not just about the music for them\,” Luft says. “It’s the whole package.” \nOn record\, The Small Glories take the musical synergy honed from hundreds of shows together\, and expand it into a new soundscape amplified by pounding drums and other textural embellishments which only reinforce the magic of Luft and Edwards’ innate chemistry — a chemistry labeled the “Lennon-McCartney syndrome\,” by Americana UK\, writing\, “Some things just work together… to witness a performance by The Small Glories is a rare opportunity to experience that indefinable quality that creates perfection.” But don’t just take a European reviewer’s word for it — the band’s debut album\, 2016’s Wondrous Traveler was also praised in Pitchfork by legendary American rock critic Greil Marcus\, who wrote\, “…in moments (The Small Glories) find the darkening chord change the best bluegrass — from the Stanley Brothers to Be Good Tanyas — has always hidden in the sweet slide of the rhythm\, the tiny shift where the person telling the story suddenly understands it.” \nIt’s this yearning for understanding which finds the band often taking more time to introduce a song than it actually takes to play it. Luft\, an original member of harmony sweethearts The Wailin’ Jennys and whose parents were folksingers influenced by the great activist Pete Seeger\, knows that sometimes a song is all you need to bring people together.  But often\, it is more. “(Seeger) was the king of uniting people through singing\,” Luft says. “There’s so much animosity and divisiveness in our world these days… as artists\, part of our job is to somehow create unity.” \nThe Small Glories duplicate and reinforce each others’ many strengths and yet allow their distinct personalities to shine through\, resulting in a live show that is as heartwarming as it is hilarious\, as finger-picking proficient as it is relatable\, and as Canadian as\, well… it’s very Canadian. But that hasn’t stopped them from winning over audiences from Nashville to the Australian outback.  Their highly anticipated sophomore album “Assiniboine & the Red” was released the summer of 2019 on Compass/Red House Records.  \n—– \nCOVID-19 Protocols \nThe West End Cultural Centre believes a healthy community is at the heart of everything we do. In accordance with the Manitoba Government and Manitoba Health protocols –  \n\nAll performers\, crew\, staff\, volunteers\, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue. \nFace masks are required on all WECC premises. Please wear your mask when not seated at a table and/or when not drinking or eating. \n\nThese practices are meant to keep all of us safe to enjoy all the art and music that Winnipeg has to offer.
URL:https://accesswinnipeg.com/event/the-small-glories-2/
LOCATION:West End Cultural Centre\, 586 Ellice Ave\, Winnipeg\, MB\, R3B1Z8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Circus of Amazing Divas!: A Burlesque Fusion Cabaret
DESCRIPTION:Prairie Diva Presents “Circus of Amazing Divas!: A Burlesque Fusion Cabaret”\n\n\nPrairie Diva Presents “Circus of Amazing Divas!: A Burlesque Fusion Cabaret” \nSaturday\, December 4th  \nDoors 7 pm Show at 8 pm \nTickets $30 advance\, $35 at the door \nwebsite: www.mfunkdance.com \nemail: mfunkdance@gmail.com  \nsocial media (Insta & FB): @prairiedivadance  \n \nEvent Description:  \nJoin us for a night of sassy performances put on by the Prairie Diva burlesque fusion dance classes\, M. Funk Dance Productions\, and a variety of other local artists including pole dancers\, classic burlesque performers\, singers\, and more! \nCheck out some highlights from our past showcases:
URL:https://accesswinnipeg.com/event/circus-of-amazing-divas-a-burlesque-fusion-cabaret/
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SUMMARY:The Windups plus Silver Clouds
DESCRIPTION:Raw and ready pop rock n roll from some of Winnipeg’s finest veteran noisemakers!\n\n\n“We don’t really rehearse much anymore; we usually just show up the night of a show and quickly discuss what songs we’ll be doing\,” Rob Pachol announces to the “crowd\,” which consists of a Winnipeg Free Press writer and photographer. “But in the name of journalism\, we agreed to strap on our gear for this rare\, momentous occasion.” \nWith that\, Pachol\, whose rock ‘n’ roll resumé includes stints in Soul Scatter\, the Turnstiles and J.P. Hoe\, nods at Morton (ex of Dementia 5 and Hot Tub)\, bass player Rej Ricard and drummer Jacques Dubois (both of Telepathic Butterflies)\, before launching into Heart of the City\, first recorded by Nick Lowe in 1976. \nMoments after the guys have finished tearing through Blondie’s Hanging on the Telephone\, XTC’s Crowded Room and the Velvet Underground’s White Light White Heat\, they plunk themselves down at the top of a wooden staircase and say\, “OK\, what do you wanna know? \nMorton and Pachol met in 1996\, when both men were employed at HMV Canada. One evening\, Morton\, a music savant who\, when a scribe mentions he recently learned April Wine didn’t write its hit You Could Have Been a Lady\, remarks\, “Oh for sure; it was first done by Hot Chocolate\,” invited Pachol over to watch videos featuring Dr. Feelgood\, a British pub-rock outfit that formed in 1971. \n“They were like nothing I’d ever heard — just this hard-driving\, fast\, R&B sound — and after a couple of songs I turned to Andy and said it would be so great to put together a band one day that sounded like them\,” Pachol says. \nFast-forward to 2002; Pachol\, who had some time on his hands following the dissolution of the Rowdymen\, contacted Morton\, who was also between bands\, to see if he was still interested in “that thing we talked about six years ago.” \nAfter enlisting Ricard and original drummer Dino Desrochers\, the guys holed up in Pachol’s basement\, where they taught themselves close to 150 songs from a mix of genres\, including the British Invasion (the Kinks’ Till the End of the Day)\, glam rock (T. Rex’s Telegram Sam) and new wave (Devo’s Uncontrollable Urge). \nChristening themselves the Wind-Ups – a nod to the Dr. Feelgood ditty She’s a Windup — they made their debut in front of a sold-out house at Times Change(d) High and Lonesome Club in February 2003. (Pachol credits Desrochers\, who eventually left the band to devote time to his young family\, for being able to pack a room “with one call.”) \n“It was such a ridiculous concept: ‘Hi\, we’re going to play all our favourite songs — few of which you’ve probably heard of\,’ that we didn’t think anybody would even get it\,” Pachol says with a laugh. \n“But because there was a familiarity to the stuff — after all\, even punk is based in rock ‘n’ roll — it wasn’t like\, ‘What is this alien music we’re listening to?’” Ricard chimes in. “It was more along the lines of\, ‘Wow\, these guys are a rock ‘n’ roll band\, and we haven’t seen a good\, old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll band in a long time.’” \nWord about the Wind-Ups’ tight\, live performances and exquisite taste in song selection spread like wildfire. Before long\, the guys were being booked into watering holes all over the city. (Ricard says one of the biggest compliments they received was when one of their fans put together a home-made\, double-CD comprised of songs they regularly perform\, as recorded by the original artists.) \n“That first couple of years we were playing every week or second week\, at least\, and pretty soon\, we started getting calls to open for the likes of Teenage Head and White Cowbell Oklahoma\,” Pachol goes on\, noting there were also a few “strange shows” along the way — like the time they played for a group of bikers at a bonfire/barbecue\, west of the city. \n“They were OK with our classic-rock stuff like Alice Cooper and the Who\, but most of the time they were laughing at us\, wondering why we were wearing suits and ties.” (For the band’s 10th anniversary show\, during which they performed Iggy and the Stooges’ 1973 release Raw Power in its entirety\, Morton did away with his usual\, buttoned-up look\, taking the stage sans shirt\, a la Iggy Pop\, the Stooges’ frontman.) \nOn occasion\, the Wind-Ups get asked to play special events such as wedding receptions\, but because they don’t ordinarily sing about brown-eyed girls\, nights at the YMCA or raising a little hell\, that’s generally not a good fit\, they caution. \n“We never tailor our sets\, and it’s not like we’ve ever played anything close to a waltz\, but every now and again we’ll get a punk-rock bride and groom wanting to hire us\,” says Pachol\, who is equally adept at the ukulele as he is his Fender Telecaster Thinline. “Sure\, it works for some of the people in the room but usually not for grandma and grandpa\, so when we do that sort of thing\, we always feel like we’re ruining it for somebody. \nFourteen years in — they chuckle when they are reminded that’s four years longer than a certain band from Liverpool stayed together — the guys\, who range in age from 43 to 55\, don’t see any reason for calling it a day any time soon. \n“Maybe there’s an advantage to being a cover band\, in that if we’d been writing originals all this time\, we might not still be together\,” Ricard says\, laughing when Morton interrupts\, stating\, “Yeah\, we would definitely hate each other by now\, if that had been the case.” \n“But because it’s always been more of a side project for us\, it’s pretty low maintenance\,” Ricard goes on\, explaining all four have careers outside of the band. “Plus\, we actually enjoy hanging out together. It’s not like we ever don’t like seeing each other.” \nThat said\, John Scoles\, owner of Times Change(d) High and Lonesome Club\, recommends if you haven’t experienced a Wind-Ups show yet\, don’t put it off much longer. \n“All four members are extremely talented and dedicated and that they can keep up the precision and quality of work they deliver is stunning\,” Scoles says\, guesstimating the band has appeared at his establishment some 60 times through the years. “I say it all the time; the more young musicians that get out and see the Wind-Ups play before they stop playing — and sadly\, there will be a day they stop — the better the rock ‘n’ roll scene Winnipeg is going to have\, over the next generation.” \nScoles\, who lists Angel City’s Take a Long Line and the Young Canadians’ Hawaii as his favourite Wind-Ups selections\, was never concerned about booking a true\, blue rock ‘n’ roll act into his venue\, which is still primarily a showcase for blues and roots-rock acts. \n“It’s somewhat coincidental because when I started booking the Wind-Ups\, I was just starting to change the focus of the room from a certain type of music to good music\, period. Cause at the end of the day\, we’re a bar… we’re a party.” \nOne other thing; Scoles will readily debate anybody who refers to the Wind-Ups as Winnipeg’s best “cover” band. \n“Never mind cover band\,” he says. “At any given moment during a Wind-Ups show — if everything is lining up just right — they might just be the best band in the world\, period.” \nPachol shakes his head and grins as he sums up his and his pals’ ability to play what they like\, when they like. \n“When you think about it\, no so-called ‘A-circuit band’ or ‘hits band’ would be able to get up and\, in the same set\, play Motörhead\, the Flying Burrito Brothers and Chris Spedding. At the very least\, it would be hard to find a place that would book them. But for whatever reason\, we get away with it.” \n———- \nSilver Clouds is the latest offering from Winnipeg’s always vibrant alt-rock scene\, comprised of veteran players Rod Slaughter (Duotang\, Novillero)\, Dave Berthiaume (Novillero)\, Sean Stevens (Novillero\, Transonic) and Steve Payne (Boy\, Transonic). The band’s self-titled debut album will be released June 26 on Disintegration Records\, with the first single\, “Minor Hesitation\,” available now on all digital platforms. \n \nIn the years between Novillero’s demise and Duotang’s reformation\, Slaughter – the principal songwriter for both bands – kept building a cache of songs that otherwise had no home. Twelve of these pop-infused tracks of disaffection formed the basis of Silver Clouds\, fleshed out with long time friend Berthiaume on drums\, with subjects ranging from a once famous actor’s internal dilemmas (“Peter Sellers”) to post World War I border security (“Maginot Line”)\, and lots of songs in between about just getting on with it. \n \nWhen asked about “Minor Hesitation\,” Slaughter says\, “‘It describes a feeling of apathy\, paralysis\, and a fear of letting go of the known. We feel it’s a rather fitting introduction to a band that\, until the global pandemic\, had remained in a state of self-imposed delay.” \n \nWorking with producer Cam Loeppky\, Slaughter and Berthiaume were joined in the studio by Rusty Matyas (Imaginary Cities) Rej Ricard (Telepathic Butterflies) and Keri Latimer (Nathan)\, among others\, to complete the album. Having enlisted Stevens on guitar and Payne on bass\, Silver Clouds are greatly looking forward to getting on stage (when the time finally comes) to play these blistering rock ‘n roll rides in their natural element.
URL:https://accesswinnipeg.com/event/the-windups-plus-silver-clouds/
LOCATION:Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club\, 234 Main St.\, Winnipeg\, MB\, R3C1A8\, Canada
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