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SUMMARY:Shannon & Scott's Wedding SHOW-CIAL
DESCRIPTION:Shannon & Scott’s Wedding Social\n\n\nShannon & Scott’s Wedding Social \nSATURDAY\, MAY 8TH\, 2021 \nDoors: 8 pm \nPark Theatre \n \nThis isn’t just your ordinary wedding social. Live music\, a rotating set of DJs\, live records\, lattes\, cocktails\, snacks\, and great prizes to keep your booty shaking until the lights turn on. \n \nMusic: \n– Live band\, bringing the danceable rock ‘n’ roll to kick off the night  \n– Punk/post punk \n– 80’s dance music \n– Hip Hop/Nothing But The 90’s/Club Rap \n– Reggae\, Soca\, Dancehall\, Reggaeton \n– Readymix/ Indie Dance \n– Electronic/Dubstep/Drum’n’Bass/Psychedelic \n \nPrizes: \n– 55″ flatscreen TV \n– Jets Prize Pack \n–  Kitchen Essentials \n– Fitness Prize Pack \n– Spa Prize Pack \n– Date Night \n– Wellness Prize Pack \n– More Special Prizes to be Unveiled!
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SUMMARY:Manitoba Metalfest pre fest party with Vox & Hops
DESCRIPTION:Manitoba Metalfest pre fest party\n\n\nManitoba Metalfest 2022 pre fest party  \nThursday May 12 at Sookrams Brewing Company 479-B Warsaw Ave \nNinjacat Productions & Sookrams Brewing Company present: \nVOX & HOPS hosted by Matt McGachy of Cryptopsy \nfeaturing live interviews with  \nDANIEL DEKAY of EXCITER \nJESSE MATHEWSON of KENMODE \nCHRIS SOUTOS of THRASHEDTV \nCome down…have a beer and listen to some great discussions about metal and the industry. \nFREE tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/331996158447  \nDoors 7pm
URL:https://accesswinnipeg.com/event/manitoba-metalfest-pre-fest-party-with-vox-hops/
LOCATION:Sookrams Brewing Company\, 479-B\, Winnipeg\, MB\, r3l0r2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:BADFLOWER
DESCRIPTION:MODO-LIVE & Programme Presents: Badflower – This Is How The World Continues… w/ Chastity\n\n\nBadflower don’t care what you think about them. They don’t care whether you get what they’re doing\, because their thoroughly modern rock is more ahead of the curve than anyone else you might try and pigeonhole them with. And they really don’t care whether you like the messages in their songs\, because what they sing about is important\, if uncomfortable. \n \nThat attitude might seem misguided for a band who have yet to release their debut album. In this age where music’s money comes largely from touring\, fans are more important than ever – they’re the ones who buy the tickets to shows and ultimately give artists the opportunity to keep playing and progressing. But the LA four-piece aren’t complete beginners – since forming in 2013\, frontman Josh Katz\, guitarist Joey Morrow\, drummer Anthony Sonetti\, and bassist Alex Espiritu have toured relentlessly across the US and beyond\, building up a reputation as a formidable live force as well as an ever-growing mass of loyal followers and praise from the likes of Billboard\, Forbes\, and Consequence Of Sound. \n \nThough the band credit their years of gigging with giving them the life experience to write their debut album\, ‘OK\, I’M SICK’\, it’s also had its downsides\, especially for Katz. The singer and guitarist suffers from anxiety and panic disorder – something that he’s had to learn how to cope with on the road. “I once ran off stage mid-song and just had to take a beat and was very confused\,” he says\, offering an example of how the problem can affect him. “I wasn’t sure if I should be throwing up or sitting down. Typically\, it’s just clenching every muscle in my body until it hopefully goes away. I can barely stand up\, barely get notes out. It’s all of these feelings at once.” \n \nIt’s that problem that inspired ‘Ghost’\, the band’s big breakthrough single. After coming home from tour\, Katz was so fed up with what he had to go through to get on stage every night\, he was in two minds whether to carry on with music. “If I’m miserable every night\, why am I doing it?” he asked himself. It was that song\, which reached the top of the US charts\, that saved Badflower. \n \nDespite its success\, the group was initially sceptical about it being more than an album track. In its often graphic lyrics\, Katz plays out a dark\, suicidal fantasy – “This life is overwhelming and I’m ready for the next one\,” he sighs resignedly at one point. They worried listeners would think they were glorifying suicide\, cynically using a very real and serious problem for their own gain. “But people got it immediately and we realised how many people are affected by depression\, panic disorder\, and anxiety issues\,” Katz explains. “You hear about it all the time\, you see it on every commercial – there’s some anti-depressant being sold to you because everybody has these issues – but people don’t like to talk about it that much.” \n \nWhile ‘Ghost’ is a somewhat harrowing take on mental health issues\, not all of ‘OK\, I’M SICK’ is as serious. Opener ‘x ANA x’ (inspired in part by Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre documentary The Defiant Ones) tackles a similar topic but with a far more sardonic tone. An ode to the helpful qualities of Xanax\, it’s eyebrow-raising\, incredibly self-aware and rife with meta moments (in one breakdown Katz cheerily asks: “Hey\, wanna see what happens when I mix Xanax\, blow\, and a MacBook Pro?”). Along with the constantly changing music – be it speeding up\, stuttering almost to the brink of collapse\, or weaving even more claustrophobic layers together – it adds up to something completely manic. \n \n“The whole song is meant to feel like a panic attack – unexplained chaos happening within you\,” Katz says. “We wrote that song together and then I took what we had to our house in the desert and stayed awake all night and\, like a mad scientist\, destroyed everything and chopped it up. I didn’t feel like it was manic enough. It’s making fun of anxiety but it’s also making fun of itself.” \n \nAs a band with plenty to say\, mental health isn’t the only message Badflower share on their debut. ‘Murder Games’ is the album’s most intense and urgent sounding cut\, metallic\, guillotine-esque swishes entwined with a punishing guitar line that sets you on edge. Its lyrics speak about veganism (Katz has been vegan for four years) in uncompromising terms. “That’s gonna alienate our band like crazy\,” the frontman shrugs\, unbothered. “We think it’s something important that needs to be talked about so we’re gonna talk about it. It’s about getting the conversation started. It’s about getting people to look at it in a different way and not be so passive about the idea that something in society that you grew up hearing was right might not be as right as you think.” \n \n‘Die’ also has the potential to cause controversy. Partly a damning assessment of Trump’s position on the environment (Morrow is keen to point out the President is not the only target of the song)\, it features Katz screaming the title as if his own life depends on it. But his sentiment is not what you might immediately assume. “It doesn’t mean\, ‘Hey\, go get murdered’ or ‘I’m gonna kill you’\,” he clarifies. “It’s more all of those people who are so stuck in their ways\, who are afraid of change and afraid of evolution\, need to get old and die off so the next generation can come up and make some change and do something good.” Despite first appearances\, it’s intended as a statement of progression. “We’re meant to move forward\, not stagnate\,” Espiritu notes. \n \nElsewhere\, the album navigates subjects like abuse (‘Daddy’)\, depression in the face of success (’24’)\, and social media stalking (‘Girlfriend’). The latter merges old and new\, layering lyrics about Instagram filters and the internet over a big blues-rock jam. “We’ve always wanted to write about that anyway\,” says Katz\, “and it was the perfect\, wacky blues riff to write that over. I think we came up with something very special.” \n \nBadflower’s focus might be on big conversations but that doesn’t mean they aren’t happy to turn their attention to less weighty subjects too. ‘Promise Me’ is the only traditional love song on the record but not even it can escape the band’s entrenched darkness. “That’s my proudest moment on the album\,” Espiritu says. “We talk about doing what we want and what the spirit of rock and roll is\, and then we have ‘Promise Me’\, which is this leftfield\, beautiful\, romantic love song\, and we’re able to spin it and make it our own.” The making it their own\, Katz explains\, involves one of the song’s characters meeting their maker. \n \nProduced with Noah Shain (Atreyu\, Dead Sara)\, ‘OK\, I’M SICK’ represents a band full of ideas and submerged in the most modern of sounds. The band’s intention was to make the most 2018 album they possibly could\, unfazed by the idea it could sound dated a few years down the line. “Timeless music is amazing but everybody’s trying so hard to make timeless music that they’re making vague\, cookie-cutter shit\,” Katz says. “It sounds like everything else and I don’t think there’s really many rock bands who are trying to write anything current. We wanted to make something for this generation.” \n \nYou might have realised by now this band isn’t one to limit themselves. “We don’t even consider ourselves a rock band\,” Katz says defiantly. “If we decide to put out a rap album next week\, we’re gonna do it. Watch us. We don’t fucking care. We do what we want. Rock and roll used to be about that spirit and that got lost somewhere.” You can count on Badflower to put it right back in the heart of things\, whether anyone else likes it or not.
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LOCATION:The Park Theatre\, 698 Osborne Street\, Winnipeg\, MB\, R3L 2B9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Brent Parkin
DESCRIPTION:Brent Parkin is a legend of the Winnipeg music scene and has been playing for audiences in Winnipeg and across Canada for over 50 years.\n\n\nBrent Parkin is a veteran of the Winnipeg music scene and has been playing for audiences in Winnipeg and across Canada for over 50 years. \nBrent’s music is a mix of Chicago style Blues\, Swing\, Roots music with some Country and Roots Rock and Roll thrown in for good measure. He is comfortable playing with his band whether it be a 3 piece or up to 7 piece\, solo or duo.  \nCheck out YouTube for videos including a performance with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra 20 piece band or his solo version of Kingfish Blues. \nIn the early 70’s he co-founded several popular blues bands including the popular band Houndog in 1976. \nIn the last 43 years he has been part of the backup bands for such legends as Bo Diddley\, Gatemouth Brown\, Otis Rush\, Billy Boy Arnold\, Johnnie Johnson and Jimmy T99 Nelson and many more. As well as opening shows for such greats as James Cotton\, Johnny Winter\, Buddy Guy\, John Prine just to name a few. A career highlight was sharing the tour bus and stage with BB King and his band as his opening act on a Western Canadian tour in 1983. \nBrent has played many bars and nightclubs over the years. Some of the famous and legendary night clubs in Canada include: \nYale Hotel – Vancouver \nKing Eddy – Calgary \nBlues on Whyte – Edmonton \nBuds on Broadway – Saskatoon \nWindsor Hotel – Winnipeg \nAmbassador Hotel – Edmonton \nSilver Dollar – Toronto \n \nBrent has also played many concerts and festivals over the years including: \nWinnipeg Folk Festival \nEdmonton Folk Festival \nVancouver Folk Festival \nSaskatoon Jazz Festival \nWinnipeg Jazz Festival \nHarbourfront Blues Festival Toronto \nWinnipeg Blues and BBQ Festival \nBlues Brews and BBQ Kitchener \nLabatt’s Blues Festival Edmonton \n \nNumerous appearances at the Winnipeg Folk Festival also made it possible for Brent to play and share many workshop stages with a lot of great artists over the years. This experience has come in handy when doing shows in schools and such. \nOver the years he has appeared on many TV and radio shows. Some of the most memorable were 90 Minutes Live CBC with Peter Gzowski. Jimmy King Presents CTV’s Live at the Warehouse. \nHis original songs “Goodbye Canadian Penny” and “Brown Water Blues” were also featured on CBC Radio Up To Speed Winnipeg and CBC National Radio As It Happens in 2012 – 2013. \nIn 2008 Brent appeared in the highly successful play Mesa for the Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg\, providing the musical landscape\, singing and acting. A few years later he repeated that role for a version of Mesa by Theatre North West in Prince George BC. \nA few honours have come Brent’s way over the years: \n1993 Juno Award for his performance on Saturday Night Blues CBC Compilation. \n1996 & 1999 Maple Blues Award Nominations \n2013 & 2014 Maple Blues Award Nominations for the Blues With A Feeling Award (Lifetime Achievement) \n2011 Western Canada Music Award Nomination in the Blues Category for Brent Parkin Vintage Rhythm \n \nQuotes: \nIt is the great Amos Garrett who without hesitation calls Parkin “a guitarist’s guitarist” It is Tom Lavin of Powder Blues who refers to Brent as “CanadaÕs Duke Robillard” and it is Downchild’s Don Walsh who states\, “Brent Parkin is one of a handful of Canadian artists who has been keeping this music alive and well in our country for almost as long as we have.”  \n \n“Brent is one of this countries best blues guitarists.” Peter North CKUA Radio – Music Director – Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival  \n \n“One of my favourite musicians is Winnipeg bluesman Brent Parkin. Why? First of all\, he’s a rock solid player who says more with less. Tasty solos coupled with soulful singing\, but wait\, there’s more! Parkin can also craft songs about what’s on people’s minds\, a kind of community blues player if you will.” \nKinsey Posen – CBC Music Producer \n \nBrent Parkin Anthology: \nBrent Parkin – “Vintage Rhythm” – 2010 \nVarious Artists – “Front Porch Roots Revue” – 2010 \nBrent Parkin – “Treasure by the Long River” – 1997 \nBrent Parkin – “Wang Dang Doodle” – Compilation 1996 \nBrent Parkin – “Saturday Night Blues” – CBC Compilation 1993 \nBrent Parkin and The Stingers – “Beep Beep” – 1989 \nHoundog – “Every Dog Has It’s Day” – 1977 \n \n \nIn 2007 CPR helped save my life. \nAnyone interested in learning CPR is encouraged to contact your local Red Cross.
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LOCATION:Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club\, 234 Main St.\, Winnipeg\, MB\, R3C1A8\, Canada
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