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Manitoba Moose vs. Rockford IceHogs
2017-02-21 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Winnipeg) | MTS Centre, 300 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 5S4, Canada

Disney On Ice presents Passport To Adventure
2017-02-19 15:00, 2017-02-19 11:00, 2017-02-18 19:00, 2017-02-18 15:00, 2017-02-18 11:00, 2017-02-17 19:00, 2017-02-16 19:00 | MTS Centre, 300 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 5S4, Canada
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favorite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure. Join Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald, Goofy and Daisy on a journey to the timeless worlds of Disney’s The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, and Disney’s Frozen. You and your family will explore the African Pride Lands with Simba, Timon and Pumbaa, voyage deep under the sea to Ariel’s mystical underwater kingdom and tour London with Peter Pan and Wendy before flying to Neverland to meet up with Tinker Bell. Plus, travel to Arendelle for an extraordinary adventure with sisters Anna and Elsa, rugged mountain man Kristoff and everyone’s favorite huggable snowman Olaf, as they journey to discover that true love is the most magical power of all. Upbeat music, lovable characters and unforgettable moments make Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure an experience your family will cherish forever! *Note: Costumes not permitted for guests 14 years & older

Air Canada Pops - Once Upon A Dance!
2017-02-19 14:00, 2017-02-18 20:00, 2017-02-17 20:00 | Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1C3, Canada
A twirl through Manitobas history in dance. Five of the provinces leading dance companies show off a few of the cultures woven together on this land. Lively music plus virtuosic performances add up to a very special show that could only be made in Manitoba! Featuring: McConnell Irish Dancers Odette Heyn-Projects Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble Rusalka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Ça Claque! W. Darling

Valentine's Special
2017-02-14 20:00 | Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1C3, Canada
Spend Valentines Day with Ravels sultry Bolero, a loved one by your side, and music that will score a perfect 10! Gorgeous opera arias by Puccini, music from Bizets Carmen, Saint-Saens Samson et Dalila, Andrew Lloyd Webbers Cats, Leonard Bernsteins West Side Story and more. A beautiful program for people in love on a special day!

Winnipeg Jets v Dallas Stars
2017-02-14 19:00 | MTS Centre, 300 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 5S4, Canada

The Liftoff Tour
2017-02-14 17:00 - 22:00 | Burton Cummings Theatre, 364 Smith Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2H2, Canada
The LIFTOFF Tour
Featuring Shane Harte, Kristen Hancher, Sebastian Olzanski, Jillea, Panicland, and more!
#LIFTOFFTour
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
All Ages / Reserved
Doors: 5:00PM / Show: 5:30PM
Get Tickets: http://bit.ly/2hdtFDQ
Facebook Presale: Thu, Dec 16 at 10AM- 10PM
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Public On Sale: Fri, Dec 16 at 10AM
Tickets: $22.50, $27.50 (Incl. GST) + s/c
LIFTOFF Tour
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Shane Harte
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Kristen Hancher
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Sebastian Olzanski
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Andrew Gregory
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Jillea
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The LIFTOFF Tour is an exciting and innovative event and media platform, developed to fill a void in the
Canadian market by bringing out emerging talent that specifically caters to a digital / non-traditional audience.
The event will feature a variety of musical acts integrated into an interactive experience that also features hosts along with live comedy and video. In aggregate the talents have fan followings of tens of millions across multiple social media platforms.
The LIFTOFF Tour will create an unforgettable experience for fans unlike any other tour currently operating in Canada.
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Big Wreck w/ special guests Ascot Royals
2017-02-12 20:00 - 23:00 | Burton Cummings Theatre, 364 Smith Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2H2, Canada
Big Wreck
The Grace Street Tour
With very special guests Ascot Royals
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2017
Burton Cummings Theatre
All Ages / Reserved Seating
Doors: 7:00PM / Show: 8:00PM
Facebook Presale: Thursday, November 24 at 10AM- 10PM
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General On sale: Friday, November 25 at 10AM
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Tickets: $25.00, $35.00 (Incl. GST) + s/c
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There’s a question posed by Big Wreck’s new album, Grace Street: What does it mean to be a rock and roll band in 2017? When you have a bunch of modern rock radio staples to your credit, earned platinum sales status, and shared stages with music icons, where do you go next? The answer is simple: To be an artist these days, one needs to embrace everything, and have the skill and savvy to put it all together with a clear vision of an end result.
Grace Street does this magnificently, confirming that Big Wreck is as vital and engaging today as they were when they first arrived on the scene in 1997. The new album follows the group’s 2014 JUNO-nominated effort Ghosts, but more significantly, front man Ian Thornley’s 2015 debut solo outing Secrets, on which he expanded his songwriting range while taking a more spontaneous approach in the studio. Those elements continued to be explored on Grace Street, Big Wreck’s first collaboration with co-producer Garth Richardson, whose extensive resume includes work with Rage Against The Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
As mutual admirers for many years, it was a long-overdue pairing and both parties took full advantage of the opportunity. Thornley says, “There was a lot of growth from [2012 album] Albatross to Ghosts, and I think Grace Street is the next step in that process. What helped greatly was Garth’s attitude of let’s go further and deeper. We really left no stone unturned as we were making this record.”
The sonic diversity on Grace Street is indeed stunning, with heavy grooving tracks such as lead-off single “One Good Piece Of Me” and “Digging In” rubbing shoulders with the atmospheric “A Speedy Recovery” and the epic seven-minute instrumental “Skybunk Marché.” Other tracks feature added touches such as Miles Davis-style muted trumpet, wine glasses, a sample of Thornley’s daughter’s heartbeat, and a Leslie speaker guitar solo recorded on a mountainside adjacent to Richardson’s B.C. studio.
But at the core of the album are live off the floor performances by Thornley on guitar and keyboards, accompanied by drummer Chuck Keeping and bassist Dave McMillan. (Original founding band member Brian Doherty returns when the band hits the stage). For Thornley, it was imperative to maintain the human element in every aspect of the sessions, resulting in a trip he feels no previous Big Wreck album has taken a listener on before. “Musically, I’m still searching for the stuff that turns me on and takes me somewhere,” he says. “You want to be brought to tears or have the hair on your neck stand up, and if the search for that takes you to new territory, then so be it. You have to follow. It’s like chasing a high, and Garth feels that just as much as we do.”
For the Toronto-born Thornley, that search began in his youth when his classic rock heroes inspired him picked up the guitar. The original Big Wreck line-up, including Brian Doherty, was formed in the early 1990s while all members were attending Berklee College of Music in Boston. After a few years of honing their sound, the band was signed to Atlantic Records, which released their instantly embraced debut album In Loving Memory Of… in 1997. It proved to be a major homecoming for Thornley, as singles “The Oaf,” “That Song” and “Blown Wide Open” were all Top 10 hits in Canada, boosted by the band’s intense live shows.
Big Wreck chose to go their separate ways following the 2001 follow-up album The Pleasure And The Greed, with Thornley quickly forming a new group bearing his surname, which over time brought Dave McMillan into the fold. Although Thornley the band released two commercially successful albums over a nine-year span, Thornley the musician eventually grew disenchanted with the group’s approach, and a rekindling of his friendship with Doherty sparked the notion of a re-born Big Wreck.
It proved to be an astute decision on all fronts, as the “comeback” album Albatross turned in a Top 5 first-week showing on the Canadian Albums Chart, the highest debut of any previous Big Wreck or Thornley release. It would go on to earn a 2013 JUNO nomination for Rock Album of the Year and spawn three Top 10 Canadian Rock Radio singles.
The fresh start invariably led to Thornley’s creative renaissance, with other facets of his life and career eventually following suit. That’s symbolized by his choice to name the new album after his new Toronto address, Grace Street, where Thornley has regained some of the stability that has eluded him over the past few years. What he’s also come to terms with is allowing Big Wreck to be whatever it wants to be, whether that’s a riff-spewing, multi-guitar beast or a vehicle for sonic boundary pushing. There are no longer any limits.
As Thornley explains, “It’s like when you run into someone on vacation and they ask what you do. When I say I’m a musician, they’ll ask what kind of music I play, and I’ll always just say rock and roll. But within that are so many flavours you can’t even begin to describe. And that was really the over-riding goal for Grace Street, to have every song be able to stand on its own as something unique, and I’m really proud that we were able to do that.”
Big Wreck is Ian Thornley (Vocals, Guitar), Chuck Keeping (Drums), Dave McMillan (Bass), Paulo Neta (Guitar), and Brian Doherty (Guitar).
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Romantic Melody
2017-02-11 20:00, 2017-02-10 20:00 | Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1C3, Canada
Max Bruchs Violin Concerto No. 1 is a quintessential Romantic showpiece filled with dashing themes and virtuosic writing. Sibelius Second Symphony is his most popular and fitting on the centenary of the Finnish declaration of independence in a tribute to its most famous composer.

Winnipeg Jets v Tampa Bay Lightning
2017-02-11 18:00 | MTS Centre, 300 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 5S4, Canada

Winnipeg Jets v Chicago Blackhawks
2017-02-10 19:00 | MTS Centre, 300 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 5S4, Canada

This Is That Live!
2017-02-09 20:00 - 23:00 | Burton Cummings Theatre, 364 Smith Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2H2, Canada
CBC This Is That Live!
This Is That’s 150 Years of Canada Tour
#TIT150Years
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
All Ages / Reserved Seating
Doors 7:00PM / Show 8:00PM
Facebook Presale: Wednesday, September 21 at 10AM – Thursday, September 22 at 10PM
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On Sale: Friday, September 23 at 10AM
Get Tickets: http://bit.ly/2cTT3zj
Tickets (incl. GST) $15.00 / $25.00 / $30.00 + s/c
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Hot on the heels of a new season of radio and string of viral videos, including “Thought Leader” & “Riderless Bikes,” Pat Kelly & Peter Oldring are hitting the road with a new version of their popular live show – This Is That LIVE! With a healthy mix of character interviews and mockumentary stories, this live send up of public radio doesn’t just report the news it makes it up! If you have ever been curious how just two guys provide all the voices for this completely improvised radio comedy, well this is the show for you.
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Arkells w/ special guests Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls
2017-02-07 20:00 - 23:00 | Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1C3, Canada
Arkells
with very special guests
Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg
All Ages / Reserved Seating
Doors: 7:00PM / Show: 8:00PM
Facebook Presale: Thursday, October 20 at 10AM-10PM
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On Sale: Friday, October 21 at 10AM
Get Tickets: http://bit.ly/2efa6cT
Tickets: (Incl. GST) $30.50, $40.50, $50.50 + s/c
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“It’s a weird time to be a rock band right now,” observes Max Kerman, the singer, guitarist, and chief songwriter for the Arkells. “I just feel like rock has gotten so conservative and doesn’t know where to go. To be honest, I don’t really listen to a lot of rock music right now.”
That’s not a radical statement for your average twenty-something in this EDM-dominated era, but it’s a bit surprising coming from a guitar-slinging guy whose band seemingly personifies a certain old-school, ethic. Hailing from the gritty industrial outpost of Hamilton, Ontario, the Arkells have notched four Juno Awards and a gold record on their sweat-rusted belts, proving there’s still a place for passionate, no-bullshit rock ‘n’ soul in the mainstream. (In 2015, they were the most-played band on Canadian alt-rock radio.) But the group’s new album, Morning Report, betrays a more irreverent, adventurous ethos that more readily recalls the cut-and-paste approach of hip-hop beatmakers than the plug-and-play attack of a live rock band, with click-tracked rhythms, subliminal samples, electronic pulses, and sax and violins threaded into the richly textured mix.
Certainly, this is the Arkells’ most eclectic album to date, from the piano-pounded, “California Love”-schooled swagger of “Private School” to the silver-lined break-up song “My Heart’s Always Yours,” the sort of ascendant, blood-pumping anthem you can easily imagine sparking an arena full of waving illuminated smartphones. But if the Arkells have mostly scrubbed away the surface soot of their Hamilton-spawned sound, lyrically, Kerman’s songwriting hits even closer to home.
“A lot of the songs are about me and characters in my life: my friends, my parents, my girlfriend,” Kerman says. “And a lot of times, they’re songs about what happened the night before. So that’s why it’s called Morning Report: you text your friend the next day and it’s like, ‘Give me the morning report!’”
But Morning Report balances tales of last night’s debauchery with more sobering examinations of a time in life that doesn’t get much play in rock music: your late-twenties. It’s the phase when all your friends start getting married, your parents suddenly decide to get divorced, and long-distance relationships hit their shit-or-get-off-the-pot breaking point. But while melancholic, meditative ballads like “Passenger Seat” and “Come Back Home” provide unflinching portraits of marriages on the brink of collapse, rousing, soul-powered sing-alongs like “A Little Rain” pay poignant tribute to the friendships that help you through the tough times, and provide that much-needed shoulder to cry on.
“That’s another thing that’s so conservative about white-guy indie rock,” says Kerman. “What makes Drake so awesome is he just puts all his emotions right on the table for you to see. All of these songs and stories come from a genuine place for me.”
The morning reports we get from our friends may arrive through smartphone screens, but the songs on Morning Report all chronicle face-to-face interactions—with all the intimacy, intensity and awkwardness they entail.
“This is our weirdest, funniest, saddest record yet,” Kerman concludes. “And therefore, our most honest one, too.”
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Winnipeg Jets v Minnesota Wild
2017-02-07 19:00 | MTS Centre, 300 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 5S4, Canada

WWE Live Road to WrestleMania
2017-02-05 13:00 | MTS Centre, 300 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 5S4, Canada

Manitoba Moose vs. San Jose Barracuda
2017-02-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2017-02-03 19:00 - 22:00 | MTS Centre, 300 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 5S4, Canada

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
2017-02-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1C3, Canada
The Banff Mountain Film Festival (BMFF) World Tour brings the excitement, the spectacle, and the richness of the mountains and mountain culture to Winnipeg. Featuring spectacular, inspiring, funny, exciting, and thought-provoking mountain films from around the world, the BMFF is an exhilarating exploration of the mountain world from remote landscapes and cultures to adrenaline-packed action sports. DON’T MISS IT!
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Show starts at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets to this year’s show go on sale December 1, 2016 through Ticketmaster.
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Banff Mountain Film Festival
2017-02-04 19:00 | Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1C3, Canada

Saturday Night Fever
2017-02-01 20:00 | Burton Cummings Theatre, 364 Smith Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2H2, Canada
