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The New Lightweights
2021-12-22 20:00 - 23:00 (America/Winnipeg) | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
The New Lightweights are Alexa Dirks, Ariel Posen and Ryan Voth.

Christmas in the Peg
2021-12-23 19:00 - 21:00 | MB
Christmas in the Peg

Thursday, December 23rd
Doors 6:30 pm | Show 7 pm
Tickets $20 plus fees
It’s the most wonderful time of the year especially when it’s celebrated with some of the greatest Christmas classics in history. Join Chad Celaire a.k.a. The Christmas Singer with his 3 piece band: Grant Simpson on the keys, Quintin Bart on bass, and Cameron Denby on percussion.” Christmas in the Peg is metaphorically guaranteed to take you to new heights in Santa’s sleigh.

Ridley Bent and The Killer Tumbleweeds
2021-12-23 20:30 - 23:00 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
“In my heart,” Ridley Bent says, sounding for the world like a character from one of his own songs, “I rock.”

Like Ridley Bent’s past records, Rabbit On My Wheel reads like a collection of short stories, showcasing the Western Canada based Country artist’s keen fascination for characters whose life on the straight and narrow rarely lasts past the nearest exit to a short, crooked road.

On Rabbit On My Wheel, the 2009 CCMA nominee and 7-time BCCMA winner’s storytelling and songwriting chops are sharper than ever. But where Ridley’s 2005 MapleMusic Recordings debut, Blam, and Buckles and Boots, his 2007 followup on Open Road Recordings, ranged far and wide across the continent, this time out Ridley sticks a little closer to his life at home and on the road in Western Canada.

Although the tales are still as tall as they come, and the characters as large as life or larger, the cast of hard-drinking, fast-driving characters Ridley unleashes on Rabbit On My Wheel tend to be a shade less hell-bent on self-destruction than they are with keeping their lives between the lines and out of the ditch.

While that may be so, musically Rabbit On My Wheel definitely kicks it up a notch or six from Ridley’s last record. “In my heart,” he says, sounding for the world like a character from one of his own songs, “I rock.” So does Rabbit On My Wheel…

Recorded in Vancouver’s Factory Studios and Nashcroft Productions in Ashcroft, BC with returning producer John MacArthur Ellis (Jane Siberry, Dustin Bentall, Jeremy Fisher), the album brings together the same crack musical team Ridley hit the road with after releasing Buckles and Boots. It also finds Ridley still hip deep in a passionate love affair with old school Country, but where many of the songs on his past records have come together largely during recording sessions, these show the distinct marks of having been dragged back and forth across the country a few times. “The band’s tighter,” Ridley says bluntly. “We worked out a lot of these songs live and only had about a week off after a nice, long tour with Corb Lund before we went into the studio in December 2009.”

As tight as they are, there’s still an off-the-cuff immediacy to the record that’s a consistent hallmark of Ellis’ production. “I like to maintain the spontaneity on the record,” Ellis explains. “Some producers grind you down to get what they want out of you to the point where it’s like, ‘well, why don’t you go and play the !!#?@*!! thing yourself?’ I spend a lot of time selecting musicians. I know what they’re going to bring to the table and I just kind of wrap my arms around that. And the better Ridley gets,” Ellis adds, “the better the band gets.”

Rabbit On My Wheel also benefits from a collaboration that began shortly after Ridley’s relocation to Winnipeg in 2008, with guitarist/songwriter Chris Dunn. “Him and I did a lot of writing and working on the songs. Before this I’d get the songs, go in to the studio with the band and work it out. Having a guitar player there to bounce ideas off in the pre, pre production was very valuable. He’s a big part of the album.”

Channeling the high-energy performance ethic of artists like Dwight Yoakum and Little Feat, Ridley and his band tear a deep strip off the joint with tracks like “Square Your Hat”, which features a guest appearance by renowned Canadian guitarist Luke Doucet (Veal, Sarah McLachlan), “Good Looking Country”, a song inspired by Ridley’s one and only, who he moved from Vancouver to Manitoba to be with, and the album’s closing track “Burning Down Barns”, on which every player in the band gets a chance to wail.

As ever, there are quieter moments as well. Ridley’s never afraid to pepper his records with a few thoughts on love and loneliness – and his evolving cast of moonshine-running, racecar-driving malcontents tend to know their way around the ladies as well as they do the back roads of the west. Of course these are love stories told the way only Ridley can; tracks that run the gamut from hard and bitter to hardly better, including a beautifully rendered, deliberately down-tempo take on the classic Dickey Lee song made famous by George Jones in 1962, “She Thinks I Still Care”.

While much of Ridley’s new material is drawn from real life experiences he’s gathered up on the road, Rabbit On My Wheel still has its share of shady characters, jackknifing tractor-trailers and whiskey-fuelled bar fights. And for those who identify strongly with Ridley’s less reasonable characters – the ones who tend to prefer to stir things up with a pistol in one hand and a bottle in the other – there’s The Blood Trilogy. A companion EP recorded during the same sessions and co-written with Dunn – a highly satisfying three-song western epic of violence and vengeance informed by Ridley’s ongoing fascination with the bleak worlds of writers like John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy.

Simply put, whether it’s love going strong but wrong in “Livin’ With Her Ex”, the straight up hooks of the album’s title track, or the three way struggle between Junior Johnson, the whiskey and the wife, on lead single, “I Can’t Turn My Back On the Bottle”, Rabbit On My Wheel has everything listeners have come to expect from Ridley Bent and more – A smoking twelve-song set chock full of fast cars, fine looking ladies and fist fights that finds Ridley burning through a landscape of big country skies, with one hand on the steering wheel and one eye on the bottle every mile of the way.

Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices plus Fortune Block
2021-12-29 21:00 - 23:59 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
It’s a half-full-sit-down Honky Tonk Christmas with Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices and Fortune Block (Amber Nielsen/Richard Inman).

The Return of New Year’s Eve “Eve” w/ The Windups
2021-12-30 21:00 - 23:59 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
Started at the Cavern 6 years ago…continuing the tradition at Times! Say good riddance to 2021 a day early!

a Hot and Dirty New Years Eve Dance Party
2021-12-31 21:00 - 2022-01-01 03:00 | MB
Featuring the Dirty Catfish Brass Band, DR. Hot Bottom, DJ DAD & DJ Hunnicutt

We are back, bringing you another Hot and Dirty NYE Dance Party, featuring our favourite Party Band – made up by members of the Dirty Catfish Brass Band, and DR Hotbottom. Joining them on stage will be DJ Dad, and DJ Hunnicutt spinning all your favourite tunes.
So come get down and funky with us, as we bring the groove back to the ’70s. Funk, Soul, PARTY.
Our New Year’s Eve Parties always sell out well in advance, so don’t delay and make your plans today!
What is a Hot & Dirty Dance Party? Well, Dirty Catfish Brass Band and Dr. Hotbottom combine forces and create a 16 piece band to present original material and to celebrate the great soul and funk music of the 70s. Featuring music from all of your favourites of the era, including but not limited to Tower of Power, Earth Wind & Fire, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Kool, and the Gang and much more.
If you have ever been to one of our epic era New Year’s parties, you know what to expect. If you haven’t… This is our annual New Year’s Eve party where we take one of our favourite decades and we bring you the music, the clothing, and all of the fun that goes along with it. This year we are taking on the 70’s, so put on that groovy dress, bell bottoms, or dashikis & let’s get down & party all night!
Tickets are $49.99 which includes, great food, champagne at midnight, our balloon drop, light show, and of course hours of great live music.
Grab your tickets now. The last time we sold-out well in advance, so get a jump on everyone else and get your tickets today.

New Year’s Eve with JD Edwards Band and The Dap Queens
2021-12-31 21:30 - 2022-01-01 02:00 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
Get ready to dance your way into 2022 this New Year’s Eve with The JD Edwards Band and The Dap Queens! FREE Champagne at midnight!

The JD Edwards Band are Winnipeg’s favourite roots-soul party band.
The Dap Queens are Jess Rae Ayre, Laura Olafson and an all-star band performing the greatest dance hits of all time!
Champagne at midnight and dancing til the wee hours!

Nashville MB Songwriters Round
2022-01-06 19:30 - 22:30 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
Our monthly Nashville MB Writers Round continues, this month featuring Tyler Del Pino (host), Slow Leaves, Ila Barker, and Nic Dyson.

Brew Banger 3 Night Pass
2022-01-06 20:00 - 23:00 | MB
Brew Banger 3 Night Pass

3 Nights of Amazing Beers and Good Time

Night 1 – Thursday, January 6th, 2022

Doors 8 pm | Show 9 pm – $20

Featuring: Gold Mountain, Greg Rekus and the Inside Job, Jivetown , Johannes Lodewyks – Brought to you by Torque Brewing

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brew-banger-at-the-park-night-1-brought-to-you-by-torque-brewing-tickets-220947147867

Night 2 – Friday, January 7th, 2022

Doors 8 pm | Show 9 pm – $20

Featuring: Clipwing, The Uglies, Dinner Club, Merin, Atomic – Brought to you by Sookrams and Good Neighbour Brewing

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brew-banger-at-the-park-night-2-sookrams-brewinggood-neighbour-brewing-tickets-220954499857

Night 3 – Saturday, January 8th, 2022

Doors 8 pm | Show 9 pm – $20

Featuring: Agapito, Ronnie Ladoboruk and the Electric, Bring Smoke, In 2 Months, the School Of Rock House Band – Brought to you by Fort Garry Brewing

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brew-banger-at-the-park-night-3-brought-to-you-by-fort-garry-brewing-tickets-220960638217

Brew Banger at the Park - Night 1 Brought to you by Torque Brewing
2022-01-06 21:00 - 2022-01-07 00:00 | MB
Brew Banger at the Park – Night 1 Brought to you by Torque Brewery

Thursday, January 6th Night 1 (Sponsored by Torque Brewing)
Hosts: Rylie Saunders (The Village Idiots)
Performances by:
Gold Mountain, Greg Rekus and the Inside Job, Jivetown , Johannes Lodewyks
9 pm – $20
3 DAY PASS $50 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brew-banger-3-night-pass-tickets-221020136177

New Orleans Night
2022-01-07 19:00 - 23:59 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
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?

The 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.

Brew Banger at the Park - Night 2: Sookrams Brewing/Good Neighbour Brewing
2022-01-07 21:00 - 2022-01-08 00:00 | MB
Presented by Sookrams Brewing and Good Neighbour Brewing

Performances by: Clipwing, The Uglies, Dinner Club, Merin, Atomic
3 DAY PASS $50 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brew-banger-3-night-pass-tickets-221020136177

Mariel Buckley plus Andrina Turenne
2022-01-08 20:30 - 23:30 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
Two of Western Canada’s finest roots troubadours, Mariel Buckley and Andrina Turenne, share the stage at their favourite honky-tonk!

Brew Banger at the Park - Night 3 Brought to you by Fort Garry Brewing
2022-01-08 21:00 - 2022-01-09 00:00 | MB
Brought to you by Fort Garry Brewing

Performances by: Agapito , Ronnie Ladoboruk and the Electric, Bring Smoke, In 2 Months, the School Of Rock House Band
3 DAY PASS $50 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brew-banger-3-night-pass-tickets-221020136177

Enveiled, Phantom Killing, Wilt, inhumed
2022-01-09 21:00 - 2022-01-10 00:00 | MB
Metal Night at the Park

Sunday, January 9th
Doors 8 pm | Music 9 pm
Tickets $10 plus fees advance
$15 at the doors

Jaxon Haldane Birthday Release featuring the D-Rangers & Gordie Tentrees
2022-01-12 20:00 - 23:00 | West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3B1Z8, Canada
Jaxon Haldane Birthday Release Party featuring the D-Rangers & Gordie Tentrees – Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Mean Old World explores the path of Gordie Tentrees from foster child to foster parent in songs like Rosetta, Every Child and the title track Mean Old World. Gordie spent time in the social service system before growing up to be a school teacher and youth worker, then coming back full circle as a foster parent to an indigenous child. Wind Walker is inspired by those of that beat to our own drum. Gordie’s days as a five-time Golden Glove boxer are recounted in Ring Speed. His gratitude rises in Far Away Friends, a tribute recognizing all those special off-the-stage hosts who supported him in his 2,500-plus concerts around the world. Further experiences in foreign countries pursuing record deals roll tongue-in-cheek throughout Danke. The learning gained from supporting a childhood friend through the last stages of cancer is presented in Train is Gone. Two best friends who break the mold once a year by adventuring together, leaving their domestic partners to muddle through, are featured in Lefties. Twice as Nice lets us know that the grass is never greener.
This recording is best listened to as a whole project. Each song is a treasure, beautifully sung, great instrumentation, wonderful production, fantastic lyrics, yet fitting together as a whole. Gordie has always had muscle and confidence in his music, but this project represents increased nuance and depth. The works reveal wit and poignancy. The work inspires the hero in us; it inspires courage, boldness, honour, strength, and confidence. Gordie reminds us that there are hardships but change is possible. He is helped by a score of artistic collaborators including members of the Dakhká Khwáan Dancers, an internationally renowned Inland Tlingit performance group based out of Whitehorse, Yukon.
Mean Old World explores humour, serious reconciliation issues, abandonment, glory, love, affection, danger, safety, fighting, fleeing, winning and losing. The call to action is to get up, get your toque on, pursue a red feather kiss, but don’t forget about the compost and recycling.
This is his 8th release and will be supported by 400 tour dates in North America, Europe, UK, Scandinavia, New Zealand and Australia in 2022-23.This authentic road poet travels North America, Europe, Australia, UK & Ireland with 7 records behind him either solo or with legendary sideman Jaxon Haldane (famed Winnipeg band-D-Rangers) never repeating himself on stage. From Celtic Connections (Glasgow, Scotland) to the National Folk Festival (Canberra, AU) his ability to hold an audience, weave melody, while juggling the dark with the light is infectious. Performed 750 concerts in 11 countries during the past 4 years armed with 10 instruments, brotherly harmonies and masterful storytelling. Influenced by touring with friends Fred Eaglesmith, Mary Gauthier, Steve Poltz & Kelly Joe Phelps, Tentrees is just getting started.
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D.Ranger music is the spiritual ancestry of the hillbilly roots of Rock and Roll. In response to all that is bland and formulaic in modern country music, The D.Rangers approach their craft with an edgy, punk attitude, without losing any reverence for the traditions that started it all.
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COVID-19 Protocols
The 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 –

All performers, crew, staff, volunteers, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue.
Face masks are required on all WECC premises. Please wear your mask when not seated at a table and/or when not drinking or eating.

These practices are meant to keep all of us safe to enjoy all the art and music that Winnipeg has to offer.

Patio340 - Relancement
2022-01-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 Provencher Blvd, WInnipeg, MB, R2H 0G7, Canada
Le Patio 340 déménage pour la saison d’hiver, pour vous offrir les plus beaux spectacles dans les murs du CCFM!

Frazey Ford
2022-01-13 20:00 - 23:00 | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
presented by Winnipeg Folk Festival and ACU

The Hear All Year Concert Series is presented by Assiniboine Credit Union.
Due to current public health orders, The Park Theatre has outlined COVID-19 protocols for concert attendees. For more information please visit their website: https://myparktheatre.com/faq/
Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 8:00 PM
PLEASE NOTE: Any purchase of concert tickets through third-party sites or resellers is at your own risk. Tickets should only be purchased through winnipegfolkfestival.ca or someone you know and trust to reduce risk.
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ABOUT
On her third album U kin B the Sun, Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Frazey Ford inhabits an entire world of shapeshifting rhythm, elevating every beat and groove with the subtle magnetism of her mesmerizing voice. With its graceful collision of soul and psychedelia and sometimes ’70s funk, it’s a body of work that invites both self-reflection and wildly joyful movement, and ultimately sparks a quiet transcendence.
At turns ecstatic and heavy-hearted, gloriously shambolic and deeply purifying, U kin B the Sun is the outcome of a certain personal transformation that Ford has experienced in recent years. “I used to speak more in metaphors, but this album came out in a much more raw and direct way,” she says. “I’d say that’s a result of being more in my body and more in touch with the wholeness of anger, with taking up space and having boundaries. On this record I freed myself from the folk-writing format, and it’s been a whole different exploration for me.”
In a departure from the guitar-driven and largely solitary songwriting that’s defined Ford’s previous work, much of U kin B the Sun took shape from spontaneous collaboration with her longtime bassist Darren Parris and drummer Leon Power. Over the course of several late-night sessions in the thick of summer 2018, the three musicians joined producer John Raham in dreaming up a brilliantly untethered sound, recording as they improvised and continually tapping into their potent camaraderie. “I was excited to let go of control and to see where Darren’s bass lines would take my melodies,” Ford recalls. “There’s this intimacy that exists within the band now, and I wanted to explore how that would feel in the writing process.”
The first song to emerge from that experiment, “Golden,” instantly set a sublime mood for U kin B the Sun, unfolding in luminous grooves, dreamy piano tones, and lyrics delivered with warmth and wisdom (e.g., “It is high time you lighten up your head”). “I told Darren, ‘Whatever’s in your head, just shout out the chords and we’ll make something up on the spot,’” says Ford. “And then he did, and the song just appeared in that moment.”
Another track sprung from the same charmed session, “Azad” reveals the rich emotional texture of U kin B the Sun, embedding Ford’s lyrical storytelling with sharply rendered memories of early childhood (a time she spent living on a commune in Canada as the daughter of American draft dodgers). With its brightly shuffling beats and soaring vocal work, “Azad” offers a poignant message of courage (“Behold, there is beauty in this world/So hold on any way that you know how”). “There’s something to that song that’s about survival, and about the love that my siblings and I have for each other in coming through an intense situation together,” says Ford.
Throughout U kin B the Sun, Ford endlessly telegraphs an unfettered joy, even when confronting and examining pain and heartache and loss. To that end, “U and Me” takes the unlikely form of a tenderly enchanted breakup song, while “Holdin’ It Down” brings a jazzy determination to its expression of weary perseverance. And on the anthemic “The Kids Are Having None Of It,” Ford responds to the toxic political climate with irrefutably bold sense of assurance (e.g., “They can’t be bought, they can’t be taught your hate”).
One of the most powerfully affecting moments on U kin B the Sun, the album’s title track and final movement arrives as a strangely hypnotic alchemy of smoldering harmonies, cascading piano lines, and beautifully fluid guitar work. “It’s really just two chords and a lyric that repeats, and then there are these different layers to it,” “It was a fascinating journey for me, to realize that you could take something so simple and then just sink into it in that way.” Ford notes, “It’s really just two chords and a lyric that repeats, and yet there are so many different layers to it.”
Recorded at Raham’s Afterlife Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, and also featuring Craig McCaul on guitar and Phil Cook on keys, U kin B the Sun follows Ford’s 2014 release Indian Ocean, an album made with members of legendary Memphis soul band The Hi Rhythm Section. Though its predecessor showed traces of her groove-heavy sensibilities, the new album finds Ford fully embracing the soulful musicality she first displayed in fronting an Al Green cover band in her early 20’s. “When I started writing songs they came out sounding more country, because that’s what I grew up with,” says Ford, who spent 13 years as a member of acclaimed folk act The Be Good Tanyas. “My mom is from an Irish/Cajun/Acadian background and I sang with her from the time I was little, but I was always really into soul and funk.”
As Ford points out, U kin B the Sun partly draws inspiration from several instances of serendipity that transpired during her international touring in support of Indian Ocean —including playing separate rooms in the same venue as D’Angelo one night in Holland, which eventually prompted her 2017 cover of the iconic neo-soul singer’s “When We Get By.” But on a deeper level, U kin B the Sun’s raw vitality reflects Ford’s profound growth over the past few years. “I used to really live in an ether, and that’s part of why I became an artist: because it was a survival space for me to exist in,” she says. “A lot of my writing came from that place, but as I’ve changed over the last year or two, I feel like I’m more in my body. I think there’s something about being more physically present that impacted the making of this album.”
To expand that sense of presence, Ford made a point of preserving many of the lightning-in-a-bottle moments captured during those first sessions for U kin B the Sun. As a result, the album embodies the same untamed and ineffable energy that guided its creation. “There’s certain songs that just appear and there’s no art to it,” says Ford. “To me those songs have some kind of spiritual quality—sometimes I feel like they’re these different voices that you’re able to channel. There really was something magical about the improvisational aspect and how that shaped the album, and such a joy in the experience of really reveling in what we were all creating together.”

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra - Voices: A Musical Heritage
2022-01-20 19:30 - 22:30 | West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3B1Z8, Canada
WInnipeg Jazz Orchestra – Voices: A Musical Heritage – Thursday, January 20th at 7:30pm

Jazz music, since its humble beginnings in Congo Square, has been a fusion of folk, classical and popular music. As the artform spread, jazz embraced and adapted music from all over the world, giving us countless flavours and variations. To help the WJO explore folk music in jazz we present new compositions by composers from various cultures.
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The 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 –

All performers, crew, staff, volunteers, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue.
Face masks are required on all WECC premises. Please wear your mask when not seated at a table and/or when not drinking or eating.

These practices are meant to keep all of us safe to enjoy all the art and music that Winnipeg has to offer.

Hard Core Logo
2022-01-20 20:00 - 23:00 | MB
Sookrams Brewing Presents

Hard Core Logo
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
Doors 7 pm | Movie 8 pm
Tickets $15*
Every admission will include a specially brewed 16oz pour from Sookrams

A group of washed-up Canadian punk rockers get back together for a road trip in memory of a dear friend who was supposedly shot, or so rumors imply. As they travel, they ignore the underlying psychological darkness within each other.

Raine Hamilton - Brave Land Album Release Show
2022-01-21 20:00 - 22:30 | West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3B1Z8, Canada
Raine Hamilton – Brave Land Album Release Show on Friday, January 21, 2022 at 8:00pm

Resonant, acoustic chamber folk with an other-worldly edge, and a lyric presence that cuts deep. Prism-clear vocals + strings: Anchored in the ancient mountains, reaching up beyond the earthly.
A classical violinist and musicologist by training, Raine and their string trio offer string-quartet-like arrangements of Raine’s original songs. They call this chamber-folk, a hybrid of the classical tradition of string quartet chamber music, with the singer songwriter folk that comes so organically to Raine. For both Brave Land and Hamilton’s 2018 award winning release, Night Sky, they worked with longtime collaborators Quintin Bart on double bass, and Natanielle Felicitas on cello. The three musicians have been co-composing arrangements and recording the newest album since fall 2019, interrupted in March by the pandemic and completed over the summer of 2020.
Raine is joined by Quintin Bart on double bass and Natanielle Felicitas on cello performing as a string trio.
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The 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 –

All performers, crew, staff, volunteers, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue.
Face masks are required on all WECC premises. Please wear your mask when not seated at a table and/or when not drinking or eating.

These practices are meant to keep all of us safe to enjoy all the art and music that Winnipeg has to offer.

WINTERRUPTION - Rose Cousins
2022-01-25 20:00 - 22:30 | West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3B1Z8, Canada
Winterruption 2022 – Rose Cousins – Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at the West End Cultural Centre ***POSTPONED***

The West End Cultural Centre, Real Love Winnipeg and our partners across 5 other prairie cities are disappointed to announce that due to the ongoing surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 across the country, Winterruption WPG 2022 will have to be postponed. The event was supposed to take place January 25-30, 2022 in venues around Winnipeg, however it is incumbent on us to prioritize the safety of performers, attendees, staff, and volunteers. Therefore, new dates will be announced as soon as they are finalized.
Anyone who has purchased tickets for Winterruption shows is welcome to keep them and they will be honoured at the rescheduled dates. If they would prefer a refund on their tickets, they should be in contact with the point of purchase and their request will be processed without question. If a show is unable to be rescheduled, all tickets to the show will be refunded.
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A native of Prince Edward Island, Rose Cousins lives in Halifax Nova Scotia. She deeply values being part of multiple music communities, and is constantly fueled by collaboration. Cousins’ 2012 album We Have Made A Spark celebrated her Boston community and featured a cast of musicians Cousins had known and played music with for a decade. It won a JUNO Award, 3 East Coast Music Awards, a Canadian Folk Music Award, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, and made picks/best of lists in USA Today, NPR Music and Oprah Magazine. Her music has found its way into several TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy.
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Covid-19 Protocols
The 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 –

All performers, crew, staff, volunteers, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue.
Face masks are required on all WECC premises. Please wear your mask when not seated at a table and/or when not drinking or eating.

These practices are meant to keep all of us safe to enjoy all the art and music that Winnipeg has to offer.

Classe de danse LE SET CARRÉ - Préparez-vous pour le Festival !
2022-01-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 Provencher Blvd, WInnipeg, MB, R2H 0G7, Canada
Apprenez la base des danses traditionnelles canadiennes-françaises dans un environnement décontracté. Session1 – LE SET CARRÉ!

– BILLETS ÉGALEMENT DISPONIBLES À LA PORTE!
Vous avez envie d’apprendre les bases de la danse canadienne-française pour bien danser au Festival? On vous propose de vous initier lors de trois sessions de danse qui vont démystifier la danse et la gigue canadienne-française.
1-(26 JANVIER) Le Set carré: Dos-à-dos, swing, crochet, refoulade, farandole. Apprenez les formations de base pour pouvoir danser un set carré, une des danses traditionnelles qui fait partie du répertoire canadien-français.
2-(2 FÉVRIER) La Gigue: Qu’est-ce que la gigue? Explorez les divers rythmes et mouvements de pied qui constituent les éléments de base de la gigue canadienne-française ainsi que de la gigue métisse et irlandaise.
3-(16 FÉVRIER) Les cuillères et la podorythmie: La podorythmie et les cuillères sont des éléments clés de la musique traditionnelle québécoise et canadienne-française. Apprenez les techniques de base pour pouvoir bien accompagner les musiciens lors d’une session de jam ou d’un spectacle du Festival.
Artiste: Myriam Leclercq.
Passionnée par la danse et le folklore, Myriam Leclercq est une danseuse/chorégraphe de gigue et de danse canadienne-française.
Membre de l’Ensemble folklorique de la Rivière-Rouge (EFRR) depuis 2003, Myriam a pu participer comme danseuse à plusieurs activités et festivals tels que le Festival du Voyageur et Folklorama. Aujourd’hui, Myriam occupe les fonctions de directrice artistique, répétitrice, chorégraphe et interprète au sein de la Troupe adulte de l’EFRR.
De plus, depuis plus de 12 ans, elle enseigne et anime des ateliers de gigue et de danse traditionnelle un peu partout au Manitoba et au Canada, pour partager et transmettre à toutes et à tous la joie de vivre canadienne-française.
Mesures COVID: Merci de porter un masque, de vous munir de votre preuve de vaccination ainsi que votre carte d’identité pour les montrer à l’entrée.

WINTERRUPTION - Teke::Teke
2022-01-26 20:00 - 22:30 | West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3B1Z8, Canada
Winterruption 2022 – Teke::Teke – Wednesday, January 26, 2022 at The West End Cultural Centre

The West End Cultural Centre, Real Love Winnipeg and our partners across 5 other prairie cities are disappointed to announce that due to the ongoing surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 across the country, Winterruption WPG 2022 will have to be postponed. The event was supposed to take place January 25-30, 2022 in venues around Winnipeg, however it is incumbent on us to prioritize the safety of performers, attendees, staff, and volunteers. Therefore, new dates will be announced as soon as they are finalized.
Anyone who has purchased tickets for Winterruption shows is welcome to keep them and they will be honoured at the rescheduled dates. If they would prefer a refund on their tickets, they should be in contact with the point of purchase and their request will be processed without question. If a show is unable to be rescheduled, all tickets to the show will be refunded.
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TEKE::TEKE is a Montreal-based Japanese psych-rock group composed of guitarists Serge Nakauchi Pelletier & Hidetaka Yoneyama, bass player Mishka Stein, drummer Ian Lettre, flutist Yuki Isami, trombone player Etienne Lebel, and visual artist and vocalist Maya Kuroki.
Featuring traditional Japanese instruments, flute and trombone alongside raging guitars and a pulsing rhythm section, TEKE::TEKE creates a sound reminiscent of 1960’s and 70’s era psychedelic Japanese soundtracks, with a frenetic, modern twist.
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Covid-19 Protocols
The 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 –

All performers, crew, staff, volunteers, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue.
Face masks are required on all WECC premises. Please wear your mask when not seated at a table and/or when not drinking or eating.

These practices are meant to keep all of us safe to enjoy all the art and music that Winnipeg has to offer.

Diet Cig with Chastity WINTERRUPTION WPG 2022!
2022-01-26 20:00 - 23:00 | MB
Diet Cig with Chastity | WINTERRUPTION WPG 2022!

January 26th, 2021
Doors 7 pm | Show 8 PM
Tickets are$20 in advance
Proof of Vaccination is required for entry, please have your photo ID and Vaxx Passport out on arrival.
Real Love Winnipeg presents…

•• Diet Cig

• Chastity

Check out the rest of the shows happening for Winterruption 2022! www.winterruptionwpg.ca

Accessibility/policies: https://reallovewpg.com/accessibility-and-policies/

WINTERRUPTION - Diaphanie / Two Crows for Comfort / Bobby Dove
2022-01-26 21:00 - 2022-01-27 00:00 | X-Cues Billiards, 551 Sargent Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 1W4, Canada
Winterruption 2022 – Diaphanie / Two Crows For Comfort / Bobby Dove – Wednesday, January 26, 2022 at X-Cues Cafe & Lounge

Diaphanie
Diaphanie means “the art of recreating stained glass on translucent paper”. its tremulous nature defies genre and makes each song part of the ephemera, never permanent. Led by writer/singer Heather Thomas (ATLAAS, Bunny), Diaphanie was born out of a desire to slough off the shackles of a high risk/low reward music industry system and forget that music is a business. Every song is an exploration of styles and moods, and a meeting of different minds, bound together by the throughline of Thomas’ expressive and ethereal voice.
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Two Crows for Comfort
A duo that had no intentions of playing anything more than an open mic here and there, and went by a different name anytime they hit the stage. Fast forward a few years and Two Crows (Erin Corbin and Cory Sulyma) have unintentionally created something that seems to work.
In December 2018 the duo released their debut full-length album, ‘17 Feet’, with back-to-back sold out shows at the Handsome Daughter in Winnipeg.
Determined to keep the momentum going after the release of ‘17 Feet’, Two Crows continued playing countless shows to get through the harsh prairie winter. In summer, 2019, the duo was seen at countless festivals and even scored opportunities to open for the likes of Pokey Lafarge, Bruce Cockburn, and Ani DiFranco to name a few.
Back from touring Western Canada and still riding the wave of 2019, the duo’s biggest breakthrough came when they were named Roots Artist of the Year at the Manitoba Country Music Awards.
They hit the road again in early 2020 making stops throughout Ontario and Quebec before they hunkered down to record their latest album ‘Show Me Light’ which was released on March 25, 2021.
You can find their new album, ‘Show Me Light’ on all streaming platforms and Vinyl and CD copies are also available for purchase.
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Bobby Dove
Bobby Dove has built a following across Canada and beyond. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Bobby has become known as one of the country’s most dedicated troubadours, crooning live audiences with heart-worn originals, and paying tribute to the golden age of Country music. Along the road, Bobby has worked with a number of legendary players, and shared stages with artists such as Mary Gauthier, Richard Thompson, Irish Mythen, The Sadies and JD Mcpherson. In 2019, Bobby spent a month in residency at the Banff Centre and has performed at a number of Canadian folk fests, including the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver Island Music Fest and Brandon Folk Fest.

Bobby Dove’s new album, Hopeless Romantic, offers eleven new original Americana/Country songs on subjects such as unrequited love, being on the road, a haunted hotel and a hard-rocking pallbearer. Co-produced with Bazil Donovan (Blue Rodeo) and Tim Vesely (Rheostatics) at The Woodshed studio in Toronto,On, the record includes some of the finest in Canadian Country music including members of Blue Rodeo Jim Cuddy, Bazil Donovan and Jimmy Bowskill (The Sheepdogs, Blue Rodeo), and Burke Carroll (Kathleen Edwards).
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Covid-19 Protocols
The 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 –

All performers, crew, staff, volunteers, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue.
Face masks are required on all WECC premises. Please wear your mask when not seated at a table and/or when not drinking or eating.

These practices are meant to keep all of us safe to enjoy all the art and music that Winnipeg has to offer.

Leif Vollebekk – New Ways Tour
2022-01-27 20:00 - 23:00 | MB
Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series

New Ways is a new album by Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk, his hotly anticipated follow-up to the Polaris Prize finalist Twin Solitude. It’s a record that lives between the kick and the snare, in that instant of feeling before the backbeat.

“The way that it was is the way it should be,” Vollebekk sings on “Phaedrus”—a line that’s a memory and a wish. New Ways is that too: the sound of desire in its unfolding. Two years ago, things were changing so fast, and the songwriter didn’t want to forget. “I often think of Leonard Cohen’s line, ‘I hope you’re keeping some kind of record,’” he says. “So I did.” It was like he was pretending you can compose a soundtrack to your own life (which perhaps you can).

In the end, New Ways is a document of everything Vollebekk felt, the way each moment arrived and moved through him. Whereas Twin Solitude was about self-reflection, New Ways is about engaging and changing, touching and being touched. It’s a physical record, with louder and tighter grooves, and the rawest lyrics the musician has ever recorded. A portrait of beauty, desire, longing, risk, remembrance—without an instant of regret. “She’s my woman and she loved me so fine,” goes the chorus to one tune. “She’ll never be back.”

“Anything that I wouldn’t ever want to tell anyone—I just put it on the record,” Vollebekk says: tenderness and violence, sex and rebirth, Plato and Julie Delpy. A story told through details—“the sun through my eyelids,” “a sign on the highway covered in rain.” The songs came fast—recorded a week here, a week there, initially just Leif and a drummer. “After each take, we’d go into the control room and listen back and see how it felt,” he says. “If it didn’t feel right we’d do it again, or switch from piano to guitar, or change the drum sound, or the microphones.” Once they got it, he’d move on. Never at rest, always in movement: 10 different tracks for 10 states of motion—each with its own pulse, drawing the listener in.

There’s the heat of the night and the cool blue of morning, hints of Prince and Bill Withers, the limbo of a lover’s transatlantic flight. “Hot Tears” is all hot-blooded memory. “Apalachee Plain” is a clamorous goodbye. “I’m Not Your Lover” would be a perfect love-song were it not for its chorus—a song that lets two opposites be true at once. “That last record I made for me,” Vollebekk admits. “This one is for someone else.”

Imagine the singer at the end of last September, performing at midnight in one of Montreal’s rarest and most intimate venues—a century-old porno theatre called Cinema L’Amour, a temple to the true and the carnal. He was sitting at a piano. The chords were moving like shadows on a wall. “She’s my woman and she loved me so fine!” Leif cried, singing to the rafters. “She’ll never be back.”

When everything was finally over—when the mixes were perfect and the masters cued up—Leif says listening to the album was like re-watching a film. “Now I knew what was going to happen,” he remembers. “Now the moments didn’t feel fleeting—they felt eternal, almost fated. The songs spoke to me differently, but they hadn’t changed. I just heard them in New Ways.”

WINTERRUPTION - Jonny Moonbeam / Gabrielle Fontaine / riel.
2022-01-27 21:00 - 2022-01-28 00:00 | X-Cues Billiards, 551 Sargent Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 1W4, Canada
Winterruption 2022 – Ila Barker, Brunswick & Bobby Dove – Thursday, January 27, 2022 at X-Cues Cafe & Lounge

Jonny Moonbeam
Busy scrolling through his intergalactic newsfeed, lunar lad of mystery jonny moonbeam totally did not see that spy satellite he clipped, summarily crashing his spacecraft just outside Ottawa and catapulting right into the middle of a parliamentary debate on distracted driving.
He thought this was hilarious. Now stranded in Winnipeg awaiting ship repairs, he’s been parsing CPAC and writing songs about Canadian politics and 21st century living.
Digging on 90’s Much Music reruns, vintage Brit rock and any singer whose ever raised a voice for social justice, Moonbeam (a dead ringer for Daniel Jordan of Red Moon Road) reveals a brand new 4 song collection of political rockers (Co-Produced with Rusty Matyas of Imaginary Cities and mixed/mastered by Grammy nominated Phil Bova).
Tackling the Sunny Ways of a certain well quaffed PM, the non-existent clothes of an orange-tinted-emperor-baby-with-a-hand-complex and what it means to ‘stand on guard for thee’, jonny moonbeam waxes power pop politically poetic.
Gabrielle Fontaine
Gabrielle Fontaine is an Ojibwe folk-pop singer-songwriter based in Winnipeg MB. After many years of writing and performing with the award-winning pop rock band, Indian City, Gabrielle performs her own music and captivates audiences with her lyrics of personal experiences and perspectives of life, often highlighting her view through an Indigneous lens. Her honest melodies and angelic voice are sure to leave a unique and lasting impression. She is poised to follow in the strong tradition of Manitoba’s vibrant music community while fostering her talent nationally and internationally.
riel.
riel. is a provocative honest story teller from winnipeg manitoba. using history and landscape riel. tells an honest story and depiction of his surroundings. riel. was recently recognized as an emerging indigenous artist through the manitoba arts network. riel just released their debut single “terrified” streaming on all music platforms.
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Covid-19 Protocols
The 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 –

All performers, crew, staff, volunteers, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue.
Face masks are required on all WECC premises. Please wear your mask when not seated at a table and/or when not drinking or eating.

These practices are meant to keep all of us safe to enjoy all the art and music that Winnipeg has to offer.

WINTERRUPTION - Priyanka's Drag Show
2022-01-28 20:00 - 22:30 | West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3B1Z8, Canada
Winterruption 2022 – Priyanka’s Drag Show – Friday, January 28, 2022 at The West End Cultural Centre

The West End Cultural Centre, Real Love Winnipeg and our partners across 5 other prairie cities are disappointed to announce that due to the ongoing surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 across the country, Winterruption WPG 2022 will have to be postponed. The event was supposed to take place January 25-30, 2022 in venues around Winnipeg, however it is incumbent on us to prioritize the safety of performers, attendees, staff, and volunteers. Therefore, new dates will be announced as soon as they are finalized.
Anyone who has purchased tickets for Winterruption shows is welcome to keep them and they will be honoured at the rescheduled dates. If they would prefer a refund on their tickets, they should be in contact with the point of purchase and their request will be processed without question. If a show is unable to be rescheduled, all tickets to the show will be refunded.
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She’s the most exciting queen ever to grace the Canadian drag scene – and she’s the winner of Canada’s Drag Race. What’s her name?
PRIYANKA!
Born in Whitby, Ontario, the journey started for Priyanka (the drag superstar alter-ego of Mark Suknanan) with a career in television. She studied at Niagara College and interned for Rogers Television and MTV Canada, until she finally fought her way up to become the first web host of YTV’s “The Next Star”. Nicknamed “Suki”, she toured Canada as the face of “Next Star Nation” which quickly became the heart beat of the show. Her successes immediately parlayed into an even bigger platform when she was hand-picked by YTV as the face of their flagship after school program “The Zone”. For 6 six years, Priyanka was the face of Canadian children’s television, not only starring in, but writing and producing her own segments for her young fans airing between such favourite shows as: Spongebob Squarepants and Fairly Odd Parents.
In the spring of 2018, after being taken under the wing of top Toronto drag performer: Xtacy Love, Priyanka was born! She took the city by storm, sweeping the drag scene and snatching the crown in both the Miss Crews & Tangos pageant, and Woody’s: Queen of Halloween. She’s performed in every major city across Canada, Chicago & Dominican Republic and most recently graced the cover of Now Toronto after being named they cities “Number One Drag Entertainer”
With live shows filling almost every day of the week, two self-produced singles with accompanying music videos on iTunes aptly named: “You Look so Good” and “Say My Name”, and a weekly Series on YouTube, she is one of the hardest working entertainers in the business.
It’s with that tenacity and determination that won her the first ever season of Canada’s Drag Race on Crave where she became Canada’s First Ever Drag Superstar.
Charisma? check.
Uniqueness? check.
Nerve? check.
Talent? check.
Now what’s her name!?
Priyanka!
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Covid-19 Protocols
The 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 –

All performers, crew, staff, volunteers, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue.
Face masks are required on all WECC premises. Please wear your mask when not seated at a table and/or when not drinking or eating.

These practices are meant to keep all of us safe to enjoy all the art and music that Winnipeg has to offer.

Winnipeg Comedy Showcase #28
2022-01-28 20:00 - 23:00 | MB
Winnipeg Comedy Showcase #28,

Winnipeg Comedy Showcase #28
27 Straight Sellout Shows so far
Friday, January 28th, 2022
Doors 7 pm Show 8 pm

Tickets $15 advance / $20 at door

Featuring: Chad Anderson, Jaydin Pommer, Jon Wilson, Angie St. Mars, Garrett Leblanc, Tyler Kotowski

Hosted by: Jared Story
