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Primitive Man
2022-06-22 19:30 - 23:00 (America/Winnipeg) | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
Primitive Man 10th Year Anniversary Tour

Ninjacat Productions and Eye and Ear Control Records Presents
Primitive Man
Mortiferum
Jarhead Fertilizer
Body Void
Elizabeth Colour Wheel

Men I Trust
2022-06-23 20:00 - 23:00 | MB
Live Nation Presents Men I Trust

Sunday, February 13th, 2022
Doors 7 pm Show 8 pm

Hear ye, hear ye! We are super thrilled to announce that we will resume touring in N. America this fall for the release of our new and fourth album called “The Untourable Album”. We started working on this album amidst the global lockdown and didn’t expect to be able to “tour” these songs. We wanted to take the opportunity to work on new and different material, without necessarily intending to play these songs live. We wrote freely as if we were suspended in time with no external attachments. The initial release date had to be delayed, however, when Dragos got into a motorcycle accident and had to recover for several weeks. So here we are now, almost ready to release the album, while everything is slowly reopening and the lockdown seems to be a thing of the past. It looks like the “Untourable Album” will be tourable after all! We are still in the process of polishing the songs and doing the last tweaks before the album is ready. We will have an official release date super soon, stay tuned. Thank you for your ongoing support and we’re looking forward to seeing everyone again in real life!

https://menitrust.bandcamp.com/merch
https://www.instagram.com/menitrust/

The Perpetrators plus Car 287
2022-06-23 20:30 - 23:00 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
The Perpetrators plus Car 287 on the outdoor stage at beautiful Blue Note Park!

Heel Appeal Presents: Big Bad Energy
2022-06-24 20:30 - 23:30 | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
Heel Appeal Presents: Big Bad Energy

We are about to bring you some BIG ENERGY!!

Join us for Heel Appeal’s second Showcase B.B.E featuring our dancers, faculty and many amazing local talents!!

June 24th Friday

Doors 730PM

Show 830PM

Ages 18+

www.appealofficial.com

E-mail heelappeal@appealofficial.com

Social Media @heelappealwpg

Tickets $25 in advance plus fees

Highlight Reel from the last showcase

BORN RUFFIANS – JUICE, SQUEEZE & PULP TOUR
2022-06-25 20:00 - 22:30 | MB
MRG Presents

Saturday, June 25th 2021
Doors 7 pm | Show 8 pm

The Highway Company
2022-06-25 20:30 - 23:30 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
The Highway Company, with special guests Brandon Post, and more!

Unforgiving Prairie winters seem to have a knack for producing some of Canada’s best musical exports. Known for their rich four-part harmonies and unique take on the Americana/Rock N’ Roll genre, The Highway Company aim to continue Winnipeg’s fine tradition, both honoring the past and creating something brand new.
After several years of honing their craft, 2019 saw the band embark on a three-month Canadian/US tour in support of The Tea Party. Their single “Company” was a hit on Sirius XM’s North Americana, where it remains in rotation today. As the pandemic wore on, The Highway Company slowly built their own recording studio, and the new songs that come with it. “We were forced to reevaluate everything. Nothing in life is guaranteed, may as well be true to yourself and enjoy it,” says bassist Jesse Meyer. THC is rounded out by his brother Kyle Meyer (guitar, vocals), Jay Stanley (guitar, keys, vocals), Jay Mymryk (drums) and Ryan McConnell (vocals, guitar).

2022 is a bit of a new start for everyone and everything, so armed with a new name, new songs, and a new ethos, watch for a lot of new The Highway Company music on your favorite streaming service this year.

Echo Park
2022-06-28 19:30 - 22:30 | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
Echo Park, at the Park

Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
Doors 7 pm
Show 730 pm
Tickets $20 plus fees in advance

Echo Park

Echo Park is pleased to return to the Park Theatre On Tuesday, June 28, 2022. This event is once again a fundraiser, with all proceeds being donated to the Riverview Health Centre Foundation. Our last two fundraising events at the Park Theatre sold out, so be sure to get your tickets early.

Based on previous audience feedback, we will be once again starting the evening with a full acoustic set of some of our favourite classic rock and country songs. This will be followed by a full set of “in your face” classic rock! We are adding several additional songs to our repertoire for this event (Clapton, Supertramp, Bon Jovi, and so on).

The event will be our lead guitarist (Bob Miles) last event with Echo Park. Bob and Joan are setting up residence in BC later this summer. Bob has been with Echo Park since the beginning – in the early 2000’s – so we hope that you can join us on June 28th to celebrate Bob’s tenure with the band!

ECHO PARK is one of Winnipeg’s premiere Classic Rock and Country Bands. They have performed at various venues throughout Manitoba for over 15 years, including The Lyric Theatre, South Beach Casino, Club Regent Casino, The Manitoba Stampede, various bars throughout Winnipeg and for numerous private functions. Their repertoire includes covers of such artists as The Tragically Hip, The Eagles, Santana, Dire Straits, BTO, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Steve Miller, ACDC, The Beatles,….and so on.

The Wooden Sky / Shred Kelly
2022-06-29 20:30 - 23:00 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Shred Kelly and The Wooden Sky join forces for a very special downtown Winnipeg double bill at Blue Note Park!

SHRED KELLY
Shred Kelly is a five piece, alternative folk rock band that emerged from the heart of the Canadian Rockies in 2009. Over the past decade the band have taken their highly energetic live show from humble beginnings on the Canadian ski-town circuit to the international stage.
The band’s striking and energy-packed sound has evolved from their eclectic musical influences and their unique experiences as individuals. Their progressive pairing of acoustic instrumentation with electric counterparts, harmonies, and driving rhythm, continues to develop and reach new heights.
Over the years, Shred Kelly has had the opportunity to perform across Canada and internationally at festivals such as Reeperbahn Festival, Australian Music Week, Folk Alliance, and SXSW.
On Shred Kelly’s fifth album, Like a Rising Sun – Deluxe Version, one can sense a change of direction for the group as if life has taken a sharp turn for the Fernie, BC based alternative-folk rockers. From the first strum of “Rising Sun” to the dissonant fadeout of “Disconnect”, a fast paced and emotional album is laid out through 11 tracks that tell of major life upheaval in rapidly changing times. Written mostly in 2019 when lead singers/songwriters Tim Newton and Sage McBride welcomed their first child into the world only to lose Tim’s father to an illness one month later. The joy, sadness and uncertainty of that time allowed for a new lease on their highly energetic music and the stories they tell. The album is woven together in the immediate aftermath with themes of love, life, death, fear for the future, and new beginnings. With three new re-imagined songs from the album added to the Deluxe Version, it shows the grass roots and softer side of the band.
Since the album’s release, Shred Kelly has received positive reviews in Canada and internationally, Spotify Editorial Playlisting, a video feature by Grant Lawerence on CBC, International radio play, regular rotation on Sirus XM and Radio Eins in Berlin, and featured on Canadian alternative radio stations. The band recently opened for ‘The Dead South’ on 12 European dates in November 2021. Additionally, in 2021 they self produced their own Tiny Concert Tour in the summer in BC & Alberta through a partnership with On The Road Productions to bring live music back. They were recently nominated for Rock Artist of the Year at The 2021 Western Canadian Music Awards.
“Arguably the most real, raw, and evocative album of their burgeoning career. (Like A Rising Sun)” — Music Life Magazine
“Like A Rising Sun is an outpouring of explosive, fast-paced, and anthemic folk-rock, which I find incredibly impressive and enjoyable from beginning to end. Shred Kelly have very quickly become a new favourite band for me, and I highly recommend you give their music a spin.” – Great Dark Wonder

THE WOODEN SKY
The title of The Wooden Sky’s fifth full-length album is an abridged quote from Frank Herbert’s1965 sci-fi novel,Dune:“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.” It’s a phrase that seems especially apt in 2017, as many of us are still reeling from the previous year. For Gavin Gardiner, the frontman of the Toronto-based indie rock band, the way to understand and reconcile these unknowns — from oil pipelines and refugee crises to his own family’s personal history — is through songwriting. “It’s how I filter a lot of things that come in,” says Gardiner, as he walks through the residential streets of Toronto’s Roncesvalles neighbourhood. “For better or for worse, it’s how I deal with things and how I communicate my feelings.”
Swimming in Strange Waters is Gardiner trying to make sense of the world.The band (made up of Gardiner, multi-instrumentalists Simon Walker and Andrew Wyatt,violinist Edwin Huizinga and drummer Andrew Kekewich) started writing and recording demos in a small farmhouse in rural Quebec in January 2015, but then put them aside as they embarked on a year-long tour in support of their previous album, Let’s Be Ready. When they resumed work on the album in March 2016, Gardiner says the band caught a severe case of “demoitis”, a condition wherein “you fall in love with the scrappiness of the demos.” So rather than completely re-working them, they decided to record the album in the same way as the demos: in Gardiner’shome studio, using old tape machines and live off the floor. The resulting album is a sonic maelstrom that sees the band exploring unchartered waters,where textural psychedelia inspired by the Paisley Underground movement melds into quiet, acoustic cyclical guitar melodies, before once again transforming into a bombastic, Johnny Cash-esque rally against the XL Keystone pipeline in Canada.
While Let’s Be Ready found the Wooden Sky writing a pure “rock and roll” album, Swimming in Strange Waters sees the band experimenting once again. “I feel like we’re back on track,” says Gardiner. John Angello (known for his work with Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. , Phosphorescent and Kurt Vile)mixed the album at Water Music in New Jersey. Around 95 percent of it was recorded to an oldtape machine at Gardiner’s home studio, and the rest was done at Hotel2Tango in Montreal and at a Toronto church where multi-instrumentalist Walker’s father is the Anglican minister. “Dead Horse Creek”, which is named after the body of water that runs through Gardiner’shometown of Morden, Manitoba, creates a layered soundscape with backward guitar, easygoingharmonica and a crooning slide guitar that all erupt in a foot-stomping, rollicking jam; “BlackGold”, inspired by the Keystone XL pipeline protests, features a 16-person choir, a VelvetUndergroundesquescreaching violin undertone by band member Edwin Huizinga, and Gardener embracing a lower register for the first time; “Riding on the Wind” tells stories about refugee families Gardiner met while working with Romero House, over a bed of dreamy reverb.Meanwhile first single “Swimming in Strange Waters” glimmers like a technicolored circus with warbling synths and organs, cyclical, vocoder-drenched gang vocals and a spoken word interlude, performed by The Highest Order’s Simone Schmidt reading from Herbert’s Dune Messiah.
“More now than ever, I feel the weight of responsibility to act and make things better for the people to come,” says Gardiner. “Maybe that sounds cliche, but it feels very real now. As an artist, you have your voice, and not much else. So you gotta use it.”
On every album, the Wooden Sky’s aim is to somehow capture the band’s live performance, to compress that adrenalin and vigour into a collection of songs that’ll inevitably be played through headphones and crappy computer speakers. It’s a tall order, considering the Wooden Sky has become known for both high-energy, sold-out rock shows and their charming, unconventionalpop-up fgigs – like 2014’s series of three acoustic record store sets in three hours, where they biked to each shop with instruments slung over their backs.
Swimming in Strange Waters marks the closest the band has ever got to this coveted goal. To achieve that energy, Gardiner had to let go of any insecurities and garner new confidence, part of which he found after speaking with an opera singer friend and working with legendary producer, Angello, and part of which came from encapsulating that energy himself. “You have to give the energy that you want to get back,” notes Gardiner. “When I’m recording,I’m standing on a chair like I’m on stage, wearing my boots and my sunglasses, just trying to create this atmosphere of cacophony. How do you expect to convey that excitement if you don’t feel it? Let’s not just sit here and be bashful.”

PechaKucha Night Winnipeg Vol. 44
2022-06-29 20:30 - 23:30 | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
PechaKucha invites local creative and creative-adjacent people to speak on whatever they want in 20 slides showing only for 20 seconds each.

PechaKucha Night Winnipeg is back! We’re returning to our home at The Park Theatre on June 29, 2022, for a colourful evening of 20×20 talks in the newly-renovated space!

Doors open as usual at 7:30 PM, and the show starts at 8:00 PM.

Admission is pay-what-you-want, but we suggest $10. Tickets and registration are not required, but feel free to register to let us know you’re going!

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☰ SPEAKERS ☰

Coming soon!

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☰ MASK REQUIREMENTS ☰

It is highly recommend that guests wear masks when attending our event in-person.

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☰ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA NIGHT? ☰

PechaKucha is a presentation format invented by Tokyo-based firm Klein Dytham Architecture in 2003. At every event, speakers are given 20 slides to talk about whatever they like, but each slide advances automatically after only 20 seconds. This 20×20 format gives each speaker a total time of six minutes and forty seconds. PechaKucha Night has over 1200 city chapters all over the world.

PechaKucha Night Winnipeg was established by the Graphic Designers of Canada in 2010. Each PechaKucha Night – or PKN – is a fun, and informal evening where creative and inspiring Winnipeggers talk about their ideas, stories, experiences, or work. PKN Winnipeg is held quarterly and usually at the Park Theatre.

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☰ OTHER INFO AND SOCIAL MEDIA ☰

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@pkn_winnipeg) for more updates:

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Follow us on Facebook (@pechakuchawinnipeg):

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The official PechaKucha Night Winnipeg Vol 44 hashtag is #pknwpg44.

And for more information and to see past talks, check out our website at: www.pechakucha.org/cities/winnipeg

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PechaKucha Night Winnipeg is brought to you by the Graphic Designers of Canada – Manitoba Chapter.

JD Edwards Band
2022-06-30 20:30 - 2022-07-01 00:00, 2022-07-14 20:30 - 23:00 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Winnipeg’s favourite rock, roots and soul party band!

“Canada Night:” A Homegrown Canadian Rock ‘n’ Roots Retrospective
2022-07-01 20:30 - 2022-07-02 00:00 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
“Canada Night:” A Homegrown Canadian Rock ‘n’ Roots Retrospective

From Buffy Saint-Marie to April Wine, from Gordon Lightfoot to Daniel Lanois, from Sloan to The Sadies, from Joni Mitchell to Michel Pagliaro, from Rush to Blue Rodeo, from Neil Young to The Tragically Hip, our Canada Night rock ‘n’ roots retrospective will be like no other Canadian music celebration you’ve ever heard. Join us at Blue Note Park on the evening of July 1st for an electrifying evening of this nation’s greatest hits. Featuring Chris Carmichael, Gabriela Ocejo, Kevin Hogg, Jamie Buckboro, Sarah Maureen, Rob Pachol and many more!

Chain Link
2022-07-01 21:00 - 2022-07-02 00:00 | MB
Chain Link with special guests Max Winds

Blue Note Park Big Blues Bash
2022-07-02 15:30 - 23:30 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Blue Note Park Big Blues Bash feat. Brent Parkin, Chris Ghidoni Band, Groove Pirates, Blue Noise, Debra Lyn and more!!

NAfro Band on the West End Neighbourhood Patio
2022-07-02 20:00 - 23:00 | West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3B1Z8, Canada
NAfro Band on the West End Neighbourhood Patio – Saturday, July 2, 2022 at 8:00pm

The West End Cultural Centre will continue to require that patrons wear facemasks and show proof of vaccination for all events in the venue. We will continue to evaluate this policy as circumstances evolve.
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Casimiro Nhussi Choreographer & Performer Casimiro Nhussi is a professional African dancer, choreographer, dance instructor and musician based in Winnipeg. Born in Mozambique, Africa, he has been a dance professional since 1982, training at Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre in New York. Starting his career as dancer, Casimiro then became the principal dancer, and then the Artistic Director of the Mozambique National Song and Dance Company. Currently Casimiro is the Artistic Director and Founder of Winnipeg’s only African contemporary dance company; NAfro Dance Productions.
Casimiro’s choreographic journey began in Mozambique. His choreographic style has evolved from almost purely African to one marked with Contemporary Dance influences and can now be described as African Contemporary Dance. Since coming to Canada in 1997, Casimiro has produced and choreographed over 20 evening-length dance works both as an independent choreographer as well as Artistic Director of NAfro Dance. In addition, since 2012 Casimiro has been invited by the Mozambican Minister of Culture & Tourism to be the Artistic Director of the Mozambican National Culture Festival, dance & music section. This festival takes place every second summer and brings together over 5,000 artists of diverse art forms from across the country.
Casimiro has also worked as a dance instructor and choreographer for many local, national and international organizations and groups. He has performed and led African dance workshops in over 30 countries worldwide.
Casimiro is also an accomplished musician. He has been nominated for the Western Canadian Music award five times including for “Makonde” (2010), “Gweka” (2013) and “Ximbombo” (2017). Casimiro was also a finalist for the Mozambique music award Ngoma2017 and was honored to have played for the opening of the 2011 Africa Games in Mozambique. He was also commissioned by the Canadian National Film Board to compose music for the animated short “Mind Me Good Now.” Casimiro is a recent recipient of the ‘Manitoba Black Community Award’ for ‘Outstanding achievement and significant contribution to the Black community as well as an ‘Appreciation Award’ from the ACOMI (African Communities of Manitoba Inc)’ in ‘recognition of his contributions to the African community’.

Love Letter Writers, MOTHERFUNK, Ben Notes
2022-07-02 20:00 - 23:00 | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
The Park Theatre Presents

Love Letter Writers
Motherfunk
Ben Notes
Saturday, July 2nd
Tickets $15 advance or $20 doors

Manitobandits
2022-07-05 21:00 - 2022-07-06 00:00 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
The Triumphant Return of the Manitobandits featuring:
Ultra Mega performing Panis Angelicus, and Smoky Tiger backed by the band!

Miranda Sings
2022-07-07 19:30 - 22:00 | MB
Live Nation Presents Miranda Sings

Live Nation Presents
Miranda Sings
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
Doors 6:30 PM
Doors 7:30 PM
Ends approximately 9 pm
Tix $40 General Standing
or $90 VIP Meet and Greet
Plus Tax and Fees
HEALTH ADVISORY

In the best interest of fans and staff, the Event Organizer will continue to monitor local COVID-19 trends and meet or exceed protocols mandated by local governments. By purchasing tickets to this event, you agree to abide by the health and safety measures in effect at the time of the event, which may include, but not be limited to, wearing masks, providing proof of vaccination status and/or providing proof of negative COVID-19 test. Please note these confirmations will apply to all members of your party before they are allowed to enter the event and to any users of the tickets purchased by you. Check back often for updates to your event venue website as guidelines are subject to change.

WHEN AND WHERE DO I PICK UP MY TICKETS?
On the night of the show, your tickets will be waiting at the ticket window anytime after door time. Please note that these are e-tickets, so if you have purchased multiple tickets, your entire party will need to be there at pick up. Please have your ID ready, and your ticket’s up on your phone.

Youth Hockey Fundraiser
2022-07-08 19:00 - 23:59 | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
The Arni Matheson Band, DB + The Deadbeats, and The Treetop Blues Band singing to get kids playing hockey

The Arni Matheson Band is fundraising money to get disadvantaged youth involved in hockey/sports through local organizations. The hope is to raise enough money to put at least one youngster in hockey for the 2022-23 season with moneys raised covering their ice-time and equipment costs. Joining the AMB on the stage at the Park Theatre on July 8, 2022 are DB + The Deadbeats as well as The Treetop Blues Band. Tickets are just $10 + fees in advance or $15 at the door. Donations will be graciously and humbly accepted.

Terra Lightfoot
2022-07-12 20:30 - 22:30 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
“Terra Lightfoot is one of Canada’s best all-around musicians…an amazing tour de force, the complete package.” CBC Radio

At the end of a gruelling two-year stretch on tour promoting her third studio album, New Mistakes—a trek that took her to every corner of the world—Terra Lightfoot found herself at home and sapped. Life on the road had done a number on her body, her voice, and her mind, and despite isolating herself from friends and family, sitting down for hours a day at her writing desk, she was coming up with nothing inspiring.

A trip to Nashville changed all that. Just a few weeks in Music City broke the dam wide open. In rapid succession, Lightfoot wrote the songs that would form her new record, Consider the Speed. Out poured more than a dozen, one after the other, reflecting on life as a touring musician, past relationships, and the death of her grandmother. “The healing power of rock ‘n’ roll,” a true blue sentiment that Lightfoot and her bandmates keep the faith in on tour, was in full force.

THEN IT HIT ME LIKE A BOLT OF LIGHTNING!, a man yelled as Lightfoot stepped out onto Willie Mitchell Boulevard in Memphis after a visit to Royal Studios. She took it as a sign that she had to return to lay down Consider the Speed there, the same place Ann Peebles simmered through “I Can’t Stand The Rain” and Al Green set devotion to tape with “Let’s Stay Together.” Even the same technology—a hallowed #9 microphone—captured Lightfoot’s bluesy, long and low howl during tracking sessions.

Each night, she sat on a red porch swing on the hot Tennessee nights and considered how dreamlike it was to be in that place with its soul, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll ghosts; every day, she faced the sweet reality of adding her own music to the studio’s history, working with a cast of supernaturally talented players: Steve Potts on drums, Davy Smith on bass, and Lester Snell on keyboards.

It’s no surprise, then, given the combination of a conspiratorial universe and Lightfoot’s hard work, that Consider the Speed is her most soulful, soul-baring, soul-searching record to date. Consider The Speed adds to an impressive legacy that already includes 2018 Polaris Music Prize and JUNO nominations (Adult Alternative Album of the Year) for New Mistakes, Road Gold Certification thanks to her millions of miles logged around the globe, including marquee tour dates supporting legendary acts like Willie Nelson, Bruce Cockburn, and Blue Rodeo. On top of all that (and being a songwriter and producer for hire), in 2019 Lightfoot also debuted The Longest Road Show, a touring revue that brought some of Canada’s most groundbreaking music-makers together for a jaw-dropping handful of nights in Ontario. Keep an eye out for the next edition when it’s safe to hit the stage again.

Until then, Consider the Speed at which you’re falling for Terra Lightfoot—a spectacular velocity that will gain momentum with every electrifying note.

Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices plus The Jakebrakes
2022-07-13 20:30 - 23:30 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices are a country music band from Winnipeg. The Jakebrakes are a country music band from outside Winnipeg.

The RIPPERZ w| Fox Lake & Dinner Club
2022-07-15 20:00 - 23:00 | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
The Ripperz

w| Fox Lake & Dinner Club
$10
Doors 7 pm Show 8 Pm

WHEN AND WHERE DO I PICK UP MY TICKETS?
On the night of the show, your tickets will be waiting at the ticket window anytime after door time. Please note that these are e-tickets, so if you have purchased multiple tickets, your entire party will need to be there at pick up. Please have your ID ready, and your ticket’s up on your phone.

Hot & Dirty Dance Party
2022-07-15 20:30 - 23:59 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
The Hot & Dirty Dance Party combines Dr. Hotbottom and the Dirty Catfish Brass Band to unleash the ultimate in funky good times!

Sol James on the West End Neighbourhood Patio
2022-07-16 20:00 - 23:00 | West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3B1Z8, Canada
Sol James on the West End Neighbourhood Patio – Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 8:00pm

The West End Cultural Centre will continue to require that patrons wear facemasks and show proof of vaccination for all events in the venue. We will continue to evaluate this policy as circumstances evolve.
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Winnipeg-based Sol James is a force to be reckoned with, with a voice to match. A unique take on roots/blues with a soulful flair, her music is joyful and honest, leaving audiences smiling, dancing, and celebrating the great stuff of life. Sol’s stage presence calls out to even the meekest of souls, breaking down walls and bringing the light in. She does this with a dependable dose of hilarity; You can hear a Sol James audience laughing a mile away.
“Sol James has an honesty in her songwriting. She isn’t afraid to say it like it is. It’s refreshing to hear someone with a voice like hers tell us what it is we need to hear!” – Murray Pulver
With a strong and agile voice that leaves audiences amazed and moved, Sol James puts on a powerful show.
“The first time I saw Sol James perform my jaw hit the floor. Her power and soul knocked me out!” – David Gilmore, Gilmore Guitars INC
“ bold voice… was a hit. She is able to convey the joy in the blues” – Winnipeg Free Press, Chris Smith
“There was a lot of delicacy to singing, yet she knew when to go over the top.”– Winnipeg Jewish Review, Jane Enkin
Sol’s voice, musicality and creative vision is in demand in the Winnipeg scene. You might have seen her opening for Suzie Vinnick, Monkey Junk, The Brothers Landreth, Red Moon Road, Jack Semple or Sweet Alibi. You might have heard her backing vocal tracks with The Weber Brothers, Billy Joe Green Band, Dusty Roads Band, The Small Glories or Red Moon Road.
Sol’s relatability, training, and demeanor make her an excellent teacher. A graduate of the University of Manitoba Jazz Program, she can be found teaching vocal and jazz lessons at the Manitoba Conservatory of Music and Art, and at University of Manitoba Jazz Camp. She can also be found sharing art, expression and joy in hospital environments as a performer with Artists in Health Care. She also has completed her Music Therapy degree and training in 2019, serving populations across Winnipeg.
Notable performances include: Live @The Folk Exchange, Songwriters in the City Workshop with Winnipeg Folk Fest, BBQ blues fest 2013/2014, Canada Day, New Years Eve and Barge Festival at The Forks, Fire and Water Festival, Jazz Winnipeg Festival, Dauphin Watson Arts Centre, The Music of Barbra Streisand (The Tarbut Festival), Juno Fest, Festival du Voyageur, Soul Night at The Cavern with The Solutions, ELLICE Street Fest, Manitoba Songwriters Retreat, Manitoba Country Music Association Artist Showcase, Lockport Family Dam Festival, Oak Point Festival, Rainbow Trout Festival, Brandon Folk Festival, and many more…

Big Dave McLean
2022-07-16 20:30 - 23:30 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Backed up by The Muddy-Tones, Big Dave brings his legendary Mississippi and Chicago blues style to our stage!

Big Dave McLean (born August 23, 1952) is a Canadian blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer and songwriter. A veteran performer, his work has had an influence on many western Canadian blues musicians, including Colin James and Wide Mouth Mason. Notable McLean songs include “She’s Got the Stuff”, “Kanadiana”, “Up On Waverly”, and “St. Mary At Main”.

Big Dave McLean
Born
August 23, 1952 (age 68)
Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Origin
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genres
Blues
Occupation(s)
Guitarist, harmonicist, singer and songwriter
Instruments
Guitar, harmonica, vocals
Years active
1970s–present
Labels
Stony Plain Records, Black Hen Music
Billboard noted that “Big Dave’s been the quintessential behind-the-scene bluesman. He’s done more to shape the Western Canadian blues scene than perhaps any other artist”.

In 2019, Big Dave McLean was awarded the Order of Canada for his musical influence of Delta and Chicago blues and for mentoring musicians.

Life and career Edit

McLean was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada, to a concert pianist mother, and a Presbyterian minister father. They later lived in Moose Jaw, before relocating to Winnipeg, Manitoba when Dave was at the age of 10. Introduced to the blues as a teenager via his older brother’s record collection, the two siblings travelled to the Mariposa Folk Festival in Toronto in 1969. Whilst there, John P. Hammond gave McLean an impromptu lesson on guitar playing, to supplement the latter’s rudimentary efforts thus far at playing the harmonica. This meeting saw McLean learning how to play Bo Diddley’s, “I’m a Man”. McLean much later recalled the incident stating that Hammond was “one of the most courteous gentlemen on this planet, you know, totally helpful, inspiring”.

McLean starting playing at the Regina Folk Club, and at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, where he gained experience before releasing his debut album, Muddy Waters For President (1989), which was recorded at the Bud’s On Broadway club in Saskatoon. McLean had previously opened for his musical hero, Muddy Waters.

The follow up was For The Blues… Always (1998), an attempt to spread his music to a wider audience. The album was produced by Colin James and recorded in Vancouver, with musicians James (guitar), Norm Fisher (bass), Eric Webster (piano) and Chris Norquiest (drums), all augmenting McLean’s work. The track listing included McLean’s cover versions of “Little Red Rooster” (Willie Dixon), “Just Your Fool” (Little Walter), “Dust My Broom” (Elmore James), “Rollin’ and Tumblin'” (Muddy Waters) and “Cakewalk Into Town” (Taj Mahal). The three-day recording’s budget was only $1,600. In addition to performing and recording, McLean spent around 20 years regularly doing odd jobs, such as construction work, to supplement his income.

In 1998, he played in a duo with Tim Williams at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. McLean has also appeared solo at the Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Fest.

Blues from the Middle (2003) was his second Stony Plains release, and included guest contributions from Sue Foley and Duke Robillard. It was followed by Acoustic Blues (Got ‘Em From The Bottom) in 2008.

Faded But Not Gone was released in 2014 on Black Hen Music, and dealt with the aftermath of the deaths of McLean’s mother and brother. Recorded in Nashville, the album contained contributions from Colin Linden, Colin James, and Kevin McKendree, with Ann and Regina McCrary on backing vocals.

In 2015, McLean starred in a low budget film documentary, Ain’t About the Money, exploring the trials and tribulations in performing the blues.

Other ventures Edit

Patrick Friesen wrote Singer, a docu-drama on Richard Manuel for CBC Radio Manitoba (1989), which featured McLean; as well as Voice, a 1996 radio documentary (featuring McLean and Tracey Dahl), by CBC Radio Manitoba and produced by Andrea Ratuski.

In 1991, Saturday Night Blues, a compilation album of recordings by Canadian blues performers, was released by Stony Plain Records and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It contained the Big Dave McLean and the Muddy-Tones track, “T.V. Preacher Blues”. In 2006, McLean contributed the track “Howlin’ for My Baby” to Saturday Night Blues: 20 Years, a double compilation album also released by CBC.

In 2005, The Perpetrators contributed to a tribute album to McLean, entitled We Best Choose to Pick the Blues.

Awards Edit

Whisky Award, 2005
Runner-up for Singer Of The Year
Western Canadian Music Award, 2004
Outstanding Blues Recording – Blues from the Middle
Prairie Music Award, 1999
Outstanding Blues Recording – For the Blues… Always
Great Canadian Blues Award, 1998
Juno Award
1992 (winner – Saturday Night Blues)
2009 (nominated)
2016 (nominated)
Maple Blues Award nominations:
Acoustic Act Of The Year, 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2003
Blues With A Feeling Award, 2007 (winner)
Toronto Blues Society Lifetime Achievement Award
Order of Canada, 2019

Phantom Killing: Killing Will Prevail EP release show
2022-07-17 21:00 - 2022-07-18 00:00 | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
See you in the Pit

Phantom Killing: Killing Will Prevail EP release show
w/
Shit happens, Indigo, Enveiled, Phantom Killing
Sunday, July 17th
Doors 8 pm
Show 9 pm
Tickets $10 advance, $15 doors

Peter and The Wolves
2022-07-19 20:30 - 23:30 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Peter & The Wolves

Howlin’ Pete and his Wolves are bent on rockin’ you back in time with hard hitting original rock and roll and favourite classics. A dance-driven four-piece rock and roll band, touring across Canada and playing internationally at festivals like Viva Las Vegas and Italy’s Summer Jamboree!

Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices plus Benj Rowland
2022-07-20 20:30 - 23:30 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices are a country music band from Winnipeg. Peterborough’s Benj Rowland is best-known via The Mayhemingways.

Scott Richards | Ben Stopfel | An Unexpected End
2022-07-21 19:30 - 22:30 | The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3L 2B9, Canada
A Night of Music with:

Ben Stopfel
An Unexpected End
and
Scott Richards
Doors 6:30 pm
Music at 7:30 pm
Tickets $20 in advance

Noble Thiefs plus Alex Maher
2022-07-21 20:00 - 23:00 | Blue Note Park, 220 Main St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
The Rock’N’Soul stylings of Winnipeg’s 13-year-running, The Noble Thiefs, and the mystifying looping grooves of Alex Maher!

In the dog days of summer, you feel a welcomed cool breeze. With it, come wafts of BBQ season and…What’s this?!…some killer summer grooves! You follow your ears around the corner of St. Mary’s Ave & Main St., past the impeccably institutional Times Change(d) to hear both the Rock’N’Soul stylings of Winnipeg’s 13-year-running, The Noble Thiefs & and the mystifying looping grooves of Alex Maher! There it is – the brightly painted Blue Note Park in all of its glory. The dancefloor is packed and your friends are already there with a summer fizzy waiting for you… WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?!
Yes! Just as the Zombies sang it 55 years ago – it’s the time of the season for loving! Join us at Blue Note Park on Thursday, July 21st for a full-on summer shakedown as we toast the city and all that comes with this BEAUTIFUL time of year.
Doors @ 7pm
Music @ 8pm
