Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices plus Woodshed Havoc
2021-12-11 21:00 - 2022-01-02 01:00 (America/Winnipeg) | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices are a country music band from Winnipeg. They also enjoy short walks, whiskey and a little Woodshed Havoc

The JP Hoe Hoe Hoe Holiday Show Afterparty
2021-12-11 23:30 - 2021-12-12 02:00 | MB
It’s the Hoe Hoe Hoe Holiday Show After Party

The Park Theatre w/ Half Pints Brewery, Eventbrite and JP Hoe Presents
The Hoe Hoe Hoe Holiday Show After Party
Doors 11 pm,
Dancing, Fun till late
$5 admission plus Fees

Tenille Townes
2021-12-12 20:00 - 23:00 | MB
Live Nation Presents Tenille Townes

**Please Note this is a Non-Seated Show. Standing Room Only
Emerging country artist, Tenille Townes isn’t quite like anyone else who has ever graced Nashville’s stages. With the lyrical fortitude of Patty Griffin, the soulful nature of Chris Stapleton or even Adele and the genre-transcending power of Shaina Twain, Townes is paving a path as one of Nashville’s most promising new artists.

Mardi Jazz - ÉDITION SPÉCIALE FÊTES
2021-12-14 19:00 - 22:00 | Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 Provencher Blvd, WInnipeg, MB, R2H 0G7, Canada
Mardi Jazz – Édition spéciale

Depuis 1986, le Centre culturel franco-manitobain fait vibrer la culture jazz à Winnipeg au travers de son programme « Mardi Jazz ».

Après une pause forcée due à la pandémie, le CCFM relance le Mardi Jazz en présentiel et profite de la saison des fêtes pour vous proposer une édition spéciale avec l’artiste Zachary Rushing.

Rushing, originaire de Portland, dans l’Oregon, a commencé son parcours musical à l’âge de 6 ans et a débuté sa carrière d’interprète tôt à l’âge de 12 ans. Bien qu’il ait grandi dans la musique classique, le théâtre musical et la musique contemporaine, Rushing a rejoint la faculté de musique Desautels pour apprendre et se perfectionner dans le jazz.
Sa première inspiration était Sarah Vaughan au tout début du secondaire qui a guidé sa destinée musicale et son choix de carrière. Au delà de sa profession, le Jazz rythme la vie de l’artiste et lui a ouvert plusieurs portes sur le plan personnel également.

Si vous voulez connaitre davantage sur l’artiste, rien de mieux que de venir assister à son concert dans la belle salle d’Antoine Gaborieau qui s’est offerte un relooking!
Mesures COVID: Merci de vous munir de votre preuve de vaccination et de votre carte d’identité pour les montrer à l’entrée.

Au plaisir de vous y rencontrer!

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra presents Music from A Charlie Brown Christmas
2021-12-15 19:30 - 22:00 | West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3B1Z8, Canada
The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra presents Music from A Charlie Brown Christmas – December 15, 2021 at 7:30pm

This encore performance (from our 2019-20 season) is a special request of the WECC and has become a holiday tradition in Winnipeg. The entertaining program, narrated by Quinn Greene and featuring vocalist Jayme Giesbrecht, is our own WJO version of the famous Charlie Brown Christmas story.
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With a voice that stirs your soul, and a conviction behind the music, Jayme Giesbrecht encapsulates soul and gospel music with every note she sings.
With a 20 year career already on her resume, Jayme has grown into the “big voice” that brought her so much attention as a child. From church stages, to exploring different styles of music with various musicians, taking on techniques in rock n’ roll, soul, and jazz added to her full voice.
Her repertoire has broadened from traditional gospel spirituals and hymns, to soul classics from Aretha Franklin, Etta James, and Tina Turner, and jazz standards which she performs with her accompanist Jonathan Alexiuk. With the help of some amazing musicians including Alexiuk, and blues man JP Lepage, Jayme was able to record and release her debut album “To Keep You From Falling” in 2016. (Produced by John Paul Peters at Private Ear Recording, Winnipeg).
That album was sponsored by Golden West, a broadcasting company that Jayme is closely connected to, as she co-hosts the morning show on CFAM 950, for the past 9 years. She has become well-known “on the air” as a knowledgeable advocate for Manitoba musicians, as she interviews new artists every week to highlight on the weekly program “Made in Manitoba”.
Becoming a frequent flyer with pianist Jonathan Alexiuk led Jayme to more opportunities, eventually gaining her access to the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra stage, where she performed as a guest in their “Charlie Brown Christmas” special. She has also connected with Blues Man and Member of the Order of Canada, Big Dave McLean, and has performed multiple shows with him. She has also opened for April Wine, The Beach Boys, and popular gospel groups like The Booth Brothers, Legacy Five, and Sweet Presence. Her most recent performance highlights include collaborating and singing back-up vocals for two-time Grammy-nominated Hip-hop artist Fresh IE at a Juno celebration concert in 2020, and most recently at a Canada Day livestream on Investors Group Field, the home of reigning Grey Cup Champions, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
With the local success of her debut album, Jayme is set to release a second album in the jazz/gospel style in 2020, and plans to tour the album in Canada. In the meantime, Jayme regularly performs at various jazz and gospel venues in Southern Manitoba.
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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.

Gladly, A Topiary, Emily Arsenault
2021-12-16 20:00 - 23:00 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
Gladly, A Topiary, and Emily Arsenault.

Glenn Radley is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Winnipeg, MB. Trained traditionally in jazz drumming, Glenn has made a name for himself as one of Winnipeg’s go-to drummers for touring and recording. With a dogged, feet-on-pavement approach to his life as a performer and a generous collaboration style, Glenn makes his own luck. As a result, Glenn has been featured on a number of albums including work by Mister K, Sebastian Owl, Nathalia Polischuk and Dave Quanbury. In the past few years he has also toured extensively in Canada with the WCMA Instrumental Artist Of The Year of 2018 and 2020, Apollo Suns.
Glenn has honed and expanded his skill set, refined his personal style and begun to blossom as a solo artist. With a versatile and multi-textured voice combined with a thirst for musical drama, Glenn brings the weight of his diverse musical experiences to bear in the world of pop, channelling influences including Brian Wilson, Harry Nilsson, Courtney Barnett, and Father John Misty.

Welcome… to A Topiary.
Clipping and trimming musical soundscapes into ornamental shapes, A Topiary is an experimental love-pop band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. They will take you on an emotional journey of love, compassion, and unity through their music.
The band is the latest in a series of collaborations between the Letkeman brothers, Joshua and Jacob. Their guitars and vocals are rounded out by Shaun McDonald on keys and Jay Bach on bass.
Emily Arsenault is an up and coming songwriter in the indie rock/jazz adjacent realm.

Motherfunk
2021-12-17 21:00 - 2021-12-18 00:00 | MB
Motherfunk

Park Theatre Presents
Motherfunk
With / Love Letter Writers
and 1 TBA
Park Theatre
Friday, December 17th, 2021
Doors 8 pm
Show 9 pm
Tickets $12 advance plus fees

Sean Burns and Lost Country
2021-12-17 21:30 - 2021-12-18 00:30 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
Sean Burns is a true voice of real country music today. Lost Country are a band in the Bakersfield tradition of the Strangers and Buckaroos.

Welcome back to the Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, folks!!

Match spécial de la LIM - 18+ (suivi du party hohoho! du Cjp)
2021-12-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 Provencher Blvd, WInnipeg, MB, R2H 0G7, Canada
Venez rire avec nous à la LIM chaque fin de semaine au CCFM. Le match d’impro sera suivi par le party hohoho du Cjp de 21h à 2h.

Venez rire avec nous à la LIM chaque fin de semaine à 20h au CCFM. On a tellement hâte de vivre de l’impro ensemble encore une fois.
Adultes 19 $ | Étudiants.es 7 $ (+frais de service)
Vous devez être 18+ pour assister au match, on vérifie les pièces d’identité à la porte.
Portes à 19 h 30 | Match à 20 h
Achetez votre billet d’avance pour garantir une place jusqu’à 20 h 15.
Consignes COVID-19:

La double vaccination est nécessaire pour toutes personnes désirant entrer sur le site. S’il vous plaît présenter votre code QR ainsi qu’une pièce d’identité à l’entrée.

Le port du masque est obligatoire lorsque vous ne mangez ou buvez pas.

La distanciation physique reste nécessaire lorsque vous êtes debout.

Ne venez pas au spectacle si vous êtes malade, même avec des symptômes mineurs.

Vous allez vous asseoir avec d’autres gens dans la salle. La distanciation physique entre les places n’est pas garantie.

Merci à nos commanditaires de la saison:

Rouges – Conseil jeunesse provincial
Verts – Université de Saint-Boniface
Bleus – Caisse Groupe Financier
Jaunes – Société de la francophonie manitobaine

Bullrider plus Show Pony
2021-12-18 21:30 - 2021-12-19 00:30 | Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St., Winnipeg, MB, R3C1A8, Canada
Can a Bullrider and a Show Pony share a show? Let’s find out!

Die Hard Cult Movie Night
2021-12-19 20:00 - 22:00 | MB
Welcome to the Party Pal

The Greatest Christmas Story Ever Told!
Welcome to the Party Pal,
Sunday, December 19th, 2021
(Screening only)
Doors 7 pm | Movie 8 pm
Tickets $7.50 adv (Includes Fees)

New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there’s no one to save the hostages — but him.
In 2010, Die Hard was voted as “The Greatest Christmas Film of All Time” by Empire.

The New Lightweights
2021-12-22 20:00 - 23:00 | 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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All performers, crew, staff, volunteers, and patrons must show proof of vaccination and photo ID before they can enter the venue.
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