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Oh My Darling, Friday, January 29, Live @ the Folk Exchange.

Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:00. Tickets $12 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $15 at the door.

Oh My Darling is emerging as a powerhouse of superb female musicianship. Utilizing their keen sense of stylistic versatility, these young women have an vastly eclectic repertoire. Drawing inspiration from traditional music, their original songs are energetic and moving. They infuse their unique brand of country music with Appalachian old time, a Southern twang, and some funk-inspired bass lines that’ll get your hips swinging while your toes are tapping.

The Western Canadian Music Awards honoured their debut self-titled EP, nominating Oh My Darling for Best Roots Album in 2009. This independent self-produced recording features fast fingered banjo, saucy fiddle, grooving double bass and feisty vocals to create a high-energy debut performance. Oh My Darling entered the studio in fall 2009 to record their first full-length album with renowned producer Lloyd Peterson (Wailin’ Jennys, James Keelaghan). Their new repertoire pays tribute to traditional tunes, while creating new and exciting instrumental compositions, and showcases captivating new songs that weave a rich tapestry of original repertoire.

Topping UMFM’s charts and spinning regularly on CBC’s airwaves, the gals are revved up for their third Western Canadian tour early in Spring 2010.

“Oh My Darling truly is the quintessential roots ensemble. This band of smoking prairie pistols can do no wrong – from their divine melodies to their haunting Appalachian ballads, they’ll leave you looking under your feet for a pile of sawdust and over your shoulder for cold mountain. Lend an ear, people – it simply doesn’t get much better than this.” —Jules Adolpe, Candor Shop

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Crooked Brothers, Saturday, December 19, Live @ the Folk Exchange.

Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:00. Tickets $10 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $12 at the door.

“I wake up, a mouth full of earth. Sun shining, but not through the dirt.”

So begins the chorus of the Crooked Brothers’ ‘Buried Alive,’ and it’s a line that aptly describes the trio’s sound: beautiful and warm, but with dirt under its fingernails.

Their forthcoming debut album, Deathbed Pillowtalk, is an exciting blend of timeless country classic sounds, backporch blues and stomping scrapyard funk. Sexuality, death, loss, and loneliness haunt their music, often in three part harmony. The Crooked Brothers will have you falling in love with dying, and dying to fall in love.

The Crooked Brothers’ fascination with the past extends well beyond their choice of instrumentation. At times, the histories, landscapes and long winters of their home province of Manitoba boil to the surface and inform both the imagery and the characters of their songs. This is, if nothing else, prairie music.

Their repertoire includes original songs by each of the members, as well as interpretations of old standards and works by musical inspirations such as Howlin’ Wolf, Townes Van Zandt, and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.

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