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2010 Winnipeg Folk Festival Early-bird Tickets On Sale February 13
Festival Introduces Bundled Tickets and Attendance Cap
Winnipeg, Manitoba. February 11, 2010 – It’s a big year for the Winnipeg Folk Festival who will celebrate its 37th anniversary with a number of exciting changes. In 2010 the festival will present a five-day format, opening with a “marquee” act on Wednesday, July 7 and running through Sunday, July 11.
This year, the festival will be introducing an attendance cap for the first time in its 37-year history. “As the festival’s attendance has grown, it has been challenging to know how many people can be accommodated on the site in its current configuration” said Tamara Kater, Winnipeg Folk Festival Executive Director, “While a number of programming and site enhancements are underway to accommodate the increasing attendance, our goal is to preserve the audience experience, so the potential of a sell-out does exist”. The festival will cap its daily attendance at 14,000.
The sale of festival camping will also see some changes this year with camping now bundled together with festival passes into one single ticket. “With an increase in demand for camping in recent years, the ticket restructuring is intended to make the availability of camping more accessible and fair” stated Kater.
Early-bird tickets will go on sale February 13, with the full festival pass encompassing five days. The options for purchase will be:
Tickets are available at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, 211 Bannatyne Avenue from 11am – 6pm Saturday, or through Ticketmaster starting at 10 am on Saturday, February 13. Visit ticketmaster.ca or call (204) 780-3333 or 1-888-655-5354.
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About the Winnipeg Folk Festival
The Winnipeg Folk Festival, celebrating 37 years in 2010, is one of North America’s premier outdoor music festivals. It takes place each summer over the second weekend in July in Birds Hill Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada, with the 2010 festival from July 7 to 11. The Winnipeg Folk Festival is also a year-round arts organization in Winnipeg with Education and Outreach Programs designed to benefit the community through presenting live music, music training, arts events, and operating a folk music store and performance space in Winnipeg’s Old Market Square. The Winnipeg Folk Festival is a not-for-profit charitable organization.
For more information please contact:
Margaret Koshinsky
Manager, Marketing & Communications
204-231-0096 ex. 227
margaret@winnipegfolkfestival.ca
Festival tickets are sold at Early Bird, Advance, and Gate prices. In 2010, the full festival pass will encompass five days. For those who wish to camp, (in either Festival or Quiet campgrounds) camping fees will be bundled with the festival pass into one single ticket.
The 2010 festival prices include GST and a Ticketmaster service charge that is applied to each ticket. Please note that other surcharges may apply when you purchase your tickets (for example, a mailing fee). Prices are in Canadian dollars. Children are 5-14, youth 15-17, and seniors 65+. Regardless of any errors which may occur on this website, the price quoted to you at time of purchase is the price of the ticket.
Expanded Program Planned for 2010
Winnipeg, Manitoba (December 1, 2009) – After a successful 2009 that saw the Winnipeg Folk Festival reach its highest attendance ever, the festival is pleased to announce an expanded five-day format for 2010, taking place at Birds Hill Park from July 7 to 11.
The 2009 program featured Elvis Costello on Wednesday night, thanks to the support of Industry Canada’s Marquee Tourism Events Program, an initiative under Canada’s Economic Action Plan. The response from the community was so overwhelmingly positive that plans are now in motion to kick off the 2010 festival on Wednesday night with another ‘marquee’ act.
Early-bird tickets will go on sale February 14, with the full festival pass encompassing five days. For those who wish to purchase camping passes, these will now be bundled together with festival passes into one single ticket. Pricing will be finalized in early 2010, and the options for purchase will be:
“The festival is thrilled to be able to maintain the addition of a fifth evening of music in 2010,” says Tamara Kater, Executive Director of the Winnipeg Folk Festival. “With the expanded program in the works, and an increase in demand for camping tickets in recent years, our ticket restructuring was motivated by the desire to make the distribution of camping tickets more fair and more accessible.”
While camping passes will only be sold to the public when bundled with five-day festival passes, volunteers will be able to purchase their camping passes separately through the Winnipeg Folk Festival though details have yet to be announced.
| December 19, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
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.
CrookedBrothers.com | Facebook | MySpace
At the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue (behind the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store).
| December 11, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Prairie Jewel, Friday, December 11, 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.
Since opening for Doc Walker, Prairie Jewel has grafted an edgy, urban cynicism onto the best of Canadian folk music’s storytelling tradition.
With voices that play like evening sun on dappled wheat fields, Sarah Hatherly and Katherine Johnson’s crystal tones and rich harmonies hypnotize audiences. Their playbook swings from hymn-like acoustics in “the Parting Glass,” to a sharp-tongued, street/folk hybrid in their original “Orange Girl.”
With strong musical backgrounds, Prairie Jewel writes, sings and plays as only true blue prairie gals can.
PrairieJewel.com | Facebook | MySpace
At the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue (behind the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store).
| December 6, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Sunparlour Players, Sunday, December 6, 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.
“Field-rock – gospel intense, from a multi-instrumental group. Like AC/DC guest-starring on Little House on The Prairie. Holy Plow, look out!” —CBC3
The Sunparlour Players are a multi-instrumental trio based in Toronto. They have been entertaining the masses in Toronto with their intense brand of rootsy, bluesy, foot-stomping, soul-surging rawk for the last two years, and are now set to expand their popularity nationally.
Originally hailing from a Mennonite community near Leamington, Ontario, frontman Andrew Penner sings like a man with gospel conviction, while pounding it out on the kick drum and playing the banjo, guitar, or electric bass. Able accompanists Dennis Van Dine and Michael “Rosie” Rosenthal duke it out on their own arsenal of instruments, including the drums, glockenspiel and the clarinet.
This intense 3-piece has performed at the Ottawa Blues Festival, the Mariposa Folk Festival, Minesing Swamp Festival, and Windsor’s AP Festival, to name a few. They’ve shared the stage with such Canadian bands as Elliott Brood, Justin Rutledge, the FemBots, Rock Plaza Central, Cuff The Duke, The Barmitzvah Brothers, the Acorn, as well as international act, the Veils. They’ve been featured in MacLean’s Magazine, NOW, the Globe and Mail, the Metro, and Upfront Magazine, among many others. Now it’s high time that the rest of the country (and world) gets a chance to hear their music, and SEE this infectious band with their own eyes.
At the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue (behind the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store).
