2010 February Archive

T. Nile Live @ the Folk Exchange

Published by Tim Jones on February 26, 2010 in Concerts & Events, Folk Exchange Events, Live @ The Folk Exchange and Upcoming Events Calendar. Closed
May 22, 2010
7:15 pmto10:15 pm

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T.Nile, Saturday, May 22, Live @ the Folk Exchange.

Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:15. Tickets $10 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $12 at the door.

2009 Winnipeg Folk Festival performer T. Nile has spent most of the last three years on the road since releasing At My Table in 2006. From the outdoor festivals and clubs that dot the Trans Canada Highway and its many tributaries, T Nile has also made stops at packed halls and theatres in Germany, Denmark and Alaska. Along the way she was named the “Best New/Emerging Artist” at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, the “Critic’s Favorite New Discovery” in Penguin Eggs, and was nominated for “Best Contemporary Vocalist” at the most recent Canadian Folk Music Awards.

tamaranile.com

Jon and Roy Live @ the Folk Exchange

Published by Tim Jones on February 25, 2010 in Concert Series, Folk Exchange Events, Live @ The Folk Exchange and Upcoming Events Calendar. Closed
April 24, 2010
7:15 pmto10:15 pm

Jon and Roy poster

Festival Preview: Jon and Roy, Saturday, April 24, Live @ the Folk Exchange.

Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:15. Tickets $15 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $17 at the door.

Vancouver Island natives Jon and Roy – now made up of Jon Middleton (guitar, vocals), Roy Vizer (drums, percussion), Dougal Bain Maclean (violin, mandolin) and Ryan Tonelli (bass) – are still trying to get used to their sudden international attention. Soon after its release, songs from Jon and Roy’s debut album, Another Noon, found their way into the scores of many movies and TV shows, and even garnered an offer from Volkswagen. Suddenly, a band that had focused more on its rehearsal space and local fan base now began a more frenetic pace as it addressed a growing audience worldwide.

With their sophomore effort, Homes, set to hit shelves on April 14, 2010, Jon and Roy are ready to leave the studio and hit the stage.

Catch 2010 Winnipeg Folk Festival performers Jon and Roy live, Saturday, April 24, at the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Ave – Main Floor.

Tickets on sale Saturday February 27 at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store in person or order by phone (204) 231-1377. Tickets $15 in advance, or $17 at the door.

jonandroy.ca

Linda McRae and David Lang Live @ the Folk Exchange

Published by Tim Jones on February 24, 2010 in Concerts & Events, Folk Exchange Events, Live @ The Folk Exchange and Upcoming Events Calendar. Closed
April 17, 2010
7:15 pmto10:15 pm

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Linda McRae and David Lang, Saturday, April 17, Live @ the Folk Exchange.

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

‘When all the trends fade and become dated, and all the music from the cutting edge becomes dull, Linda McRae will continue to stand tall, singing and playing music with honest soul and humility, cutting through the fog with her timeless clarity. Linda is one of the true, soulful pioneers of honest roots music. Her singing and playing brings honour to her heroes and to her friends and fans.” Colin Linden (Grammy Nominee, Producer, Guitarist for Bruce Cockburn, Emmy Lou Harris, Krauss & Plant)

Linda is a Canadian singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who earned 2 Platinum and 3 Gold records during her tenure as bassist/accordionist with former Canadian Celtic/Roots group Spirit of the West. Linda left the band to resume her solo career and has since released three critically acclaimed recordings. Flying Jenny produced by Colin Linden (Bruce Cockburn, Emmy Lou Harris), Cryin’ Out Loud produced by Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier) and Linda’s current release Carve It To The Heart produced by Linda and Marc L’Esperance (Po’ Girl, Be Good Tanyas) have all received the highest praise from reviewers world-wide.

In recent years Linda has turned her attention to the study of traditional roots music, it’s history and it’s traditions studying acoustic blues guitar with Juno Winner Ken Hamm, clawhammer banjo with leading authority Brad Leftwich and songwriting with Grammy winning songwriter Jon Vezner. Her most recent work illustrates this, each aspect becoming an integral part of her songwriting and live performance. Linda’s evocative and powerful voice is well supported by her acoustic finger-style and flat-picked rhythm guitar, accordion, clawhammer banjo, dulcimer and Porchboard bass, an endorsement for EnRoute Music. She is also endorsed by Wyres Strings.

Linda’s musical journey has taken her to Nashville where she now lives. Linda is a compelling entertainer and her personality and storytelling add an intimacy to her shows regardless of the size of venue. Her busy tour schedule reflects her love for performing having completed 200 shows last year alone. Linda also writes a monthly column for BC Musician’s Magazine entitled “This Winding Road”.

www.lindamcrae.com

Smart words, smart chords, smart clothes - Dave Lang has had a fondness for smartness since someone told him he had a smart mouth. Inspired by Louis Armstrong, Cole Porter and Lenny Bruce, Lang writes smart songs that make you smile.

“Even the love songs are biting and satirical” - Geoff Berner

Dave Lang loves jazz, loves writing songs and loves having fun. Since his two year residency in an old vaudeville theatre in rural Saskatchewan he’s made jazz music that brings the genre back to the bars, drunks and drug addicts that first breathed life into it. Referential without being reverential, he writes new standards from a modern Canadian perspective. Lang tours Canada regularly and has appeared on record alongside musicians such as Neko Case, Corb Lund, Geoff Berner and Carolyn Mark. He has written music for film and television and received glowing reviews online and in print magazines such as The Georgia Straight and Spin.

www.davelang.com

Ben Wytinck Live @ the Folk Exchange

Published by Tim Jones on February 24, 2010 in Concerts & Events, Folk Exchange Events, Live @ The Folk Exchange and Upcoming Events Calendar. Closed
May 8, 2010
7:15 pmto10:15 pm

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Ben Wytinck, Saturday, May 8, Live @ the Folk Exchange.

Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:15. Tickets $8 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $10 at the door.

The year was 1990. Ben Wytinck stepped into his first bar - a small town juke joint in Southern Manitoba, Canada. The fact he was 9 yrs. old wasn’t what made him nervous. It was his first show, the first time he would play drums in his father’s band. The night went well considering there were a couple minor scuffles in the audience. Nothing like what Jeff Healey had to deal with in Swayze’s “Road House”. In time Ben became used to the fights, the odor, and the odd crouch behind his 24″ kick drum whenever the cops arrived. He was living his dream. Well, part of it. Though he loved playing the cover songs he and his father performed together, he still yearned to write his own music.

At age 20, Ben moved to Manitoba’s capital, Winnipeg. He acquired a right handed guitar from his late Uncle Roland and re-stringed it to meet his left handed needs. Finally, he could begin to write his own music. In the Fall of 2003, Ben wrote “Brag-able Ego”, one of his first songs and the oldest song on his self titled album. He continued to write over 30 songs throughout the years and only until now, has put 10 of what he thinks are the best on his first album simply titled, “Ben Wytinck”.

Son of a farmer, Ben learned to do things himself, his own way. Only when someone sits down with the album and absorbs it as a whole do they truly understand the term, “Labor of Love”. Ben wrote, composed, and produced the album all himself with help from some of Manitoba’s top musicians. He also created the art/design and packaging for the album. Still to this day, as you read this, he is assembling the CD cases (with a little help from his friends). Not only is his album a great listening experience, it is one the listener cannot help recognize as a piece of hard work, patiently done well - a rarity in today’s fast paced world.

www.benwytinck.com

Ingrid Gatin Live @ the Folk Exchange

Published by Tim Jones on February 24, 2010 in Concerts & Events, Folk Exchange Events, Live @ The Folk Exchange and Upcoming Events Calendar. Closed
April 3, 2010
7:15 pmto10:15 pm

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Ingrid Gatin, Saturday, April 3, Live @ the Folk Exchange.

Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:15. Tickets $8 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $10 at the door.

Ingrid Gatin makes eclectic beautiful. With accordion, piano, vocals, handclaps, foot-stomps, and tambourine, she is a little bit gypsy, a little bit soul, and a lot of passion. One of Winnipeg’s own up-and-coming singer/songwriter/arrangers, Ingrid is getting ready to take Canada by storm.

Ingrid has been touring by train, writing music in a cabin in the woods–dancing, singing, playing on instruments and banging on the floors and walls, you’ll hear her coming your way.

Ingrid Gatin on MySpace

Pine and a Pinecone Tour with Kate Maki (pine) and Brent Randall (pinecone) Live @ the Folk Exchange

Published by Tim Jones on February 22, 2010 in Concerts & Events, Folk Exchange Events, Live @ The Folk Exchange and Upcoming Events Calendar. Closed
March 26, 2010
7:15 pmto11:15 pm

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Kate Maki and Brent Randall, Friday, March 26, Live @ the Folk Exchange.

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

Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Kate studied neuroscience at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and graduated from Teacher’s College in 2000. After the passing of a close friend in 2002, she quit her full time teaching job and travelled across the country performing her first few original songs. Since then, she has released three solo albums, Confusion Unlimited (2003), The Sun Will Find Us (2004), and On High (2008), all of which have been recognized as “Album of the Year” by Northern Ontario’s Music & Film In Motion.

In 2005, inspired by Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue”, Maki collaborated with fellow Canadian songwriters, Ruth Minnikin, Nathan Lawr, Dale Murray, and Ryan Bishops on two cross-Canada adventures called “A Midwinter Night’s Dream” and “A Midautumn Night’s Dream”. For each tour, the musicians recorded a special compilation album, and took turns performing each other’s songs on stage.

Kate has appeared on the cover of Now Toronto, Echo Weekly, and Ottawa Xpress, and has received enthusiastic reviews from Mojo, Uncut, Harp, Exclaim, Pitchfork, and LA Weekly. Her songs can be heard across North America on CBC Radio, College Radio, and NPR, and across the ocean on the BBC and select stations in Belgium, France, Italy, and Germany. She has placed original tracks in the Canadian films Weirdsville, and Wilby Wonderful, and in the CBC television series MVP, and has toured extensively in North America and parts of Europe with Great Lake Swimmers, Howe Gelb, Joel Plaskett, M. Ward, Hayden, Tegan & Sara, Jason Collett, Deep Dark Woods, and Fred Eaglesmith.

When Kate is not on tour, she divides her time between substitute teaching and managing her independent record label, Confusion Unlimited.

www.katemaki.com

Arriving fully formed, Brent Randall & His Pinecones released the expertly crafted debut EP, Quite Precisely, in late 2004 (Charting 34 on Earshot). The seven songs on the album showed a style of song and depth in writing rarely seen since Brill Building era pop. Randall quickly became a enigmatic yet renowned character throughout the East Coast. Along with His Pinecones, made up of Laura Peek, David Ewenson, Joel Goguen, Brian O’Reilly and Jess Lewis, he played several legendary shows in the years that followed, previewing new songs from an ever forthcoming LP that never seemed to materialize.

Four years later, and the wait is finally over. From the first listen of “Strange Love (Don’t Be Lazy),” it’s apparent that the time spent honing the songs on We Were Strangers in Paddington Green was not in vein. The track’s cabaret inspired delivery balances camp and beauty with equal grace. Produced by Jason MacIssac (Jenn Grant, The Heavy Blinkers), the song’s lush sound is reminiscent of peak era Paul McCartney and Harry Nilsson. Randall’s penchant for grandiose arrangements delivered over classic songwriting continues throughout the rest of the album. From the epic chorus of “This House” to the more crestfallen “Slumberjack,” We Were Strangers in Paddington Green never reveals the hand print of its formation. It instead is a beautifully complete document, balancing emotion and sound into one forward striding and backwards looking collection of songs. But he does it for a larf, don’t you know!

Brent Randall on MySpace

Keri Latimer Live @ the Folk Exchange

Published by Tim Jones on February 22, 2010 in Concerts & Events, Folk Exchange Events, Live @ The Folk Exchange and Upcoming Events Calendar. Closed
March 5, 2010
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

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Keri Latimer, Friday, March 5, 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.

Juno Award winning songwriter Keri Latimer’s career began in the visual arts. While deeply immersed in an intensive graphic design program, she began to play guitar as a distraction. Very quickly her studies became sabotaged by musical urges, and it became obvious what her truest form of expression was. Starting from square one, she tapped into several years of adolescent piano lessons, a love for subversive and painfully genuine songs, and began to find her voice. Several awards later, including a Western Canadian Songwriting Award over fellow nominee Bryan Adams, she is firmly rooted in the Canadian music scene.

Since 1999, Keri has been fronting the band “Nathan” which is currently signed to Nettwerk Records worldwide. Acoustic Guitar Magazine tried to account for their music as “infectious alt-country noir, fractured folk-swing and surreal songwriting.” The Globe and Mail said that it has “something mysterious at the core … as if to remind you that home is just another word for the place where you keep your darkest secrets.” The reviews are often like this, bringing out the best in music journalists as they struggle to describe their reaction to these inventive songs.

Keri has begun to merge her visual and musical sensibilities. She recently collaborated with Peter Golub and Shahzad Ismaily on the score of “Frozen River” which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for 2 Oscar Awards.

Keri Latimer on MySpace

2010 Winnipeg Folk Festival Tickets On Sale February 13th

Published by tutu on February 12, 2010 in Camping, Festival Music Store, Festival Tickets, Music Store News and News. 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

2010 Winnipeg Folk Festival Tickets On Sale February 13th
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:

  • Winnipeg Folk Festival five-day pass
  • Winnipeg Folk Festival five-day pass with camping (festival or quiet)
  • Winnipeg Folk Festival daily pass

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.

[Download this news release as a PDF]

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

Purchase tickets for the 2010 Winnipeg Folk Festival at:

2010 FESTIVAL TICKET PRICES

  • Visit our Tickets page for detailed ticket price information

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.

Five Days Of Winnipeg Folk Festival!

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:

  • Winnipeg Folk Festival five-day pass
  • Winnipeg Folk Festival five-day pass with camping (festival or quiet)
  • Winnipeg Folk Festival daily pass

“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.

www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca

Jason Collett, Zeus and Bahamas - The Bonfire Ball

Published by tutu on February 10, 2010 in Concerts & Events and News. 0 Comments

Winnipeg Folk Festival presents

JASON COLLETT, Zeus and Bahamas

THE BONFIRE BALL

April 3, at the West End Cultural Centre

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Toronto, Ontario artists Jason Collett, Zeus and Bahamas have announced a North American revue tour featuring all three artists performing together and alone during a night long set of incredible music. The three acts have a long history of collaboration, as intertwined as their musical lineage. Instead of the typical show in which each act plays its own set, Collett, Zeus and Bahamas will all take the stage together, playing songs by all three.

At times you will find Collett strumming softly on the guitar alone; Zeus pounding out their rich pop numbers; or Bahamas melting the rocks in your glass; then find them all back together again in full force. The energy, the creativity, the inherent knowledge each musician brings to the stage, of their fellow musician, will make for a unique and exciting night, each and every night along the tour.

Saturday, April 3, 2010, 8:00 p.m., at West End Cultural Centre
Tickets $17 advance, available at ticketmaster.ca and the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, 211 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg.

Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store New Releases

Published by tutu on February 10, 2010 in Festival Music Store, Music Store News and News. 0 Comments

Joe Pug

New Releases

  • Joe Pug - Messenger
  • Hawksley Workman – Meat
  • Basia Bulat – Heart of My Own (CD & vinyl)
  • Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula
  • Laura Veirs – July Flame (CD & vinyl)
  • Matthew Shipp – 4D
  • Youssou N’Dour – Music from the Motion Picture I Bring What I Love
  • Bob Mould Band – Live at ATP 2008
  • Amanda Martinez – Sola
  • Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind
  • Spoon – Transference (CD & vinyl)

New Vinyl

  • Prince – MPLSoUND
  • Prince – Lotusflow3r (2LP)
  • Neil Young – Greatest Hits (2LP)
  • Tom Waits – Orphans (7LP box set)
  • Jill Barber – Chances

Underground Canadian Classics on Limited Edition Vinyl

Only 500 copies of each!

  • The Haunted – The Haunted
  • Les Sinners – Sinerisme
  • Les Miserables – Les Miserables
  • Les Lutins – Les Lutins
  • The Rabble – The Rabble Album
  • The Rabble – Give us Back Elaine

Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store Chart for January 2010

Published by tutu on February 10, 2010 in Festival Music Store, Music Store Chart and News. 0 Comments

Crooked Still - Live

  1. Joe Pug – Nation of Heat
  2. Crooked Still – Live
  3. Tegan & Sara – Sainthood
  4. Amelia Curran – Hunter Hunter
  5. Tom Waits – Glitter & Doom Live
  6. Dave Rawlings Machine – A Friend of a Friend
  7. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – The Live Anthology
  8. Blue Rodeo – The Things We Left Behind
  9. Rose Cousins – The Send Off
  10. The Deep Dark Woods – Winter Hours
  11. Neil Young – Dreamin’ Man Live ‘92

Art of Music 3: Artists from the Festival

Published by tutu on February 2, 2010 in Community Outreach, Concerts & Events, Folk Exchange Events, News and Visual Arts. 0 Comments

Art of Music 3: Artists From The Festival poster

An exhibition of artwork, made by six artists who have showcased their work in the Winnipeg Folk Festival Prairie Outdoor Exhibition and two festival photographers who also make art. Including works by Brook Drabot, Lisa Waldner, Dan Saidman, Erica Lowe, Bill Beso, James Culleton, Chris Pancoe, and Jennie O’Keefe. Curated by James Culleton. This is the third in a series of Art of Music exhibits at the Folk Exchange. The first exhibit, Art of Music, featured drawings, paintings, and photographs inspired by music. The second exhibit, Art of Music 2, featured the work of musicians who make art.

Opening reception is on Thursday, February 4, 7:00–10:00 p.m. with musical guests THE SECONDHANDPANTS

Exhibition runs Thursday, February 4 to Tuesday, March 16. Gallery open during Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00–6:00. Admission is free of charge. At the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Ave.

Art of Music 3 Opening Reception event on Facebook

Part of Art @ the Folk Exchange, by the Winnipeg Folk Festival.The Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne at AlbertAt the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue (behind the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store).