'Concert Series' Category

Harry Manx Concert Announcement - SOLD OUT

Published by Artistic on November 27, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, News and Upcoming Events. 1 Comment
February 12, 2009
7:00 pm

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HARRY MANX @ The Park Theatre

February 12, 2009

SORRY FOLKS - THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT!

If you didn’t catch him at this year’s festival here’s your chance to see what you missed.

“Canada’s most versatile & expressive blues player” - Billboard Magazine

Manx has been dubbed an “essential link” between the music of East and West, creating musical short stories that wed the tradition of the Blues with the depth of classical Indian ragas. His unique sound is bewitching and deliciously addictive to listen to. It’s in the live setting, Manx says, that the bridge between “heavenly” India and “earthy” American blues is most effectively built. “Indian music moves inward,” he explains. “It’s traditionally used in religious ceremonies and meditation, because it puts you into this whole other place. But Western music has the ability to move out, into celebration and dance. So when we play the Indian stuff on stage, it has the tendency to draw people into something really deep; they’ll get kind of quiet and spacey. Then we’ll play some more Western music, and it grounds them once more, they sort of come out of the mood the Indian music had put them in and get into the performance. I love to see that working — that effect on the audience. My goal has always been to draw the audience as deep as possible into the music.”
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Click to HERE see the video for “Take this Hammer”

This concert is presented by The Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series.

The Duhks January Concert Announcement

Published by Artistic on October 24, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, News, Past Events and Upcoming Events. 1 Comment
January 9, 2009 7:00 pmtoJanuary 10, 2009 12:00 am

Duhks

The Duhks
January 9 & 10 @ The Park Theatre

Onsale Now @ TIcketmaster and the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store

CLICK HERE TO VIEW PHOTOS FROM THE CONCERT

Winnipeg darlings The Duhks  come home to perform 2 shows in celebration of their 3rd and latest release Fast Paced World.

The Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Duhks have always gravitated towards traditional roots-based song structures, but they’ve never stopped evolving since their inception five years ago. Due in part to a collective musical worldview that knows no boundaries, that evolution led the band to their latest offering Fast-Paced World, the first Duhks record to feature wunderkinds Sarah and Christian Dugas (replacing vocalist Jessee Havey and percussionist Scott Senior respectively).  It’s an album that reflects the quintet’s newfound confidence, with Sarah bringing five original songs to the band’s encyclopedic collection of originals and covers both old and new.

Dugas’ emergence as a songwriter has clearly contributed to the group’s progression - the other members are fiddler Tania Elizabeth, guitarist Jordan McConnell and founder/ banjo player Leonard Podolak - from the jaunty pop of “You Don’t See it” to the jazz-waltz of “This Fall,” the Duhks’ enthusiastic fan base has embraced the changes. “The reaction has been really positive,” says Dugas. “We’ve been able to keep the old fans and gotten some new ones as well.”

“There’s a more liberal attitude in the band when it comes to songwriting approaches,” admits Podolak. That attitude has even extended to drummer Christian’s use of a full kit, in contrast to the band’s previous use of just percussion. “My musical tastes have broadened immensely since we first started. I think we’ve evolved musically, while maintaining our roots, but everybody in the band listens to so many different things, it was bound to happen.”

Fast Paced World was produced by the Nashville-based Jay Joyce (Patty Griffin, John Hiatt), who joins an impressive set of producers (Bela Fleck, Tim O’Brien) before him. “Jay’s basement studio was like something out of the Star Trek Enterprise,” laughs Podolak. Despite trying to quit smoking at the time (4 nicotine patches at once!), Joyce was “very open to our ideas and very easy to work with. I also think he learned as much from us as we did from him about combining the acoustic and electric elements of our songs in a studio setting,” continues Podolak.

As the band continues their own musical evolution, Fast-Paced World illustrates just how far the Duhks have come and just how far they’re willing to go to challenge themselves artistically. Ultimately though, according to Leonard, the Duhks’ ” just want to play music that speaks to everybody.” Mission accomplished

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Check out this Video of the Band Jamming with John Paul Jones (Led Zepplin)

This concert is proudly presented by the West End Cultural Centre & The Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series.

RICHARD THOMPSON to receive WFF 2008 Artistic Achievement Award

Published by becca on September 26, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, News, Past Events, Special Features, Supporting the Festival, Upcoming Events and Winter Wassail. 1 Comment
December 4, 2008
7:00 pmto11:00 pm
December 5, 2008
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

The Winnipeg Folk Festival is pleased to present Richard Thompson with their 2008 Artistic Achievement Award. Iconic British folk-rock interview-richard.jpglegend Richard Thompson will make two appearances for the Folk Festival, accepting his award and performing at the Winter Wassail on Thursday, December 4, and performing a full-length concert at the Garrick Theatre on Friday, December 5.

Internationally renowned as both a songwriter and guitarist, Richard Thompson has had a long and storied career, as a founding member of Fairport Convention, in a duo with then-wife Linda Thompson, and as a solo performer.

His seminal albums include Rumor and Sigh, Shoot Out the Lights (with Linda Thompson), and Liege and Lief (with Fairport Convention), which was named ‘The Most Influential Folk Album of All Time’ at the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. His songs have been recorded by countless recording artists including Bonnie Raitt, Nanci Griffith, June Tabor, Emmylou Harris, David Byrne and Elvis Costello. Thompson was named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the Top 20 Guitarists of all-time and was the recent recipient of both an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriting and the 2006 BBC Lifetime Achievement Award.

Richard Thompson has performed numerous times at the Winnipeg Folk Festival: in 1983, 1992, 1998 and 2006. In light of his longstanding relationship with the Festival, the Winnipeg Folk Festival is thrilled that Richard Thompson is the first recipient outside of North America to receive this award.

The Winnipeg Folk Festival Artistic Achievement Award is presented annually to an artist who has performed at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, who has demonstrated musical excellence, and who has contributed at an exceptional level to the field of folk music and to the community as a whole. A work of art by a Manitoba artist is presented to the recipient, along with a cash award of $10,000. The award is presented annually at the Winter Wassail.

The Winter Wassail, held at the Winnipeg Convention Centre on Thursday, December 4, also features a dinner, a silent auction, and local entertainment in the form of winter-themed music and animation. Call 231-0096 for tickets ($125 each). A tax receipt is issued for a portion of the ticket price. The event is held in support of the Winnipeg Folk Festival.

In addition to his award acceptance at the Winter Wassail, fans will have a chance to see Richard Thompson in concert on Friday, December 5 at the Garrick Centre. Tickets are $35 and are available through the Festival Music Store or through Ticketmaster. Limited prime seating will be available to Wassail ticket holders through the Winnipeg Folk Festival Office.

Lucinda Williams November 7 @ The Burt

Published by becca on September 17, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, Featured Artist, News and Upcoming Events. 0 Comments
November 7, 2008
8:00 pmto11:00 pm

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with guest Buick 6
Friday, November 7, 2008
Burton Cummings Theatre

Lucinda Williams has always been adept at painting landscapes of the soul, illuminating the spirit’s shadowy nooks and shimmering crannies — but she’s never captured the sun breaking through the clouds as purely as on her new Lost Highway release, Little Honey.

“I’m in a different phase of my life, so there are more happy moments on this album,” the
singer-songwriter says of her ninth studio set. ” ‘Darkly introspective,’ is one phrase people have used to describe a lot of my songs. There are moody songs, but I’m looking outside myself a little bit more. These aren’t ‘boy meets girl, boy leaves girl, girl gets bummed out’ songs — there’s a lot more than that going on.”

“I’m stepping out and writing about things other than unrequited love. But because that’s not part of my experience anymore,” she explains, “doesn’t mean I’m going to stop being a songwriter. There are plenty of other important things to write about — the state of the world, for one thing — I don’t buy into the myth that because you get to a certain level of contentment, you have to throw in the towel.”

Little Honey mixes country, R & B and blues-rock elements with adventurous aplomb. The disc gets an added octane boost from the powerful chemistry between the musicians, primarily drawn from Williams’ latest road band (now collectively known as Buick 6) — includes bassist David Sutton, Eels veterans Butch Norton and Chet Lyster as well as longtime collaborator Doug Pettibone.

“I feel that this is the most eclectic record I’ve ever done, and I’ve always been known for being eclectic,” she says. ” For this album, I was comfortable just letting the songs flow, and not worried about being so serious and heavy and having to top myself — and I think that shows.”

She needn’t have worried for a minute because, with Little Honey, Lucinda Williams has indeed topped herself again.

Public on-sale Saturday, September 20, 10 am
Tickets @ The Festival Music Store (211 Bannatyne) or at Ticketmaster
Tickets $45/$35 plus fees

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An evening with Crooked Still

Published by Artistic on September 12, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, Featured Artist, News and Upcoming Events. 0 Comments
October 29, 2008
8:00 pmto10:30 pm

Crooked Still

An evening with

Crooked Still

Wednesday, October 29th 8pm

Garrick Theatre

“…your expectations of how bluegrass and old-time classics should be performed will be turned on it’s ear.” - Vintage Guitar Magazine

Folk Festival favourites Crooked Still will be hitting Winnipeg in support of their new album Still Crooked.

Still Crooked is an ensemble effort of inspired music making that moves the bands’ impossible-to-pigeonhole style in new directions while honoring their folk roots. “It’s hard to pin down our music,” bass player Corey DiMario says. “We play improvised old time music, bluegrass, folk and our own songs within the broad context of a string band. Like a lot of today’s bands, we have modern and traditional influences that confuse the boundaries. We want to keep blurring those lines to make something all our own.”

Crooked Still’s genre-bending sound is the combination of five distinctive talents who are not content to limit themselves to any one project or style of music. While Crooked Still is the main band for these talented players, all are involved in other projects.
Each individual contribution is enriched by the multidimensionality of their creative wellspring. Together, they have uncovered new facets of brilliance on Still Crooked. The genesis of the group continues to evolve. Much like moonshine distilled in the apparatus that inspired their name, Crooked Still is still fermenting. And the music on Still Crooked is undeniably intoxicating.

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Tickets available at Ticketmaster.ca/ (204) 780-3333
Or in person at The Festival Music Store 211 Bannatyne Ave.
$26.50 plus fees

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Buffy Sainte-Marie & Richie Havens

Published by Artistic on September 11, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, Featured Artist, News and Upcoming Events. 3 Comments
November 6, 2008
8:00 pmto10:30 pm

Buffy & Richie

Buffy Sainte-Marie & Richie Havens
Thursday, November 6,2008
Pantages Playhouse
Tickets $55/$45 plus fees

UPDATE: The Buffy Sainte-Marie & Richie Havens concert slated for November 6 has been cancelled due to the delay of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s new CD release.  Sainte-Marie’s 18th album, Running for the Drum, was originally scheduled to be released this fall.  The tour is expected to be rescheduled for 2009, though details have not yet been set.

Tickets can be refunded at the original point of purchase.

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

TIckets also available @ The Festival Music Store (211 Bannatyne)

Digital artist, pacifist, Academy Award-winning songwriter and beloved performer—these are just a few of the hats worn by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Born in 1941 to Cree parents on a Saskatchewan reserve, Sainte-Marie has gone on to become one of the most acclaimed performers of her generation. Besides her Oscar-earning co-write for “Up Where We Belong” (recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes) for the movie An Officer and a Gentleman, Buffy has seen a number of her songs recorded by other artists. These include “Universal Soldier” (Donovan), “Until It’s Time For You to Go” (Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Robert Flack and others) and “Piney Wood Hills” (Bobby Bare). In 2004 Kanye West and Cam’Ron sampled her song “Lazarus” for the hit “Dead Or Alive.” Though much of her music is rooted in traditional songs, both First Nations and folk, she is a pioneer of new media and technology—she recorded her 1969 album Illuminations with an early synthesizer, and began working with Apple computers to record her music and make digital art in the early ’80s. Her latest releases include Running For the Drum, a set of new songs, and Buffy/Changing Woman/Sweet America: The Mid-1970s Recordings, a 2-CD set of reissues. As relevant as ever, the timeless Buffy Sainte-Marie remains a true original, and one of our most passionate, outspoken artists.

A contemporary of Buffy’s, Richie Havens came up in the same coffeehouse circuit before becoming an international star thanks to his opening set at Woodstock. Noted for his guitar skill, Richie has also acted in several films (including, most recently, Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There), composed promos for television networks, and performed at Bill Clinton’s inauguration and the 1999 Tibetan Freedom Concert. Newer artists have recognized Havens’ talent, including Groove Armada, which featured the singer’s soulful vocals—some of the most recognizable in all of pop music—on the 2000 track “Hands of Time,” which was featured in the movies Collateral and Domino. Richie’s new studio album, Nobody Left to Crown (Verve Forecast), features the country-tinged single “The Key.”

Presented by  the Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series and LiveNation

Hayes Carll, October 31 @ The Park Theatre

Published by Artistic on September 3, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, Featured Artist, News and Upcoming Events. 0 Comments
October 31, 2008
8:00 pmto11:00 pm

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 Hayes Carll @ The Park Theatre
October 31, 2008
Part of the Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series
and presented by The Onion

Click here for tickets at Ticketmaster.

Presale Thursday, Sept. 4, 10 a.m. to Friday, Sept. 5, 10 pm.
Public on-sale Saturday, Sept. 6 at 10 am.
Tickets will also be available at the Festival Music Store, 211 Bannatyne Avenue.

If you haven’t already heard of Hayes Carll, you soon will. In the three years since his self-released second album, Little Rock became available, Carll has toured relentlessly in North America and abroad (performing over two hundred shows a year), founded a successful singer-songwriter music festival on the Gulf Coast of Texas, secured a record deal with Lost Highway Records, and has even seen Little Rock become the first self-released album to reach #1 on the Americana Music Chart. He’s only getting started. On his new album, Trouble In Mind, the 32 year-old Carll navigates his way through both stormy weather and calm, sun-drenched waters with ease, emerging with songs that melt even the hardest heart in town (a feat he manages on the plaintive, world-weary “Don’t Let Me Fall”) or heat up a roadhouse (like the ruggedly strutting “Wild as a Turkey”). Their impact is heightened by the fact that they’re songs born of both immersion in the works of his songwriting heroes and plenty of real world experience.

“He evokes Townes Van Zandt lyrically, Guy Clark emotionally, Steve Earle stylistically and Ray Wylie Hubbard spiritually.” -Boston Herald

“a familiar type-a mushmouthed drawler who’s smarter about the beat than his shambling ways would make your think and funnier than shit when he wants to be, which is often.” **** stars, -Blender

“Here’s a guy who takes regular old rockin’ Texas folk country and just adds new songs to the canon…right there alongside the songs of Van Zandt, Clark, Earle, Crowell, Shaver, Keen, Hubbard, et al. Houston, we have a poet. ” -Houston Press

Jason Collett, October 25 @ The Pyramid

Published by admin on July 30, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, Featured Artist, News and Upcoming Events. 0 Comments
October 25, 2008
8:00 pmto11:00 pm

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October 25, 2008
Part of the Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series
and part of the “Exclaim! Wood, Wires, & Whisky” Tour, presented by Grant’s Whisky

Click here for tickets at Ticketmaster. Presale Thursday, July 31, 10 a.m. to Friday, August 1, 10 pm.

Public on-sale Saturday, August 2 at 10 am.

Tickets will also be available at the Festival Music Store, 211 Bannatyne Avenue.

Toronto’s Jason Collett will headline the upcoming Exclaim! Magazine and Grant’s Whisky, “Wood, Wires & Whisky” tour this fall, joined by Rock Plaza Central and Zeus on the majority of dates.

Collett’s Winnipeg stop, with Rock Plaza Central and Zeus, will be at the Pyramid Cabaret (18+ only) on October 25 (doors 7, show 8) as part of the Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series. Tickets are $17.50, plus fees, and will be available at Ticketmaster and at the Festival Music Store, 211 Bannatyne Avenue. Public on-sale is 10 a.m., Saturday, August 2.

Jason Collett released his fourth full-length, Here’s To Being Here, in February of this year on Arts & Crafts garnering international attention and glowing reviews. Collett and his band spent much of the winter and spring on the road, headlining shows across North America. The summer has been spent on the festival circuit, performing at the Ottawa Bluesfest, Vancouver Folk Festival and this past weekend at the Hillside Festival, in Guelph, ON.

“within his sturdy arrangements and cozy tunes, his teetering voice is carrying thoughts worth hearing.” – The New York Times

“brimming with inspiration and unorthodox combinations of musical ideas.” – NOW Magazine

“this man has the soul of a poet and big, genre-topping talent” – Hour Montreal

Ian Tyson October 31 at the Burt

Published by admin on July 3, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, News and Upcoming Events. 1 Comment
October 31, 2008
7:00 pmto11:00 pm

ian tysonIan Tyson will be coming to Winnipeg on Friday, October 31 and will be performing at the Burton Cummings Theatre. Doors open at 7 pm and the show starts at 8 pm.

Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster and through the Festival Music Store. There is a presale event from 10 am on Thursday July 3 to 10 pm on Friday July 4 and the password is “Tyson”. Public on-sale begins Saturday July 5 at 10 am.

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Part of the Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series.

Bedford Investments Music in the Market Concert Series

Published by admin on May 27, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, Past Events, Special Initiatives and Upcoming Events. 0 Comments
June 5, 2008
12:00 pmto1:00 pm
June 6, 2008
12:00 pmto1:00 pm
June 12, 2008
12:00 pm
June 13, 2008
12:00 pmto1:00 pm
June 19, 2008
12:00 pmto1:00 pm
June 20, 2008
12:00 pmto1:00 pm
July 3, 2008
12:00 pmto1:00 pm
July 4, 2008
12:00 pmto1:00 pm
July 10, 2008
12:00 pmto1:00 pm

 

 

 

Each year the the Winnipeg Folk Festival and the Exchange District Biz team up to bring free entertainment to Old Market Square. This year, The Bedford Investments Music in the Market Concert Series happens on both Thursdays and Fridays from June 5 to July 10, from noon to 1 pm. The last concert, with Festival performers Outlaw Social, will mark the kick-off of the 2008 Winnipeg Folk Festival! Continue reading ‘Bedford Investments Music in the Market Concert Series’

Feist October 20

Published by admin on April 9, 2008 in Concert Series, Concerts & Events, Featured Artist, News and Upcoming Events. 2 Comments
October 20, 2008
6:30 pmto11:00 pm

Feist spring 08WINNIPEG FREE PRESS PRESENTS

FEIST

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

MONDAY OCTOBER 20TH, 2008
MTS CENTRE - WINNIPEG, MB
Doors 6:30pm Show 7:30pm

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH @ 10:00AM

Ticketmaster or Charge By Phone 204-780-3333
Tickets (incl. GST) $49.50 & $39.50
(plus FMF and service charges)

**GENERAL ADMISSION AREA & RESERVED SEATING AREA**

Nine-time Juno award winner, Feist, is set to perform in Winnipeg as part of her recently announced Canadian National tour, in support of her award winning album, The Reminder.

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Ruthie Foster photos up

Published by admin on February 19, 2008 in Concert Series and Past Events. 0 Comments

Photos of the Feb. 13 Ruthie Foster show at the Garrick now in the photo gallery! Courtesy of our fabulous volunteer photography Bert Luit.

Click here to go to the Ruthie Foster gallery.

Ruthie Foster Feb. 13 08 by Bert Luit

Compadres Photos

Published by admin on February 11, 2008 in Concert Series and Past Events. 0 Comments

Compadres by David McKnight

Thanks to Festival volunteer photographer David McKnight, we’ve got pics of the Feb. 8, 2008 Compadres show, part of the Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series, at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre. Check out the Compadres photo gallery.