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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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 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