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Bring on the music
Drumroll, please … our annual New Music Issue is finally here!
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Uniter Fiver 2019
Welcome to this year’s Uniter Fiver!
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WINNER: Like ”sitting in the shower”
Bassist Alex Braun and guitarist Nick Lavich played in a band together in high school. That band was called Cataract.
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Keeping it close
House Handshake is a band that believes in togetherness. Most of them share a home as well as a musical journey.
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Falling into place
Coming of age provides a deep well of emotion from which to draw artistic inspiration. According to Dinner Club, their hard-hitting, driven punk songs feature a touch of it all.
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Everything old is new again
Mister K a.k.a Kevin Roy is looking to the past to bring something new to pop music.
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Keeping it fun
Baseball Hero is a relatively new band to Winnipeg, but their laid-back, honest approach to songwriting has brought them quickly into the spotlight.
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Whose House? The Peters’ House!
Vanessa and JP Peters have helped some of Winnipeg’s most exciting musical projects to sound their best as co-proprietors of Private Ear Recording.
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Arts briefs
Black History Month on campus // Free music workshops for North End youth // La Poutine Week // Canadian International Comedy Film Festival // Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia at UWinnipeg
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CRITIPEG: WNMF 3: Orchestral Voice of the Future
The Winnipeg New Music Festival Composer’s Institute (WNMFCI) invests the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s (WSO) collaborative capital into the careers of a lucky handful of sonic storytellers.
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Changing a community
Stages are elevated spaces, spaces of heightened visibility.
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Jamboree - Island Life
Jamboree starts their five-track EP Island Life off with sparkling synthesizer sounds and crystal-clear rhodes tones.
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No Gods, No Masters, No More Musical Revivals
My name is Frances Koncan, and I hate musical theatre.
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News briefs
Love Positive Women card making // Peg City Climate Jam // Rohingya crisis panel discussion and film screening // RE-FORM // From ancient Greece to the classroom
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Musician seeking band
Some musicians join bands in high school and stay together for decades, but Brett Keating and Joshua Neufeld are among the many who are currently looking to Kijiji and Bandmix.ca to find their future music partners.
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A community with a sour(dough) heart
Eadha Bread will host a Valentine’s Sourdough for Queers workshop on Feb. 14.
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Life as a student musician
Post-secondary education can be stressful and take up a lot of time. Balancing the responsibilities of school and music can be challenging, but for Brett Ticzon, it was all about prioritizing.
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Graduating from high school band
For many high school students, playing an instrument ends once they graduate.
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Solidarity in solitude
In Winnipeg, we wear our winters as a badge of honour.
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Much ado about queer theory
Strange; odd; peculiar; eccentric. These are the 16th century connotations of the word “queer.”
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Confounders
A puzzle by Justin Ladia.
University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper
