Arts
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Soca Reggae Festival
On a weekend when many reggae and world music fans are in Birds Hill Park, organizers have managed to fill Old Market Square for the past eight years, and attracted such big names as Junior Kelly and this year's headliner, Jamaican reggae legend Freddie McGregor.
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Gratus Fest
This July, hypno-folk duo TWIN will release North Americana, a record that’s inspired by the project’s canoe tours, and serves as the follow-up to 2012’s Sharing Secrets with Strangers.
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Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
During the Winnipeg Fringe, you will find two types of guardian angels around the festival.
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The Gimli Film Festival
Established in 2001, the Gimli Film Festival is returning for another year and is set to screen over 100 features, documentaries and shorts from Manitoba and across the globe.
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Brandon Folk Festival
Do you love good music and music festivals but not the crowds? Then hit the Trans-Canada and catch the Brandon Folk, Music, and Art Festival July 25-27.
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Folklorama
As Manitoba’s centennial was approaching, a wide variety of ideas were thought of to celebrate it. One particular idea has evolved into a staple of Manitoba’s summer festivals.
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Empire strikes back
The origin story of local jazz fusion group, Sapphire Empire, is so delightfully serendipitous that the main dames behind the project can't help but laugh through the telling of it.
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Hot dreams, cool treats
Ontario blues-folk project Timber Timbre decided to get a little less dark with Hot Dreams, its fifth full-length record and follow up to 2011’s JUNO nominated Creep on Creepin’ On.
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Singing without pause
Marco Castillo's music is as warm and inviting as his personality.
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Slow Dancers
It's fitting that each song on this record would fit nicely next to Greg Macpherson's "Remote Control" (or any of the singer/songwriter's mellower material) as this Winnipeg trio's debut full length comes out on his Disintegration Records label.
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Raine Hamilton
This new EP from one of Winnipeg's youngest folk vets, Raine Hamilton (Claire Morrison, Red Moon Road), serves up a healthy meal in just three tracks.
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Viet Cong
Ex-Women members Matt Flegel and Michael Wallace team up with Calgary compadres Scott Munro (Lab Coast) and Danny Christiansen (Sharp Ends) to deliver another lo-fi masterpiece in the form of a seven song cassette EP.
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Hearing Trees
There's a lot of diversity in Hearing Trees' simplicity - you could easily slot the local quartet's sounds onto rock radio, into a dark club, onto your favourite indie blog, or in the background of the scene where the teen lovers kiss from the first time - but it's focused.
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Sing-along-films
Whether or not Kanye West and Bret Easton Ellis are making a Yeezus film, we're anxious to get more bands making movies in the vein of The Beatles in A Hard Days Night, The Monkees in Head, Run-D.M.C. in Tougher Than Leather, The Clash and The Pogues in Straight to Hell and The Ramones in Rock n Roll High School.
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Teenage
Is everyone else sick of teenage romanticism, or is it just me? For decades, the parlance of teen films has been a deadly serious tone suggesting that everything that is happening to us right now is very important.
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Of Truth and Magic
While doing some research on Of Truth and Magic, the new short film by Winnipeg director/puppeteer/musician Curtis L. Wiebe, I came across the following quote from Julian Barnes: “…love is the meeting point of truth and magic.
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Cats of the Avant-Garde and other works
A word like “underground” can mean a lot of different things to different people.
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You’ll get served
Alexandra Elliott is a three-year veteran of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, and this summer she'll be injecting a healthy dose of contemporary dance to the local and the Toronto festivals.
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In this corner
As an annual fundraiser for Winnipeg’s Cinematheque theatre, Bands vs Filmmakers is quickly becoming an important tradition in our city’s arts scene.
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Mr. Harper, are you listening?
Winnipeg art-pop band Dust Adam Dust is hoping to capture Ottawa’s attention with Dear Harper, a video message project which welcomes people to tell the Prime Minister how they really feel.