Posted by Brian Schultz
An African-inspired musical and dance performance from Montreal is coming to Winnipeg for three performances this weekend.
Productions Kalabanté is bringing their show Kô Ryass to the West End Cultural Centre. They describe it as a performance “meant to inspire awe, curiosity and inner strength.” The show will also bring aerial silks, traditional [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland

Singer-songwriter and comedian Weird Al Yankovic is set to bring his musical antics to Winnipeg this summer.
Al announced a list of new tour dates on his Twitter page Monday, which includes the MTS Centre on Thursday, August 5 and Regina on the 6th.
Ticket information wasn’t released.

Posted by Brian Schultz

The lineup for the 37th annual Winnipeg Folk Festival was revealed this weekend and includes a fair share of local Manitoba talent. Juno nominee Romi Mayes, singer/songwriter Greg MacPherson, The Wailin Jenny’s, Grammy and Juno nominee The Duhks, Del Barber, and Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson are just some of the local [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein
A benefit concert to help support local youth in Winnipeg will take place tonight at 7 p.m.
“Help Youth” is a fundraiser put on by The Winnipeg Foundation and will include bands from high schools across the city. St. John’s High School, Kelvin High School, Transcona Collegiate and Oak Park High School will [...]

Canadian R&B singer Deborah Cox will be this year’s headlining talent at the Pride Festival on June 6 at The Forks.
Cox’s 1998 song “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here” held the record for the longest-running number one single on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles list for 14 weeks.
“This is a big year for us — the Pride [...]

Freeze Frame 2010 is holding an “Acting for Animators” workshop on Wednesday with animator Marieke Von Middlekoop.
The evening session will focus on the differences between stage acting and acting for animators. The connections between thought, emotion, action, scene construction, characters and story telling will also be examined.
The workshop runs from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland
The 6th annual Gas Station Arts Centre fundraiser is back for another year. Girls!Girls!Girls! (G!G!G!) 6: Rapture is a cabaret-style show featuring, well, many, many girls.
G!G!G! will showcase the talented women of Winnipeg in an artistic and creative environment on Sunday, March 14.
Broken down into two parts, the first part will focus [...]

Your chance to win two tickets to Queen — It’s a Kinda Magic at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre is almost over.
The tribute show on Wednesday, March 10 is guaranteed to be stellar for any Queen fan out there.
Enter here before midnight tonight. The winner will be contacted by e-mail tomorrow.
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Posted by Brian Schultz

English heavy metal band Iron Maiden is set to play at MTS Centre on Wednesday, June 30.
The band last played in Winnipeg in June 2008 to a packed show of some of their most loyal fans.
Tickets range in price from $45.50 to $79.50 and go on sale at Ticketmaster Saturday, March 13 [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland
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Juno award nominated Canadian rock band Faber Drive will perform at The Garrick Centre on Saturday, May 15.
Tickets are going on sale Friday morning [...]

Posted by David Klassen
A Manitoba-produced film has been nominated by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for the 30th Annual Genie Awards. “Runway” was acknowledged in the Best Animated Short category, and features a “driverless train in which happy passengers are having a great time, oblivious to the fate that awaits them around [...]

Posted by David Klassen

A new dance production at the Gas Station Theatre will mix it up with three different movements: a brand new, as-of-yet-unnamed piece, as well as a “revisioning” of Kipepeo (or Butterflies) and Human Creation. Make sense?
It’s all part of a promising production called Seduction of Hope and will feature the largest and [...]