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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A radio station in Buffalo, New York refused to play Canadian music Monday in response to Team Canada’s gold medal hockey win over the U.S. Sunday.
103.3 The Edge announced its plans on their website prior to canning Canadian content. American listeners joined in on the fun, by encouraging the station to continue [...]

Forget going out for dinner with your sweetheart and having a traditional Valentine’s Day. Local burlesque performers are putting on “The Valentine’s Day Burlesque Show: Stories of Love, Lust & Revenge.”
The show takes place on February 14 at the Academy, 437 Stradbrook Avenue. The group Moonlight Madness is behind the event, and will feature retro [...]

The summer music festival known as Lilith Fair hasn’t taken place in over 10 years, but that will soon change, as a group of female artists kick off their 2010 tour.
Originally making its run from 1997-1999 and co-founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Lilith Fair raised over $10-million for women’s charities throughout North America.
McLachlan will [...]

Former Winnipegger Burton Cummings will soon be an official American citizen.
The singer, 62, passed his U.S. citizenship test earlier today in California, where he received top marks for his knowledge of the country.
Cummings said on his blog he will be sworn in towards the middle of March.
As for what he plans to do first as [...]

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The Weather Network has launched a campaign asking for input on what their new local forecast theme music should be.
You may think the music played while watching the weather is minuscule and doesn’t matter. Tell that to the dozens of YouTube video tributes to TWN’s looped instrumental beds.
There are five easy listening [...]

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Slap on the greasiest hair gel you have, apply bronzer to your already fake-looking tan and get your fist pumping like a champ … DJ Pauly D from the hit MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” is coming to Winnipeg.
The self-described “Guido” — which to anybody not living in New Jersey is the [...]

You’ve been hearing snippets of the song in every TV commercial for Manitoba Homecoming 2010 for months now. We’re referring to “Good Year” by Winnipeg pop/rock duo Keith and Renée.
The tune was selected as the official theme song Monday, alongside Bachman Turner Overdrive’s “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.”
“It’s really cool. It’s definitely an honour. Considering [...]

A filmmaker in Tennessee rounded up some buddies and spent 7 hours to make this musical masterpiece below. The techno-like song was composed entirely of sounds made from an older model Jeep.
It gets really good at the 1:00 mark.
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It hasn’t been 2010 for long, and already there’s good news for music fans everywhere.
Just as the clock struck midnight on Friday, Chris Cornell posted on his Twitter that his band Soundgarden would be getting back together. “The 12 year break is over & school is back in session,” Cornell wrote.
The band [...]

The list of Billboard’s top 25 songs of 2009 was recently released and a U.S. DJ has mashed them all into a single piece of video called “Blame it on the Pop.”
DJ Earworm makes the annual compilation on YouTube, which have garnished millions of hits since he first began.
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