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 Brian Schultz

Tickets for the 37th Winnipeg Folk Festival go on sale today at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. The festival will once again be five days, opening with a “marquee” act on Wednesday, July 7 and running through Sunday, July 11 at Birds Hill Park.
The annual event is introducing an audience cap this year [...]

Posted by David Klassen
In anticipation for the Olympics in under a week from now, the Winnipeg Folk Festival is hosting the Winnipeg tour stop of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad Tour: An evening with Spring Breakup and John Wort Hannam.
Spring Breakup is comprised of Yukon singer-songwriter Kim Barlow and Mathias Kom, singer and songwriter for [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein

Canadian indie pop group Tegan and Sara will take part in an in-store meet and greet and performance on Friday.
The ladies will be at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store at 211 Bannatyne Avenue at 1 p.m.
The only way in is to win your tickets. Head over to the music store and [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz

The Winnipeg Folk Festival will showcase an expanded five-day format next summer after 2009 saw its highest attendance ever.
Elvis Costello’s appearance last July is being contributed to the festival’s overwhelming turnout, which promises to kickoff with another ‘marquee’ act on Wednesday, July 7, 2010.
The festival will run until July 11 at Birds [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz

Two favourites from the Winnipeg Folk Festival’s signature summer event are making a return to the city.
Chicago singer songwriter Joe Pug will be performing at the Park Theatre on January 23 at  8 p.m. The 23-year-old has earned the honour of being compared to such greats as the young Bob Dylan. Tickets [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz

Local musician Del Barber will play a live show this Friday, October 23 at The Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue.
Barber’s newest album, “Where the City Ends,” was a long time coming release and took years to finally put together. Since its debut in April, the album has been receiving airplay on radio [...]

This year’s Winnipeg Folk Festival Concert Series will see blues man Harry Manx bring his unique sound to the West End Cultural Centre on Tuesday, October 27.
Manx plays lap steel, banjo, harmonica, and his custom-made Mohan veena — a 20-stringed combination sitar guitar — to create musical short stories informed by blues tradition and [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz
The Winnipeg Folk Festival may attract some odd, yet friendly looking characters, but aliens? That’s what one festival-goer is reporting on Chris Rutkowski’s UFO Report website.
A UFO was apparently spotted on Saturday, July 11 above the campground. It was circular in shape with 5 or 6 “wing like structures.”
The object flew south [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein

The 36th annual Winnipeg Folk Festival will come to an end for another year later today.
Attendance records are expected to be broken, as the usual four day event bringing in about 62,000 people was extended to five days this year.
The festival kicked off on Wednesday with the legendary Elvis Costello taking the [...]

The 36th annual Winnipeg Folk Festival revealed some of its 2009 lineup over the weekend, with k.d. lang (she doesn’t capitalize her name) as the headliner. Other performers include Xavier Rudd, Neko Case, Iron & Wine, Watermelon Slim and Hayes Carll to name a few.
The summer festival at Birds Hill Park, which runs from July [...]

Over 10,000 people poured through the gates of Birds Hill Park Thursday night as the 35th annual Folk Festival kicked off. I drove by around 7:30 p.m. heading towards Selkirk and the lineup of cars was almost backed up to Highway 59.
The weather doesn’t look too bad this weekend, so if you get the chance [...]