Upcoming Events

The Hatcher/Briggs Band and Ken Pinchin and The Mid-Century Modernaires

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Pop Soda's

Description: An evening of acoustic music featuring

The Hatcher/Briggs Band

and

Ken Pinchin and The Mid-Century Modernaires

Tickets are $8 in advance (available at Tara Davis Studio Boutique - 246 McDermot Ave-cash only)
or
$10 at the door

Skydiggers

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: West End Cultural Centre

Garnet Rogers

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: WECC

Old Man Luedecke & Del Barber

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Park Theatre

Sweet Alibi w/ The Strumbellas

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Park Theatre

Bands v. Filmmakers II

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: West End Cultural Centre

Two Hours Traffic w/Zeus & The Darcys

Time: 10:00 pm

Location: Lo Pub

CKUW Bluesday's Rockin' Ronnie fundraiser

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: The Pyramid & Times Change(d)

Description: Featuring The Perpetrators. The Detonators, Rambling Dan Frechette, Tim Butler, Claire Bestland & D.B. & The Blue Rocks.... Because heart attacks are expensive! Cover $10.00 50/50 draw

This is actually a joint venture, with the fundraiser going on at both The Pyramid and Times Change(d). Come and contribute at either venue!!

Deer Tick

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: West End Cultural Centre

Description: Tuesday, June 5, 2012
West End Cultural Centre
Doors at 7:15 PM, show at 8:00 PM
Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 21 at 10:00 AM
$22.50 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store and through Ticketmaster

Divine Providence was designed to capture the raw, fast energy Deer Tick brings to the barroom stages on which they play. So much so that, as described on the band’s website, “you can practically smell the sweat and beer" when you listen to the record.

This is an album unlike one you’ve ever heard from the band before, as they’ve departed from their folk-country sound that has garnered so many accolades from critics. They recruited Adam Landry and Justin Collins to produce the 12 tracks that feature driving, distorted guitars and punk-rock vocals. Guitarist Ian O’Neil and drummer Dennis Ryan step up to the microphone and take lead vocal duties for the first time on this record. It’s typically been singer John McCauley who has written Deer Tick’s songs but, for the first time, all members dipped their pen in ink to write this record.

Divine Providence may shake-up what you thought about Deer Tick previously, but who wants to hear the same record four times in a row? Give their single "Main Street" a listen by clicking here.

The Blind Boys of Alabama with Over the Rhine

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Pantages Playhouse Theatre

Description: Thursday, June 7, 2012
Pantages Playhouse Theatre
Doors at 7:15 PM, show 8:00 PM
Tickets are $39.50 in advance

We’re offering an exclusive pre-sale for e-newsletter subscribers through Ticketmaster. The pre-sale will be happening on Friday, April 20 from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. Click here between those times and enter the password rejoice.

Much in the world has changed since the original version of the Blind Boys of Alabama first raised their voices together. That was in 1939, when the members were just kids at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in Talladega, Ala. Today, more than 70 years later, founding member Jimmy Carter can look back on a career far beyond what he and his colleagues could imagine at that time. The group has won Lifetime Achievement honors from the Grammys, has sung for two Presidents at the White House and was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Yet throughout this long adventure, they kept one secret to themselves.

"All my life, I've loved country music," confesses Carter. "I was raised up around it. Back in the 1940s, I remember listening to Hank Williams and so many others. Their voices were great. The writers were great. And every song had a meaning.”

The group has recorded and performed with a few country artists, but they never crossed the line and committed to the country genre until now. Take The High Road is a landmark recording that draws from modern and traditional country to enrich the group's gospel-rooted sound with fresh and illuminating insight. Check out their video for "Take The High Road" here.

Opening for the Blind Boys of Alabama will be the Ohio-based husband-and-wife team of multi-instrumentalists Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist – Over the Rhine. Their latest studio album The Long Surrender is something rare and wondrous – an intimate epic. Shot through with the joys and sorrows of modern day existence, the album has the feel of a living thing with senses alert and feet planted firmly on ground. Click here to hear "Infamous Love Song" – it might be the best six minutes and three seconds of your day.

Wintersleep

Time: 10:00 pm

Location: Pyramid

Devon Sproule with Thom Gill

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Aqua Books

THE WEBER BROTHERS

Time: 9:00 pm

Location: King's Head Pub

LARRY AND HIS FLASK with THE SCHOMBERG FAIR

Time: 10:00 pm

Location: The Pyramid

THE HOLD STEADY with GREG MACPHERSON

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Walker Theatre

THE WEBER BROTHERS

Time: 9:00 pm

Location: King's Head Pub

Mike Plume

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Park Theatre

TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Walker Theatre

IMAGINARY CITIES with YOUNG EMPIRES

Time: 10:00 pm

Location: The Pyramid

Red Moon Road

Time: 9:00 pm

Location: King's Head Pub

Ramblin' Dan Frechette

Time: 9:00 pm

Location: Le Garage

BOOKER T. JONES with BRENT PARKIN

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Walker Theatre

Sweet Alibi

Time: 9:00 pm

Location: King's Head Pub

Dauphin Countryfest

Time: 12:00 am

Location: Dauphin

Winnipeg Folk Festival

Time: 12:00 am