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Many musicians live by the common two-year-long, write-record-release-tour album cycle. Every two years, they release a new record, tour, and then start the process over again. By the time Winnipeg ei...
about 5 years ago
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A week before Christmas, I found out it is harder to get an interview with Santa Claus than it was to get pop star Shawn Mendes on the phone. After being passed off from person to person, including on...
about 5 years ago
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Any music-loving Winnipegger has a lot to thank Kevin Donnelly for. As the senior vice-president of venues and entertainment for True North Sports and Entertainment, Donnelly works behind the scenes t...
almost 5 years ago
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It can be tough to churn up the motivation to get out of the house in January. It’s cold, it’s dark and the post-holiday blues and fatigue make binge-watching a series on Netflix preferabl...
almost 5 years ago
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Many studies have been done in recent years that point to musicians as being particularly vulnerable to depression and other forms of mental illness. Upwards of 70 per cent of the thousands of artists...
almost 5 years ago
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The members of Winnipeg indie band Royal Canoe are no strangers to working with experimental sounds, but figuring out how to create instruments from ice and make music with them is unlike anything the...
almost 5 years ago
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For our interview about his sophomore release, Reliever, roots singer-songwriter William Prince requested we meet at The Nook, the same Sherbrook Street diner where we had our first sit-down interview...
almost 5 years ago
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It seems unlikely anyone who took in the cultural phenomena of Riverdance or Lord of the Dance thought to themselves, “You know what this needs? Magic.” Anthony Street, creator, producer a...
almost 5 years ago
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Last week, as the first round of major festival, tour and concert cancellations and postponements started rolling in, it felt a bit like the day the (live) music died. But now, just a few days l...
almost 5 years ago
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When Kenny Shields died in July 2017, the inaugural edition of the Winnipeg Classic RockFest at Shaw Park a month later quickly morphed into a tribute to the late Streetheart frontman. Musicians from...
over 4 years ago
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A long while ago, so many years now I can’t remember exactly when, I discovered I have a name doppelgänger. There is another Erin Lebar — well, an Erin LeBar — whose email addre...
over 3 years ago