Another year, another festival.
Over the years, the Winnipeg Folk Festival has become a point of confluence for the people in my circles. Despite life having taken us in so many directions – detours rooting from children, careers, and the plethora of other catalysts for change – we always come back together for this one weekend every year. We return not just the location, but a safe place for expression, creativity, and being. With all that’s going on in the world, cultivating…
The power of a musical album that succeeds at evoking something deep within is a beautiful thing, yet a raw live performance has a living power to it that can’t be recorded. A show is not a one way thing, but rather a lively conversation between an artist and a crowd that has potential to go in beautifully unpredictable directions. Even on stage, fellow musicians listen, speak, and encourage each other with subtle glances, smiles, and intimacy that can only come through…
Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls are back on this side of the pond and, with over 250 live shows under their belt last year alone, they are racking up their show count night-by-night in city-by-city. Their Winnipeg performance at the Garrick Centre marked show #1481. Folk-punk pub-singalong would be the genre, and while he has been popular over in England for a while, the number of people singing along to his poetic lyrics over here is getting mighty impressive…