Before winter fully settles over the city and forces us inside for the next four months, Crankie Festival organizer Leonard Podolak wants to bring Winnipeggers together for a final hurrah. “We’re getting ready for winter,...

On Nov. 2, the Manitoba Museum’s planetarium will come alive in celebration of the dead. The Mariachi Ghost, who have spent a decade threading traditional Mexican music with experimental performance, will overtake the venue to...

As the musical monoculture continues to swallow every genre and subculture in its maw, it can feel exhausting — and increasingly pointless — to try and trace an artist’s precise influences. However, every now and...

Besides heartache and whiskey, one of the tent poles of classic country and folk music is a sense of humour. There’s often a playfulness to these stories of lost love and lonely travels, a winking...