Folk Festival blog entry 2: Thursday, July 8, 2010
After a relatively quiet day at the Fest where the main stage didn’t start up until 6 p.m., “Folkies” were at the musical mercy of…
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Folk festival blog entry 1: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Oh Winnipeg, you and your weather. Yup, the crowd got soaked as the homegrown Wailin’ Jennys took the stage. But wail they did, in their…
Joe, don’t let your music kill you
“Stars were falling across the sky myriad and random, speeding along brief vectors from their origins to their destinies in dust and nothingness.” –Cormac McCarthy…
Untapped potential
This past Tuesday evening I witnessed a rarity — the recorder (that instrument you probably played in elementary school music class) used in a contemporary…
Chamber night
How often is it that you get to see classical music being performed without the presence of a conductor or violins? If you’re answer is…
Teenage Kicks
“I always say we sound like the Ramones,” Teenage Bottlerocket singer/guitarist Ray Carlisle says when asked to describe his band’s sound. Such a blunt answer…
Jesus Christ : the interview
Jesus Christ Superstar,” the big block letters outside the Park Theatre will soon read, heralding two back-to-back dates of music and fun for the secular…
Essentially a Playlist : “Tony Danza in the bathroom”
The recent brouhaha over changing lyrics to our national anthem (personally, I like Gail Asper’s suggestion of “in all of us command” over “thou dost”)…
CD Review : Champion, “Resistance”
It was only two years ago that Montreal-based DJ Champion (Maxime Morin) became a household name across the country with his hit single, “No Heaven.”…
In search of Mr. Chi Pig
Since the early 1980s, SNFU front man and Canadian punk rock pioneer Mr. Chi Pig has been delivering high-energy performances to crowds the world over….