Winnipeg Folk Festival
Winnipeg Folk Festival - Birds Hill Park, Hwy #59, R3J 3W3 Winnipeg Directions
Sat 11.07.2026 10:00
Performers
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Of Monsters and MenArny Margret has spent the last year making waves, not only in her Icelandic hometown but across Europe and the US, touring extensively, supporting Leif Vollebekk, Passenger, Blake Mills and more, as well as playing the likes of Newport Folk Festival, Reykjavik Calling and Iceland Airwaves. She’s now released her gorgeous sophomore album, ‘I Miss You, I Do’ on One Little Independent Records.
Musically she draws inspiration from folk and blues roots, utilizing a less-is-more approach to convey openness, choosing to rely mostly on the delicate strumming of acoustics and her dulcet voice. She cites influences from the likes of Andy Shauf, Phoebe Bridgers, Bon Iver, and Gregory Alan Isakov. Born and raised in a small town called Ísafjörður, she attended music school from the age of 6 learning to play the piano and gradually taught herself guitar. She recorded the album at studio Hljóðriti in Hafnarfjörður and will continue to make her mark globally with her intimate and affecting live performances. -
Father John MistyMahashmashana, produced by Josh Tillman and Drew Erickson. Executive produced by Jonathan Wilson. Out Friday, November 22nd, 2024 worldwide from Sub Pop and in the UK and Europe from Bella Union. Mahashmashana features 8 songs across 50 minutes and includes the singles “I Guess Time Makes Fools of Us All,” “She Cleans Up,” “Screamland,” and “Josh Tillman and The Accidental Dose.” “Screamland” was produced by Josh Tillman and Drew Erickson, additionally produced and mixed by BJ Burton, and features Alan Sparhawk on guitar. Mahāśmaśāna (महामशान)— great cremation ground, all things put going thither. https://www.fatherjohnmisty.com/
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Lucy DacusForever Is A Feeling out now: lucydacus.lnk.to/foreverisafeeling
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Stephen Wilson Jr.
https://lnk.bio/stephenwilsonjr
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Sylvan EssoSylvan Esso is a synth pop duo hailing from Durham, North Carolina, USA. Though both members play in every different sounding bands as their day jobs, the duo formed in 2013 and released a highly acclaimed debut studio album in 2014.
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Jesse WellesJesse Welles, from garage-rock frontman to one of today’s most urgent folk voices.
With lyrics both topical and timeless, Jesse captures the grit and soul of American protest music.
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Angine de Poitrinehttps://youtu.be/2lUC8Gimxz8
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Kathleen Edwards
If you ask Kathleen Edwards, the best thing she ever did was quit. By 2014, the singer-songwriter had released four studio albums and amassed widespread critical acclaim. She had been touring since the release of her 2012 album Voyageur, and the prospect of returning home--only to start writing another album, felt impossibly daunting. She put her guitar away and opened a coffee shop aptly named "Quitters" in Stittsville, Ontario. “I had no desire to write, no desire to play. Quitters gave me such a clean break, I worked my ass off building a shop, I didn't have to be 'just a singer' anymore.”
But in 2018, Maren Morris invited her to Nashville for a songwriting session. Their collaboration, “Good Woman,” wound up on Morris’ album, GIRL. “It reminded me that writing and creating music is entirely my wheelhouse,” she says. “Funny enough, the third writer in the room was Ian Fitchuk, and [we] ended up starting the process of producing a record.”
Edwards made her long-anticipated return with Total Freedom, her fifth studio album out August 14 via Dualtone Records. Recorded in Canada and Nashville with longtime collaborator Jim Bryson and Grammy-winning producer Fitchuk, Total Free -
GoatWith an unfettered sound influenced by everything from Afro-beat to Anatolian funk, Goat are an experimental psychedelic rock band based out of Gothenburg, Sweden. The band have received acclaim for their explosive, energetic performances, during which they don elaborate masks and costumes, as well as their more structured full-length recordings, including the aptly named 2012 debut World Music and the lush, acoustic-based Requiem (2016).
Not much is known about the mysterious masked band, though an apocryphal back-story claims they are just one of many incarnations over the last 30 years of a group from a small, voodoo-worshiping northern town named Korpilombolo. Goat's sound is a fusion of world music influences, as they create a timelessly psychedelic sound that doesn't feel anchored to any single time or place. In 2012, the band released its first album, World Music, though Rocket Records , followed quickly by a live album, Live Ballroom Ritual, the following year. Teaming up with Sub Pop Records , the Swedish psych outfit returned with the exploratory and motorik Commune in the fall of 2014. After releasing the "It's Time for Fun" and "I Sing in Silence" singles in late 2015 and early 2016, respectively, the mysterious group returned in September of 2016 with its third record, the more acoustic and subdued Requiem. Fuzzed in Europe, a collection of live recordings, appeared in 2017, and the band's soundtrack to horror film Double Date was released for Record Store Day in 2018. Also that year, the band released the single "Let It Burn," written for the short film Killing Gävle. ~ Gregory Heaney, Rovi
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Billy Bragg
The Big Nosed Bard from Barking
The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023
https://bbragg.lnk.to/theroaringforty
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Black Country, New Road
https://linktr.ee/bcnr
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Real EstateReal Estate, formed in 2009, is an American Indie Rock band that originates from New Jersey. The band is currently signed to London independent label, Domino Records.
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The Barr BrothersBrothers Andrew and Brad Barr had spent most of the 90s criss-crossing North America, playing music with their spirited, improv-based rock trio, The Slip. In the spring of 2004, the band was playing a small club in Montreal, QC when a fire broke out in the venue. They grabbed a few guitars/drums and rushed out onto the rainy street with the rest of the concert goers. As the club's mezzanine was swallowed by flames, Andrew offered his coat to one of the waitresses from the bar. One year later, Brad and Andrew Barr were living in Montreal. That waitress is now one of their managers.
In his first apartment in the new city, Brad shared an adjoining wall with Sarah Page, a classically trained harpist from Montreal, whose melodies would seep through the cracks of the wall and into the music Brad was writing. From this nebulous relationship, a friendship developed and the brothers, with Sarah, began recording and performing around Montreal. Soon, their friend and multi-instrumentalist Andres Vial was brought in to lend his wide array of expertise to the outfit, playing keyboards, bass, vibes, percussion, and singing. They called themselves The Barr Brothers.
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Alex Amen
US-based music group.
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Bells Larsen
Bells Larsen is a Montreal-based singer-songwriter whose music weaves together cathartic lyrics and memorable melodies. Drawing influence from Adrianne Lenker and Elliott Smith, Larsen seeks to distil the personal within the universal. Shortly before the pandemic, Larsen began to conceptualise the makings for a record: struck by and still healing from the death of his first love, Larsen wanted to tell thoughtful stories and ask big questions about the experience of loss in its many guises. The result is his 2022 debut album, “Good Grief”, which bridges the gaps between I, you, and we to narrate an intentional meditation on what it means to grapple with loss in the twenty-first century. Larsen has played many festivals across Canada—including School Night, Toronto Jazz Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, and Pop Montreal—and looks forward to showcasing his music internationally in 2023. Larsen is currently working on his second record, which documents his gender transition through the synthesis of his pre and post testosterone (higher/feminine and lower/masculine) vocals.
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Brighde Chaimbeul
Winner of the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award and youngest ever winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, Scotland’s Brighde Chaimbeul has established herself among the leading experimental purveyors of celtic music.
A native gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye her style is rooted in her native language and culture but takes inspiration from a variety of global forms.
Brighde plays the Scottish smallpipes, a bellows-powered set of bagpipes with a double-note drone. She has devised a completely unique way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere. In 2021 Brighde performed on the smallpipes to world leaders and listeners across the globe, as the musician of the opening ceremony of COP 26.
Her 2019 debut album, The Reeling, won her major media plaudits and five-star reviews for its fresh reading of traditional gaelic tunes and outward looking assimilation of influences, played with and enticing virtuosic liquidity.
"Unique, exciting and forward-looking” The Quietus
”Unforgettable deep atmosphere” The Guardian
“The whole album is exciting, unique and gorgeous” Songlines -
Cat ClydeNew album Down Rounder is out now
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Hannah Cohen
Hannah Cohen is a musician based in New York.
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Illiterate Light
Arches
https://linktr.ee/IlliterateLight
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Jobi Riccio
Born and raised in Morrison, Colorado - a tourist town in the foothills outside of Denver that’s home to Red Rocks Amphitheater - Jobi Riccio grew up surrounded by music and found inspiration in artists ranging from Sheryl Crow to Joni Mitchell. Sonically, Jobi’s music exists between worlds, melding the classic craftsmanship of her songwriting with modern indie-leaning production to forge a lush, expansive sound that feels traditional and experimental all at once. She has received acclaim for her songwriting, including winning the 2019 NewSong Music Competition, performing at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, receiving the 2019 Lee Villiare Scholarship from her alma mater Berklee College of Music, and being named a finalist in the 2018 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriters Showcase. In 2023 Jobi was awarded the Newport Folk Festival John Prine Fellowship.
Her debut album, "Whiplash" (out September 2023 on Yep Roc) introduces influences from a variety of genres, while still holding space for Riccio's love for all decades of country and americana music.
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Katie Tupper
Katie Tupper official music page
Contacts:
Management: bled@arts-crafts.ca
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Ken PomeroyKen Pomeroy will break your heart. She’ll do it with a single line––sometimes, just one word. The pain begins as an empathetic ache. Then, as Pomeroy sings her stories, you begin to see yourself in her hurt and hope. And you realize: We’re in this together.
Pomeroy’s outstretched hand to the wounded manifests as startlingly good songs. Her soprano is comforting––almost sweet––but perhaps most powerful delivering a devastating line. A deft guitarist, she opts for beds of rootsy strings that can soothe or haunt. But it’s her writing that really shines and stings. “Writing was and is the only way I can fully express an emotion and feel like I got it out,” she says. “I feel like once I get it out into a song, I don’t have to worry about it anymore. If it’s a traumatic thing that happened, I kind of act as if it’s gone.”
Pomeroy creates a wild but safe space of her own––a space that, like 22-year-old Pomeroy herself, is brutally honest, proudly Native American, and undeniably brilliant.
People have noticed. Pomeroy’s “Wall of Death” made its way onto the Twisters soundtrack, while Hulu’s Reservation Dogs featured her soul-mining gem, “Cicadas.” Tour dates with Lukas Nelson, Iron &
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Olive Klug
helping people feel more connected to each other and to their deeper selves through songs :)
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pairsPowered by soaring sibling harmonies, quirky attitudes, and a desire to uplift and unite.
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Ribbon Skirt
Ribbon Skirt is a post-punk/art rock band from Montreal, Quebec (FKA Love Language). Fronted by Anishinaabe singer Tashiina Buswa, the band has performed at major festivals across North America, including Sled Island, Sappyfest, SXSW, New Colossus, and Pop Montreal, sharing the stage with acts like Dehd, Ombiigizi, Marnie Stern, and Enumclaw. Ribbon Skirt is currently finalizing their debut album, set for release in 2025, produced by Scott Munro (Preoccupations). The album, mixed by Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), marks a shift towards a darker, more introspective sound, exploring themes of memory, grief, and Buswa’s connection to her Indigenous identity.
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Snacktime
SNACKTIME is Philadelphia’s already beloved seven-piece band with soul, funk, punk, hip hop and rock influences. Created in Summer 2020, the group began performing free shows in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square that quickly attracted huge crowds. This progressed to sold-out headlining shows, support for national touring artists, and slots at major music festivals. SNACKTIME has remained on the road throughout 2024, including their largest headlining shows to date and multiple U.S. tours supporting Portugal. The Man.
SNACKTIME recently released their debut studio EP THIS IS DANCE MUSIC, recorded and produced by GRAMMY-nominated Will Yip (Scowl, Turnstile, Bartees Strange).
In describing the band's sound, Paste Magazine says, “combining their influences, which range from jazz to rap to rock to punk and R&B, SNACKTIME are one of the most original ensembles out there right now.”
Starting January 3, 2025 and continuing throughout the NFL Playoffs, SNACKTIME are the live band for the NFL Films produced show “They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce” airing on ESPN.
