Winnipeg Folk Festival 2026 @ Bird's Hill Provincial Park

Performers

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  Of Monsters and Men

  Arny 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.
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  Ken Pomeroy

  Ken 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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  Adam Baldwin
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  Gwenifer Raymond

  Guitar convincer. Banjo thumber. American Primitive musician.

  EU/UK bookings: andrew@phantom-limb.co.uk

  All other bookings: agents@thekurlandagency.com

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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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  Amos the Kid

  Amos the Kid’s debut LP, Enough as it Was, marks the rise of Winnipeg’s Amos Nadlersmith from reclusive songwriter to hometown hero. After years of diamond-in-the-rough opening sets, he’s now packing out venues and was praised by Exclaim! as releasing one of 2023's "greatest Canadian albums you might have missed." Produced by Adam Fuhr (Yes We Mystic, Virgo Rising) the album blends country and indie rock with grunge undertones, and was released on Winnipeg's House of Wonders Records before its re-release by Grand Hotel Van Cleef in Europe earlier this year.

• Joce Reyome