Todd Snider :: Agnostic stoner folkie takes to the Folk Fest stage
by Sheldon Birnie Todd Snider is an American stoner-folk-songwriting troubadour in every sense of the terms. For the past 20...
The Beauties are a bunch of beauties
by Sheldon Birnie The Beauties are a rock n roll band out of Toronto. Every Sunday night, they tear the...
Hillbilly Highway – Todd Snider is a beauty
by Sheldon Birnie Todd Snider is an American folk singer with a keen eye for quirky detail and a sense...
Hillbilly Highway – Checking in to New Country Rehab
by Sheldon Birnie If you missed New Country Rehab at last year’s Winnipeg Folk Fest, now’s your chance to make...
Eyes On the 38th Annual Winnipeg Folk Festival
The Monday after Folk Fest always feels strange. Maybe it has something to do with the confinement of clothing.. or...
M. digs SST?!: Winnipeg Folk Festival Day 2
[caption id="attachment_2027" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="M. Ward photo by Taylor Burgess"][/caption] A handful of songs into M. Ward's surprisingly electric set,...
Getting Folked: Winnipeg Folk Festival Day 1
[caption id="attachment_2009" align="alignnone" width="540" caption="Jayhawks photo by Taylor Burgess"][/caption] Heading to the Winnipeg Folk Festival on a Wednesday evening sure...
Chad VanGaalen
By Jonathan Dyck Chad VanGaalen may be many things to many people, but one thing is certain: he embodies the...
The Deep Dark Woods – Sure Songs for Troubling Times
By Whitney Light Ryan Boldt walks into the Winnipeg Folk Festival media tent wearing a fedora, his blond locks sticking...
Amelia Curran
By Whitney Light “My songs are sad to the point where we joke about it all the time,” Amelia Curran...