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They say you can never really go home again, but since Brandon hosted this year\u2019s Western Canadian Music Awards, I returned to the Wheat City\u2014where I haven\u2019t lived for over a decade, but where I spent my formative years\u2014to take in the sights and sounds at showcases and sessions held during the weekend of September 17-20.
\nWhile much of Brandon remains the same as when I left, there have certainly been changes in the intervening years; 18th Street North now looks like Kenaston at McGillivray, with its big-box stores replacing what was once a great tobogganing hill. The Keystone Centre has been re-branded the Westman Communications Group Place and fused to Canad Inns like a conjoined twin.<\/p>\n