{"id":9223,"date":"2014-07-08T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T22:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2014-07-08T22:51:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T22:51:32","slug":"winnipeg-folk-fest-young-folk-at-galaxie-young-performers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/07\/08\/winnipeg-folk-fest-young-folk-at-galaxie-young-performers\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Folk Fest :: Young Folk at Galaxie Young Performers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Martyna Turczynowicz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Young Folk have been around since 2012. Last year they released \u201cYou Words\u201d on<\/em> Beach Station Blues and this year they\u2019re performing for the second time in the Galaxie Young Performers Program at the Winnipeg Folk Fest. <\/em>Stylus caught up with the band\u2019s guitarist Darren Hebner and John Baron on bass and vocals.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stylus: How long have you guys been together?<\/strong>
\nJohn Baron:<\/strong> We\u2019ve been together for three years. Everyone except our singer went to music school in Brandon together.<\/p>\n

Stylus: What was music school like?<\/strong>
\nJB:<\/strong> It was a great experience, but by the end you want to do it for real. In the university setting, there are always opportunities to play. You don\u2019t have to hustle; it just kind of comes to you.
\nDarren Hebner:<\/strong> It\u2019s feels really safe. Anything you do, people say how good it is. And it’s like \u201cNo, I played horribly.\u201d There\u2019s cushioning. In the real world, not so much.
\nJB:<\/strong> Most of the professors were adamant on your mentality and how you conduct yourself as a musician and your mentality and actually getting gigs. You have to be on time, but in general for like gigs and stuff, you need to be on time, you need to have your gear.<\/p>\n

Stylus: What\u2019s it like being out of Music School?<\/strong>
\nJB:<\/strong> If you\u2019re not completely prepared for a gig and you get called and you play and it\u2019s not that great, you won\u2019t get called again. You won\u2019t get that gig ever again, and they\u2019ll tell other people not to call you for the gig. You have to be on, all the time. You can\u2019t afford to be lazy; you can\u2019t afford to not work hard. As much fun as being a musician is, it\u2019s hard work. It\u2019s stressful; you do have off days like an athlete. There are days when you play like garbage and you don\u2019t know why and everybody\u2019s watching.
\nDH:<\/strong> It\u2019s a full time job. Our drummer, right now he\u2019s a full time musician. He played every weekend this month, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. He\u2019s in the middle of like an eight-day gig streak, and some days he plays twice a day.<\/p>\n

Stylus: Have you done the Young Performers Program before?<\/strong>
\nDH:<\/strong> We did it last year. It was a really good experience for a young band to work with people who know how the industry works. Our mentor was Vanessa from Oh My Darling. She was great, she had lots of really good things to say and it made us feel very on track.
\nJB:<\/strong> It\u2019s inspiring to be surrounded by musicians who are actually doing the Folk circuit and being able to perform at Folk Fest. Julie Penner is organizing the Young Performers Program this year; she\u2019s a member of Broken Social Scene.\u00a0 It\u2019s not every day you get to spend a whole day talking to these people and have them listen to your music, knowing that they\u2019ve been there and done that.
\nDH:<\/strong> The day before our performance we\u2019re isolated at this church and all we\u2019re doing is music. We play a few songs and talk about it and we write a song that day and perform it on Friday.<\/p>\n

Stylus: You were on Beach Station Blues<\/em> last year as well\u2026<\/strong>
\nDH:<\/strong> It\u2019s kind of funny, neither of us actually played on that recording. There was a storm and we got stuck in Brandon and I got really sick so I couldn\u2019t drive out. The singer and the cellist drove out and the guy that was recording it played our parts as well.
\nJB:<\/strong> We sent them the song and were like, \u201c We can\u2019t make it out so go on without us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stylus: Any acts you\u2019re excited for this year?<\/strong>
\nDH:<\/strong> I\u2019m excited for Boy and Bear.<\/a>
\nJB:<\/strong> Yeah, that\u2019s what I was gonna say. And Ben Harper, I\u2019ve always been a sucker for him.<\/p>\n

Don’t miss Young Folk at the Winnipeg Folk Fest, down at Shady Grove.<\/em><\/p>\n

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