The Red River contribution to great music The fiddle is at the centre of traditional Métis culture in Western Canada,…
As a Guitarist Lenny Breau is the best-known graduate of the Winnipeg jazz scene. “Lenny came up with a way…
Winnipeg’s Chad Allan once wrote and recorded a song entitled I Wouldn’t Trade My Guitar For A Woman for Brave…
In the mid 1960s, the biggest selling Manitoba-based recording act was not the Guess Who but Ukrainian language country duo…
Quand le soleil dit bonjours aux montagnes. Whether you speak French or not, the opening line to Lucille Starr’s million-selling…
Back in 1965 when the annual June Red River Exhibition summer fair (sadly cancelled for this year) was held around…