Ani, who received a prestigious artistic achievement award at the
Winnipeg Folk Festival this year, also marked the passing of one of her own mentors, Pete Seeger, through writing a moving essay about the man and his legacy in the Wall Street Journal.
Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the Top 20 Guitarists of all-time and the recent recipient an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriting, the 2006 BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008
Winnipeg Folk Festival Artistic Achievement Award, and the 2010 Mojo Honors List Les Paul Award, Richard is one of the world''s most critically acclaimed and prolific songwriters.
Winnipeg--home to the Winnipeg Labour Choir, the Nellie McClung Theatre group, Plug-In Gallery, Thunderbird House and the Indigenous Peoples solidarity movement, Propaghandi the punk rock band, the Urban Shaman Gallery, the Structured Movement Against Capitalism, CHO!CES, CCPA-MBA, Canada Palestine Support Network, Independent Jewish Voices, Winnipeg Peace Alliance, The Assiniboine Credit Union, May Works, Grassroots Women, the
Winnipeg Folk Festival, and Arbeiter Ring Publishing House.
* Mitch Podolak declara que << Pete Seeger et Leon Trotsky determinent tout dans ma vie, et surtout le
Winnipeg Folk Festival >>.
I am writing this piece after recently returning from a weekend at the
Winnipeg Folk Festival. This year, the festival celebrated its 33rd year.
Grobb opened for Andy Stochansky on a 2005 cross-Canada tour and his influence is heard in the upbeat djembe drumming of "Clean and Discreetly." The highly singable song "Character" is a moving dedication to Grobb's grandmother, a friend and all AIDS victims who died with "strength of character." When Grobb tearfully performed "Character" at the
Winnipeg Folk Festival, Ferron aptly stated: "You men in the audience are lucky to witness us women in our power." You will be lucky to hear Grobb tresspassing old familiar territory in a new, courageous way with Safe Guarded Space.
Each July, the four-day
Winnipeg Folk Festival - reputedly the biggest such event in North America - attracts musicians from around the world with 1999's star performers including Steve Earle and John Hiatt.
For many years, the
Winnipeg Folk Festival (WFF) campground at Bird's Hill Park enjoyed among its thousand smaller tents a giant teepee.
Vancouver Folk Music Festival and the
Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Last year's
Winnipeg Folk Festival got a good roughing up by Dimension reviewers Paul Phillips and Ed Janzen.
The
Winnipeg Folk Festival, the largest and most enduring folk festival on the continent, recently marked its 28th year with glorious weather and record-breaking attendance.
20 something: I saw her once at the
Winnipeg Folk Festival. She is not laconic.
