ShowbizMonkeys.com is sometimes lucky enough to cover major events and festivals in film, music, comedy, and pop culture. Whether a major international spectacle like the Academy Awards or a more regional festival like the Winnipeg Folk Festival, we're on the scene with interviews, photos, video, and special commentary.

Finally, another Winnipeg Folk Festival is nigh! This is no ordinary year, though... it's the 50th anniversary!! This prairie celebration of music, art, and community has been bringing joy for half a century, my friends.

The 2025 edition of the Winnipeg Folk Festival will take place July 10–13, in Manitoba's Birds Hill Provincial Park.

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The Stanley County Cut-ups were everywhere at the 2024 Winnipeg Folk Festival. Besides their own concert, they were in several workshops throughout the weekend.

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Winnipeg's Madeleine Roger has been releasing music for nearly a decade – as a solo artist, with her brother Lucas as Roger Roger, and recently accompanying The Fretless on tour and for a few songs on their upcoming new album.

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The 49th annual Winnipeg Folk Festival has come and gone -- hopefully so have all the sunburns and dehydration! The memories, though, I want to keep close.

July 11–14 was a sweltering four days with several thunderstorms.

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The 2024 Winnipeg Folk Festival is upon us! The beloved fest's 49th edition will see thousands setting up their hammocks and tarps in Birds Hill Provincial Park, just outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba, on July 11–14.

After an abnormally chilly fest last year, it looks like the sizzling weather familiar to any seasoned folkie is back with a vengeance.

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It's once again the best time of year, when thousands of people slap on sunscreen and set up low-sitting chairs to take in four days of music and community in Manitoba's Birds Hill Provincial Park, just outside of Winnipeg.

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In an annual tradition beginning way back in 2009, ShowbizMonkeys.com has set up shop in early July at Birds Hill Park near Winnipeg to cover the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Artist photos, video clips, interviews with some absolute music legends; it was an incredibly fun 11-year run.

Then, as we all know, the world shifted.

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Let's start with some honesty: the original version of this 2019 Winnipeg Folk Festival preview piece was almost complete when a couple accidental clicks of the mouse sent hours of work into the digital ether.

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The Winnipeg Folk Festival celebrates its 45th year in 2018, and here at Showbiz Monkeys, we're celebrating our 10th year in a row of covering this much-loved prairie music festival.

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The summer festival season in Manitoba, on the Canadian prairies, is always an exciting time.

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