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2013 Winnipeg Folk Festival: Ongoing live coverage with tweets, photos, videos, interviews

Posted by: Paul Little  •  July 11, 2013 @ 5:15am

The Winnipeg Folk Festival has certainly undergone some changes over the years.

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Winnipeg Comedy Fest Interview: Local Winnipeg stand-up comic Ryan Ash

Posted by: Paul Little  •  April 8, 2011 @ 3:46pm

One of the most anticipated and highly-attended shows every year at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival is The Winnipeg Show, the stand-up comedy showcase at the Gas Station Theatre comprised of Winnipeg-raised or Winnipeg-based comics.

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Winnipeg Comedy Fest Interview: Rising Vancouver comic and actor Darcy Michael

Posted by: Paul Little  •  April 8, 2011 @ 12:48am

Darcy Michael is a comedian not easily categorized -- and he likes it that way. Essentially, he's just an incredibly funny dude who is able to translate real-life situations into gut-busting bits on stage, and we're all the better for it.

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Winnipeg Comedy Fest Interview: Veteran Canadian comic Andrew Grose

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  April 7, 2011 @ 1:54am

In nearly 20 years of doing stand-up comedy, Andrew Grose has pretty much done it all.

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Winnipeg Comedy Fest Interview: Globetrotting stand-up comedian Pete Johansson

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  April 7, 2011 @ 1:45am

There's a new wave of Canadian comics living in and gaining success in the United Kingdom. One of the stand-ups doing quite well in the motherland, to the point where he now lives in London, is Pete Johansson.

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Winnipeg Comedy Fest Interview: Stand-up comic Darryl Lenox

Posted by: Paul Little  •  April 5, 2011 @ 7:15pm

If you frequent your local comedy club, you've probably seen Darryl Lenox perform live, as he's been making the rounds across the United States and Canada for years. He's established himself as an insightful, ambitious, and hardworking comic, and while you have to keep your brain turned on to really enjoy his sets, it's most definitely worth it.

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Winnipeg Comedy Fest Interview: Stand-up comic and actor Sam Easton of "Incongruous"

Posted by: Paul Little  •  April 5, 2011 @ 3:58pm

Sam Easton may be a familiar face to you, whether you've stepped inside a comedy club across Canada, turned on your TV set, or visited your local multiplex over the last few years.

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Winnipeg Comedy Fest Interview: Kevin McDonald of Kids in the Hall

Posted by: Paul Little  •  April 5, 2011 @ 12:28am

Montreal-born Kevin McDonald founded the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall in the mid-80s with Dave Foley, whom he met while training at the iconic Second City in Toronto.

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Winnipeg Comedy Fest Interview: Comedian, actor, and all-around entertaining performer Chris Gibbs

Posted by: Paul Little  •  April 3, 2011 @ 2:07pm

The 2011 Winnipeg Comedy Festival began this past Friday, April 1st for the start of its 10-day run of mostly stand-up comedy (with a little bit of sketch, improv, and theatre) throughout the city of Winnipeg.

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