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Music and poetry to honour our rivers; our free community holiday concert, WinterSing!; and Mexican Indigenous Baroque music fused with contemporary Cree \u2013 our 29th<\/sup> Winnipeg concert series promises to tell stories, innovate and celebrate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the breakdown of our full season below, including individual concert details. We\u2019re looking forward to singing for (and with!) you this year!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nestaweya<\/strong>
October 20, 2024, 3:00 pm, Desautels Concert Hall, University of Manitoba<\/a>
Curators: Andrew Balfour and Mel Braun
Conductor: Mel Braun
Commissioned works by Andrew Balfour and poet Katharena Vermette<\/a>


Special thank you to concert sponsors Winnipeg 150, City of Song<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nestaweya means \u201cthree points\u201d in Cree. Locally, it represents The Forks and the great rivers that brought the Cree, Ojibwe and Dakota peoples together. As a special offering for Winnipeg 150, City of Song, Dead of Winter celebrates water and the pre-settler roots of Winnipeg with a concert featuring the music of Indigenous composers Melody McKiver, Ian Cusson and Andrew Balfour set to the words of Metis poet\/author Katharena Vermette, and will include Indigenous Songkeepers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This concert has been chosen as one of the first to be performed in the new Desautels Concert Hall, opening in September 2024 at the University of Manitoba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get your tickets HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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WinterSing!<\/strong>
November 24, 2024, 3:00 pm at the Crescent Arts Centre, 525 Wardlaw
Curator\/Conductor: Victor Pankratz
Guest Artists: Oberih Ukrainian Choir<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n




WinterSing! is Dead of Winter\u2019s annual free community concert. This year, we are celebrating the Ukrainians of Winnipeg, both long-standing and newcomers. Come to hear stories, enjoy the exceptional beauty of Ukrainian Christmas music and exercise your own vocal chords with well-known carols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be sure to secure your FREE<\/strong> tickets through the link below and bring your family and your vocal chords to this extraordinary experience created by curator\/conductor, Vic Pankratz!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Support Harvest Manitoba<\/a>, bring a tin for the bin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Space is limited, please secure your FREE tickets HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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WaaWaa Steewak (Early Music and the Doctrine of Discovery)<\/strong>
April 6, 2025, 3:00 and 7:30 pm at St. John\u2019s Chapel, St. John\u2019s College, University of Manitoba
Curator\/Conductor: Andrew Balfour
Guest Artists: Emily Eng, violist; Cheri Maracle<\/a>, narrator\/singer; Joseph Naytowhow<\/a>, Elder\/Songkeeper



Special thank you to Winnipeg Baroque Festival sponsors: <\/em>
Drs. Bill Pope and Elizabeth Tippet Pope<\/em> and Ron and Sandi Mielitz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by Andrew Balfour, this is Dead of Winter\u2019s innovative entry in the 2025 Winnipeg Baroque Festival<\/strong>. For years, Andrew has been fascinated by the fact that Mexican Indigenous composers were involved in writing Spanish-influenced Renaissance and Baroque music for Mexican churches back in the 17th<\/sup> and 18th<\/sup> centuries. Andrew has woven this music together  with the four movements of Waawaa Steewak (Northern Lights), his first Indigenous-influenced work which tells the story of Chepi, a young Cree woman living pre-Contact who is spirited by a trickster into current life in downtown Winnipeg.  Mysterious, beautiful, sometimes sad and scary bridges between distant cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please note<\/strong>: This concert is part of the Winnipeg Baroque Festival to be held March 30-April 19, 2025. Early Bird ticket package available soon through the Winnipeg Baroque Festival<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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