William Prince is back on the Winnipeg Music Project to update on all his wonderful experiences since his last interview, such as winning a WCMA award, Juno award and having his son! Diving into some new songs, we talk about how he draws musical inspiration from the people and stories around him and is always grateful for his experiences.

Set List:

William Prince "Little Things" from Earthly Days

William Prince "Breathless" from Earthly Days

William Prince "7"

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Dan and Dag from Poetry in Motion came onto the show today to talk about their talented and close knit hip-hop collective. They shared their origin stories and how all 9 of the collective members work together to bounce ideas off one another, collaborate, gig together and host wonderful charity events for the community. 

Set List:

Poetry In Motion (from Dark Matter) "Born Into This"

Poetry In Motion (Featuring Blas, Babble'On, & A-FiX) "The Northern Cipher"

Dag (Featuring A-FiX & Vikki G) "Funkin You Up"

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Mira Black came onto the Winnipeg Music Project to promote her upcoming project release on Sept. 10th called "Fearless" and had a very intimate conversation about vulnerability and getting out of your own head to share your intimate and sincere musical ideas.

Set List:

Mira Black "Tell Me" from Mira

Mira Black "Illusion" from Mira

Mira Black "Where are you" from Mira

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Ash, Bo, Paul and Dan from The Bloody Historians hung out in Cigarette Alley and chatted with the Winnipeg Music Project. They talked about their EP, released single Militant Man and their upcoming show on August 3rd at the GoodWill! This interview is filled with giggles, songwriting secrets, and advice for the aspiring rockstar! Listen here!

Set List:

The Bloody Historians "Militant Man"

The Bloody Historians "Cigarette Alley" from Cigarette Beach

The Bloody Historians "Nothing Beach" from Cigarette Beach

Bo, Ash, Paul, Dan and Ashley

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This week Jacques Richer from Screaming at Traffic came onto the Winnipeg Music Project. He gushed about the local punk band's beginnings and their recently released EP S.A.T.! Listen to it here!

Events mentioned in interview:

Set List:

Screaming At Traffic "Broken Teeth" from S.A.T.

Screaming At Traffic "Metagame" from S.A.T.

creaming At Traffic "Monstrosity" from S.A.T.

Ashley Bieniarz and Jacques Richer

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The lovely Erika Fowler came on for this episode of the Winnipeg Music Project to promote her recently release EP Stay. She shares her story and the events leading up to now with her successes in francophone musician competitions such as La Chicane Electrique and her experiences at folk fest. Tune in for a wonderful chat with this up and coming local indie folk singer songwriter.

Purchase Erika Fowler's EP Stay here

Set List:

Erika Fowler "Stay" from Stay

Erika Fowler "Oublie" from Stay

Erika Fowler "Worth It" from Stay

Erika Fowler and Ashley Bieniarz

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Kumaran Reddy from Cilly Cyb Fung High came onto the Winnipeg Music Project after meeting him at the WitchPolice Radio Big Mix Up series. He shared his story about growing up and moving to Manitoba at a young age and learning to love rock music and the magic of improvisation. Kumaran is well versed in any genre you can think of and has many wonderful stories about his involvement in the Winnipeg music community.

Events mentioned in episode:

Set List:

Cilly Cyb Fung High "Fung High Dub"

Cilly Cyb Fung High "Win Or Lose"

Cilly Cyb Fung High "Nublufuse" 

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Ryan Sorensen and Simon King from Disraeli Dreamers joined Josh Kostelnyk from Little Black Lungs to talk about and promote the upcoming and highly anticipated Pup-Stock Music Festival.

The Pup-Stock Festival is coming to Winnipeg on Saturday, June 24th in support of Manitoba Mutts. The concert will feature 7 live and local bands. The fun begins at 5 pm with a new band on every 45 minutes, so make sure to come down early so you catch them all!

Set List:

Little Black Lungs "Down" from So Long to the Rat Race

Disraeli Dreamers "So Long Ago" from The Lucid EP

Disraeli Dreamers "What You Get" LIVE

Bartley Knives "Two Ships" from For The Birds

Red Seed "Are You Ready?"

For this episode of the Winnipeg Music Project, Tim and Marianne from the new group Red Rose came down to the station to share their new music and talk about the build up and delayed beginnings! These two are so kind and wonderful to talk to with hearts of gold! Their music is pretty darn neat too, listen to it here! 

Set List:

Red Rose "Pipeline Road" Live

Red Rose "Frozen River" Live

Red Rose "Nothing So Sweet" Demo

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The lovely synth-pop duo Bicycle Face called into the show to chat about their music and promote their upcoming album release! These girls Theresa and Eva share their origin story and songwriting inspiration. 

Set List:

Bicycle Face "Halfway Tree" from Bicycle Face EP

Bicycle Face "Snow White" from Bicycle Face EP

Bicycle Face "Lists" from Bicycle Face EP

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Episode 54 of the Winnipeg Music Project is with the celebrated family music icon Fred Penner. He came onto to the show to promote his recently released album "Hear The Music" and shared how he got involved into what he calls "Human Music" and how the music business has changed over the years. He also gave excellent lyric writing and chord composition tips that all budding musicians should really know! What a guy!

Set List:

Fred Penner "This Is My World" from Hear the Music - LIVE

Fred Penner "La Vida" from Hear the Music

red Penner "Hear the Music" from Hear the Music - LIVE

Ashley and Fred Penner

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Episode 53 of the Winnipeg Music Project is with the Dylan, Liam and Roman from The Middle Coast. We had so much fun laughing together and talking about their up coming album release on May 12 at the handsome daughter. This group of goofballs also shared their songwriting style and tour booking process. They also sung two songs live which were amazing to hear!

Set List:

The Middle Coast "Some Way" from The Making Of

The Middle Coast "The isn't love" (LIVE) from The Making Of

The Middle Coast "Prey on Me" (LIVE) from The Making Of

Dylan, Liam, Ashley and Roman

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Episode 52 of the Winnipeg Music Project is with Ghost Twin! Joining Jaimz and Karen in the comfort of their living room, we talked about their highly anticipated album release on May 5th at the Good Will and their album release tour. They also shared stories of how they started making music together and odd escapades on their previous tours. A really great interview with two fun and goofy music-makers. This dark synth gloom pop (or as Jaimz describes it dirty bass synth sleaze industrial baroque gloom pop) is a party you don't want to miss!

(Music video link coming soon!)

Set List:

Ghost Twin "Not Our Time" from Plastic Heart

Ghost Twin "Saturn Swallows the Sun" from Plastic Heart

Ghost Twin "Plastic Heart" from Plastic Heart

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Episode 53 of the Winnipeg Music Project is with the wonderful grunge rock band Silence Kit! Mannon, Natalie and James came down to the station to talk about and promote their new EP Started as a whisper. 

Set List:

Silence Kit "Who You Know" from Started As A Whisper

Silence Kit "Trompe-l'oeil" from Started As A Whisper

Silence Kit "The Growl" from Started As A Whisper

Natalie, Ashley, Mannon and James

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Episode 52 of the Winnipeg Music Project is with none other than Justin Lacroix, the talented bilingual folk/blues singer-songwriter. Share an intimate life story about how his life involved music and dance and talked about his writing style and achievements such as playing at the WCMAs in 2016.

 Set List:

Justin Lacroix "Under the Same Moon" from Ticket to Tokyo LIVE

Justin Lacroix "Tout Bas" from Tout Dans ta Tete

Justin Lacroix "J'Etonne" Single LIVE

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Episode 51 of the Winnipeg Music Project is with returning guest and friend of the show Ed Durocher from Apollo Suns. Here to promote his upcoming and highly anticipated album release for Each Day a Different Sun, we hung out and talked about the behind the scenes and making of. Along with some teasing, Ed and I laughed about popular music and he shared stories about their successes in Europe. A great and entertaining interview! 

Set List:

Apollo Suns "An Iberian Peninsula"  from Each Day A Different Sun

Apollo Suns "An Impossible Bond" from Each Day A Different Sun

Apollo Suns "A lesson in Sharing" from Each Day A Different Sun

Ed Durocher from Apollo Suns

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This week's episode of the Winnipeg Music Project is with Aidan and the Ultimas to promote their upcoming St. Patrick day show at Jekyll & Hydes on March 17th, 2017 with the Disraeli Dreamers and DJ Remarcable. Aidan, Alex and Rich came on and goofed around answering questions about their music and their Irish heritage. 

Aidan has been on the show previously as well, you can hear it here!

Aidan and the Ultimas "Johnny I hardly knew you" (Traditonal Irish folksong)

Aidan and the Ultimas "Devil's Dance Floor" (Floggin' Mollies Cover)

Aidan and the Ultimas "With or without you" (U2 Cover)

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For this episode of the Winnipeg Music Project, Kathryn Kerr (stage name Tansy, formerly known as Astre) came onto the show to talk about her alternative ambient music. She shared her experience as a solo artist and performer and talked about her tricks to achieve songwriting success. We also shared a never before heard song at the end of the episode and learned her inspirations and story for writing it.

Set List:

Tansy "Marie" from Wood Songs

Tansy "Bomb Shelter Secrets" from Wood Songs

Tansy "Swim" from Swim/Sleep

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To celebrate Valentines Day with me, Sara Wray Enns came onto the Winnipeg Music Project to talk about her new title of experimental composer of a marching band set to take place in the Heart of Winnipeg. She also shared her love of local music by talking about her involvement at UMFM and shared some wonderful local songs.
(I also snuck in my own song Almost As Much because of the Valentine theme.)

Map and score of the piece composed and created by Sara Wray Enns

Sara is also involved in a great campus event called THIRD THURSDAYS where every third Thursday of the month, she hosts an event somewhere on campus.

Set List:

Ashley Bieniarz "Almost As Much" Single

Richard Inman "Traveller" from Lake Town Blues EP

The Weakerthans "My Favorite Chords" from Left and Leaving

Clive Holden "Trains of Winnipeg" from Trains of Winnipeg

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This episode of the Winnipeg Music Project is with the lovely and talented Blues/Rock/Funk/Pop singer-songwriter Stacey James. We talked about her love of music from a very early age and how she blossomed into a multi-genre force to be reckoned with. 
Excited for her album release "11:11", Stacey shared her songwriting process and what the music on this album represents to her and her plans to move forward!
Stacey is a super sweet and talented lady and this interview is a definite tune in!

Set List:

Stacey James "Something You Regret" from 11:11

Stacey James "Wanna Sing" from 11:11

Stacey James "Walk to My Beat" from 11:11

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