Doors open at 7PM. Show at 8PM. All ages!
Tickets: $33 + applicable fees
Bry Webb is an indie rock singer and songwriter from London, Ontario, Canada. He is best known as the lead vocalist for indie rock band the Constantines. With the announced hiatus of the Constantines, Webb recorded a debut solo album Provider, which was released 15 November 2011 on Toronto label Idée Fixe Records.
Helena Deland is a Montreal-based musician interested in how songs can hold what eludes everyday language. Her music draws on reading and walking around.
She released her first album, Someone New, in 2020 on Luminelle Recordings. It was followed by the release of Hildegard, a collaborative album with fellow Montreal musician Ouri on section1. On October 13th, 2023, Helena reveals her sophomore full-length record, Goodnight Summerland, an intimate and meditative collection of eleven songs published by label and longtime collaborators Chivi Chivi. Goodnight Summerland features singles “Swimmer”, “Spring Bug”, “Bright Green Vibrant Gray” and “Strawberry Moon”.
In November 2023 and February 2024, Helena will be going on her first world headline tour. She has extensively toured North America and Europe opening for the likes of Weyes Blood, Andy Shauf, Connan Mockasin, Soccer Mommy and Iggy Pop.
Doors open at 6:30PM. Show at 7PM. All ages!
Tickets: $20 + applicable fees
Jan 27 show: https://broadwaytheatre.ca/events?p=event&event=2577
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, queer Canadian duo, the CREEPY BOYS return to Saskatoon for two nights only after selling out shows and winning awards on their UK tour.
Created and performed by real-life lovers turned identical twins, S.E. Grummett (they/them) and Sam Kruger (he/him), CREEPY BOYS invites you, the audience, to attend the thirteenth birthday party of two very strange twin boys. The twins recruit the audience to help them set up their party, with all the deference and direct eye contact you’d expect from attending a twin-teen birthday blast, before driving the show off a horror-comedy cliff - think the twins from The Shining meets My Super Sweet 16. This is one birthday party you’d be cursed to miss! The largest arts festival in the world, the Edinburgh Fringe presented over 3,000 unique shows and events throughout the month of August. “Performing in Edinburgh is a huge risk and it takes a lot to stand out amongst so many other shows. I think this is a huge win for Saskatchewan artists proving that we can hold our own on an international stage.” (S.E. Grummett)
The duo met while touring on the Canadian Fringe circuit and quickly fell in love. A digital version was first created while the pair were stuck in Australia for a year during the initial COVID wave in March 2020. Since then, the show has been redeveloped with the help of comedy director, Deanna Fleysher (of award-winning show Butt Kapinski). CREEPY BOYS premiered at the FringeWorld Festival (in Perth) before touring across Australia, the UK and finally to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it took home the Unforgettable Show Award presented by Summerhall. Grummett and Kruger return home to Saskatoon to present the Canadian premiere of this award-winning work to their community for two nights only - January 26th & 27th as part of Winterruption 2024. Come and play with us…
‘Blisteringly anarchic and devilishly clever’ ★★★★★ - InDaily (Australia)
“Impossible not to get swept up in whatever mischief they have planned.” ★★★★★ - WhyNow (UK)
‘A brilliant piece of theatre’ ★★★★★ - Somewhere for Us (UK)
Doors open at 9PM. Show at 10PM. 19+ only.
Tickets: $23 + applicable fees
Sunny War: It’s no secret that great art comes from the margins. From those who are either pushed to create from inner forces, or who create to show they deserve to be recognized. Los Angeles-based street singer, guitarist, and roots music revolutionary Sunny War has always been an outsider, always felt the drive to define her place in the world through music and songwriting. Her restless spirit, a byproduct of growing up semi-nomadic with a single mother, led her to Venice Beach, California, where she’s been grinding the pavement for some years now, making a name for her prodigious guitar work and incisive songwriting, which touches on everything from police violence to alcoholism to love found and lost.
Waahli is a Montreal artist born of Haitian parents. Raised in a family where music is omnipresent, he is immersed by the traditional Haitian melodies with artists such as Tabou Combo, Coupé Cloué or Manno Charlemagne. He learned to play the guitar on his own. In spite of a great influence of Haitian music, it is with Hip-Hop that he develops his own style. In 2004, Waahli co-founded Nomadic Massive, a mythical hip hop group in Montreal. Still active, the group has just completed a new EP recorded during a tour in South America. At the same time, Waahli felt the need to develop a solo project. In 2018, he released his very first album ”Black Soap” followed in 2020 by the EP ”Soap Opera”. Performed in English, French and Haitian Creole, these songs are a fusion of catchy rhythms at the crossroads of rap and Afro-beat and are a true tribute to Haitian culture.
On September 30, 2022, Waahli returned with “Soap Box”, a reflection of his newfound intimacy during his confinement. He signs an even more personal and committed album, paying a vibrant tribute to his Haitian roots. The 11 tracks, co-produced with Boogat & Lou Piensa from Nomadic Massive are an amalgam of instrumentals, live vocals and percussion influenced by Haitian and African sounds. The opening song “Machann” is a subtle and moving mix of traditional Haitian songs combined with Waahli’s incisive tone. With “Soap Box”, he collaborates with Clerel on an upbeat and danceable track in which he salutes his Afro-descendant heritage. The song “Te revoir” created with the complicity of the singer Malika Tirolien is a heady love ode, ranked for several weeks among the 50 most listened to tracks on CBC Music. Also, Waahli is an organic soap maker! With its ancestral rhythms and his sharp words, Waahli’s innovative hip-hop takes us to the four corners of the world.
Miesha & The Spanks: Based in Calgary/Treaty 7, Miesha and The Spanks are a garage-rock two piece who turn it all the way up. Shaking the rafters with her radiant range, Miesha Louie simultaneously wails on the mic while she riffs on her flying V, as Sean Hamilton’s performative but hard-as-heck hitting drums also captivate the crowd - revealing their undeniable chemistry on stage. High energy performances paired with catchy power-pop sing-a-long choruses make them at home on big festival stages as well sweaty dive bars - and they have played plenty of both!
The release cycle of latest album Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi has taken them across Canada and into the US, UK, Germany, Sweden, and Poland. They’ve played everywhere from 80-4000 capacity venues this year, including the Burt Block Party with Billy Talent in Winnipeg MB, CBC’s “Come Toward The Fire” Indigenous showcase at the Chan Centre in Vancouver with Black Belt Eagle Scout and Zoon, and support to Bif Naked on her Alberta club tour dates, to name a few.
Whether it’s an all ages punk show or theatre showcase, Miesha and The Spanks command the audiences attention, appealing to their inner angst or nostalgia for a time when their heart’s were on fire.
Doors open at 6:30PM. Show at 7PM. All ages!
Tickets: $20 + applicable fees
Jan 26 show: https://broadwaytheatre.ca/events?p=event&event=2576
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, queer Canadian duo, the CREEPY BOYS return to Saskatoon for two nights only after selling out shows and winning awards on their UK tour.
Created and performed by real-life lovers turned identical twins, S.E. Grummett (they/them) and Sam Kruger (he/him), CREEPY BOYS invites you, the audience, to attend the thirteenth birthday party of two very strange twin boys. The twins recruit the audience to help them set up their party, with all the deference and direct eye contact you’d expect from attending a twin-teen birthday blast, before driving the show off a horror-comedy cliff - think the twins from The Shining meets My Super Sweet 16. This is one birthday party you’d be cursed to miss! The largest arts festival in the world, the Edinburgh Fringe presented over 3,000 unique shows and events throughout the month of August. “Performing in Edinburgh is a huge risk and it takes a lot to stand out amongst so many other shows. I think this is a huge win for Saskatchewan artists proving that we can hold our own on an international stage.” (S.E. Grummett)
The duo met while touring on the Canadian Fringe circuit and quickly fell in love. A digital version was first created while the pair were stuck in Australia for a year during the initial COVID wave in March 2020. Since then, the show has been redeveloped with the help of comedy director, Deanna Fleysher (of award-winning show Butt Kapinski). CREEPY BOYS premiered at the FringeWorld Festival (in Perth) before touring across Australia, the UK and finally to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it took home the Unforgettable Show Award presented by Summerhall. Grummett and Kruger return home to Saskatoon to present the Canadian premiere of this award-winning work to their community for two nights only - January 26th & 27th as part of Winterruption 2024. Come and play with us…
‘Blisteringly anarchic and devilishly clever’ ★★★★★ - InDaily (Australia)
“Impossible not to get swept up in whatever mischief they have planned.” ★★★★★ - WhyNow (UK)
‘A brilliant piece of theatre’ ★★★★★ - Somewhere for Us (UK)
Doors open at 9PM. Show at 10PM. 19+ only!
Tickets: $18 + applicable fees
Bahay Kubo is a traditional filipino native hut and has a significant cultural and historical importance in the Philippines. It was used as sanctuaries of filipino soldiers during the Philippine Revolution. For us, Bahay Kubo is not just a house, it is sanctuary for us to not only get to know other Filipino performers but to also to get reacquainted with our heritage. Bahay Kubo is a thriving community of Filipino performers who showcases their culture through the art form of drag.
Doors open at 9PM. Show at 10PM. All ages!
Tickets: $25 + applicable fees
Siembra y llegará. As Making Movies delivers its fourth album, XOPA, the Kansas City band proves true the maxim which, in English, is like an encouraging version of “reap what you sow.” Meant to inspire its recipient to push forward, the phrase is chanted on the LP’s multi-movement epic, “La Primera Radio” — but it’s exemplary, too, of Making Movies’ musical odyssey.
This is a band that makes American music with an asterisk: because Making Movies’ sound encompasses the entirety of the Americas, not solely the country inarguably centered in mainstream everything. It’s through this broader perspective that Making Movies crunches classic rock into Latin American rhythms — African-derived percussion and styles like rumba, merengue, mambo and cumbia — in a way that feels oddly familiar, yet delivers the invigorating chills of hearing something singularly special.
Each member — Enrique Chi, vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter; his brother Diego Chi, bassist and experimental vocalist; percussionist Juan-Carlos Chaurand; and Duncan Burnett, newly incorporated into the band on drums — is enthusiastically committed to music history, to uncovering connections between genres and cultures both their own and otherwise. They’re all lifelong musicians too, hailing from disparate yet similar backgrounds — parents that cherished music, fathers that kickstarted cultural movements, families in which gospel is critical to their very existence.
“The goal is to create music that includes every bit of our individual identities,” Enrique says. “Music is our way to find a deeper understanding of our own stories. It’s a healing of sorts.”
But none of this earned understanding precludes the group’s perpetual evolving. Enrique Chi, lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, is compelled to share knowledge, but like any sincere historian, though, he also listens. It’s impossible to know everything; in musical lore and its future there is still so much yet to be uncovered.
The band’s collective yearning for exploration has attracted a nexus of connections, many of them legendary players, like Steve Berlin of iconic rock band Los Lobos, a recurring collaborator and steadfast champion of the band. An approach from beloved Panamanian musician Rubén Blades led to joint songs like “No te Calles” and “Cómo Perdonar.” Making Movies has also created with indie-folk band Hurray for the Riff Raff, trumpeter Asdru Sierra of Ozomatli, Puerto Rican salsero Frankie Negrón, and all-female mariachi group Flor de Toloache. On the heels of Making Movies’ 2019 album ameri’kana, the band worked on an eponymous documentary series, through which they connected with the legendary organist Reverend Charles Hodges, an soul music pioneer who played alongside Al Green, and fellow Memphis, Tennessee, musicians the Sensational Barnes Brothers.
Making Movies creates music that is undoubtedly pedagogical, yet inarguably kinetic. And their live shows, despite the precision with which they perform, are not lacking in dynamism. Every time they perform, they are wholly present, feeling every original groove with the same rush of as when they first found it.
Doors open at 6:30PM. Show at 7:30PM. All ages!
General Tickets: $26 + applicable fees / Student or Senior Tickets: $23 + applicable fees
Featuring the talents of The Footnotes Big Band, The Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra, Stone Frigate Big Band & U of S Jazz Ensemble!
We have a working theory…That many humans in the dead of winter would enjoy 1 night to hear 4 big bands playing jazz! Join us for the second meeting of the bands featuring the UofS Jazz Ensemble, Stone Frigate Big Band, Footnotes Big Band and Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra. 2 fun filled sets of great music with 2 bands per set, Sunday January 28, 2023! We’ve subtitled this concert ’To Boldly Swing...’. Come enjoy music from Saskatoon created especially for Winterruption 2024!
MEET THE BANDS:
Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra: The Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra (SJO) is committed to presenting high caliber professional large jazz ensemble music to the city of Saskatoon and beyond. Through programming and featuring celebrated local, national, and international jazz talent, the SJO also creates professional development opportunities for Saskatchewan’s own established and emerging jazz musicians from across the province. While some SJO concerts are stylistically retrospective, others are visionary. Some explore multi-disciplinary components. All our concerts feature important current and emerging musicians whose professional work intersects with the large jazz ensemble idiom.
U of S Jazz Ensemble: Under the direction of Dean McNeill, the U of S Jazz Ensemble has toured western Canada, northern USA, and Quebec, and has commissioned and premiered many new works for the contemporary large jazz ensemble idiom. This ensemble has released 6 CDs in their ‘Bumper Crop’ series and has performed in venues such as Edmonton’s acclaimed Winspear concert hall. The U of S Jazz Ensemble has performed with many acclaimed guest artists, including Jens Lindeman, Campbell Ryga and Slide Hampton.
Footnotes Big Band: The Footnotes Big Band is a local ensemble comprised of talented young musicians who share a love of modern jazz music. The group focuses on performing new works arranged and composed by the band members. This Big Band is part of the Footnotes Jazz Collective, a music project created by Rhett Schroeder in the spring of 2020 to showcase different ensembles.
Stone Frigate Big Band: The Stone Frigate Big Band brings the big band sound to a playlist that features the greatest hits of the swing era and the American Songbook, alongside R&B and pop music favourites and well-known Latin and jazz charts. The Stone Frigate Big Band was formed in October 1995 at HMCS UNICORN, Saskatoon’s Naval Reserve Division, one of the Royal Canadian Navy’s “stone frigates”. Over the years we have played at public and private functions at locations around Saskatchewan that include Club Jazz at the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, The Bassment, TCU Place, a number of hotel ballrooms and the Dekker Theatre in North Battleford. We have been regulars at Danceland, the famed swing-era dance hall at Manitou Beach, for over a decade.
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