Winterruption Saskatoon 2025 Festival Wristbands - Only 60 available
Snow Limits Pass? Wrist Warmers? Wristy-uption? Winter Wonderband?
Whatever you wanna call it, We've got you covered for Winterruption 2025.
**Redeem your ticket at any Winterruption venue for your wristband**
Wristbands allow access to all venues hosting Winterruption 2025 events.
Note that The Broadway Theatre and the Refinery, are all ages venues, but some venues (Black Cat Tavern, Amigos and Art Bar) have 19+ restrictions. Please contact the venue to confirm.
Space is reserved for wristband holders in each venue but subject to venue's capacity.
If venue is at capacity, wristband holders get first priority for next entry.
Doors at 8PM. Show at 9PM.
Single Mothers broke up in 2009, 2011, 2015 and have been playing shows ever since. Founded by Drew Thomson in 2008 Single Mothers only relied on only one main principle: it wouldn’t have any members. For the most part - they have stayed true to that, and only that. Spanning a discography of genera morphing LP’s and a myriad of EP’s the only constant is that none of it sounds the same. Each album has different members, different song writers, different ideas. For a while there were even two versions of the band going at the same time, with completely different people. Through all this Thomson left the band and moved to Swastika, Ontario to be a gold prospector. Single Mothers continued without him.
While Thomson was searching for gold in Northern Ontario Single Mothers released their first S/T EP, which they recorded before he left, with Jeremy Bolm’s (Touché Amoré) Secret Voice Records. The band with no members played a sting of shows with different singers before Thomson returned. That EP sent the band touring with Title Fight, Quick Sand, Touché Amore, The Bronx and many others.
Pkew Pkew Pkew are one the most criminally underrated bands in North America. Hailing from Toronto, this pop-punk band of party-loving delinquents have spent the better part of a decade relentlessly touring Canada, the US and Europe with bands like PUP, Reel Big Fish, The Flatliners and a bunch more. Their song “Mid 20s Skateboarder” was featured in the 2020 reboot of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2. They’ve appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers and performed at Riot Fest. They’ve released a slew critically acclaimed albums and EPs on kickass labels like Side One Dummy, Dine Alone and Royal Mountain….and the list of accolades just keeps going. Basically they’re just rad af and you should be listening to them right now.
Doors at 7PM. Show at 8PM.
“Damn, We’re in a tight spot!”
Bluegrass buffs, old-timey olivias, and dapper Dans rejoice: 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of The Coen Brothers classic OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU and it’s legendary songbook, and The Broadway Theatre has rustled up some irresistible fixings to pay truly unique tribute to both!
Credited by many Americana aficionados of esteemed authority as a vital turning point in the new millennium Bluegrass revival, the OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU soundtrack was released 25 years ago to unanimous acclaim, enjoying a grammy win and platinum status eight times over, and becoming a decorated cultural phenomenon worthy of the unanimously heralded Coen Bros musical-comedy-adventure it was produced to accompany! To ring in the silver Jubilee of both the film and its soundtrack, local man-about-town Jaxon Lalonde has curated a veritable who’s who of Saskatchewan’s booming blue-grass scene to bring the soundtrack to life on the Broadway stage! A star-studded event to be sure, you will witness the likes of Belle Plaine, Blake Berglund, members of The Local Group, Sonia Reid and Friends, Aryn El Hefe, Gil & Wil, Wyndham Thiessen, Maya the Bird and Joseph Desjarlais revive all of your favorite OBWAT tunes before your very eyes and ears!
As though all of this wasn’t enough, this once in a lifetime performance will be followed by a screening of the film itself!
Thank you to our promotional partner, Northern Light Bluegrass & Old Time Music Society.
Presented by The Ness Creek Music Festival!
Doors at 9PM. Show at 10PM.
Nap Eyes makes crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Nova Scotian rain. Their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA, brain protein aggregation, and the Earth’s magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia, self-reproach, and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as enigmatic songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science.
If a seagull eating a shingle and your local bar star had a baby, it would probably listen to Dump Babes. Formed in 2019 on the foundations of garbage, glitter, and friendship, this group delivers irresistibly danceable and surprisingly heavy psych-pop tunes. The intensely charismatic Aurora Wolfe and her well-rehearsed dirtbag pals, serve sex appeal for the entire family.
Doors at 6PM. Show at 7PM.
The Broadway Theatre and Art Bar present Sits'n'Giggles Comedy at Art Bar!
It’s the frostiest month in Saskatoon, so join us as we warm things up with Sits ‘n’ Giggles Comedy for Winterruption! it’s going to be a sit show of the funniest kind. This night is guaranteed to leave you with a sit-eating grin!
Sit, or get off the pot and get your tickets now!
Host: Anna Linassi
Afrin Sarca
Andrea Bunnin
James Bonsal
Jenny Ryan
Lachlan McWilliams
Mitchell Doran
Doors at 7PM. Show at 8PM.
Throughout his distinguished career, Donovan Woods has built a devoted following who cling to the acclaimed songwriter’s every word. Never one to mince words, Woods is one of music’s most vulnerable storytellers and on his forthcoming studio album, Donovan takes that a step further. Honest and unflinching, on Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now, his upcoming seventh studio album, Woods takes a long look inside and isn’t necessarily thrilled with what he sees. For an artist who isn’t afraid to bear his soul, this is as emotionally gritty as he has ever been.
Long known as a masterful storyteller, Woods is at his absolute best on Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now. Across the album’s 11 sparse, intimate songs, Woods finds himself reflecting on the ups and downs he has been through since 2020. His writing allowed him to open up and address the complexities of life that he has been going through.
Haley Blais is a Vancouver-based singer-songwriter who has turned out defiant scream-into-your-pillow songs since 2014. Blais developed a community and fanbase as a teenager with her diaristic YouTube videos and tender ukulele covers. Her lyrics riff on the joys and banalities of the every day, the need to break apart and away from an uninspiring life, radical acceptance, and manifesting a world where you feel proud of yourself and who you're surrounded by.
Donovan Woods has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to supporting The Unison Fund and their work to provide counseling and emergency relief services to the Canadian music community.
Doors at 7PM. Show at 8PM.
Ada Lea is the musical project of Montreal’s Alexandra Levy. She has two albums released by Saddle Creek and Next Door Records (CA), including what we say in private and one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden, which earned her a spot on the Polaris Prize Long List in 2022. Beyond music, she paints, draws, reads, takes forest walks, cares for plants, and organizes a seasonal songwriting method. The third Ada Lea album—rumored to be her best yet—is set for release in 2025.
The music of Taylor Jade has been described as sorrowful & brooding . Her music, guitar driven and lyric-focused, recounts memories of melancholic darkness & loss, dappled with moments of sparkling luminosity. Blending influences from heavy metal, traditional folk, and psychedelia, she entrances with her inimitable approach to singing & songwriting. Her live performances are mesmerizing, balancing soft intricacy with powerful crescendo, reverberating within every inch of space, leaving audiences spell-bound.
respectfulchild 敬兒 is an interdisciplinary artist born, raised, and living as an uninvited guest on Treaty 6 Territory. Their work explores the quiet tensions and chaotic beauty of being a queer Chinese-Malaysian settler on the prairies, opening up space for intimate reflection and community dialogue. Rooted primarily with their violin, their practice ranges from live performance and installation to sound design and composition. Their second studio album 更新 re:new came out last year.
Doors at 8:30PM. Show at 9PM.
The Broadway Theatre and Art Bar present Sits'n'Giggles Comedy at Art Bar!
It’s the frostiest month in Saskatoon, so join us as we warm things up with Sits ‘n’ Giggles Comedy for Winterruption! it’s going to be a sit show of the funniest kind. This night is guaranteed to leave you with a sit-eating grin!
Sit, or get off the pot and get your tickets now!
Hosts: Dylan Jay Williamson & Dusty Adam
Anjie Mittelholtz
David Carnegie
Eric Bzowy
Garet Guitard
Shannon Mallory
Shawn Cuthand
Presented by The Ness Creek Music Festival!
Doors at 9PM. Show at 10PM.
Kool Keith is an American rapper and producer from The Bronx, New York. He first gained fame as a member of the pioneering hip-hop group Ultramagnetic MCs in the late 1980s, known for their innovative use of samples and dense, complex rhymes.
After leaving Ultramagnetic MCs in the early 1990s, Kool Keith embarked on a solo career that has spanned several decades and produced numerous critically acclaimed albums. He is known for his eccentric and often surreal lyrics, which often touch on themes of science fiction, sex, and violence, as well as his inventive use of language and wordplay.
Kool Keith is also known for his various aliases, including Dr. Octagon, Black Elvis, and Dr. Dooom. He has collaborated with a wide range of other artists, including Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, and MF DOOM, and has been cited as an influence by many other rappers and producers. Kool Keith continues to perform and record music to this day, and remains a beloved and influential figure in the world of hip-hop.
Filling in the industry thigh-gap 5 piece femme powered hip hop group, NADUH, write, engineer, and produce all of their music - meaning they have crafted a sound that’s truly representative of their collective energy - spreading unity consciousness through R&B infused beats that hit every chakra, laced with buttery-smooth vocals and herstorical lyrics. This one-of-a-kind group aims to shatter earthly constructs and help their audience access higher realms of consciousness while entertaining their urge to twerk.
Lagos-born, saskatoon-based singer/songwriter, MeenahMo is a rising artist in the contemporary music scene, celebrated for her unique fusion of genres that includes R&B, soul, Pop, and Hip-hop sounds. With a passion for storytelling, she connects with listeners on an emotional level, creating music that resonates deeply.
Doors at 9PM. Show at 10PM.
Bahay Kubo is a growing community of Filipinx drag performers in Saskatoon. We are a vibrant collective of drag performers with diverse styles and expressions dedicated in celebrating our culture through the art of drag. We hope to empower queer POV voices and be able to open doors within both the queer and Filipinx communities for future queer Filipinx so that their voices and perspectives are heard and acknowledged within both communities. Together, we slay!
Vancouver’s Winona Forever have ridden a wave of musical curiosity and chemistry further than imagined when forming in high school. After spending formative years touring Canada and packing Vancouver’s resilient DIY venues, the band stumbled into an international following with 2017 single Keep Kool. Having lived together for many years, Winona Forever’s live show plays as a confident and witty conversation between friends. With milestones such as Pop Montreal, M For Montreal, SXSW, Treefort Fest, Sled Island and an Audiotree live session under their belt, the band continues to push forward towards fresh musical territory and new adventures.
Born out of collectivist ideals, Unproductive is a quintet that plays a hybrid of euphoric post-punk and grandiose art rock. Their hyperfixations include the power of community, the disconnect between labour and happiness in modern life, loners who eschew human connection in the name of boardroom bottom lines, and sports.
General Admission: $20 or Pay What You Can at the door
**No one turned away for lack of funds**
In this memory play about aging, reciprocity and care, 50-year-old “immigrant kid” Kris gives you a tour of her childhood home – the sights, sounds, smells – to meet her parents, while she takes inventory of ALL their stuff, trying to get to know them better in real time.
BANANA MUSIK. The name my Dad gave his original music, recorded on his 8track in our basement -that name, that spelling with a clean, precise, bamboo font from a mechanical pencil on the spine of dozens of cassette tapes neatly packed in a leatherette case.
BANANA MUSIK. A memory play about aging, reciprocity, care – a love letter to “adult-(immigrant) kids paying back parents who gave up everything”.
Thank you to our event sponsors, Common Weal Community Arts.
Doors at 630pm, Show at 7pm
This performance is FREE to the public.
MAHIHKANAK DANCE TROUPE is an award-winning celebration of Indigenous youth and powwow dance culture. Students from grades 6 – 9 at St. Frances Cree Bilingual school bring their form of expression and style of dance to the troupe. We have junior and teen boys and girls in various categories: fancy, jingle, traditional, chicken and grass.
Led by the Indigenous Student Achievement Coordinator (ISAC), mahihkanak Dance Troupe makes various excursions and trips throughout the year including powwows, special events, schools & organizations. Members of the dance troupe must maintain good attendance and grades.
mahihkanak dance troupe if led by Curtis Peeteetuce. This performance will feature lighting design by J.J. Neufeld and a set built by Colin McGuirk-McNeil.
Thank you to our event sponsors Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan.
General Admission: $20 or Pay What You Can at the door
**No one turned away for lack of funds**
In this memory play about aging, reciprocity and care, 50-year-old “immigrant kid” Kris gives you a tour of her childhood home – the sights, sounds, smells – to meet her parents, while she takes inventory of ALL their stuff, trying to get to know them better in real time.
BANANA MUSIK. The name my Dad gave his original music, recorded on his 8track in our basement -that name, that spelling with a clean, precise, bamboo font from a mechanical pencil on the spine of dozens of cassette tapes neatly packed in a leatherette case.
BANANA MUSIK. A memory play about aging, reciprocity, care – a love letter to “adult-(immigrant) kids paying back parents who gave up everything”.
Thank you to our event sponsors, Common Weal Community Arts.
Doors at 8pm, Show at 8:30pm
This performance is FREE to the public.
MAHIHKANAK DANCE TROUPE is an award-winning celebration of Indigenous youth and powwow dance culture. Students from grades 6 – 9 at St. Frances Cree Bilingual school bring their form of expression and style of dance to the troupe. We have junior and teen boys and girls in various categories: fancy, jingle, traditional, chicken and grass.
Led by the Indigenous Student Achievement Coordinator (ISAC), mahihkanak Dance Troupe makes various excursions and trips throughout the year including powwows, special events, schools & organizations. Members of the dance troupe must maintain good attendance and grades.
mahihkanak dance troupe if led by Curtis Peeteetuce. This performance will feature lighting design by J.J. Neufeld and a set built by Colin McGuirk-McNeil.
Thank you to our event sponsors Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan.
Doors at 9PM. Show at 10PM.
La Sécurité (Montréal/Tiohtià:ke) is a collective whose art punk is equal parts: jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements, and minimalistic melodic hooks. After years of writing earworms for the pleasure of beautiful weirdos, all the while strutting their style on tour with their many different projects (Choses Sauvages, Laurence-Anne, Silver Dapple, etc.), the motley bunch now meanders the fringes of punk, new wave and krautrock. Since coming together, the five-piece has been invited to perform at Reeperbahn, SXSW, Sled Island and FME, also sharing the stage with the likes of Automatic, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp and Annie-Claude Deschênes (Duchess Says). The band recently offered Stay Safe! (June 16th, 2023 via Mothland), a first full-length that is manic, yet surprisingly laid-back, and should no doubt strike a chord with fans of Le Tigre, Automatic, Wet Leg, Devo, E.S.G. or The B-52’s.
Fold Paper is a post punk project started by Chell Osuntade in Winnipeg, MB. After playing in a plethora of Winnipeg bands, Chell started his own music project to further hone into his love of the post punk genre as well as to show his ability to thrive in the genre as a POC. Fold Paper takes inspiration from other post punk power houses, such as Blessed, Stuck, Unschooling, Palm, etc. Fold Paper may be on route to be one of the best post punk projects in Winnipeg.
Deep Archive is a four piece band from Treaty 6 Territory. Longtime Saskatoon music scene contributors: Chad Munson (guitar), Darren Miller (bass), Jeff Pederson (drums), and Will Robbins (guitar) have been quietly working away on some very loud and strange music for over half a decade. Following the departure of founding member Aaron Scholz (guitar), Deep Archive have focused ever more tightly on the purely instrumental aspects of the project. The past and ongoing: punk, noise, metal, grunge, ambient, and experimental sound art activities of the members are refracted through a sound that is loud, textural, and complex.
Presented by The Ness Creek Music Festival!
Doors at 9PM. Show at 10PM.
Since 2015, Saskatoon’s The Radiation Flowers have been constructing expansive arrangements, taking minimal chords to maximal effect. Mesmerizing, like the colourful floating globs of a lava lamp, their blend of shoegaze, spacey psych-rock, and 90s fuzz reaches into the cosmic frequencies of Spacemen 3, Disintegration-era Cure, and the drowned-in-sound aspirations of The Jesus and Mary Chain. It’s the sound of a cosmic rocket, and it’s ready for liftoff.
A creepy raucous rock n roll group with enough drums to get your feet moving like you're swimming through hellfire. "BIG EVIL RAT's tunes are scrappy, jangly and energetic rock 'n' roll at its finest. If there was music to get Mr. Burns twisting and shouting, it might just be the north Alberta six-piece BIG EVIL RAT. Garage rock to soften even the most twisted of old crotchety souls, there are enough elements of raucous punk for folks of any age to bop around to. More like Big Fun Rat." -Sled Island
Canadian trio P.P. Cauldron conjures sprawling, psychedelic epics that crash somewhere between post-punk chaos and astral drift. Born from a love of increasingly complex soundscapes—and a fierce need to rip them apart—their music hits like a thunderstorm in slow motion: raw, heady, and hypnotic. Fueled by the spirit of ex-hippies gone rogue, P.P. Cauldron’s sound will make you feel like you’re orbiting a dark star, all at once violently alive and weightlessly calm. Emerges from within, it’s P.P. Cauldron…
P.P. Cauldron was formed in Saskatoon in 2023 by Matthew McLaughlin (drums), Dylan Buzit (guitar/vocals), and Maxwell Raeburn Warner (bass).
Doors at 6:30PM. Show at 7:30PM.
We have a working theory…That many humans in the dead of winter would enjoy 1 night to hear 4 big bands playing big band jazz live! Join us for the Broadway Theatre’s third annual meeting of the big bands in this unique concert series featuring the USASK Jazz Ensemble, Stone Frigate Big Band, Footnotes Big Band and Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra.
Meet The Bands
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.
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.
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.
USASK Jazz Ensemble:
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.
The USASK Jazz Ensemble is privileged to be under the direction of Dr. Kayla Solomon for their 2024-2025 concert season.
Presented by The Ness Creek Music Festival!
Doors at 8PM. Show at 9PM.
Ducks Ltd. are a Toronto band featuring Australian lead guitarist Evan Lewis and U.K-born, U.S.-raised singer, bassist, and rhythm guitarist Tom McGreevy. As Ducks Ltd., the two thrive on skirting the edges of buoyant jangle pop and driving power pop. Their latest album, Harm’s Way, contains anxious songs that McGreevy explains are “about struggling. About watching people I care for suffer, and trying to figure out how to be there for them. And about the strain of living in the world when it feels like it’s ready to collapse.”
BIG SIS is a brother-sister duo from Liverpool, now based in LA making endlessly catchy and supremely dancable pop-music. Their sound combines cheeky lyricism with infectious dance beats, and many of their tracks illicit a nostalgia for first wave euro pop, though our their live performances have been touted as refreshing and leading edge.
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