Arts & Culture

Jazz lovers can expect an evening of classic swing with a fresh twist when saxophonist John Greene and the Winnipeg Swing Project take the stage at the Fort Garry Hotel this Sunday, May 4 at 7 p.m.

A century of music-making will be celebrated this coming weekend at the Crescent Arts Centre in Osborne Village. 

The Winnipeg Boys Choir will be celebrating their 100th anniversary with a concert that honours their musical legacy. That concert, titled All the Way Home, will feature current singers and alumni of the choir as well as displays of memorabilia and old recordings so audiences can relive the songs and stories shared by the choir over the decades. 

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Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet will be observing several milestones in the coming days.  

For one thing, they’ll be celebrating their 85th anniversary providing world class ballet to the city. They’ll also be presenting the final show of their 2024-2025 season, a mixed-repertoire presentation called Bolero & Other Works. 

Billy and the Moon explores the quiet magic of introversion at summer camp 

One of the world’s rarest stringed instruments—the 1690 “Tuscan-Medici” Stradivari viola—has officially joined the collection of the U.S. Library of Congress (LoC), thanks to a record-setting $30 million acquisition made possible by the combined generosity of philanthropists David and Amy Fulton and the family of the late Cameron Baird.

The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra is inviting audiences to a musical gathering by the fire at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights this week. 

Awasowin – the Cree word for “those who gather around a fire” – is a collection of spoken word pieces, nature sounds, and, of course, music. The latter element will see two Juno nominees lead the orchestra and host the gathering: conductor Larry Strachan and cellist Cris Derksen.  

Choral showcase features premiere by Andrew Balfour, iconic Canadian songs and more 

The bells at Westminster United Church in Wolseley have been ringing out over the city for well over a century, but its sounds have been somewhat muted in recent years. 

The church’s congregation, along with numerous local arts organizations, have been unable to use the sanctuary space because of structural deficiencies in the ceiling. With estimates to fix that ceiling running into the millions of dollars, the future of the entire building remains uncertain. 

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