As a Guitarist Lenny Breau is the best-known graduate of the Winnipeg jazz scene. “Lenny came up with a way of addressing the instrument technically that actually no one had…Continue readingThe legendary Lenny Breau, Winnipeg’s own
Winnipeg’s Chad Allan once wrote and recorded a song entitled I Wouldn’t Trade My Guitar For A Woman for Brave Belt’s 1971 debut album. Thankfully, I’ve never faced such a…Continue readingGuitar guy
In the mid 1960s, the biggest selling Manitoba-based recording act was not the Guess Who but Ukrainian language country duo Mickey & Bunny. Their recording of Woody Guthrie’s This Land…Continue readingMickey & Bunny were bigger than the Guess Who
Back in 1965 when the annual June Red River Exhibition summer fair (sadly cancelled for this year) was held around the Winnipeg Blue Bombers football stadium north of Polo Park,…Continue readingThe 1965 Teen Fair
