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Winnipeg Music Project

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A Winnipeg-based music podcast and UMFM radio show created by Ashley Bieniarz since 2015. Each episode features interviews with emerging or established local music-makers to connect fans or influence other musicians who are thinking of starting a performing career. Through stories of songwriting, album releases and tours from around the world, listen to the unique journeys of local artists who love what they do.

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  1. Amos The Kid

    Amos the Kid is the stage moniker of Winnipeg's Amos Nadlersmith. Nadlersmith has long been an enigmatic curiosity of the Winnipeg scene. For a time, the prolific songwriter seems to be anywhere and everywhere; then, you couldn’t find him if you went looking. His presence on a stage has been...

  2. Tracy Bone

    Tracy Bone-‘09 JUNO Award Nominee (Keeseekoowenin Ojibway Nation). Multi-Award Winning Country/Americana Songstress received “Songwriter Of The Year” wins for BOTH her debut album “No Lies” (’08) and her sophomore album “Woman Of Red” (2012) at the Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards in...

  3. FIINN

    There’s something to be said for keeping it in the family… Three brothers, Dan, John and Matt Baron create the genetic make up of FIINN. With ear haunting melodies and clever rhythms, FIINN creates unique soundscapes, leaving audiences with an eerie sense of human synchronicity. All pre-recorded...

  4. LLUX

    LLUX is a band fronted by Canadian songwriter Lindsay Thomson, born and raised in the Northern town of Kenora, Ontario. The band’s sound blends indie rock and power pop, Thomson expressing herself through honest lyrics and guitar driven songs. New to the Winnipeg music scene, Lindsay has been...

  5. Mitchell Mozdzen

    All pre-recorded music has been removed from this episode. The set list originally featured in this episode included Mitchell Mozdzen's “Take Me Down“ from Red, “Fate“ from Yellow, and “Best Friend“ from Green/Blue. For more local music, check out the Winnipeg Music Project website. Thank you to...

  6. Lisa Muswagon & Hellnback

    Hellnback is a performer with high energy and stage presence. He performs songs from his album #Fourteen91, previous hits and songs he's been featured in. His most recent feature is with A Tribe Called Red's Suplex Album called "The People's Champ". He also has a song with the Hendo Brothers...

  7. Postwar

    Pulling from their background in Noise & Hardcore, Postwar aims to make authentic, visceral Hip Hop. As a member of Winnipeg music collective "Styx City Cult", Postwar pushes their brand of Alternative Hip Hop alongside collaborations with fellow Cult members and artists across the world.…

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  8. Daniel Raiskin of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

    A son of a prominent musicologist, Daniel Raiskin grew up in St. Petersburg. He attended the celebrated conservatory in his native city and continued his studies in Amsterdam and Freiburg. First focusing on viola, he was inspired to take up the baton by an encounter with the distinguished teacher...

  9. Brandon Post

    Brandon Post is a guitarist, songwriter and singer whose infectious guitar hooks are backed by carefully chosen lyrics & melodies. We sat down after performing together at Brandon’s EP release of Good Intentions In The Big Spoke at Le Garage Cafe. We talked business, songwriting, what goes into...

  10. Stun

    Listen to the latest episode of the Winnipeg Music Project with the kind-hearted and hardworking hiphop artist originally from Cross Lake, Stun. We can about his journey since his beginnings at a local talent show, his life and aspirations two LPs later, and the balance of having a music career…

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  11. Cameron Denby with The Fresh Blood Project

    This episode of the Winnipeg Music Project is Cameron Denby, an award winning local percussionist. We chat about our shared experiences with the University of Manitoba Faculty of Music, Cameron's study abroad at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and his current focus The Fresh Blood…

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  12. Quinton Blair

    Honest as a day spent on a tractor, and driven like the drifting Prairie snow. 2018 Manitoba Country Music Association Roots Artist of the Year, Quinton Blair is a road running, tale-spinning songwriter. Silky and smooth like a diesel engine, his beard glistening in the setting sun, its rodeo mud...

  13. The Gerry Hatricks

    The Gerry Hatricks deliver a progressive folk-rock music style with a punk aesthetic. Spirited and impressive musicianship is what to expect from this group of close friends. Raw and honest story telling with unique fingerstyle guitar playing and weaving, high energy bass lines that don't quit.…

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  14. Brandi Vezina

    Brandi is a singer/songwriter whose authentic country roots are intertwined with rock and the blues. She is a natural born performer who comes from a musical Metis family. Brandi is a force to be reckoned with. her rebel spirit is evident on stage and in her music. Her biggest inspirations…

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  15. AC Breeze

    AC Breeze is a Winnipeg-based musician and storyteller on a constant grind to bring deliciously marinated music to your ears. Raised in Steinbach, Manitoba but born in the Philippines, AC Breeze often expresses storytelling through a wide range of genre and melody. All pre-recorded music has been...

  16. The Rainy Day Apparel

    The Rainy Day Apparel (RDA) tells the story of multiple connections in a magnanimous but tranquil way, offering perspective on the human experience as seen and heard from the eyes of a prairie born singer/songwriter. Whether it is uplifting, gut-wrenching, healing or heartbreaking; music should...

  17. Katie and the Wolves

    Katie & The Wolves is a Manitoba based blues and Rock & Roll band. Vintage and classy with a bit of grit and driven by the blues. Katie & The Wolves are the real deal when it comes to Rock & Roll with no dues left to pay. Performing for over a decade, Katie is no stranger to the stage. Over the...

  18. Zrada

    Zrada’s sound originates equal parts in the fog-shrouded valleys of the Carpathians and the sweaty mosh-pits of Anthrax shows; however their music is mysterious and primal in a unique way. A folk-punk tour-de-force, their subversion of Eastern-European musical traditions, enigmatic imagery and...

  19. Cell

    Cell is a black metal band that combines cosmic blackened/death riffs, extreme drumming and slight sludge/doom metal. Formed in the late fall of 2014 by Hyperion and David Exell, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after jamming as a two piece for a few months Ryan Strecker(Daimos) joined on bass, adding the...

  20. Northern Royals 2.0

    With their unique combination of small-town roots and big city sound, Winnipeg alt-rockers Northern Royals have come to conquer your radio, your streaming service, and your local stage. After years of putting in work as critically-acclaimed rock foursome The Autopilots, a change of name and a...

  21. Veneer (ft. Special Guest Host: Graeme Houssin)

    Veneer’s enchanting trifecta of sentimental souls create a universe of music that is soft, strong, and blatantly vulnerable. This multi-instrumental gaggle of creators is not your typical three-piece; accompanied by brass and woodwind instrumentals, and wielding six instruments in total, Veneer’s...

  22. Screaming At Traffic 2.0

    Screaming at Traffic is a punk rock band from Winnipeg, Mb, made up of Jacques Richer, Duncan Murta, Paul Colman, and Stefan St. Godard. Their no frills emo-punk riffing add to the group's frenzied live performance and raw yet melodic songwriting. While filming the interview in a park in downtown...

  23. Jet City Records

    We stumbled upon the local hip-hop group Jet City Records while collaborating with USA Blog Network for its Facebook live interview series “Hometown Hero.” We connected after the show and decided to have them on the Winnipeg Music Project to talk more about their efforts and confidence in the…

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  24. Paige Drobot

    Paige Drobot considers herself a stream of consciousness artist. She believes that pure art is a gift from an entity larger than her and happens once she can achieve zero thought. Zero thought is achieved by allowing the soul to be totally uninhibited, so that the spirit can translate her…

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  25. Jacob Brodovsky

    Jacob Brodovsky is a singer-songwriter patently from Winnipeg, Canada. Jacob transforms stories of mundane people and places into emotional, driving tunes with straightforward yet smart lyricism. He falls into the beloved line of uniquely Winnipeg folk-based, talk-singing, moody-Manitobans. His...

  26. Apollo Suns 4.0

    Born from the fusing of eight Winnipeg, MB based musicians. Apollo Suns have created a refreshing and innovative sound and live performance combining jazz, funk, rock and psychedelic music. They are "Instrumental Artists of the Year" nominees at the 2018 at the Western Canadian Music Awards. All...

  27. Warming

    Trading in a white picket fence for living out of a van, synthpop artist Brady Allard is the multi-instrumentalist behind Winnipeg’s Warming. His music began to take form of an obsession when he left his job, his house and his partner of a decade. While living out of a van, he wrote the 12 song…

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  28. The Inflatable Band

    The guys from The Inflatable Band came onto the show to talk about their beginnings and their intense desire to constantly create wacky, fun and loud music. All pre-recorded music has been removed from this episode. The set list originally featured in this episode: The Inflatable Band "Comely…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A Winnipeg-based music podcast and UMFM radio show created by Ashley Bieniarz since 2015. Each episode features interviews with emerging or established local music-makers to connect fans or influence other musicians who are thinking of starting a performing career. Through stories of songwriting, album releases and tours from around the world, listen to the unique journeys of local artists who love what they do.

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A Winnipeg-based music podcast and UMFM radio show created by Ashley Bieniarz since 2015. Each episode features interviews with emerging or established local music-makers to connect fans or influence other musicians who are thinking of starting a performing career. Through stories of songwriting,...

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