Artist Line Up for Winnipeg Folk Festival by Genre

For those of you who are thinking about going to the Winnipeg Folk Festival, July 10-13 , at Birds Hill Park, north of Winnipeg, here is a quick guide to artists playing there this year. They are grouped by genre (usually keeping the designation that the festival has been using for them). The only changes are where I know what the band does and it differs from what is officially listed.

Artist Line Up for Winnipeg Folk Festival by Genre

ALTERNATIVE/JAM
Absent Sound (Manitoba)

BLUES
Adolphus Bell (Alabama)
Little Miss Higgins (Saskatchewan)
Little Freddie King (Louisiana)
Spider John Koerner (Minnesota)

CELTIC
Lau (Scotland)

COUNTRY
Calexico (Country/Mexicana, Arizona)
Charlie Louvin (Tennessee)
Tres Chicas (Folk/Country, North Carolina)

FAMILY/CHILDREN
The Aunts and Uncles (Manitoba)
Norman Foote (British Columbia)
Fresia and the Offsprings (Nova Scotia)
Green Fools Theatre (Alberta)
Green Kids (Manitoba)
Just Kiddin’ (Manitoba)
LuLu and the TomCat (Manitoba)
Al Simmons (Manitoba)
Washboard Hank (Ontario)

FOLK
The Acron (Alt-folk, Ontario)
David Francey with Craig Werth (Ontario)
Eliza Gilkyson with Nina Gerber (Texas)
Nanci Griffith (Texas)
Jacob & Lily (Manitoba)

FOLK/BLUES
Joan Armatrading (England)

FOLK/ROCK
Apostle of Hustle (Ontario)
The Beautiful Girls (Australia)
Jakob Dylan & The Gold Mountain Rebels (California)
The Weakerthans (Manitoba)

FOLK/POP
Pascale Picard Band (Quebec)
Redhead (Australia)

FOLK, OTHER
Rebekah Higgs (Folk/Electronica, Nova Scotia)
Geoff Berner (Folk/Klezmer, British Columbia)
The Fugitives (Spoken/Folk, Alberta)
Justin Noxuka (Soul/Folk, Ontario)

FRENCH-CANADIAN
Les Chauffeurs a Pieds (Quebec)

FUNK/SOUL/R&B
The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker (Tennessee)

GOSPEL
John Boutte (Black Gospel, Louisiana)
Jim Byrnes and the Sojourners (Gospel/Blues, British Columbia)
Robert Randolph and the Family Band (Gospel/Rock, New Jersey)
Warrior Gospel Band (Texas)

INSTRUMENTALIST/BLUEGRASS
David Grisman Bluegrass Experience (Bluegrass, California)
Danny Gotham (Instrumentalist, New York)
The Infamous Stringdusters (Tennessee)
Peter Ostroushko (Minnesota)
Red Stick Ramblers (Hot Club Swing/Cajun, Louisiana)
Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck with Casey Driessen and Ben Sollee (Bluegrass/World, Tennessee—This band does sing.)

OLD TIME
Old Man Luedecke (Nova Scotia)
Outlaw Social (Contemporary Stringband, British Columbia)
Martha Scanlan & The Stuart Brothers (Montana/Tennessee)
Sheesham and Lotus (Ontario)

REGGAE/HIP-HOP
Michael Franti and Spearhead (California)
Lee “Scratch” Perry wit Dub Is A Weapon (Jamaica)
Grand Analog (Hip-Hop, Manitoba)

ROOTS/AMERICANA
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter (Washington)

SINGER/SONGWRITER
Basia Bulat (Quebec)
Ray Davies (England)
Justin Townes Earle (Tennessee)
Kathleen Edwards (Ontario)
Leela Gilday (British Columbia)
Hayden (Ontario)
J.P. Hoe (Manitoba)
Carla Luft (Manitoba)
Catherine MacLellan (PEI/Nova Scotia)
Danny Michel (Ontario)
Carrie Rodriguez (Texas)
Ann Walton (Manitoba)
Jim White (Georgia)

WORLD
Balkan Beat Box (NY/Israel)
Forro in the Dark (New York)
Dobet Gnahore (Ivory Coast)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw (Hungary)
Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 (Nigeria)
Shtreiml (Pennsylvania/Quebec)

WORLD, OTHER
Harry Manx (Blues/World, British Columbia)
Chic Gamine (World/Soul/Roots, Manitoba)
DJ Rekka (Electronic/World, New York)