Manitoba Live Music Event

About

Odd Outfit
Winnipeg 4 (sometimes 5) piece Odd Outfit drive to expand and break the boundaries of categorization by cross-pollinating multiple styles of music while simultaneously moving audiences alike. Born in the basement of a Wolseley home in the summer of 2014, the members of Odd Outfit made an immediate connection with their mutual love for various styles of music in the realms of jazz, psychedelia, shoegaze, rock, R&B, hip hop, punk, instrumental, etc. With backgrounds in past/current projects and formal and informal music education, the strength of their sound lies in their different music experiences creating an unbreakable connection to a vast palette of musical ideas and concepts into their song architecture. 

Black Cloud
Filled with depth and emotion, Black Cloud of Winnipeg creates rich instrumental post-rock pieces. They are explosive and dramatic and pull at your heart with a rousing sense of transcendence and desire. Breathtaking and atmospheric, the guitars and synth roam and soar, dripping with reverb. This five-piece band creates beautiful soundscapes that build and fall with a sound somewhere between This Will Destroy You and Explosions In the Sky mixed with first wave shoegaze and a taste of punk ferocity that pierces through the unified sound sparingly.


Civvie
Civvie is an experimental trio improvising on amplified bassoon (Alex Eastley), cello (Natanielle Felicitas), and weaving loom (Kelly Ruth).

Based in Winnipeg, Civvie creates arresting soundscapes using extended techniques and digital effects, stretching the sonic possibilities of their instruments. The percussive sounds of the weaving loom are layered, its incidental cadence suggesting the pulse of an increasingly industrialized world. The bassoon and cello respond to the woven rhythms in a haunting dialogue, both concerned and hopeful for the future that unfolds. Drawn to the variability of spontaneous compositions, the trio’s musical conversations evoke a natural world besieged by human progress.