Event
- Date
- Saturday, Aug 5, 2017 at 8:30pm
- Performers
- Mike Swickis
- Location
- Prairie Ink
- Address
- McNally Robinson Grant Park, 1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
About
Guitarist/Composer Mike Swickis was born in Churchill, has released two CDs under his own name, and has been a regular fixture on the Winnipeg music scene for over a decade. He has played with The Ron Paley Big Band, Walle Larsson, as a leader in the annual Winnipeg Jazz festival, in theatre pit bands for Rainbow Stage as well as in local pub rock and blues groups. Mike recently returned from Australia where he was the bandleader for The Edens Jazz Quartet on board the P and O cruise ship The Pacific Eden. He is also an active music teacher and a contributing columnist for the publication Guitar Player magazine.