Manitoba Live Music Event

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Hear All Year! The Winnipeg Folk Festival is thrilled to bring the Current Swell back to the city after their explosive performances at Folk Fest this summer. 

Tickets are $20.25 in advance plus fees at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, the West End Cultural Centre and through Ticketmaster. 

Come, pop a cold one and move to the grooves of an accidental band. It coalesced around a bunch of friends who liked to chill at home in Victoria, get into a roots-rock mood and jam. At the time, circa 2005, they didn’t exactly plan to start touring the world (which they did just months after they began), to release five beachy albums, or accumulate a global army of fans. They definitely didn’t expect to wind up opening for The Beach Boys or Cat Empire. But there was a magic in their union, a loose and lucid island vibe, roughed up by their rolling blues and rugged West Coast style. That’s best heard on 2014’s Ulysses, a journey through uncharted waters, one which sees them dabbling in more rocking genres and coming out all the stronger.