Manitoba Live Music Event

About

At 1pm

Michael Audette

Michael has been playing old time fiddle music since the age of 4 and has gone on to develop his skills and become one of Manitoba’s most popular young ‘’Métis fiddlers’’. Michael has attended numerous fiddling competitions and Métis functions across Manitoba in an effort to promote old time fiddle music that has become such a major part of his life! He is currently Manitoba's grand champion and has been competing in the Canadian grandmaster's for 2 years. His music comes from the ‘’Heart’’ and has been passed down to him from his grandfather Alex Carriere who also shares the love of the fiddle! Alex has played for over 60 yrs entertaining fiddle music lovers across Manitoba! It is because of the passion they both share for the music that the title of Michael’s first CD is so appropriately named! in 2009 Michael released his second album intitled "SHOWTIME ". fiddling is a tradition that his family hopes will be rejuvenated in the spirit and passion of the great "fiddlers of the past"!!

At 8pm

The Dust Rhinos

If your band consists of fiddles, mandolins, and something called a bodhran, and your audience looks like it could hold its ...own at a soccer hooligan convention, you’d bloody well better be able to use those instruments to mercifully bludgeon that rumbly bunch with a Celtic sonic assault that will leave them pounding on the bar, picking each other up off the Guinness-soaked floor, and screaming for one more song.

It also wouldn’t hurt if your combined weight is roughly that of the Canadian women’s hockey team in full gear.

Fortunately the Dust Rhinos have both. They’re big men with a monster sound. A sound rooted in an ancient time and a faraway place. Using traditional airs, reels, and jigs the Rhinos conjure up the Ireland of olde with leprechauns, shamrocks, tweed caps, and “sure and begorrah.” And then, like a shillelagh wrapped in a potato sack, they knock the bejeebers out of that green and lovely image and unleash a freight train loaded with banshees and the furious ghost of Cuchulainn.