Manitoba Music
Artists from Manitoba Build UK Markets at The Great Escape Festival
Two artists from Manitoba are heading out across the Atlantic for one of the UK's premier music industry events, The Great Escape Festival. Manitoba Music will be on the ground at the annual festival, which features over 500 bands from around the globe tearing up venues across Brighton.
Manitoba Music will partner with CIMA alongside provincial music industry associations from across the country to present showcases at Canada House at The Green Door Store on May 15 - 17. Hitting the stage for Manitoba this year are non-binary slacker rocker CJ Wiley and indie singer/songwriter Field Guide.
JUNO-winning Toronto-based, Tataskweyak Cree Nation artist Sebastian Gaskin is also part of this year’s lineup. All the artists have been steadily building buzz in European markets and inking deals for labels and reps across multiple markets.
On the road to The Great Escape, Manitoba Music will be at London's Strongroom Bar for a Canadian Music Showcase on May 13 featuring CJ Wiley and Field Guide. CJ Wiley will kick off the month with a series of showcases at FOCUS Wales in Wrexham, May 8 - 10.
The UK has been a key market for artists and music companies from Manitoba, offering opportunities to build important business relationships with festivals, labels, and agents through export showcases and networking events.
Manitoba Music’s export initiatives are made possible by the support of FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters, Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) through the Government of Canada, the Manitoba Government, and Manitoba Film & Music.
UK Showcase Schedule
FOCUS WALES
May 8 - 10, Wrexham
CJ Wiley
Thursday, May 8 - 9:50 PM @ Wynnstay Hotel
Friday, May 9 - 2 PM @ Glyndwr TV
Friday, May 9 - 6:50 PM @ The Royal Oak
Saturday, May 10 - 10:30 PM @ The Parish
CANADIAN MUSIC SHOWCASE LONDON
Tuesday, May 13 @ Strongroom Bar
CJ Wiley
Field Guide
THE GREAT ESCAPE
May 14 - 17, Brighton
CJ Wiley
Friday, May 16 - 1:35 PM @ Green Door Store
Saturday, May 17 - 8:15 PM @ Komedia Studio
Field Guide
Thursday, May 15 - 12:55 PM @ Green Door Store
Saturday, May 17 - 3:30 PM @ The Folklore Rooms
Saturday, May 17 - 5:30 PM @ Jubilee Square
Tearing through Canada on a groundswell of breezy, gripping slacker rock, non-binary singer-songwriter CJ Wiley doesn’t waste any time. With a message of love, healing and rancour, Wiley’s sound is urgent and undeniable. In ballads twanged slightly country, anthems skewed slightly grunge, Wiley’s musical project leads with their distinct voice, armed with the wit, candour, and energy of an artist with a striking perspective and a heart that demands to be heard. In their wide-reaching catalogue, a spectrum of soulful Sheryl Crow Americana and the electric grumblings of Garbage, sometimes in the space of a single song, they’ve carved out a decisive path for themselves in tongue-in-cheek stories about starting fresh, loss, gender, and how expensive it is to be alive. Wiley’s music is a down-and-dirty-roots-rock revelation into and over the horizon — and they’re bringing you with them
Field Guide is the Winnipeg, Canada based indie-rock/singer-songwriter project of Dylan MacDonald. Field Guide has been releasing music and touring relentlessly over the past few years, amassing over 30 million streams and supporting artists like Leif Vollebekk, Bahamas, SYML and Penny & Sparrow in the United States, Canada and throughout Europe. Field Guide recently returned home from his sophomore North American headline tour supporting his new record ‘Rootin for Ya’, the tour consists of 38 shows beginning in mid-September and running until November 22nd 2024.