Articles by Myles Tiessen

Country Music Staked Its Claim at Winnipeg Folk Festival 2023

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023

Take a 30-minute drive North-East of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and you'll find a quintessential prairie forest. Innumerable trembling aspen and o...

Amos the Kid Secures His Hometown Hero Status with 'Enough as It Was'

PUBLISHED May 4, 2023

Walk down any street in Winnipeg with Amos Nadlersmith, better known as Amos the Kid, and someone is bound to stop you and chat. Since movi...

Zoon's 'Bekka Ma'iingan' Is a Captivating Force

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2023

Growing up in the small town of Selkirk, Manitoba, located just north of Winnipeg, was a hostile environment for Daniel Monkman. They spent...

Noah Derksen Brought Plainspoken Intimacy to Winnipeg

West End Cultural Centre, March 31

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2023

Noah Derksen undeniably makes prairie music — deeply personal, lyric-heavy folk songs infused with a great deal of atmosphere and space. It...

FONTINE Introduces Herself on the Enchanting 'Yarrow Lover' EP

PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2023

FONTINE has quietly been a key player in the Manitoba folk scene for what feels like ages now. A natural collaborator, she's worked with an...

Matt Foster's 'True Needs' Is a Quiet Storm

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022

Matt Foster is in no rush. On "Hospital," a particularly muted track planted delicately in the middle of their stunning debut solo album Tr...

Julianna Riolino Discovers Hope Amid Heartbreak on the Richly-Shaded 'All Blue'

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2022

During his short-lived Blue Period, Pablo Picasso painted The Old Guitarist, one of his most famous and enduring works. A portrait of an is...

Status/Non-Status Wander Inward with 'Surely Travel'

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2022

WHOOP-szo spent roughly a decade playing the DIY Canadian music scene before releasing their 2019 debut album, Warrior Down. Filled with fr...