2022 Winnipeg Folk Fest lineup includes legends Judy Collins and Buddy Guy, Grammy-winners Portugal. The Man
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The sounds of traditional string instruments mixed with modern electronic beats and music from around the world will once again fill the air at Birds Hill Park this summer.
On Friday, the Winnipeg Folk Festival released its first lineup after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it brings together an eclectic mix of music from here in Mantioba and around the world.
"I cannot tell you how excited I am. I mean, this is what we were all holding on for, right?" executive director Lynne Skromeda said in an interview with CBC's Janet Stewart.
Headliners this year include Portugal. The Man — an indie rock collective from Portland, Ore. — and Australian multi-instrumentalist Tash Sultana.
"Portugal. The Man is a huge, huge thing for us," Skromeda said.
The band won a Grammy Award for best pop duo/group in 2018 for their single Feel It Still. Their new single, What, Me Worry? is featured in the lineup release video produced by the festival.
Sultana, who describes themselves as a "gender fluid multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, producer and engineer," gained fame with the release of their 2016 single Jungle and released their second full-length album, Terra Firma, in 2021.
The lineup includes many decorated musicians, with plenty of Grammy, Juno Award and Polaris Prize winners and nominees.
Colombian-born, Toronto-based artist Lido Pimienta's music blends the Afro-Indigenous rhythms and sounds of her birth country with modern synthpop.
Her 2020 album Miss Colombia won a Grammy for best Latin rock, urban or alternative album, and her debut album, La Papessa ,took home Canada's $50,000 Polaris Prize in 2017.
The next year, Pimienta presented that same award to another Winnipeg Folk Fest 2022 performer. Operatic tenor and composer Jeremy Dutcher won the Polaris Prize for his Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, written in the Wolastoq language.
Montreal-born singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell's first solo album, Outside Child, was a 2022 Grammy nominee for best Americana album, and is up for songwriter of the year and contemporary roots album of the year at this year's Junos.
Old-school fans have plenty to get excited about, too.
Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy returns to the festival for the first time in nearly 20 years.
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