Mennofolk Manitoba announces “Show and Tell” theme for 2020
WINNIPEG—Mennofolk Manitoba, the annual event celebrating music and art from the keystone province’s Mennonite community, has announced the theme for its 2020 event: “Show and Tell.” Organizers are asking people who are interested in participating in the art show to submit their elementary school art projects, first attempts at poetry, childhood drawings “and whatever else…
Ten years after ‘Points of View’
On April 3, 2009, southern Manitoba-based folk group the Other Brothers released Points of View. Recorded in the studio at Mennonite Church Manitoba, the album earned critical acclaim—CBC dubbed them “the Simon and Garfunkel of the Prairies”—and a small but loyal following. Made up at the time of Chris Neufeld and Donovan Giesbrecht, the group’s…
