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Festival Express

Join some of your favorite UMFM hosts as they preview festival season here in Winnipeg, featuring interviews and music from just a few of the great artists headed to Winnipeg!

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OMBIIGIZI

Festival Express ·

2025/07/10

UMFM PD Michael Elves speaks to OMBIIGIZI’s Daniel Monkman about his many musical pursuits and how he ends up working within OMBIIGIZI, his experience at last year’s Winnipeg Folk Festival with Lee Ranaldo and Medicine Singers, working with Laraaji and Kevin Drew and muchmore.

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Willi Carlisle

Festival Express ·

2025/07/10

American folksinger Willi Carlisle talks to UMFM’s Michael Elves about his new album Winged Victory, learning to play and call square dances, busing to the Smithsonian to discover the roots of folk songs and more in advance of his appearance at the 2025 Winnipeg Folk Festival.

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Jaxon Haldane

Festival Express ·

2025/07/10

Beer For Breakfast’s Broose Tulloch talks to Jaxon Haldane about the Young Performers mentorship program at the Winnipeg Folk Festival.

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Greg Lisher of Camper Van Beethoven

Festival Express ·

2025/07/09

Longtime Camper Van Beethoven guitarist Greg Lisher talks about the band’s formation, his own musical background, how time away and multiple musical pursuits helped the long-term strength of CVB and much more with UMFM PD Michael Elves in advance of the group’s appearance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival.

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Rachael Price of Lake Street Dive

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2025/07/09

Lake Street Dive’s Rachael Price discusses how the band first formed, their two-decade plus career, her own origin story and pursuing aseparate path with Rachael &Vilray in advance of Lake Street Dive’s headlining appearance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. **Please note the stream /DL version of this episode does not feature the Rachael &Vilray selection as the record is under embargo until its release in August**

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Folk Bitch Trio

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2025/07/03

UMFM PD Michael Elves talks to all three members of Australia’s Folk Bitch Trio in advance of their transoceanic trek to play the Winnipeg Folk Festival. The trio discuss their formation and musical backgrounds, their forthcoming record on Jagjaguwar, and receiving praise from Phoebe Bridgers.

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Los Bitchos

Festival Express ·

2025/07/03

UMFM PD Michael Elves talks to multinational quartet Los Bitchos’ Serra Patale about the group’s formation, the inspirations for their instrumental music, working with Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos and more in advance of their appearance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival.

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Begonia

Festival Express ·

2025/07/02

Beer for Breakfast’s Broose Tulloch talks to Winnipeg icon and Folk Fest fave, Begonia in advance of her return to Birds HillPark.

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Slow Spirit

Festival Express ·

2025/07/02

Slow Spirit’s Natalie Bohrn and Eric Roberts reminisce about their own connections to the Winnipeg Folk Festival and talk about working on new music after the release of their third record, 2024’s That’s The Gods Talking in advance of their appearance at the WFF’s 50th anniversary.

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Melbourne Ska Orchestra

Festival Express ·

2025/06/26

Beer For Breakfast’s Broose Tulloch talks to Melbourne Ska Orchestra’s Nicky Bomba in advance of the MSO playing Winnipeg Folk Festival.

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Dengue Fever

Festival Express ·

2025/06/25

UMFM PD Michael Elves talks to Dengue Fever’s Zac Holtzman about the group’s origins, their decades long career and escaping to the desert to record their most recent album among other topics.

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Rose City Band

Festival Express ·

2025/06/19

UMFM PD Michael Elves speaks to Rose City Band’s Ripley Johnson about the group’s latest album Sol YSombra in advance of their performance at the 2025 Winnipeg Folk Festival.

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Jolie Laide

Festival Express ·

2025/06/18

A cross-border collaboration between American artist Nina Nastasia and members of Alberta act The Cape May (Jeff MacLeod, Clinton St. John and Morgan Greenwood), Nastasia and MacLeod discuss how they initially met decades ago and what led to forming JolieLaide.

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Stephen Fearing (Blackie & The Rodeo Kings)

Festival Express ·

2025/06/12

Broose Tulloch of Beer For Breakfast talks to one-third of Blackie &The Rodeo Kings. *This interview was recorded with Stephen Fearing while he was touring his most recent solo record.

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Basia Bulat

Festival Express ·

2025/06/11

Festival favourite (it’s her picture on the Performer’s Page link) Basia Bulat returns to Birds Hill Park on the heels of her latest album, Basia’s Palace. She speaks to UMFM PD Michael Elves about making the record, performance, parenthood andmore.

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Rosali

Festival Express ·

2024/07/10

Rosali Middleman just released her fourth record under the name Rosali, and it’s her second with Omaha-based backing band David Nance Group. The whole crew will be at Birds Hill Park to perform from Bite Down, but before coming up, Middleman joins UMFM PD Michael Elves to discuss making the record, growing up in alarge musical family, her various projects and muchmore.

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Elisapie

Festival Express ·

2024/07/10

Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie earned aPolaris Prize shortlist spot for her The Ballad of the Runaway Girl in 2018, but her brand new record is drawing in new listeners with reworkings of classic rock and pop translated into Inuktitut. Elisapie will be playing the main stage at Winnipeg Folk Festival at 6pm on Friday July12th.

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Mali Velasquez

Festival Express ·

2024/07/09

Originally from the Texas panhandle and now calling Nashville home, singer-songwriter Mali Velasquez discusses relocating, moving from choir to singing solo and working on her debut album, I’m Green, with UMFM PD Michael Elves in advance of her appearance at the 2024 Winnipeg Folk Festival.

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Jon Muq

Festival Express ·

2024/07/09

Originally from Uganda and now calling Austin, Texas home, Jon Muq’s story is asingular one and he shares it with UMFM PD Michael Elves in advance of his appearance at the 2024 Winnipeg Folk Festival. The pair discuss Michael Jackson, cruise lines, Muq’s debut Flying Away andmore.

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Ibibio Sound Machine

Festival Express ·

2024/07/03

UK collective Ibibio Sound Machine draw on singer / frontperson Eno Williams Nigerian heritage, and while their first four records were sung in the Ibibio language of her homeland, the group’s latest album, Pull The Rope, finds Williams incorporating English lyrics for the first time. She discusses what led to this, the sound their producer brought to the mix and more with UMFM PD Michael Elves in advance of their Big Blue at Night

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