Run for Rights Benefit Concert, Friday April 29th

Featuring: 

• Romi Mayes with Jay Nowicki
• Rosalyn Dennett and Allison DeGroot
• Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices

Doors at 7 PM, show 7:30 to 11:30

Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Avenue

Tickets:  $15

Tickets available from: 

Music Trader  - 97 Osborne  

Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store - 211 Bannatyne Avenue (at Albert Street)

Participating Run for Rights organizations

(Tickets will also be available for sale at the door)

For more information about the concert contact Allan at 471-6426 or email abeach@mts.net

Invite your facebook friends to the concert by going to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158951577494638

Background

The benefit concert features an edgy and exciting line-up of local artists who are garnering national and international attention.

Romi Mayes with Jay Nowicki   http://www.romimayes.com/

2010 Juno Album of The Year award nominee, and three time WCMA Songwriter and Album of The Year winner Romi Mayes has recently recorded her new live album “Lucky Tonight” with guitar player Jason Nowicki (The Perpetrators) and guests. The new 11 song record is set to be released in Canada, US, and Europe on April 26th, 2011.

Rosalyn Dennett & Allison DeGroot    http://www.myspace.com/songsfromtheholler

 Rosalyn Dennett and Allison de Groot, (current members of Canadian roots band Oh My Darling) started playing together as a duo in the fall of 2009. With their self appointed genre of oldtime-indie-folk, their music has been described as "wildly original, traditionally informed", and pushes the sonic limits of the standard fiddle-banjo ensemble. Their songwriting is fresh and unique, balancing instrumental ingenuity with poetic and thoughtful lyrics, and the duo can sing as softly as the wind rustling a prairie field or as powerfully as shouts over an Appalachian hootenanny!

Andrew Neville and the Poor Choices  http://www.poorchoices.ca/home.html

The Poor Choices’ wild brand of country-punk is loaded with crowd-pleasing attacks on traditional songs by Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan, but it's their original songwriting that really defines them. They are unpretentious Canadian rock and roll, coming straight from the gut.

Net proceeds from the run will be used to support Run for Rights --  a coalition of 17 Winnipeg organizations working for social justice and human rights.  The 10^th Annual Run for Rights will take place Saturday, June 4^th, 2011.  Visit http://runforrights.orgfor more information.

Run for Rights Sponsors:

Assiniboine Credit Union

CKUW 95.9 FM

92.9 KICK-FM