Grammy-winner Lucinda Williams, Mt. Joy, Cowboy Junkies coming to Winnipeg in 2024 Folk Fest lineup

March 8, 2024 Canuck

A Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, a Canadian mainstay celebrating nearly 40 years in music and an alternative country favourite who had to cancel a Winnipeg gig last year are among the more than 70 artists who will hit the stage of the 2024 Winnipeg Folk Festival.

The marquee names in the lineup this year for the summer festival — an annual tradition at Birds Hill Park since 1974 — include multi-Grammy-winning artist Lucinda Williams, who released her sixteenth studio album in 2023.

Williams’s album is a testament to her resilience after recovering from a stroke in 2020 that affected her motor skills, the festival said in a Friday news release announcing the lineup.

The Folk Fest will also see performances from Mt. Joy, hailed by the festival as a “force to be reckoned with,” and the Grammy-nominated duo the War And Treaty this year.

A man wearing a cowboy hat and a mask covering his face is playing the guitar onstage at a concert. — Orville Peck performs onstage at the Gobi Tent at the 2022 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival. (Getty Images for Coachella)

Orville Peck will also perform this year, after having to cancel a tour last year — including his Winnipeg Folk Festival date — for health reasons.

In addition, the much-loved Canadian band Cowboy Junkies, who released their debut album in 1986, will deliver “a special performance spanning their entire career,” the festival said.

Folk legend Tom Paxton and the Don Juans also return to the festival stage for the first time since 2003, according to the release.

Other notable names include the Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Noah Cyrus — sister of Miley — and Noah Reid, known for his work (including a memorable performance of Tina Turner’s Simply the Best) on the CBC TV series Schitt’s Creek.

A man with dark hair plays a guitar. — Winnipeg musician Ariel Posen is among the local artists who will appear at the festival this year. (Sarah Petz/CBC )

Manitoba acts taking the Folk Festival stage this year include Ariel Posen, a Winnipegger ranked among the world’s top guitarists by Music Radar in 2019, folk singer-songwriter Madeleine Roger, and Ruth Moody, a founding member of the Wailin’ Jennys.

The festival will also highlight Indigenous artists, including Elisapie, an Inuk artist known for covers of pop and rock classics by bands like Fleetwood Mac and Blondie that she has translated into Inuktitut.

International artists include Shooglenifty — a Scottish band who were festival favourites in their 1999, 2000 and 2004 appearances — and South Africa’s B.C.U.C. (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness), who the festival promises “will move the audience — both physically and emotionally — with an explosion of passion, funk and rhythm.”

The Winnipeg Folk Festival will run July 11-14. Tickets are on sale now, and a full lineup is available on the festival’s website.

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