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It s Wednesday afternoon at Birds Hill Provincial Park. The temperature is 20 degrees, with a cool breeze sweeping over the grounds of the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
It s Wednesday afternoon at Birds Hill Provincial Park. The temperature is 20 degrees, with a cool breeze sweeping over the grounds of the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Chris Frayer and Lynne Skromeda both know it: the campers should be setting up right now, settling in to hear songs they’ve heard a hundred times and ones they’ve never heard before. The not-so-calm before the… well, storm is the wrong word. Before the commotion.
Winnipeg Free Press
Mike Lambert, an independent music promoter who brought acts such as the Ramones, Iggy Pop and Green Day to Winnipeg long before the punk-rock legends became Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, has died.
Mike Lambert, an independent music promoter who brought acts such as the Ramones, Iggy Pop and Green Day to Winnipeg long before the punk-rock legends became Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, has died.
Lambert died of cancer on Dec. 3. He was 63.
Many of those who are in the music promotion business in Winnipeg today say they owe their career path to Lambert, who promoted concerts with the company Some Guy Presents, and later also became the booking agent for the Spectrum nightclub (now the Pyramid Cabaret).