@Large & Kinetik a.k.a. The Dope Joints! DJs will show some Valentine's Day love to the city that hustles so hard with the Peg City Love Episode featuring all Winnipeg Hip Hop. The episode will then be podcasted and will be downloaded over 2000 times a month by our audience on every continent except Antarctica.

Artists, to get invovled, all you need to do is...

• Submit .mp3s for consideration to thedopejoints@gmail.com by Feb 13th with "Peg City Love Submission" in the subject line.
• Submit as many tracks as you like, preferably new or even exclusive.
• Include the artist, track and label/crew names.
• Tune in on Feb. 15th to see who makes the cut.
• Listen to The Dope Joints! Hip Hop Mixshow in the meantime and spread the word!

Thanks!

Kinetik, @Large... and sometimes DJ Stress

As part of Winnipeg’s Shaw Festival, 101.5 UMFM presents a Shavian double bill – Don Juan In Hell and Overruled, two plays that showcase Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s intelligence and wit.

DON JUAN IN HELL

Don Juan in Hell is the dream sequence from Act III of Shaw’s 1903 play Man and Superman. Challenged by a critic to write a Don Juan play, Shaw proved that he could by continuing Mozart’s classic opera Don Giovanni, which ends with Don Juan being dragged to Hell. Like a good playwright, this ending made Shaw wonder what really happened to Don Juan’s soul? In Don Juan In Hell, Doña Ana has just arrived in hell, where she meets Don Juan, her deceased father and the Devil. Shaw turns the world upside down, depicting hell as beautiful because people down there think of only love and art, and heaven as troubled because people up there are not satisfied and want to improve life.

This production of Don Juan in Hell was directed by Charles Laughton. In the 1940s, Charles Laughton toured the United States performing various literary works. Based on the success of these shows, Laughton believed the American public was receptive to intelligent fare. So, he and agent Paul Gregory decided that Don Juan In Hell could be performed as a stage reading with actors reading off scripts at minimal cost in towns all across the country. The actors Laughton chose to work with were some of Hollywood brightest stars – Charles Boyer as Don Juan, Cedric Hardwicke as the Commander, Agnes Moorehead as Doña Ana and himself as the Devil. The show was performed over 500 times, including a Broadway run, earning over a million dollars. The New York Times called in it "a mighty and moving occasion, not only a performance but an intellectual crusade." Columbia Records recorded Don Juan in Hell as an LP in 1952 using the same cast, and it is this recording that UMFM is broadcasting.

OVERRULED

By contrast, Overruled is a witty comedy written by Shaw in 1912 about two couples who flirt with each other’s spouse to inject some life into their stale marriages. Reminiscent of Oscar Wilde’s masterwork The Importance of Being Earnest, Overruled shows how cleverly Shaw uses language as the characters exchange insults by twisting what the other person said. Overruled is considered by scholars to be a somewhat autobiographical play, as Shaw himself was undergoing the same situation facing Mr. Lunn’s character – trying to reconcile having an affair while dealing with the passing of his morally strong mother. This new production of Overruled was directed by Justin Olynyk and features an all Winnipeg cast: Bernard Boland as Mr. Juno, Jennifer Gottwald as Mrs. Juno, Jennifer Quinn as Mrs. Lunn and Peter Spencer as Mr. Lunn,

SHOWTIMES

Don Juan in Hell will be broadcast on Wednesday, January 25 at 7:15 pm.  Overruled will be broadcast Wednesday February 1 at 8 pm on 101.5 UMFM.

UMSU's annual celebration of life and learning - CELEBRATION WEEK - returns to the University of Manitoba next week and once again UMFM is proud to be a part of the fun. Starting on Monday January 23rd and running until Friday January 27th, the Fireside Lounge in University Centre will play host to a quintet of talented artists performing intimate acoustic sets every morning at 11 AM.

Things kick off Monday the 23rd with Lyzie Burt, who recently recorded a live session here at UMFM to mark the release of her new album Cigarettes and You.

Tuesday the 24th will feature Kipp Kocay, who has also done a UMFM live session and is set to release his new album Knowledge of Love two days after playing our stage.

On Wednesday the 25th, Bobby Desjarlais - best known as a member of the Bokononists and Attica Riots - will play a rare solo set.

Micah Erenberg (aka Zoppa) - who has played not one, but two live sessions at UMFM, will be playing our stage on Thursday the 26th.

And capping things off on Friday the 27th will be Slow Dancers' Jesse Hill who has also graced our recording room with a live session.

All of these shows are FREE and run 11am til noon in the Fireside Lounge (directly across from Tim Hortons on the main floor of University Centre) with support generously provided by UMSU. We hope you'll celebrate with us, January 23-27.

Big Fun is an annual indie music festival taking place in multiple venues throughout the Exchange District and surrounding area the last weekend of January. Using Winnipeg’s prairie winter as the backdrop, we will be showcasing the wealth of Manitoba’s artists alongside our historic downtown.

The goal of Big Fun is to present various genres of music and art over the course of four days. It will run from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon (Jan. 26-29) with multiple shows each night. Big Fun takes the shows out of overused bars and clubs, occupying galleries, lofts, and warehouse spaces instead to create an entirely new event experience.

Manitoba maintains a reputation for having a rich artistic community as well as a bitter winter. We want to bring these two elements of our province together to create an annual event our prairie town can be proud of.

Big Fun Productions is comprised of five Winnipeg artists and musicians who are passionate about their city. Inspired by the layout of Pop Montreal and NXNE, Big Fun wants to create the same excitement within the music and art community in Winnipeg by hosting several events throughout the year.

Festival Passes are only $30, available at:

• In To The Music
• Music Trader
• Black Sheep Diner
• Lo Pub & Bistro

Tickets for all shows will be available at the door, prices may vary.

* Festival passes do not include access to the Lytics and Rebel Yell show.  Tickets for this event will be available for $12 in advance and $15 at the door.

Manitoba Music and Manitoba Film & Music are uniting once again for the second annual Manitoba Music Rocks Charity Curling Bonspiel to raise funds and awareness for the Unison Benevolent Fund. The bonspiel takes place on February 12 at the Granite Curling Club, offering participants of all skill levels a chance to curl for a cause.

The Unison Fund is an assistance and referral program – created and administered by the music industry, for the music industry. A registered charity established in 2010, the Unison Benevolent Fund is designed to provide discreet relief to music industry personnel in times of personal hardship and crisis. Find out more about the Unison Fund at unisonfund.ca.

The inaugural bonspiel, which took place last January, was a resounding success. Over 100 people came together to curl for the cause, raising over $2000 for the Unison Fund in the process. In addition to local coverage and sponsor support, the bonspiel also gained national attention with nods from Unison supporters like Music Canada.

The Manitoba Music Rocks Charity Curling Bonspiel is open to curlers of all skill level. All profits will be donated to the Unison Benevolent Fund. We'll have some games to keep people busy off the ice, as well as the one and only Mama Cutsworth back on turntable duties. Curlers will have a delicious finish to the event’s festivities with a celebratory dinner, with prizes for bonspiel winners as well as those who come dressed in their best, most outrageous, and vintage curling outfits.

Those interested in more information can contact curling@manitobamusic.com or call 942.8650. If you're interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact ginny@mbfilmmusic.ca.