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With seven daytime stages running today, music fans attending the Winnipeg Folk Festival will have some tough decisions deciding what to see -- but what a great dilemma.

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With seven daytime stages running today, music fans attending the Winnipeg Folk Festival will have some tough decisions deciding what to see — but what a great dilemma.

To help you narrow those choices down, here’s some options of workshops we’ll be seeing. Of course, these are just the tip of the iceberg. With so much great music happening all over the site, wandering from stage to stage and discovering new music is part of the festival’s appeal.

Have fun.

 

— Hazel Dickens Tribute in Honour of Rosalie Goldstein: Connie Kaldor, Annie Lou, Sarah Jarosz, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, Charlie Parr, Dirk Powell (Big Bluestem, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)

— New Grass Revival: New Country Rehab, Crooked Brothers, Trampled by Turtles (Snowberry, 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.)

Times are Changing Back: Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band, Chuck Prophet (Snowberry, 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.)

— Jewels in the Crown: Imaginary Cities, Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens, Valerie June (Green Ash, 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.)

— Rob Williams

 

— Large Band… Love It: Tom Fun Orchestra, Minotaurs, Ganga Giri (Big Bluestem, 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.)

— B.C. Buds: The Be Good Tanyas, Dan Mangan, Shane Koyczan and the Short Story Long (Big Bluestem, 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.)

— Cat Gut Your Tongue: Dirk Powell, Paddy Tutty, Jane Harbour, Alex Hargreaves, Nathaniel Smith (Shady Grove, 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.)

— Jill Wilson

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