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Explore these sonic landscapes

The 10th edition of the MEME festival — hosted by Manitoba Electronic Music Exhibition of Technology, Innovation and Creativity, or MEMETIC — kicks off Aug. 16 and will bring four days of electronic music multimedia visuals and educational workshops to the Exchange District. 

This year’s headliners include long-standing British DJ Mr. C, Vancouver’s Jay Tripwire, American tech-house musician Pezzner and Bass Coast Music Festival co-founder and music curator Andrea Graham, otherwise known as the Librarian, as well as more than a dozen other performers. 

In addition to the free shows at the Cube in Old Market Square, there are also ticketed “After Cube” events held at various venues around the city, including the Pyramid Cabaret, Forth, 441 Main and the Met’s rooftop patio, as well as daytime workshops hosted by industry professionals at the Manitoba Music office on Donald Street. 

“MEME is a combination of 21st-century artistic exploration and a collective celebration of human creativity expressed through a symbiotic relationship with technology,” says the festival’s website. 

“MEME is an experience that delivers a wide array of eclectic sonic soundscapes that are intellectually stimulating and also beckoning to the dancefloor. Some of the musical styles you can expect to hear at MEME include a broad spectrum of house, techno, deep dub, psychedelic, world, nu-jazz, ambient and experimental sounds.”

MEME Festival runs until Sunday, Aug. 19. A full weekend pass is $80.56; multiple other ticket options are available. Visit memefest.ca for more information.

— Erin Lebar

You won’t find this Wax Mannequin in a museum

Hamilton, Ont. singer-songwriter Christopher Adeney, better known as Wax Mannequin, is a troubadour for our times. The wry, pointed lyricist with the husky voice takes on white privilege, the trouble with the straight-and-narrow and our ability to change on his lovely new eight-song album — his seventh — Have a New Name.

Working with producer Edwin Burnett in a Hamilton industrial space, Adeney — along with percussionist Mark Raymond — created the album during some impromptu sessions; the folky songs were eventually given added texture and grandeur with grand piano, gamba da viola, double bass and a 12-piece choir.

The performer hits Winnipeg’s Windsor Hotel — where he’s played frequently — on Aug. 16 at 8 p.m., as part of the release tour for his new album. Tickets are $12 at Ticketfly.com.

— Jill Wilson

…and all that jazz

Over the course of the last four days, musicians of all ages and experiences have been honing their skills at the University of Manitoba’s jazz camp.

Tonight their instructors will take the stage at 7:30 p.m., showing off their chops in a concert at the U of M featuring all manner of faculty members. They’ll be joined by New York-based saxophonist Camille Thurman, who was invited to the camp as guest artist-in-residence.

Thurman has performed with a who’s who of the jazz world including Wynton Marsalis, Patti LaBelle, George Coleman, Diana Krall and Chaka Khan. Her new album, Waiting for the Sunrise, drops Friday, Aug. 24 on Chesky Records.

In addition to Thurman, the faculty concert band will feature Jon Gordon on alto sax, Derrick Gardner on trumpet, Will Bonness on piano and a rhythm section made up of Karl Kohut on bass and Graydon Cramer on drums.

Tickets for the jazz camp faculty concert, which takes place in the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music’s Eva Clare Hall, 65 Dafoe Rd., are $10 and are available by contacting Jeni Taylor by email at jeni@hotmail.com.

— Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson

Gather at the gallery

Cottagers and visitors to the western shore of Lake Winnipeg can escape the weekend heat with a visit to the Bulrushes Gallery (809 Kerstead Rd., three kilometres west of Winnipeg Beach).

The gallery is highlighting, among its many works on display and for sale, three pieces by some of Canada’s most accomplished artists. They include Trois Louis de Plus, an original print by Quebec’s Lauréat Marois, whose works hang in venues such as Canada’s embassy in Brussels and in the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec; Grand Manan, a wood-block print by former Winnipeg artist David Umholtz; and Manitoba Prairie, an acrylic painting by poet, artist and former University of Winnipeg library staff member Kam Wing Lee.

The gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. until September and appointments can be made to view works during the week by calling 204-794-8903, visiting bulrushesgallery.ca or contacting the gallery at bulrushes@mymts.net.

— Alan Small