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The Dead South at the Burt

Regina-based band the Dead South released its third full-length album, Sugar & Joy, earlier this month, and is hitting the road through Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. for the next few months in support of it, making a stop in Winnipeg on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Burton Cummings Theatre.

The four-piece folk and bluegrass band is often jokingly referred to as “Mumford and Sons’ evil twins” and has swiftly built a solid following during its seven years; the group’s second LP, 2016’s Illusion & Doubt, climbed to the No. 5 spot on Billboard’s bluegrass charts and earned a Juno Award for traditional roots album of the year in 2018. More recently, the Dead South won group of the year at the 2019 Canadian Independent Music Awards in May.

The Dead South’s latest release is being credited as its tightest and “weirdest” yet, infusing “the genre’s traditional trappings with an air of frontier recklessness, whiskey breakfasts and grizzled tin-pan showmanship,” a news release about Sugar & Joy says.

Tickets range in price from $35.24 to $49.75 (including fees) at Ticketmaster. American rockabilly/blues band the Legendary Shack Shakers will open the night; music starts at 8 p.m.

— Erin Lebar

 

Jurassic Park live in concert

Few things are more epic than the return of the dinosaurs. But, how about the return of the dinosaurs set to a soundtrack played by a live orchestra? The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra presents Jurassic Park in concert this weekend at the Centennial Concert Hall.

The 1993 sci-fi classic directed by Steven Spielberg features an enterprising paleontologist who uses eons-old DNA to bring triceratops, Tyrannosaurus rex and velociraptors back from the brink for his island theme park. Cast members include Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough.

The movie will be projected in HD and the symphony will perform John Williams’ original score live to picture. The symphony will perform several other movies in concert this season, including The Nightmare Before Christmas on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire next April.

Screenings are at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27. Performances are 2½ hours long with one intermission. Tickets start at $19.50 for kids and $39 for adults at wso.ca.

— Eva Wasney

 

Linden MacIntyre at McNally Robinson

In November 1929, Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula was struck by a tsunami that brought waves many storeys high, killing 28 people and wiping out houses as well as flooding communities. For those living in and around the fishing outports near the peninsula, it would change their way of life forever.

For Newfoundland-born Linden MacIntyre, former investigative journalist and host of CBC’s The Fifth Estate, the aftermath of the tsunami saw his father head to work in the nearby mines rather than fish for cod. The mines, it would later be determined, were radioactive, causing widespread respiratory disease and hundreds of deaths among the miners.

Even once the mine was closed and the area turned back to cod fishing as its primary industry, the community in and around the peninsula, including MacIntrye’s home of St. Lawrence, was in tatters.

MacIntyre chronicles the plight of the community in his new book The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami, published in August by HarperCollins and launching in Winnipeg on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location.

Macintyre, who has won the Giller Prize for his fiction as well as a number of awards for his non-fiction, will read from The Wake and discuss the book, the tsunami and its aftermath with Free Press editor Paul Samyn.

— Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson