BAR: Things to do in Winnipeg this weekend

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Music Lovers”from punk rockers to soul shakers” the long-awaited and long-delayed sextet is invited to a SubCity reunion on Saturday.

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Originally known as SubCity Dwellers when they first appeared, the band called it quits in 2012 after 10 years of touring and several albums. The one-off reunion show was originally scheduled for March 27, 2020.

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“Two weeks before the original meeting date, Covid hit Manitoba. At first we thought it would just be a few weeks, maybe a few months, a year… Now here we are, four years later! But we always knew it would be like this,” said frontman Johannes Lodwiks.

The band's high-energy blend of ska, punk and reggae was last heard on the city stage on March 9, 2012 at the West End Cultural Centre, recorded on their latest album SubCity Live!

“Our live album is a fitting legacy for a band that has always considered itself a live band,” Lodwiks said, noting that the show will feature audio and video. “So fans have something to look forward to in the years to come.”

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Psych-rocker Paige Drobot opens, The Invisible Man.

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The pair, who share members of the local Bloc Parents group, will take part in a joint headline show on Friday at Times Change(d) where telepathic butterflies are in the early slot and Novillero is cleaning up.

April Wine Friday at the Burton Cummings Theatre. In case you're wondering, frontman/vocalist Miles Goodwin gave his last performance on March 3rd, but he toured with the band until his death in early December.

Burt's has alt-rockers X Ambassadors on Saturday, while American rapper Lil Tjay brings his Good Life tour to the Canadian Life Center on Friday.

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Manitoba Opera presents the French sex thriller Carmen at the Centennial Concert Hall on Saturday, with shows on Wednesday and Friday as well.

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The third annual Winnipeg Baroque Festival opens Sunday at the Crescent Arts Center with shows at various locations next weekend. Crescent Center for the Arts celebrates the songs of Cole Porter with four local vocalists on Friday.

Fifty years after he won a Winnipeg Women's Music Club scholarship, internationally acclaimed playwright, novelist, pianist and songwriter Thomson Shawey returns Saturday for a sold-out concert at The Leaf to celebrate WMC's 130th anniversary.

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Power Trip, Anthrax and Chelsea Greens continue to pay tribute, including Friday's Metalfest Benefit show at the Park Theatre. Manitoba Metalfest in mid-May is sold out, but you can win tickets to the show.

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Osborne Taphouse has an abbreviated show on Friday with tributes NIN and MCR. For those who don't know, it's Nine Inch Nails and My Chemical Romance. And Icarus will play its first Winnipeg show on Saturday at the Assiniboine Gordon Inn with “A Great Tribute to Iron Maiden.”

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Dino will be featured at the Winnipeg Convention Center this weekend with Jurassic Quest … Scotch, bourbon and cigars on the menu Saturday to support Thomas Hinds Cafe's D'Arcy Animal Rescue … Red River Fine Arts Fair Friday and Saturday at Exposition Park, and Psychic and Crystal Fair at the Best Western Airport Hotel on Sunday … Guilt: A Love Story plays at the Warehouse Theater through April 20; The Year of Magical Thinking runs through April 21 at the Prairie Theater Exchange; and, Manitoba Youth Theater has something rotten this weekend … and in the comedy circuit, Kevin Boseman is in Rumor and Byron Bertram is in Yuk Yuk.

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