The intro to this week’s singular edition of weekend entertainment choices is brought to you by the numbers 2, 3, and 4. So count us in on an array of options that are tough to beat.
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Two is for Null and Void, which are the title of companion albums from local noise merchants KEN Mode.
The latter, somehow managing a decidedly darker turn than 2022’s Null, was released in September with an album release party slated for Saturday at Good Will Social Club.
Recorded in tandem during the back half of 2021, the lyrics deal with the resulting mess of a global pandemic paired with an increasingly divisive political climate and represent “the group’s quintessential statement of mental collapse and despair made sonic,” to crib from the band’s bio.
“The works expose the emotional core of combating mental illness when one’s fine-tuned coping and management mechanisms have been involuntarily stripped away, and you’re forced to navigate this intensely divided and miserable political climate through a global pandemic. The fury, fear, and confusion, followed by a profound sadness and mourning, drags you down while it cuts and pummels, like you’re experiencing every one of your lowest moments over and over again.”
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Joining the, um, party, is multi-instrumentalist Kathryn Kerr, who guested on 2018’s Loved and contributes saxophone, synth, piano and backing vocals. Her welcome addition would make for four members after about 15 years as a trio, give or take.
Let’s roll another number out for the 16th NeilFest at Times Change(d) this weekend which celebrates the life and work of Neil Young with a trio of acts.
Young’s famous ditch trilogy comes into play Saturday with the last released and first recorded of the bunch – Tonight’s The Night — performed by the Honeysliders, whose name may or may not refer to a mysterious concoction of marijuana and honey heavily consumed by Young and Co., during this period.
Also Saturday, the Stanley County Cutups present Neil Done Bluegrass while the Scotty Malcolmson Band performs Harvest and more Friday night.
We need some letters to balance off the numbers, so let’s turn to actor/comedian K. Trevor Wilson, of Letterkenny fame, who is at Rumour’s on Friday and Saturday as part of its concert series. At last look, there were still some tickets for the late shows, which for my money is the way to go anyway.
Chris Quigley is at Yuk Yuk’s this weekend, while John Crist’s Emotional Support Comedy Tour stops at the Burton Cummings Theatre on Friday night.
It’s tough to get through much of anything these days without Taylor Swift’s name coming up.
The Park Theatre is the setting for the Taylor Swift Dance Party 1989 late Friday night, while the Fort Garry Hotel concert hall hosts a candlelight concert in tribute on Saturday night.
The Family Night Out fundraising series at the Children’s Museum dresses down on Friday night with the family-friendly Pajama Party.
There’s a trio of groups with special activities, quick-hitting and giant board game options, a pyjama contest and assorted fundraising fare, along with breakfast for dinner from IHOP.
For something a bit different, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra performs with eight-piece Congolese band True Generation at Kwassa Kwassa: Music and Dance of the Congo on Saturday night at Centre Cultural Franco-Manitobain.
Regina DJ/producer Cake Baby shakes things up Friday night at the Bulldog Event Center, with a trio of supporting acts there and three more at an afterparty down the road at Hi5 Studio, from 2 a.m. until late/early.
There’s no Bruce Springsteen Friday, with his concert pushed to next November, but KISS presents their (alleged) End of the Road tour at Canada Life Centre on Wednesday and the Jonas Brothers are in the same house the next night.
Elsewhere, Gord Bamford is at Club Regent on Friday night and Portugal. the Man is at the Burt the next night.
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