Greg MacPherson (left) and Rob Gardiner are Figure Walking. RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES The song also serves as a launching point to 10 videos the Winnipeg group released over 10 weeks in the spring that transforms the album into a narrative. Oh General is the first song from the album Isolation Blues, a batch of alt-rock songs Falk had set aside four years ago. TOUCHING Oh General - Everyone had a pandemic project in 2020, and Michael Falk’s was Touching, a collaboration with Alasdair Dunlop, actress Ali Tataryn and videographer Tyler Funk.The song has earned her millions of streams on Spotify and props on YouTube reaction videos, perhaps the ultimate in praise in 2020. She also dropped several single collaborations, the most famous of which is Minefields, which features John Legend, the entertainment powerhouse. It would have been a chance to see the Carman-raised singer at the cusp of success, thanks to a new EP, Stripped, which came out in August. JOHN LEGEND Minefields - It was a shame Faouzia’s jazz fest concert had to be called off in June. With two albums, there are lots of songs featuring Prince’s deep baritone to choose from - and many excellent ones - but Always Have What We Had reveals some of his personal story as well as his hypnotic voice that has enchanted fans and critics alike.įaouzia performs at the West End Cultural Centre last year. The tours had to be scrapped, so instead, the Peguis First Nation singer-songwriter entered the studio and released a second album, Gospel First Nation, in October. and tours of North America and Europe were in the works. A new album, Reliever, came out in February, and along with it came an appearance on CBS This Morning in the U.S. WILLIAM PRINCE Always Have What We Had - William Prince had big plans for 2020.So here are 10 songs that Manitoba artists offered in 2020 that may provide some fond memories to go along with the hard times we all faced: Some even released bonus albums and singles that not only caught the attention of folks in Winnipeg, but around the world. There were long-forgotten projects dusted off and finished, complete with video narratives. Some built studios in their homes to create music quickly and cheaply others collaborated using the latest technological advances of the internet. Manitobans were fortunate the province’s musicians found all sorts of ways to overcome the COVID conundrum to get themselves heard. In Manitoba, that meant goodbye to crowded nightclubs, festivals and arena shows and hello to listening to music on headphones during long walks. As society learned time after time in 2020, COVID cases shot up shortly after large groups of people got together in tight spaces. The main obstacle was the absence of live performances.
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