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Nightlife and entertainment
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Winnipeg tries hard to be the cultural centre of the prairies, and generous sponsorship arrangements support a good range of
theatre, ballet, opera
and
orchestral music
. The city also has some lively
nightspots
, featuring the best of local and national
rock
and
jazz
talent. For
listings
, consult the Thursday edition of the
Winnipeg Free Press
newspaper or the free news sheet
Uptown
, available from self-serve kiosks all over the city and issued every Thursday. The free magazine
Where
, available from tourist offices, also has listings, but their reports are never critical.
These venues are supplemented by an ambitious summer programme of open-air concerts, notably the nine-day
Jazz Winnipeg Festival
(tickets range from free to $35; tel 989-4656,
www.jazzwinnipeg.com
) towards the end of June, and the
Winnipeg Folk Festival
($40 per day, $110 for 4-day pass; tel 780-3333 or 1-888/655-5354,
www.wpgfolkfest.mb.ca
), a three-day extravaganza featuring over a hundred concerts, held in early July at Birds Hill Provincial Park, 25km northeast of the city. Apart from the music festivals, the biggest festival in Manitoba is
Folklorama
($3; tel 1-800/665-0234,
www.folklorama.ca
), held during the first two weeks in August to celebrate Winnipeg's multiethnic population. The festival has over forty pavilions spread out over town, each devoted to a particular country or region. The
Winnipeg Fringe Festival
(tickets range from free to $8; tel 956-1340,
www.mtc.mb.ca
) is a ten-day event of theatrical productions, held in mid-July in the Exchange District. St Boniface's French-Canadian heritage is honoured annually in the
Festival du Voyageur
(tel 237-7692,
www.festivalvoyageur.mb.ca
) - ten days of February fun, whose events lead up to a torchlit procession and the Governor's Ball, where everyone dresses up in period costume. Other useful information
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