Kevin Nikkel Book Launch (Founding Folks) featuring Big Dave McLean

Join Kevin Nikkel for the launch of Founding Folks: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Folk Festival (University of Manitoba Press). This event features a musical performance by Big Dave McLean and a conversation hosted by David Knipe.

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781772841107/kevin-nikkel/founding-folks

This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/03kLhR2yKJY

Every July since 1974, Manitoba’s Birds Hill Provincial Park has been home to one of Canada’s most vibrant and storied celebrations of folk music—the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Founding Folks tells the festival’s origin story through conversations with staff, volunteers, and musicians—including Bruce Cockburn, Tom Jackson, and David Amram— and provides fascinating insight into the lifelong friendships that developed among some of folk music’s most defining figures. Brought to life by more than one hundred photographs, Founding Folks captures the spirit and enthusiasm of those early festival days and preserves this legacy for festival goers, students of culture and history, music enthusiasts, and folkies everywhere.

Kevin Nikkel is an independent filmmaker and educator based in Winnipeg. He is a long-time member of the Winnipeg Film Group. He co-directed the documentary Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group with Dave Barber in 2007 and authored Establishing Shots: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group in 2023.

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