OCTOBER 24^th AT THE HORSESHOE – FEATURING GHOST TWIN, BONIFACE, HELLNBACK, AND TUNIC

9:00 PM – Ghost Twin 
9:50 PM – Boniface 
10:40 PM – Hellnback 
11:30 PM – Tunic

WINNIPEG, MB – Wednesday, September 27, 2017 – The centre of Canada is returning to Toronto next month, and it’s bringing some stellar indie music. The Manitoba Music Export showcase is set to pack them in at the Horseshoe Tavern on October 24, featuring performances from dark synthpop duo, Ghost Twin, indie pop singer/songwriter, Boniface, hip hop artist, Hellnback, and noisey punk trio, Tunic.

This will mark the seventh year in a row that Manitoba Music has invited music fans and industry insiders to Toronto culture haunts for shows featuring some of Canada’s most buzzworthy emerging acts. Each of the 2017 showcase artists have been garnering praise and making waves.

Ghost Twin is dark synthpop that combines roaring synthlines, dirty pulsing bass, dreamy guitar, and a haunting vocal dichotomy where Baroque meets industrial, with live video percussion that feeds cinema through a cut-up technique imbued with occult aesthetics. The husband and wife duo has been turning heads with its 2017 album, Plastic Heart, released by Winnipeg label Head In The Sand.

Indie pop project Boniface, aka emerging singer/songwriter Micah Visser, takes its name from the unique Winnipeg enclave of Saint Boniface. Fresh from a coveted turn at Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival and known for his powerful, lyrical, and personal songs Boniface has recently released his new single “I will not return as a tourist”, which earned international attention after its debut on BBC Radio 1 this fall.

Hailing from the Samson Cree Nation, Carmen Omeasoo aka Hellnback is no stranger to the music industry. Earning nods as co-founder of Warparty and as part of acclaimed hip hop collective Team Rezofficial, Hellnback picked up an Indigenous Music Award in 2015 in recognition for his contribution to music and community while his album #FOE=Family Over Everything also won him new fans. He has collaborated with artists such as A Tribe Called Red, and most recently DJ Shub and Snotty Nose Rez Kids, and Mob Bounce for his second release off the new solo album titled, #1491.

Arty noise punk trio Tunic recently unveiled Boss, its follow-up to last year’s debut EP, Disappointment. Dissonant, yet abrasive, Boss features punishing bass and drums, the surgical cuts and hisses of guitar, and gravelly vocals. Conceived in a musty room above a cellphone repair shop, Boss’ songs were honed in basements, warehouses, and bars across North America and they will continue to do so throughout 2017.

The Toronto showcase is part of a busy season for Manitoba Music, which has been supporting showcases in Hamburg, Nashville, and Denver, including an artist exchange event in Minneapolis with MPR’s The Current. Bringing Manitoba music to new markets and intensifying trade activity in existing markets is a key component of Manitoba Music Export initiatives. Manitoba Music Export is funded by the Province of Manitoba, FACTOR and the Government of Canada, Manitoba Film & Music, and Manitoba Trade & Investment. Through events like these, Manitoba Music is able to increase the connection between our province’s music industry and the broader national and international industry, which is vital to the career advancement of Manitoba artists and industry professionals, and contributes to the growth and development of Manitoba’s economy.

For more information about the artists and Manitoba Music, please visit manitobamusic.com.

MANITOBA MUSIC IN TORONTO
The Horseshoe Tavern
Tuesday October 24, 2017
Doors 8:30 PM / No cover
9:00 PM – Ghost Twin
9:50 PM – Boniface
10:40 PM – Hellnback
11:30 PM – Tunic
www.manitobamusic.com/toronto   

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS: For photos of the artists please click here

BONIFACE
Website: bonifaceofficial.com
Single: www.transgressiverecords.com/news/detail/boniface-i-will-not-return-as-a-tourist
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BonifaceOfficial
Instagram: www.instagram.com/bonifacemusic
Twitter: twitter.com/BonifaceOfficia
Manitoba Music profile: www.manitobamusic.com/boniface

Bio
Boniface is a young guy from Winnipeg in Canada. Here there is a neighbourhood called St. Boniface. It’s more of a quiet place, beautiful and unique, the musician Micah Visser thinks, why he called his project Boniface. In his hometown he learned to play violin, Saxophone, guitar and piano and started interpreting songs by Leonard Cohen and also by The Weakerthans. Very often his brother Joey, two years older, was around and he encouraged him to bring the songs, written in the bedroom, in front of a wider audience. Now, he has released “I will not return as a tourist”, a very powerful, lyrical and personal debut single, where he sings about not just being the spectator of his own life but really participating in it. Visser involves himself completely in elegant, individual indie pop with shoegaze bits. Lyrics and vocals are clearly foregrounded. After his debut on BBC Radio 1 many blogs discovered Boniface already.

GHOST TWIN
Website:  http://ghosttwin.com/
Video: https://youtu.be/ae0WytNORLw
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ghosttwinmusic
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ghosttwinmusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttwin/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/GhostTwin
Bandcamp: http://ghosttwin.bandcamp.com/
Manitoba Music profile: www.manitobamusic.com/ghosttwin

Bio
Ghost Twin is dark synthpop that combines roaring synthlines, dirty pulsing bass, dreamy guitar, and a haunting vocal dichotomy where Baroque meets Industrial, with live video percussion that feeds cinema through a cut-up technique imbued with occult aesthetics. Their audio/visual performance creates a full sensory evocative narrative of shadowy haunted rooms occupied by astral phantasms and electronic voices from beyond the aether.

HELLNBACK
Website: http://www.hellnbackmusic.com/
Video: https://youtu.be/AawimdwnBVg
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hellnback
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gunktah
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellnback/
Bandcamp: http://hellnback.bandcamp.com/
Manitoba Music profile: www.manitobamusic.com/hellnback

Bio
Hailing from the Samson Cree Nation, Carmen Omeasoo aka Hellnback is no stranger to the music industry. Earning nods as co-founder of Warparty and as part of acclaimed hip hop collective Team Rezofficial, Hellnback picked up an Indigenous Music Award in 2015 in recognition for his contribution to music and community while his album #FOE=Family Over Everything also won him new fans. He has collaborated with artists such as A Tribe Called Red, and most recently DJ Shub and Snotty Nose Rez Kids, and Mob Bounce for his second release off the new solo album titled, #1491.

TUNIC
Website: http://tunicband.com/
Video: https://youtu.be/e90wh3BUnyw
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tunicband
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/tunic/295445650655785?fref=ts
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tunicband/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkw022ux2UYedIoqhNTYZ-g
Bandcamp: https://tunicband.bandcamp.com/
Manitoba Music profile: www.manitobamusic.com/tunic

Bio
On Boss, Winnipeg’s Tunic unveils four tracks that continue where last year’s EP, Disappointment left off. These songs are nothing but feedback-laden filth, pure arty noise punk. Dissonant, yet abrasive, Boss is led by the punishing churns of Rory Ellis’s bass and Sam Neal’s drums, where David Schellenberg’s guitar surgically cuts, hisses, and chimes through the band’s unique arrangements while Schellenberg’s vocals gravelly express a distaste for one’s past. These songs were conceived in a musty room above a cellphone repair shop, but they were honed in basements, warehouses, and bars across North America and they will continue to do so throughout 2017.

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