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The Winnipeg Wind Ensemble invites you to join them for two upcoming events celebrating music, culture, and music
education in Manitoba and beyond – this year
with an Icelandic twist.
On Sunday, May 3, the WWE will present
“Northern Exposure” at Gimli High School
in Gimli, MB at 3:00 p.m. This concert will
feature Winnipeg virtuoso
Allen Harrington on the
alto saxophone, as well as
high school students from
Evergreen School Division.
A highlight of the concert
will be the world premiere of
Icelandic Folk Song Suite by
Manitoba’s own Icelandic
Canadian composer Kenley
Kristofferson. This piece
features a setting of four
Icelandic folk songs for wind
ensemble that are sure to
sound familiar to members
of the Icelandic community
For Winnipeg concert-goers, the WWE will
offer its final concert of the season on Music
Monday, a day to celebrate music education
in Manitoba. This concert will be on May 4, at
7:30 p.m., at Jubilee Place, Mennonite Brethren
Collegiate Institute, 173 Talbot Avenue. This
concert will also feature soloist Allen Harrington,
Kristofferson’s Icelandic Folk Song Suite, and
special guests from Manitoba’s high schools.
Tickets for both performances are $10 for
adults or $5 for students and seniors.
The 50-member Winnipeg Wind Ensemble
was formed in the fall of 1985 by band directors
and other professional
musicians dedicated to
bringing wind band music
of the highest quality to
Winnipeg audiences. The
ensemble has been a guest
on the Prairie Performances
concert series and performed
at the Winnipeg New Music
Festival, International Music
Camp Summer Concerts,
Optimist International Band
Festival, Manitoba Senior
Honour Band Concert, and the
Mennonite Schools Festival,
in addition to the presentation of an annual
concert series. The ensemble has also performed
alongside the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir,
the University of Manitoba Wind Ensemble,
the Manitoba Senior Honour Band and other
Winnipeg groups.
Allyson Stewart of Stonewall, Manitoba, is a national curling
champion. She was a member
of the curling team that won
the Canadian Senior Women’s
Curling Championship in
Yellowknife, Northwest Terri-
tories, in March 2014. She
recently travelled to Sochi,
Russia, to compete in the
World Senior Women’s Curling
Championships.
Allyson has curled
competitively in many aspects
of women’s and mixed curling.
She has competed in numerous
Manitoba Tournament of Hearts
competitions and represented
Manitoba at the Canadian Mixed
Curling Championships at
Lethbridge, AB in 2000. Allyson
and her husband, Andrew, who
also curls competitively, have
instilled the love and art of
curling in their children, A.J.
(22) and Eryn (16).
Allyson began curling at the
age of twelve, when she joined
her parents in a mixed curling
league in Winnipegosis, MB,
where she took her elementary
school education. She graduated
from MacGregor Collegiate,
where she curled with the junior
girls, and later graduated from
the University of Manitoba with
a bachelor’s degree in nursing.
Allyson is the daughter of
Mary and Marvin Sveistrup
of Stonewall, MB. Two of
Mary’s and all of Marvin’s
grandparents immigrated to
Manitoba from Iceland at the
turn of the twentieth century.
Allyson’s grandparents were
Oscar and Helga Sveistrup,
from the Vogar district of
Manitoba, and Arni and Irene
Hanneson of Langruth, MB.
Team Canada at the World Senior Women’s
Championships in Sochi, from left to right – Lois Fowler,
skip; Maureen Bonar, third; Cathy Gauthier, second; and
Allyson Stewart, lead.
Winnipeg Wind Ensemble presenting
Icelandic Folk Song Suite IN GIMLI AND WINNIPEG
Curling takes Allyson Stewart to Sochi
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Worship with us
Sundays 10:30 a.m.
Pastor Michael Kurtz
The Icelandic Canadian Club of Western Manitoba is holding their annual Þorrablót and tombola on Saturday May 2, 2015. They
are pleased that Ambassador Hjálmar Hannesson
and his wife Anna Birgis will be able to attend. The
evening will start with a roast beef dinner augmented
with rúllapylsa, hangikjöt, kleinur, vínarterta, and
plenty of coffee. Following dinner, the evening will
consist of some introductions, a short speech or two,
and entertainment by some of the students in the
Brandon University New Music Ensemble and their
director, Professor Megumi Masaki. The tombola will
follow the entertainment, after which the evening will
draw to a close.
Þorrablót celebrations
reach Brandon
"Something interesting"
Kenley Kristofferson
Left: Antiphony
PHOTO: MIKE LATSCHISLAW
PHOTO: KERT GARTNER/MARLON WIEBE