The Back 40 Festival is back this year to amuse residents and guests alike with unique flavors of music, crafts from artisan, delectable food, and warmth of family and friends that is uniquely a quintessential small family festival.
The Festival will be a noon to dusk affair on June 5 at the Morden Park bowl.
The annual festival was established as a tradition for local musicians to have a setting where they can exhibit and collaborate their world-class talent and encourage other artists to join in the festivity.
“We started the festival over 20 years ago to give ourselves a place to play, and it has developed into a festival that is unlike any other festival offered in southern Manitoba,” suggested board chair Linda Hiebert.
“This area is known for having a lot of festivals during the summer months, and we love starting the season off with a festival that is solely based around music … local music.”
The main act for the event would be a seasoned musical group from Manitoba who had just released their debut album last year. You would find their album, “Western Skies”, in most music stores.
The group is named Woody Holler and his Orchetra hails from Winnipeg and is composed of their finest folk and jazz musicians which can play a a western swing style genre which is described by Woody as “jazz from the saddle”.

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