for me, my Fete du Marquette got started with the Duhks. The Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Duhks (pronounced Ducks) have always gravitated towards traditional roots-based song structures, but they’ve never stopped evolving since their inception five years ago. Due in part to a collective musical worldview that knows no boundaries and that was very evident in their genre unknown string bending sets, exhibiting sounds from several corners of the musical spectrum, they rocked and twanged and world beated my kick off to a weekend of free music, tasty beer and good people. Half way through their set, a Wisconsin Southern rail train horned slowly by and added its unique sound to an already wild time….
