{"id":2236319,"date":"2026-01-15T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2236319"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:49:03","slug":"steve-bell-looks-ahead-to-2026-with-new-music-and-bleak-midwinter-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/steve-bell-looks-ahead-to-2026-with-new-music-and-bleak-midwinter-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Bell looks ahead to 2026 with new music and Bleak Midwinter concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>      <!-- Body --><\/p>\n<p>Juno-award-winning Winnipegger Steve Bell is anticipating his weekend Bleak Midwinter concert, pivoting after a blizzard postponed the show in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was so looking forward to it,&#8221; says Bell. &#8220;I was so disappointed when it was cancelled. We&#8217;re making it up. I&#8217;ll do a little bit of Advent, a little bit of Christmas, leading into why Epiphany matters. I got some new songs I&#8217;ll try out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bleak Midwinter concert is taking place at Grant Church at 877 Wilkes Ave. on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available and will be up until the concert starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Bell talks about 2026 and all things faith\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nComLG8_nj0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Testimony Through Storytelling and Song<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up with storytellers. My grandfather and my grandparents, they were missionaries in China and Tibet. When you&#8217;re a little boy and you&#8217;re getting these great adventures, my dad was a storyteller. He was a preacher, but his main technique was storytelling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Bell started his career in singing and songwriting, he mainly performed in bars and clubs, without much talking at all between songs. It wasn&#8217;t until a pastor in southern Manitoba asked him to play for their church that a myriad of stories poured out between three simple songs. Bell has been weaving stories through song and word at each of his concerts since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was having a conversation with an atheist woman who comes out to all my concerts. I was talking and said, &#8216;Why do you come? I&#8217;m pretty Christian and I know you&#8217;re not.&#8217; She said, &#8216;It&#8217;s because you tell your stories. I love hearing them. I think about them. 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