Winston is a Canadian

Canada

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 indie pop

Indie pop

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 band from Vancouver

Vancouver

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 founded by singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 Ryan Hauschild. Although it is now essentially his solo project, the band previously comprised Hauschild on vocals, guitar

Guitar

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s and piano

Piano

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; guitarist Lanny Hussey; drum

Drum

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mer Robbie Watkins; and bass guitar

Bass guitar

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ist Tony Kerr. The band won CFOX Radio

CFOX-FM

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's Vancouver Seeds band contest of 2003. That year, The Province

The Province

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(December 28, 2003) named them as one of the top-ten local acts of the year. They toured Canada in 2004 to promote their full-length release, Passengers.

Hauschild, as Winston, is now signed to Aquarius Records. His solo debut, Limited, released in 2007, was made without the use of any digital devices at all, not even a digital guitar tuner. He toured Western Canada as opening act for Emm Gryner

Emm Gryner

Emm Gryner is a Canadian singer-songwriter and occasional actress.-Biography:Gryner's childhood was spent in Forest, Lambton County, Ontario. Her father was of half Irish heritage and her mother was Filipina....

 in June 2007.

Hauschild has also worked as record producer

Record producer

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 for bands such as Vancouver group Jake Jasmine.

The band took their name from the main character

Winston Smith

Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The character was employed by Orwell as an everyman in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ... [the reader] can readily identify with"...

 of George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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External links

• Official site
• Winston at CBC Radio 3
  CBC Radio 3
  CBC Radio 3 is a radio station that consists of two parts devoted to Canadian arts and music: a radio service which is available on Sirius Satellite Radio and streaming audio, and several daily and weekly podcasts from the CBC Radio 3 website...