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June 10, 2026 @ 7pm

Screening ‘Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine’

Hosted by Ben Goodman of ‘What’s Your Niche?’ on CJSW

The Establishment Brewing Company

Free Entry

Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine is a feature documentary about the legendary—and largely forgotten—long-term Calgarian singer and musician who fought for her right to play the slide guitar, a male-dominated instrument in a male-dominated world. She gained notoriety in the 1960s, playing with Jimi Hendrix in Greenwich Village, touring with Johnny Winter and Taj Mahal, being dubbed “rock’s foremost female guitarist” and “a musical genre unto herself by the likes of the Washington Post. After moving to Calgary in the early 90s she still performed, but lived a relatively quiet life driving a school bus for an all-girls charter school. The film is an intimate look at a pioneer performer whose road trip to stardom and long career deserves a rightful place in music history.