Ground Up Studios started as a family farmstead outside Langham, Saskatchewan and grew into a working music studio, an event venue, and a residency space for artists working on the prairie. This is the story behind the property — and the people who keep it moving.
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Dave Wiebe (JUSTDAVEthe1) was born in Bangladesh and raised on the Saskatchewan prairie. The farmstead he's been building back to life since the early 2000s sits a short drive northwest of Saskatoon, on the same quarter-section his family has worked for decades.
What started as restoring buildings and equipment turned into a recording and production space, and then into a venue that's hosted weddings, residencies, and the annual Art in the Garden festival. Dave runs the studio, the property, and the productions end-to-end — booking, coordination, sound, lighting, photography, and the run-of-show coordination in between.
The through-line across everything on the property is the same: build it carefully, make it useful for the next person, and don't over-promise. If a project doesn't fit the property or the team, the answer is a referral, not a stretched booking.
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Placeholder — the Wiebe family quarter-section outside Langham is established. Generations of farming on the same acreage, with the original homestead buildings still standing on the property.
Placeholder — Dave's earlier creative practice takes shape under the Wiebe Works banner, focused on music production and visual story work. Built out the network of collaborators who still pass through the property.
Placeholder — the on-property studio space is wired, treated, and calibrated for recording and mix work. The studio becomes the engine that pulls the rest of the property into focus.
Placeholder — the inaugural Art in the Garden festival lands on the prairie. Sets the pattern for what the property can host: outdoor staging, prairie-light installations, and a crowd-sized main-stage run of show.
Placeholder — the residency tiers come online. Artists, writers, and small production teams stay on-property for blocks of days with the studio, the bunkhouse, and the prairie site rolled into one booked package.
Placeholder — the production services formalize. Music production, photo/video shoots, drone work, wellness retreats, and prairie weddings all run out of the same coordinated property with shared crew, lighting kit, and on-site accommodation.
If you've got a project on the prairie, a residency in mind, or you're just curious what the property can do — pick the door that fits. Bookings go through the booking flow; everything else comes straight to Dave.