There’s new music this week from Gord Downie. Yes, you read that right.
We’re coming up on nine years since Gord Downie left us, but he’s somehow able to keep providing us with new music. This time, it’s a live album created with
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A Tragically Hip charity just raised over a quarter of a million dollars for cancer research
Tragically Hip fans are the best. If you’re in Western Canada, you may have encountered an annual event called GEDfest. Named after Gordon Edgar Downie, organizers work to raise money
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The annual Gord Downie Chanie Wenjack Fund benefit is tonight in Toronto
Each October around the anniversary of Gord Downie‘s passing on October 17, 2017, there’s an event at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto that raises money from the Downie Wenjack Fund,
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Ongoing History Daily: Gord Downie’s concert suits
When the Tragically Hip went out on tour in 2016, Gord Downie had seven different suits specially made by a tailor named Izzy Camerelli. Each suit was named after someone
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Tease your hair and practice your stance, the Canadian Air Guitar Championships are tonight.
[This is worth a re-post. I’m one of the judges tonight! – AC] The lights will be shining down from the Velvet Underground stage when Canada’s best air guitarists take
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Will there ever be a Gord Downie hologram? No. Here’s why.
Hologram technology as it can be applied to a live music setting was still pretty new when Gord Downie was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2016. Glioblastoma is inevitably fatal,
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Attention Tragically Hip fans: The Annual GEDfest is coming up
Tragically Hip fans will again gather for GEDfest, an annual event remembering the legacy of Gordon Edgar Downie to raise money for cancer research. Since 2018, the event has raised
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Gord Downie, Canada’s rock poet
It was Tuesday, May 24, 2016. You know how when you land the flight attendant says “It’s now permissible to use transmitting and receiving functions your portable devices” while you’re
Read MoreThe campaign to rename a Toronto park after Gord Downie is picking up steam
Some time ago, Damian Jakibchuk, the founder of Lake Fever Wilderness Co. (a camping vacation site) came up with the idea of renaming Toronto’s Riverdale East Park after Gord Downie.
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Here’s a round-up of music-related April Fool’s jokes. I hope you weren’t taken.
April Fool’s has always been a studpid in IMHO, but it’s even stupider in the age of social media disinformation. If we’re hontest, every day is now April Fool’s, especially
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It’s finally happening: The Tragically Hip to release massive coffee table book this fall
For years, members of the Tragically Hip have hinted that, maybe someday, they’d sit down and write a book about their career and long history together.
Now, as their 40th anniversary approaches, the time has come