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Blue Rodeo’s Michael Boguski and friends release song for Secret Path Week

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments Blue Rodeo, Cold Manitoba Project, Deep Dark Woods, DoSomething, First Nations, Gord Downie, Mental Health, Reconciliaction, Reconciliation, Secret Path, Secret Path Week, substance abuse, The Sheepdogs

Michael Boguski of Blue Rodeo is joining this year’s Secret Path Week efforts to help move Canadians toward healing and

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Music News 

There’s apparently still more music to come from Gord Downie

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Gord Downie

Come Friday, Tragically Hip fans will get to hear Away is Mine, the posthumous album from Gord Downie recorded over

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Secret Path Week goes virtual; #reconciliACTIONs still encouraged

October 10, 2020October 9, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments #DoSomething, #reconciliACTION, Chanie Wenjack, Gord Downie, Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, Secret Path, Secret Path Live, Secret Path Week

Hard to believe that we’re in mid-October already, but Secret Path Week is just around the corner.  Started in 2017,

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Two versions of a new Gord Downie song have been released. Listen here.

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Gord Downie

In July 2017, just months before he died, Gord Downie recorded ten songs at the Tragically Hip’s Batthouse Studios. There

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Music News 

Random music news for Wednesday, September 23, 2020

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments ABBA, Cardi B, Deftones, Gord Downie, Guns N'Roses, Marilyn Manson, Neil Young, Noel Gallagher, Quibi, REM, Slipknot, Spinal Tap, Star Trek, Star Wars, Uber

The battle between Star Wars and Star Trek has been taken to a whole new level. Now let’s concentrate on

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There will be at least one more Gord Downie album. A new double record was announced today.

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Away is Mine, Gord Downie, Solo Album

Before Gord Downie died of glioblastoma, a rare and incurable brain disease, on October 17, 2017, he was a man

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Music News 

Gord Downie has posted two things on Twitter over the last few days. Wait–what? And why?

September 3, 2020September 6, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Gord Downie, Tragically Hip

After a period of inactivity, the Gord Downie Twitter account has been active over the last few days. This shot

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Twin Flames honour Gord Downie with inspired Grace Too cover

July 24, 2020July 23, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments #DoSomething, #reconciliACTION, Downie Wenjack Fund, First Nations, Gord Downie, Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, Legacy, The Tragically Hip, Twin Flames

It was on a five-hour drive from the Quebec-Ontario border that Twin Flames really listened, deeply, to The Tragically Hip’s

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I’m helping out with next week’s Virtual Brain Tumour Walk. Take a look.

June 20, 2020June 19, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada, Glioblastoma, Gord Downie, Neil Peart, Rush, Tragically Hip

Every day across Canada, 27 people receive news that they have a brain tumour. Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada holds

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Music News 

Hey, Gord, thanks: Sunnybrook Foundation details efforts support by the Gord Downie Fund

May 23, 2020May 22, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments Brain Cancer, Glioblastoma, Gord Downie, Gord Downie Fund, Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research, Indigenou, Sunnybrook Foundation, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Tragically Hip

It was just about four years ago that Tragically Hip fans woke up to the news that Gord Downie was

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Celebrating Gord Downie’s Birthday with Acoustic Hip from Starpainters

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments Chanie Wenjack, Downie Wenjack Fund, Gord Downie, Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, Strictly Hip

Gord Downie would’ve celebrated his 56th birthday on February 6.  As has become tradition, Buffalo’s Strictly Hip is throwing a

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