2010 Hip 64 Tournament presented by Hipbase.com Sixty-Four of your favourite Tragically Hip songs engaged in a head-to-head, bracketed tournament. You decide which songs advance by casting a ballot at The Hipbase. The tournament begins Monday, March 15th. The voting format will be different th...
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Today, in honour of his upcoming appearance at the Hillside Festival in Guelph, the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome Gord Downie to the program at 8:05 AM EST.
To learn more about listening live or downloading/streaming this show later, please visit this link or perhaps even this link to hear this and/or other recent episodes.
We’ve been having a great time out on the road, and looking forward to our own tour this fall. Since our last update, there have been a few more stops added along the way. We’ve added shows for our friends on the east coast, and just announced today, we will be playing the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto on November 5th.
In our recent travels we stopped by the Dakota Tavern and recorded a few tracks. Check out the Dakota Sessions on CMT this Saturday, July 17th at 10pm.
We’re not done yet, so stay tuned to gorddownie.com for the full list of dates and ticket information.
Gord Downie and The Country of Miracles On Tour:
July 15 – The Kee to Bala – Bala, ON
July 17 – Windsor, ON – Windsor Bluesfest
July 18 – London, ON – Bluesfest London
July 24 – Niagara On The Lake, ON – Jackson Triggs Winery
July 25 – Guelph, ON – Hillside Festival
August 5 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Folk Music Festival
August 7 – Hamilton, ON – Festival of Friends (FREE SHOW)
August 15 – Salmon Arm, BC – Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival
September 22 – Vancouver, BC, The Vogue
September 24 – Victoria, BC – Rifflandia Music Festival
September 25 – Mission, BC – Clarke Theatre
September 30 – Medicine Hat, AB – Esplanade Arts – Odeon Events Centre
October 4 – Calgary, AB – Jack Singer Concert Hall
October 5 – Saskatoon, SK – Odeon Events Centre
October 15 – Halifax, NS – Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
October 16 – Moncton, NB – The Centre at Casino New Brunswick
October 18 – Fredericton, NB – Playhouse Theatre
October 21 – Sherbrooke, QC – Theatre Centennial
October 22 – Quebec City, QC – Le Cercle
October 23 – Montreal, QC – The National
October 26 – Oakville, ON – Oakville Centre
October 27 – Peterborough, ON – Showplace
October 28 – Kingston, ON – Grand Theatre
November 5 – Toronto, ON – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
For more tour Information please visit the tour page
Check out Gord Downie on The Dakota Sessions on CMT this Saturday, July 17th at 10pm.
Read the complete story at Buffalo Rising.
In efforts to find a better day for the city, Mayor Dyster is clearly a mayor who gets it (see some of his comments on the opening of Old Falls Street here). Also the USA Niagara Development Corporation, an arm of Empire State Development, which is now thankfully led by a no-nonsense guy from my neck of the woods who knows what it takes to make things happen on this side of the soda-pop line. It’s great to see Niagara Falls getting less tragic and more hip — and more green.
And about the green: at some point in the concert (perhaps around 7PM), Mayor Dyster will be honoring Gord for his environmental advocacy with a proclamation and a key to the city (mayors do these things). And as Gord is a big supporter of the Waterkeeper Alliance — an international network of organizations which work to keep their local water bodies “swimmable, fishable, drinkable,” and which includes WNY’s own Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper — Julie Barrett O’Neill, executive director and Riverkeeper, will be speaking as well.
Poets was the last song on June 30, 2006. A guy, just a kid, a music lover named Ty Henderson, walking back from the show to his camp site , got hit by a drunk driver and killed. He was a music lover, just like you. Heaven Is A Better Place Today was dedicated to Ty on July 15.
Summer on!
Summer is officially here, and we’d like to kick things off with a tour announcement. This fall we’ll be making our way across Canada to spend an evening with you. There will be more dates to announce, so keep watching for more information.
Date: Sept 22
City: Vancouver, BC
Venue: The Vogue
On-Sale: June 25th @ 10AM PST
Ticket Information: Tickets available at www.ticketmaster.ca, www.livenation.com, charge by phone 604-280-4444 and at all ticketmaster locations
Date: Sept 24
City: Victoria,BC
Venue: Rifflandia Music Festival
Market Square
On-Sale: Now
Ticket Information: Tickets available at www.ticketweb.ca , Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and Rifflandia HQ (August)
Date: Sept 25
City: Mission, BC
Venue: Clarke Theatre
On-Sale: June 25th @ 10AM PST
Ticket Information: Tickets available at http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/110044CF68F17ACB, charge by phone
Date: Sept 30
City: Medicine Hat, AB
Venue: Esplanade Arts
On-Sale: June 25th @ 10AM MST
Ticket Information: Tickets available at www.tixx.ca and at the Esplanade Box Office and Medicine Hat Mall
Date: Oct 4
City: Calgary, AB
Venue: Jack Singer Concert Hall
On-Sale: June 25th @ 10AM MST
Ticket Information: Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.ca, www.livenation.com, Charge by phone 403-777-0000, or at ticketmaster locations.
Date: Oct 5
City: Saskatoon, SK
Venue: Odeon Events Centre
On-Sale: June 25th @ 10AM CST
Ticket Information: http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/110044C898689315,
charge by phone 306-938-7800, and at ticketmaster locations
Date: Oct 21
City: Sherbrooke, QC
Venue: Theatre Centennial
On-Sale: June 25th @ 1:00pm EST
Ticket Information: Tickets available at the Centennial box office and online at http://www.ubishops.ca/centennial/subscriptions.html
Date: Oct 22
City: Quebec City, QC
Venue: Le Cercle
On-Sale: June 25th @ 10AM EST
Ticket Information: Tickets available at www.billetech.com and at Le Cercle.
Date: Oct 23
City: Montreal, QC
Venue: The National
On-Sale: June 25th @ noon EST
Ticket Information: Tickets available at www.admission.com or charge by phone (514) 790-1245
Date: Oct 26
City: Oakville, ON
Venue: Oakville Centre
On-Sale: On-Sale now
Ticket Information: Tickets are available at www.oakvillecentre.ca or charge by phone 905-815-2021
Date: Oct 27
City: Peterborough, ON
Venue: Showplace
On-Sale: June 25th @ 11AM EST
Ticket Information: Tickets on sale at Showplace box office, Moondance, Blue Streak Records, www.showplace.org, or charge by phone at 705.742.7469
Date: Oct 28
City: Kingston, ON
Venue: Grand Theatre
On-Sale: June 25th @ 12PM EST
Ticket Information: Tickets on sale at The Grand Theatre box office, Brian’s Record Option, Tricolour Outlet, www.kingstongrand.ca, or charge by phone at 613-530-2050
- Oh, and I found this in a shoebox under my bed. It’s the long lost, ‘11th Fret’ video that Mike Clattenburg wrote and directed back in 2003? We shot it in one afternoon and evening at The Rivoli in Toronto.
Here’s Mike remembering it;
“I just remember a massive goodwill as we made that, we made it on the back of Pascals too, for like 4K. The idea of the video phone seems even more relevant, I also remember you recorded live adats as we shot that you were thinking of intercutting live performance audio with the studio track which is still a sassy idea oh and the love story was inspired by that scene in cocksucker blues where keith falls asleep. We shot it the exact same way.”
And just for kicks… here’s the video for Chancellor:
http://www.spinner.com/2010/06/16/buck-65-20-odd-years/
…the EP ‘20 Odd Years: Volume 1 — Avant.’ On this first installment, singer Jenn Grant tempers Buck 65’s gruff delivery with a sweet melody on the track ‘Who by Fire,’ while Coral Osborne, daughter of 54-40 frontman Neil Osborne, shows up on the banjo laced ‘Red Eyed Son.’
Indeed, the vast majority of tracks on the forthcoming ‘20 Odd Years’ are collaborations. Terfry set out to “work with talented musicians of all stripes,” and he recruited singers such as Gord Downie, Meaghan Smith, John Southworth and Gentleman Reg to add a quality elusive from his previous offerings. The result might be his most accessible offering to date.
From @GordDownie: Hi all, I’m doing some filming on Thursday with Gord and the Country of Miracles and I thought that it would be cool to get some questions from folks to ask while I am there. Post your questions here by Thursday morning and I’ll take them with me and get some answers on video for you.
War Child has joined forces with 102.1 The Edge to bring you a weekly online auction of amazing memorabilia, tickets, and unique experiences, while helping children in war zones. New auction items will be announced each week on 102.1 The Edge as part of Thursday 30 with Dave Bookman. The items will be listed on our eBay page and will be accessible through this site, and at http://www.edge.ca.
The debut War Child auction item featured this week includes 2 tickets to see Gord Downie and The Country of Miracles live in concert at The Kee To Bala on July 15th, 2010, PLUS an Epiphone DR-100 Acoustic Sunburst guitar autographed by Gord Downie himself. Bid quickly as this item will only be up for one week.
Legendary singer, songwriter, and poet, Gord Downie is one of Canada’s most revered artists. The frontman and lyricist of one of Canada’s most influential rock bands, The Tragically Hip, will release his third solo album, The Grand Bounce, on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010. The album was produced by Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla, and features a group of musicians known as The Country of Miracles, including Julie Doiron, Dave Clark, Josh Finlayson, John Press and Dale Morningstar. The Grand Bounce was recorded at The Hip’s Bath House studio in Kingston and includes the hit radio single “The East Wind” and the track “The Hard Canadian,” which Gord performed live in Toronto last February during a performance with Gordon Lightfoot.
All auction items have been generously donated and all money raised will go towards helping children whose lives have been devastated by war. A new item will be offered each week, so keep checking the site for updates.
To bid on this week’s auction click here.
