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The concert was filmed for an hour-long special, Gord Downie's Secret Path in Concert, which also featured backstage footage and scenes from the animated film. Downie and his collaborators performed the album, again with members of the Wenjack family, in Halifax's Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on November 29, 2016. [ 6 ]
[27] [28] The fund is a part of Downie's legacy and commitment to Canada's First Peoples. [27] Chanie Wenjack was a young indigenous boy who died trying to escape a residential school, [29] who became the central character of Downie's Secret Path project. The Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund is a registered charity.
The Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie wrote a solo concept album based on Wenjack's escape. The album, Secret Path, was released on October 18, 2016, [7] [8] along with a concurrent graphic novel of Wenjack's story by novelist Jeff Lemire and an animated film which aired on CBC Television.
Downie released his fifth solo album, Secret Path on October 18, 2016. The album is a concept album about Chanie Wenjack , a First Nations boy who escaped from a Canadian Indian residential school in 1966 and died while attempting to make the 600 km walk back to his home.
A new 4-part Amazon Prime docuseries, No Dress Rehearsal, directed by Gord’s brother Mike Downie, explores all that and more. Without glossing over difficult periods in the Tragically Hip’s ...
Introduce Yerself is the sixth solo album by Canadian singer and songwriter Gord Downie, released posthumously on October 27, 2017, ten days after his death. [1] A double album consisting of 23 songs which Downie has described as each being about specific people in his life, [2] it was the last solo album Downie completed, [3] although his brothers Patrick and Mike subsequently confirmed that ...
It’s been six years since Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie died at the age of 53, but his brother Patrick continues to learn new things about his older sibling. This knowledge is certainly ...
The book's release coincided with the release of Gord Downie's concept album Secret Path, the centrepiece of Downie's multimedia art project based on Wenjack's story, which also included a graphic novel of the same name by Canadian cartoonist Jeff Lemire and an animated film produced by CBC Arts. [5]