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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The Tragically Hip's "Saskadelphia"
Description: On Saturday, August 20, 2016, tens of millions of Canadians watched and listened to the final Tragically Hip concert from Kingston…given Gord Downie’s illness, we knew that was the last time we’d see the band perform together live…
That was followed by one of the saddest days in the history of Canadian music…. October 17, 2017, the day Gord Downie died…one tweet summed up everything: “Canada closed: death in the family”…
So that was it, then…after more than 30 years, the most Canadian rock band of all time was done…all we had were the music and the memories...