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I just needed to be myself and that’s what he needed from me. I had a good understanding of what my purpose was in that dynamic. I felt this record was very much a gift from him. “I’m very grateful to have had all of those experiences. He views his involvement with Downie on the album as “a gift.” He explained that the acoustic version of “Away Is Mine” offers “a pulling back of the curtain a little and seeing the creative process, a valuable thing to see.” “That creative muscle of Gord’s was quite remarkable through all of this: the Hip tour and the ‘Secret Path.’ The recordings I heard and saw him do, it’s quite incredible actually.”įinlayson said Downie was able to hear the final album before he died. “The one unknown was Gord’s memory and his health but, really, it didn’t really prove to be an obstacle at all, any more than me forgetting a guitar part or him forgetting a lyric.

“We worked together enough where there was kind of a shorthand between us,” Finlayson said. Travis Good of the Sadies was brought on board to help with some of the instruments, and Downie’s son Louis and Tragically Hip stage manager Dave “Billy Ray” Koster both chimed in on drums.įinlayson said there weren’t too many hiccups during the sessions. In July 2017, they spent four days doing multiple takes of each song, with Spencer adding drums loops and other effects as the music was captured. “He also had some finished lyrics he really liked and wanted to use, so that was part of the premise.”Īfter the duo completed 10 songs within 10 days, Downie suggested that they go to the Tragically Hip’s Bathouse Studio near Kingston and record an album, with studio manager and engineer Nyles Spencer producing. – Elder to offer some words of guidance, reflective remarks followed by a discussion with the audience.“Anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours later, he’d send something back with a finished lyric,” said Finlayson. – CBC web streaming on the CBC Arts Pageĩ:00 p.m. Frank Deer, Acting Executive Lead, Indigenous Achievement, University of Manitoba and Kevin Lamoreux, Associate Vice- President, Indigenous Affairs, UWinnipegĨ:00 p.m.

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In partnership with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg is co-hosting a free public screening:ħ:45 p.m. 23, CBC is broadcasting a documentary featuring Downie and Pearl Wenjack, Chanie’s sister, coming together in Ogoki Post where Chanie is buried. The doc will be followed by a commercial free broadcast of the Secret Path, an animated graphic novel set to the music by Downie, powerfully touching on Chanie’s last days. Downie is using his celebrity to draw attention to the legacy of Residential Schools. Chanie was running away from the Cecelia Jeffrey Residential School in Kenora, Ont.įifty years later, The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie has taken Wenjack’s story and turned it into the Secret Path project, which consists of a solo album, a graphic novel and an animated film. In October 1966, Chanie Wenjack died of exposure while trying to walk home to the family he was taken from 600 kilometres away.

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