Keeping Gord Downie's Music Alive — What the Tragically Hip Mean to Canada and Why It Still Matters

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · May 9, 2025 · 29m

When Gord Downie stood on that Kingston stage in August 2016 for the last time, an entire country watched and wept — because The Tragically Hip were never just a band. They were a mirror that showed Canadians who they were, told in the language of hockey rinks and small towns and landscapes and history that no other artist had ever quite captured the same way. Rob Harris keeps that music alive through his Tragically Hip tribute work — and what he shares with Stacey Chillemi about the profound cultural weight Gord Downie carried, the stories and songs that defined a generation, and what it…