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YOUR Independent Community Newspaper THURSDAY, July 28, 2016
Vol. 4 Edition 30
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The Hip in the park
Chatham man organizing fundraiser/party airing concert in Tecumseh Park By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
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For Chatham’s Ryan Doyle, it was that day in Bobcaygeon. That’s the one and only time he saw iconic Canadian rockers The Tragically Hip live, in the summer of 2011 during Big Music Fest at an outdoor event just south of that Ontario community. And now, he’s trying to bring the band’s final concert – singer Gord Downie has terminal brain cancer – to Tecumseh Park. No, the band, which is doing a tight farewell tour across Canada in select cities, is not playing live here, but Doyle is working to show CBC’s airing of the band’s final concert – in the Hip’s home town of Kingston on Aug. 20 – in Tecumseh Park on a huge LED screen. And make money for charity in the process. For Doyle, it all just made perfect sense. “My first concert ever was in Bobcaygeon,” he said, referring to The
Hip’s performance in the central Ontario town of which one of their bestknown songs is named. “I will remember that forever.” Doyle also tried to get tickets to one of the concerts The Hip is doing this summer, but like so many other Hip fans, he was unable to secure any ducats, and didn’t want to pay huge dollars to scalpers. His next choice was to see about bringing the band to Chatham, at least on a big screen in his backyard. “I heard CBC was doing the final concert live, so I was going to put it on a big projector screen in the backyard for my ball team,” he said. “But I’ve done charity work in the past and thought we could do something for charities too.” So he contacted the CBC, and got the thumbs up to hold a free event airing the concert. “I got the rights to air it from the CBC. It’s just snowballed from there.” Continued on page 2
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