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Community to gather for Tragically Hip screening Following the multitude of family-friendly activities at Overlander Days, after all has been packed up— food vendors will stick around, popcorn will keep on popping, and Jump N Jax will keep the bouncy castles inflated. Grab your lawn chairs, blankets and maybe a couple of tissues, there’s an excellent reason to stay out a little longer. Join the North Shore Business Improvement Association (NSBIA) and the Canadian Cancer Society a certifiably Canadian event: a live screening of The Tragically Hip’s last concert of their final tour in Kingston, Ontario. CBC and the Tragically Hip present “The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration” on August 20, at 5:30 pm. The band has shown tremendous bravery and strength in the past months. They’ve taken the devastating diagnosis of Gord Downie’s glioblastoma–an incurable brain cancer–and made this tour a long goodbye to all the steadfast fans. In the band’s open letter on their official website, they announce the tragic news and then made a second announcement: “After 30-some years together as The Tragically Hip, thousands of shows, and hundreds of tours… we’ve decided to do another one”. After news of Downie’s illness and the band’s final tour, ticket sales skyrocketed. Sadly, it
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became a virtual war between fans and scalpers, who were reselling tickets at staggeringly expensive prices. Fans were desperate to get a chance to catch the Hip for the last time and many were left disappointed. Even after the tickets sold out, the Hip then reconfigured their stage layout to make room for more fans. Still, there are so many people that can fit safely in these
limited spaces but the outcry to ings set for British Columbia, with experience one last glimpse of two in Kamloops at Riverside this iconic Canadian group was Park and McDonald Park. so strong that the band partnered Furthermore, throughout the tour, with the CBC to make their final there have been pre-concert parshow available to the masses via ties, with proceeds being raised radio, television and Internet. for the Gord Downie Fund for Better yet, cities are taking this ini- Brain Cancer Research Fund. A tiative to the next level and turning portion of the ticket sales, as it into a unique community event. well as funds raised at these There are more than 90-screen- screenings will also benefit the - continued on page 3 ings across Canada, 15 screen-
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