The Tragically Hip

• The 53rd Annual JUNO Awards, produced by Insight Productions (a Boat Rocker company), will broadcast and stream live across Canada from Scotiabank Centre in Halifax at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. AST on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music, CBC Listen, and globally at CBCMusic.ca/junos and CBC Music's YouTube page.
• Tickets for The 2024 JUNO Awards go on-sale November 10 and start at $57.50 (including tax plus fees) and will be available for purchase at www.ticketmaster.ca/junos.
• Legendary singer, songwriter and pop superstar, Nelly Furtado will host the awards for the second time since her 2007 debut in Saskatoon.
• "I'm excited to return to host and perform at The 2024 JUNO Awards in Halifax," says Furtado.

• What does Gordon Lightfoot’s musical legacy mean for Canadians and for the history of Canadian music?
• In the wake of the singer-songwriter’s death on May 1, it has been hard to answer this question.

A powerful nostalgia

• Lightfoot’s voice is undeniably recognizable to many Canadians, and the cluster of songs that have enjoyed a long life on Canadian radio — and therefore in the Canadian consciousness — obviously engender a powerful nostalgia for an earlier time.
• With his death, he seems to have been canonized in the same vein as Gord Downie, lead singer of the band The Tragically Hip.

Nationalistic hot takes

• How, then, did Lightfoot suddenly become Canada’s greatest musical treasure?
• It’s not really so sudden, if we recognize that Lightfoot was a very popular singer-songwriter in his heyday in both Canada and the United States.
• He enjoyed middling success with his earliest albums in the 1960s, but then broke out with several key albums on Reprise Records in the following decade.

Chart singles

• A series of well-known singles were chart-topping hits in Canada and the U.S.: “If You Could Read my Mind” (1970), “Carefree Highway,” “Sundown” (1974), “Rainy Day People” (1975) and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (1976).
• These helped to established Lightfoot as an international name in the world of folk and country music.

Types of nostalgia

• I would argue that contrasting types of nostalgia are at the root of this evaluation of Lightfoot and his oeuvre.
• The Russian philosopher and cultural theorist Svetlana Boym famously identified two distinct — but not necessarily mutually exclusive — types of nostalgia: restorative and reflective.
• Reflective nostalgia, by contrast, does not revel in the past nor attempt to recover it.

A reflective nostalgia

• At their best, Lightfoot’s songs — ranging from folksy, rambling tunes about riding the rails to tender ballads recounting love and loss to epic narratives about ships and sailors lost in storms — invoke a reflective nostalgia.
• His fluid, gentle vocal delivery and simple, direct sentiments lean strongly towards “human longing and belonging,” much more so than they paint a compelling or accurate portrait of Canada.

• The Tragically Hip is now the first Canadian band to achieve four Diamond-certified albums.
• Yer Favourites is the second best-selling compilation album ever in Canada* only behind The Beatles' 1.
• This special vinyl release is a must-have for any new or long-time listener of The Tragically Hip.
• The Yer Favourites vinyl release is set to be followed by a deluxe edition of Phantom Power later this year.

• Paste Magazine
  TORONTO, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Tragically Hipreleased Live At The Roxy worldwide as a standalone live album through Universal Music Canada/UMe.
• Now, this legendary recording is available digitally for the first time and as a standalone 2 LP vinyl album and a single CD.
• The Tragically Hip fans brought this release to fruition after countless requests for the deep-cut versions of some of the band's most celebrated songs.
• Live At The Roxy offers a timeless experience of this sensational night as never before released.