We hope you can come out and join us this summer – details and dates will be coming this week. So, we’re going to dig deep, and try to make this our best tour yet. What we in The Hip receive, each time we play together, is a connection with each other with music and it’s magic and during the shows, a special connection with all of you, our incredible fans. This feels like the right thing to do now, for Gord, and for all of us. So after 30-some years together as The Tragically Hip, thousands of shows, and hundreds of tours… In privacy along with his family, and through all of this, we’ve been standing by him. Since then, obviously, he’s endured a lot of difficult times, and he has been fighting hard. We have some very tough news to share with you today, and we wish it wasn’t so.Ī few months ago, in December, Gord Downie was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. 26 Gord Downie quotes that will inspire you The 10 best Tragically Hip covers The nicest thing about the Hip for me is how I slowly began to treat the bands music less as. Gordon Downie performing in Guelph Ontario in 2001 (Wikipedia) Secret Path started as ten poems incited by the story of Chanie Wenjack, a twelve year-old boy who died on October 22, 1966, in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario, walking home to the family he was taken from over 400 miles away. Downies phone number, address, insurance information, hospital affiliations and more. I want them to be safe and have a great long life. Downie is a Pulmonologist in Mount Pleasant, TX. Still, Downie, 52, is not going to let it keep him down as the band has announced a new tour. Gordon Edgar Downie CM FebruOctowas a Canadian rock singer-songwriter musician writer and activist. Gordon Downie, lead singer of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame group The Tragically Hip, has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.