After a ten-year hiatus, The Tragically Hip is giving Canadians the opportunity to relive the 2016 Man Machine Poem concert through a special broadcast on CBC this summer. The event, titled The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration, will air on Aug. 22 at 7 p.m. local time on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio, and CBC Music’s YouTube page. Communities can register to host public screenings to ensure all fans can participate in the experience.
The original concert, which took place in the band’s hometown of Kingston, Ontario, on Aug. 20, 2016, was broadcast on CBC and attracted 11.7 million viewers. This concert marked The Hip’s final tour before the passing of lead singer Gord Downie, who succumbed to brain cancer on Oct. 17, 2017.
In honor of the event, the band will release a new live album, The Tragically Hip: Live July 22 – August 20, 2016, on Aug. 21. The album, mixed and mastered by the band’s longtime audio engineer Mark Vreeken, will feature live recordings of popular songs like Ahead By a Century and New Orleans is Sinking from their last national tour. Live versions of Fifty-Mission Cap from Edmonton and Locked In The Trunk Of A Car from the final Kingston show are already available.
Following these events, The Tragically Hip will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in September at Toronto’s Massey Hall.
