Ribeiro feels the eager demand every time the Fabulously Hip is booked for a bar show or a rib fest. "In a way, the cover bands are filling that need." "You have a whole bunch of people that love the Tragically Hip's music and they're suffering because they don't have the Tragically Hip coming out and doing a show," he says. Lead singer Alan Ribeiro says he covered Hip's songs at his own shows for years, but the idea of a cover band only took shape when it became impossible to ignore the pent up demand at Canadian bars. Toronto outfit the Fabulously Hip surfaced around the same time fans were pulling out their CDs to revisit longtime favourites, like "Ahead By a Century" and "Blow at High Dough." Many formed years before Downie revealed he was facing terminal brain cancer in 2016, but in some cases the newer bands were built on a shared love for the Hip after they returned to the national conversation. They walk a careful line between honouring one of Canada's most respected bands and profiting off their legacy - a balance that's even harder to strike knowing the untimely death of the Hip's lead singer at 53. More than 15 Tragically Hip cover bands are active across the country playing music festivals and local bars each month. Pubs and concert halls nationwide have booked pseudo-Hip performers for the occasion, including Practically Hip (Toronto), the Fabulously Rich (Charlottetown), the 100th Meridian (Saskatoon) and Way 2 Hip (Ottawa) to name a few. The Artificially Hip are one of a number of Tragically Hip tribute acts performing in the coming days to mark the first anniversary of Downie's death on Wednesday. Then he launches into the mid-song banter that Downie made his own. He hugs the microphone stand in the way Downie often did, pausing to throw his hand on his hip in contemplation, another of the singer's trademark moves. "What I do have control over are things like stage presence, vocal tone and spirit."Īnd that's where Bishop shines as he channels Downie's unmistakable persona while his band rehearses among the basement furniture of a suburban house in Cambridge, Ont. "I don't have control over that," he says. When his Hip tribute band performs they're focused on more than just appearance. Yet the lead singer of the Artificially Hip takes those remarks in stride. Somebody once told him he looked like Steven Page quit the Barenaked Ladies to join the Hip.
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He rocks a full beard, has a thick head of hair and his build is larger than Downie's frame ever was. The unveiling also falls during Secret Path Week, a national movement commemorating the legacies of Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack.Lead singer William Bishop doesn't look a thing like Gord Downie, which might be considered a setback for any tribute band trying to emulate the Tragically Hip. "With the blessing of the Wenjack family, we use those as a learning tool." "Gord started by writing 10 poems and those poems became the Secret Path songs on the album, along with a graphic novel and animated film," said Jordan-MacGregor. The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie stumbled upon Wenjack's story and wanted to use his platform to raise awareness. The installation tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old boy who died fleeing an Ontario residential school. "This is perhaps the most important step forward for the Legacy Space program to be in a health care setting and especially in an area with one of the largest Indigenous populations of patients and visitors," said development associate Kayleigh Jordan-MacGregor. The new initiative is part of a program created by the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack fund. The hospital said it's committed to ensuring Indigenous patients and their families have the best experience through cultural competency training courses, the development of a smudging policy, and the creation of the healing circle garden. "I think there is a long way for us to go both in our staff education and changing how the system works and how our Indigenous population can access it," Follwell added. Matt Follwell, RVH chief of oncology, to educate staff and visitors and help break down barriers and move towards reconciliation. The initiative offers a place for people to have the opportunity to learn about Indigenous history, and was started by Dr. The installation revealed on Wednesday will become a fixture in the atrium outside of RVH's cancer centre, although it is mobile and could be moved throughout the hospital.
"It's important to make this space so when Indigenous people walk through the doors, they see that space, and they feel comfortable and safe," said RVH Indigenous patient navigator Roberta Manitowabi-Roote.
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Barrie's Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) is Canada's first public health care centre to install a legacy space.
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