{"id":601739,"date":"2026-08-23T02:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601739\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T02:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:26:08","slug":"celebratory-crowd-gathers-in-kingston-ont-to-watch-tragically-hips-final-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601739\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebratory crowd gathers in Kingston, Ont., to watch Tragically Hip&#8217;s final concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hip have been busy in the decade since the concert, though Langlois said in the miniseries that the band needed time after Downie&#8217;s death on Oct. 17, 2017, to generate any enthusiasm for anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Downie released the solo album Secret Path in 2016, and there have been four posthumous albums: Introduce Yerself, Away Is Mine, Lustre Parfait and (with the Sadies) Live At 6 O&#8217;Clock.<\/p>\n<p>The surviving band members have worked on solo projects, and the band has released additional material from several albums. There&#8217;s also been a jukebox musical written around their songs, a Juno Humanitarian Award and an induction next month into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>The Tragically Hip is very unlikely to return, with Baker saying he has &#8220;less than zero&#8221; interest in playing full shows with another singer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t look at that tour as a career move or album promotion,&#8221; Baker wrote in the epilogue to This Is Our Life. &#8220;I was there to support Gord. He needed me. He needed us, all of us, and it turns out millions across the nation, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Langlois said in the miniseries that immediately after the show, Downie said it felt like the last one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wasn&#8217;t saying it sadly, in a sad way, [but] that it was celebratory enough to be a last show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Langlois told CBC News this week, &#8220;It turned out to be a fun night, and I did not see that coming.&#8221;That\u2019s our live page for this evening. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hip have been busy in the decade since the concert, though Langlois said in the miniseries that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-601739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}