Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness: My Favorite Tragically Hip Songs

Sunday, August 21, 2016

My Favorite Tragically Hip Songs

I watched the concert last night and felt a real wave of Canadiana and nostalgia. It's rare that something JUST FOR US is there to bring the whole country together in a way that other people don't understand. I was impressed that the CBC showed the concert so that everyone everywhere could share the experience. It was a moment.

5 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...: They're calling that concert "a Canadian Heritage Moment." We don't often have coast-to-coast-to-coast national events like that.; August 21, 2016 at 5:40 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: Especially something that is not sports or death related come to think about it.; August 21, 2016 at 6:00 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: This kind of stuff is the reason why we NEED the CBC. We are a huge country and the times to bring us all together under one flag are few and far between.; August 21, 2016 at 6:00 PM
Tim Knight said...: I'll confess I'd never heard of the band until now. And what a wonderful occasion, a country truly coming together. Just couldn't imagine anything like that happening over here, and we're much the worse for that.; August 22, 2016 at 3:28 AM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: They just never got big anywhere else but Canada for some reason. Maybe there were always meant to be ours. The whole thing felt very organic too. Not like someone was trying to play some angle or make some money off his illness. We heard he was dying and it just hit us all. It's so very Canadian not to push the issue and it all just happened.; August 22, 2016 at 5:42 AM