{"id":96399,"date":"2017-04-02T01:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T05:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96399"},"modified":"2017-04-02T01:50:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T05:50:59","slug":"gord-downie-tragically-hip-together-win-three-awards-at-non-televised-juno-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/02\/gord-downie-tragically-hip-together-win-three-awards-at-non-televised-juno-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Gord Downie, Tragically Hip together win three awards at non televised Juno gala"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Others were more open to discussing Downie’s impact on Canadian culture, including indigenous singer Buffy Sainte-Marie. (Photo: Gord Downie\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OTTAWA \u2013Gord Downie didn’t attend Saturday’s Juno Awards gala celebration to pick up his awards, but his presence was still felt strongly.<\/p>\n

The Tragically Hip frontman was linked to three Juno wins at the celebration of Canada’s music industry. One was shared with his band while the other two came from his \u201cSecret Path\u201d album.<\/p>\n

The solo multimedia project grabbed both adult alternative album and recording package of the year. The Hip went home with the rock album award for \u201cMan Machine Poem.\u201d Downie, who revealed last year he’s been diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer, was not expected to attend.<\/p>\n

Hip guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langois were on hand but steered clear of talking about their bandmate when claiming their prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo our fellow nominees, sorry puppies, this dog’s still hungry, so move over,\u201d Baker told the audience to laughter.<\/p>\n

Others were more open to discussing Downie’s impact on Canadian culture, including indigenous singer Buffy Sainte-Marie.<\/p>\n

The performer and activist, who was honoured with the Humanitarian Award, said Downie’s \u201cSecret Path\u201d project was an effective way of exposing the story of Chanie Wenjack to a new audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt reached an awful lot of people with a message that may have been new to them,\u201d Sainte-Marie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was different coming from him than maybe coming from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSecret Path\u201d also won recording package of the year for its presentation of the story of 12-year-old Wenjack, who died in 1966 after running away from a residential school. Downie wrote the songs which were released alongside a graphic novel and CBC-TV special.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Shedletzky, who was art director on the visual project, said he hopes the album’s introduction into the education system helps it resonate with even more listeners.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s amazing to see the life it takes on of its own accord,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope it’s passed around for generations, like Gord wanted, for seven generations in order to reverse the harm that we’ve done in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other Juno winners included Leonard Cohen whose son Adam was on hand to accept the artist of the year award for his father, who died last November.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel that people are kind of consoling themselves \u2013 and consoling me \u2013 by giving this award to my father,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the chief defining characteristics of the guy was how hard he worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the lighter moments of the evening had Simon Ward, a member of the Strumbellas, caught off guard \u2013 and without his boots \u2013 when the band won single of the year for their rousing hit \u201cSpirits.\u201d<\/p>\n

After slipping off his pair of new boots for the evening, convinced either Drake or the Weeknd would take the prize, he was unprepared to put them back on before heading to the stage<\/p>\n

They \u201ctake a long time to tie up,\u201d he reasoned, as he paraded around in a pair of black socks.<\/p>\n

Other winners included July Talk, who scored alternative album for \u201cTouch,\u201d and Kaytranada whose \u201c99.9%\u201d snapped up the electronic album Juno after winning the Polaris Music Prize last year.<\/p>\n

The attention \u201c99.9%\u201d has garnered Kaytranada over this past year has elevated him to a new status. He recently collaborated with Mary J. Blige on her next album, and he says he’s also talking with Erykah Badu about working on something together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI send beats,\u201d he says. \u201cIt’s up to her to do something with (them, but) ? she Facetimed me so it was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diana Panton, who moonlights as a Hamilton school teacher, won children’s album honours, while Toronto’s Jazz Cartier won rap recording.<\/p>\n

Sunday night’s main event will hand out the remaining awards, including album, group and breakthrough artist as well as country album of the year.<\/p>\n

Viewers can also vote for the Juno Fan Choice Award on the Juno website.<\/p>\n

The show airs on CTV and streams through the CTV website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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