11/21/2023 0 Comments Gordon downie secret path songs![]() ![]() Some of Downie's lyrics already had musical ideas preattached other songs would be co-written later with Drew.Īt Roy Thomson Hall, we saw hauntingly cartooned images of Chanie Wenjack onscreen, with occasional flashes of the boy from Downie himself on stage. Ideas on the material first began taking shape at Downie's home at the time in Toronto's Riverdale enclave. Friendships and camaraderie developed, with Drew eventually suggesting that they should all make an album together. Around that time, Downie had been hanging out at the Bathouse, a recording studio owned and operated by the Hip in Bath, Ont., where Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew was recording his second solo album ( Darlings) with help from producer-musician Dave Hamelin and audio engineer Nyles Spencer.ĭownie dug the vibes and the energy of the sessions. Some three years ago, inspired by a 1967 story written by Ian Adams for Macleans, the Tragically Hip front man Downie wrote 10 poems about the 12-year-old runaway. ![]() But for the three musicians who put the record together, it could not have gone more swimmingly. Every year as we remember Chanie Wenjack, the hope for Secret Path is that it educates all Canadians young and old on this omitted part of our history, urging our entire nation to play an active role in the preservation of Indigenous lives and culture in Canada.One wouldn't imagine making an album about a victim of such a sad, ugly national story – the forced cultural assimilation of Canada's indigenous peoples through a residential school system – would have been an easy proposition. Secret Path acknowledges a dark part of Canada’s history – the long-suppressed mistreatment of Indigenous children and families by the residential school system – with the hope of starting our country on a road to reconciliation. ![]() WATCH THE SECRET PATH TRAILER HERE DONATE TO THE GORD DOWNIE SECRET PATH FUND FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION The Secret Path animated film will be broadcast by CBC in an hour-long commercial-free television special on Sunday, October 23, 2016, at 9pm (9:30 NT).įOR MORE INFORMATION ON SECRET PATH: secretpath.ca Secret Path will arrive on October 18, 2016, in a deluxe vinyl and book edition, and as a book with album download. Every year as Chanie Wenjack is remembered, the hope for Secret Path is that it educates all Canadians young and old on this omitted part of the country’s history, urging us all to play an active role in the preservation of Indigenous lives and culture in Canada. Secret Path acknowledges a dark part of Canada’s history – the long-suppressed mistreatment of Indigenous children and families by the residential school system – with the hope of starting our country on a road to reconciliation. To read Gord Downie’s full statement on Secret Path from September 9, 2016, go HERE. ![]() This is about Canada… The next hundred years are going to be painful as we get to know Chanie Wenjack and thousands like him – as we find out about ourselves, about all of us – but only when we do can we truly call ourselves, Canada.” – Gord Downie Downie was introduced to the story by his brother Mike Downie, who shared with him Ian Adams’ Maclean’s article from February 6, 1967, “The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack.” Secret Path is ten songs that tell the story of Chanie Wenjack (miscalled “Charlie” by his teachers), a twelve year-old boy who died fleeing the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario, fifty years ago, walking home to the family he was taken from over 400 miles away. In conjunction with the release of Secret Path, the forthcoming album, book, and film, Gord Downie has announced two live shows, in Ottawa (October 18) and Toronto (October 21), with proceeds directed to reconciliation. GORD DOWNIE ANNOUNCES ‘SECRET PATH’ CONCERTS ![]()
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