CELEBRATION of Gordon Lightfoot @ Massey Hall-May 23 2024

[charlene]

I will update as I can: the night was epic..electric..heartfelt...emotional..bittersweet ..

The addition of Ed Ringwald/Pee Wee to The Lightfoot Band just made the event more special!

Our legend Gordon Lightfoot celebrated at The Church of Gord with those who follow in his footsteps... an iconic night I will treasure always.

ARTISTS and SET LIST

Talking In Your Sleep, Caroline Wiles/Bob Doidge

Looking at the Rain, Aysanabee

At the End of the Day, Sylvia Tyson with Joan Besen

Cold on the Shoulder, Tom Wilson with the Lightfoot Band

Oh So Sweet, Meredith Moon with Tony Allen

Slow Moving Train, Meredith Moon with Tony Allen (the only non-Lightfoot song)

If You Could Read My Mind, Meredith Moon/Serena Ryder with the Lightfoot Band

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Tom Cochrane with Lightfoot Band

Sundown, Dallas Green of City and Colour with Lightfoot Band

INTERMISSION

Early Morning Rain, Murray McLauchlin with Victor Bateman

The House You Live In, William Prince

If You Got It, Burton Cummings

Steel Rail Blues, Blue Rodeo

All I’m After, Julian Taylor with Blue Rodeo

Carefree Highway, Kathleen Edwards with Blue Rodeo

Black Day in July, Allison Russell with Blue Rodeo

The Way I Feel, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson with Blue Rodeo

Alberta Bound, The Good Brothers with Blue Rodeo

Summerside Of Life, All Artists

Tom Cochrane & The Lightfoot Band - Wreck Of...

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Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson w/ Blue Rodeo - The...

Gordon Lightfoot Tribute - Summer Side Of Life -...

Murray McLauchlan w/ Victor Bateman - Early...

COLD ON THE SHOULDER

Tom Wilson & Thompson Wilson w/ The Lightfoot...

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Gordon's daughter Meredith Moon sang a tune of her own which was a fave of her dad's. She also sang IYCRMM with Serena Ryder and Oh So Sweet.
She was a STAR! Absolute STAR!

Meredith Moon w/ Tony Allen - Slow Moving Train -...

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William Prince - The House You Live In - LIVE -...

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SUMMER SIDE OF LIFE - balcony view:

Blue Rodeo & Friends - Lightfoot Celebration...

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more videos - Burton Cummings (If You Got It), Alison Russell (Black Day In July) Kathleen Edwards/Blue Rodeo (Carefree HIghway). Geddy Lee/Alex Lifeson (The Way I Feel) Burton Cummings (if You Got It) William Prince (The House You Live In) Blue Rodeo (Big Steel Rail) Burton Cummings imitation of Gordon, The Lightfoot Band - Rick Haynes, Barry Keane, Michael Heffernan, Carter Lancaster, Andy Mauck and Pee Wee Charles (Ed Ringwald) and Dallas Green (SUNDOWN)

JOHN McDERMOTT - I went to the Tribute to Gordon...

[charlene]

ROLLING STONE
Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Cover Gordon Lightfoot Song at Toronto Tribute Concert
Performing as "L+L," Rush duo perform live together for only fourth time since Neil Peart's 2020 death.

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson made an increasingly rare appearance onstage together Thursday as the Rush duo covered Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” at a Toronto tribute concert for the late Canadian singer-songwriter.

Lee and Lifeson, who were billed as “L+L” on the lineup, performed alongside the Canadian country act Blue Rodeo at the gig at Massey Hall, the same Toronto venue where Rush recorded their All the World’s a Stage live album in 1976.

“On Thursday evening at Massey Hall in Toronto, both Alex and myself had the profound pleasure of paying tribute to a true Canadian musical legend, Gordon Lightfoot,” Lee wrote on social media after the performance. “A huge thank you to the gracious members of Blue Rodeo for sharing their stage and prodigious talents with us both- a tremendous evening full of compelling performances and warm remembrances. An honour to be there.”

Speaking to Variety, the bassist added, “It was important for us to pay tribute to Gordon. Not being folk or pop artists, Alex and I were looking for one of Gordon’s songs that might better suit our style of play and we found that in ‘The Way I Feel.’ Its structure was loose and more open to interpretation than many of his more popular tunes.”



Lee and Lifeson have only reunited onstage a handful of times since the death of Rush drummer Neil Peart in 2020, first to play the band’s “Closer to the Heart” at a South Park 25th anniversary show in 2022, and followed soon after by a three-song set — with drummers like Dave Grohl, Chad Smith and Tool’s Danny Carey — at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts in London and Los Angeles.

While Lifeson also on hand for one of the events revolving around Lee’s memoir My Effin’ Life back in December 2023, the duo hadn’t performed together since those 2022 gigs, though as Lifeson recently told Rolling Stone, Lee has continually trying to persuade him to play Rush together live.

“We talk about it, but at the same time, [Lee’s] my best friend and he loves me and he cares for me. He knows that I do have issues both physical and emotional with this whole idea,” Lifeson told Rolling Stone. “And he respects that we have so much respect and love for each other. I would do something like that, that he wanted to do, because I love him and I want to make him happy. But he knows that I wouldn’t be happy. It’s the bond that we have.”

Lee told Rolling Stone in a November 2023 interview, “I think Al and I owe it to each other to have a serious sit-down and play together and see what happens, and maybe all this hypothetical crap that we talked about…. Maybe that’ll disappear if we get really excited or maybe it won’t, but I’m not banking on it, and Rush fans certainly should not bank on it. There’s always hope.”

GEDDY LEE INSTAGRAM and photos from the night:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7ZalwNg...e6&img_index=1

[charlene]

TORONTO SUN
Rush were the surprise performers at Gordon Lightfoot tribute at Massey Hall

The show was filmed for a future CBC Music Live At Massey Hall
Author of the article:
Jane Stevenson
Published May 24, 2024

Everyone from his own daughter to contemporaries like Burton Cummings paid tribute to Gordon Lightfoot in song on Thursday night at Toronto’s Massey Hall in the first musical gathering to honour the iconic singer-songwriter since his death just over a year ago at age 84.

But the biggest surprise was when previously unannounced performers Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush fame took the stage to join Blue Rodeo, one of two house bands for the evening, to perform The Way I Feel.

“Fancy meeting you here,” joked Lee.

The crowd went nuts during a night of many such memorable moments starting with Lightfoot’s youngest daughter Meredith Moon performing Oh, So Sweet, her own Slow Moving Train (a favourite of her dad’s) and was then joined by Serena Ryder to make beautiful harmonies for If You Could Read My Mind.

From there Tom Cochrane took on the mighty The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald with The Lightfoot Band, the other house band of the night, reminding everyone just how much of a songwriting genius the Orillia native really was.

“I hope I remember the lyrics,” Cochrane joked.

The kind, generous and sometimes political spirit of Lightfoot, who performed the most at Massey Hall at a whopping 170-plus times, was most definitely in the house.

Particularly during William Prince’s poignant solo take on The House You Live In, Julian Taylor’s beautiful rendition of All I’m After, Kathleen Edward’s rousing version of Carefree Highway (backed by Blue Rodeo including ex-husband and guitarist Colin Cripps in a bedazzled nudie suit), and Allison Russell’s defiant Black Day In July, which Lightfoot wrote about the Detroit riots back in the ‘60s and found himself banned from many American radio stations as a result.

The biggest laughs came before Burton Cummings’ simple piano rendition of If You Got It as he re-enacted his famous impression of Lightfoot singing Rod Stewart’s Maggie May, and the biggest crowd singalong came during The Good Brothers’ Alberta Bound before all of the artists gathered for the grand finale of Summerside of Life.

The show, which was broken down into two hours on either side of a 30-minute intermission, was hosted by CBC Radio’s Damhnait Doyle, who often told the next performer’s Lightfoot story before they could while trying to kill time between band set-ups.

There were also cameras on stage and in the aisle with the concert being filmed for a future special edition of CBC Music Live at Massey Hall.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...at-massey-hall

[charlene]

TORONTO STAR

‘Beautiful’ Gordon Lightfoot tribute brings Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson out to Massey Hall

More than 20 Canadian musical ambassadors honoured the legendary singer-songwriter, who died one year ago.

To quote one of his masterful songs: Could a star-studded live concert tribute to the late Gordon Lightfoot by a group of his peers and admirers being anything but “Beautiful”?

If you were in Massey Hall on Thursday night – the venue affectionately known as “The House That Gord Built” – that question would have been answered for two-and-a-half hours with an emphatic, “No!”

While the man himself is no longer with us – it’s been just over a year since the Orillia native died at 84 – a steady and somewhat surprising cavalcade of more than 20 Canadian musical ambassadors ensured that his songs remained as timeless as the day they were written, choosing numbers both popular and somewhat obscure to celebrate the work of this meticulous craftsman.

Recorded for a future CBC broadcast as part of the “Live at Massey Hall” series and hosted by singer Damhnait Doyle – who, as emcee and narrator, managed to incorporate the three touchstones of charm, enthusiasm and annoyance – this event, tagged “Celebrating Gordon Lightfoot,” was a glorious evening of stories, laughter and, of course, peak solo, duo and group performances.

And though Lightfoot had graced the venue’s stage an estimated 170 times while still part of this mortal coil, some entertainers felt that he stuck around spiritually Thursday evening for No. 171.

“I truly believe that Gord is here tonight,” exclaimed Hamilton’s Tom Wilson, who was joined by his son Thompson Wilson and the original Lightfoot Band for a stirring rendition of “Cold on the Shoulder.” “I feel it in my heart!”

Truly, there were others who shared that sentiment.

Among the A-listers there to play their respects: Burton Cummings, Allison Russell, Tom Cochrane, Sylvia Tyson, Murray McLauchlan, Serena Ryder, City and Colour (a.k.a. Dallas Green), Kathleen Edwards, Aysanabee and William Prince.

Lightfoot’s longtime accompanists – drummer Barry Keane, bassist Rick Haynes, pedal steel guitarist Ed “Pee Wee Charles” Ringwald, guitarists Mike Heffernan, Carter Lancaster and Andy Mauck – served as house band for the first half of the show, with Blue Rodeo singer-guitarists Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor, guitarists Colin Cripps and Jimmy Bowskill, keyboardist Mike Boguski, bassist Bazil Donovan and drummer Glenn Milchem taking over post-intermission.

Julian Taylor made his Massey debut with “All I’m After” from Gord’s “Shadows” album and Lightfoot was genetically represented by his daughter Meredith Moon, who offered the insight that her dad used to tune his guitar to “Oh, So Sweet” while watching baseball on a TV set to mute.

Not everyone partook in the Lightfoot catalogue: Sylvia Tyson, who with her ex-husband Ian, gave the singer-songwriter his first break with their hit cover version of “Early Morning Rain,” decided to convey the feeling of reflection with the title track of her latest album, “At the End of Day,” accompanied by ex-Prairie Oyster pianist Joan Besen.

Moon also chose an original, “Slow Moving Train,” which she revealed was one of her dad’s favourites. She also earned the evening’s first standing ovation, duetting with Serena Ryder on what is arguably Lightfoot’s most endearing classic, “If You Could Read My Mind.”

The show opened simply, with folk singer Caroline Wiles on guitar and longtime Lightfoot producer Bob Doidge on bass for “Talking in Your Sleep,” followed by Aysanabee performing the heartbreaking “Looking at the Rain” from the maestro’s 1972 album “Don Quixote.”

In a pre-show interview with the Star, Aysanabee disclosed why he picked that tune. “I chose that song because there was something similar that I was going through at the time and it kind of connects in a real-time, personal way,” he explained.

And that may very well be the secret sauce of Lightfoot’s creations: They can be relatable, heart-on-your-sleeve scenarios that are complex enough to externalize internal emotions, as well as scenic, descriptive landscapes of our home and native land that promote Canadian identity and geography and serve as an amber-preserved reminder of our colourful history.

Another takeaway from the show was how economical Lightfoot was as a composer and arranger. Whether it was Tom Cochrane storming through “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” William Prince slaying with “The House You Live In” or Kathleen Edwards running through “Carefree Highway,” there was little need to embellish any of the original versions because those originals are picture perfect.

As for highlights: Before he performed “If You Got It” on piano, Burton Cummings offered a fantastic impression of Lightfoot singing Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May” that prompted convulsive laughter in the audience. Who needs AI voice cloning when Cummings is in front of the microphone?

Murray McLauchlan offered a warm, laid-back rendering of “Early Morning Rain” that contained a tasteful harmonica solo. And Allison Russell gave the best performance of the night, using her charismatic presence to pump up the crowd for one of Gord’s rare political numbers, “Black Day in July.”

Then, just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, suddenly a couple of guys named Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson strolled out onstage to join Blue Rodeo for a robust “The Way I Feel,” with Lee adding some powerfully intricate bass that no doubt would have impressed Lightfoot.

The evening climaxed with a rollicking “Alberta Bound” courtesy of Blue Rodeo and the Good Brothers, followed by a grand finale featuring all the stars joining on an upbeat “Summer Side of Life,” captained by Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor.

Still, with all the celebrities onstage, there was one glaring absence: Apparently devoted Lightfoot friend and disciple Ron Sexsmith – who certainly deserved, and wanted, to be there – wasn’t invited to take part. His presence would have been icing on a very fine cake, but that oversight will hopefully be rectified should this celebration become an annual event.

And there’s no reason why it shouldn’t: Although the 2,752 sets of ears belonging to family, friends and fans enjoyed this momentous occasion – a charity event whose proceeds went to the Massey Hall Revitalization Program – plenty of Lightfoot’s catalogue remained unheard.

Until next time ... if you can read my mind.
NK

Nick Krewen is a Toronto-based freelance contributor for the Star. Reach him via email: octopus@rogers.com.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainmen...5633edef8.html

[charlene]

RICK video - https://www.cpimages.com/asset-management/2RLQZBTWCUARM

[OldDan]

Thanks for posting the videos and reviews of the concert, Char. Sorry we weren't able to meet up at the Pantages bar afterward. I did walk over there and was told the bar was closed. It was a special evening indeed and an integral part of my 'Lightfoot Landmarks' Canadian road trip. I traveled from Illinois to attend the concert in Toronto and also visited some local sites; Gord's former home on Beaumont Road, his last home on Park Lane Circle, the hi-rise apartment building on Alexander Street and Yorkville, the site of the Riverboat coffee house where Gordon played in his early career. Steele's Tavern is long gone, replaced by Ryerson University. I also drove north to Orillia the day after the concert to pay my respects at Gord's grave in St. Andrew's St. James' Cemetery. (Also, I located his sister Bev's grave in another section of the cemetery.) I visited Tudhope Park to see the 'Golden Leaves' sculpture and two smaller ones and took a walk on the 'Lightfoot Trail' (I wished I had brought my bike with me), saw his boyhood home at 283 Harvey Street, the Orillia Opera House and the Lightfoot sculpture out in front and St. Paul's Church where the memorial service and funeral was conducted. This trip was a kind of closure for me as a devoted fan.

[charlene]

Dan - only by happenstance when I ran into Gordon's oldest daughter and his nieces outside Massey near the stage door where I was waiting for my daughter and Dan did I discover I was on The List for the after party...lol
So we went in and had a lovely time until around 12:30/1 a.m.
What a remarkable trip for you!! wow - you hit it all...and it was so nice to speak with you !!
I have a few videos to load onto youtube - from the first half until camera cops went crazy...yet there are so many videos online..lol (much better than mine tho!)
It was breathtaking to be there and listen to the artists speak so lovingly and respectfully of Gordon and then just nail it with the tunes they chose. So many highlights during the night...seeing the guys onstage again with Ed and Andy too was beyond sweet..

[charlene]

CBC GEM will broadcast the whole concert on CANADA DAY/JULY 1 this year. I don't know if streaming from the u.s./out of Canada can be done on CBC GEM...

try the link below to see if you can access any of the posted shows...

Once it is posted on July 1 I will find out how this can be viewed by everyone, everywhere..

https://gem.cbc.ca/cbc-music-present...at-massey-hall

[charlene]

VIDEO - https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/video/c292...at-massey-hall

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GLOBE AND MAIL: photos and videos at link
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts...onto/#comments
Star-studded Gordon Lightfoot tribute concert at Massey Hall was a fitting homage to a legend
BRAD WHEELER
PUBLISHED MAY 24, 2024
UPDATED MAY 25, 2024

If one were forced to choose the highlight of the Gordon Lightfoot tribute concert at Toronto’s Massey Hall on Thursday, there would be no wanting for contenders. The late singer-songwriter played the venue on more than 170 occasions, and it is hard to imagine his compositions sounding any better than they did on a night when major and minor chords were struck, familiar melodies hummed and memories celebrated.

Meredith Moon, Lightfoot’s youngest daughter, gave an affecting three-song performance, which included the relatively obscure Oh So Sweet. “This is the song my dad used to tune his guitars to,” she said. Her own Slow Moving Train was a favourite of her father’s, the capacity crowd was told. And on the dueted If You Could Read My Mind with Serena Ryder, the line “Because the ending’s just too hard to take” was just that.

Lightfoot, a painter of a songwriter and a Canadian icon, died on May 1, 2023. He was 84.

Though the all-Canadian evening was often poignant, there were just as many upbeat moments. Burton Cumming’s imitative imagining of Lightfoot singing Rod Stewart’s Maggie May was hilariously uncanny.

The hoedowned Alberta Bound by the Good Brothers and Blue Rodeo was so convincing that I felt the urge to book a train trip to Medicine Hat.

Allison Russell’s intense rendition of Black Day in July, Lightfoot’s response to the Detroit riot of 1967, resonated emotionally. The Grammy winner seemed to be living the song’s protest, not reciting it.

The surprise appearance of Rush musicians Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson for a psychedelic take on The Way I Feel with Blue Rodeo was a maple-blooded occasion for the ages.

My personal favourite moment was small and subtle. Blue Rodeo, one of the concert’s two house bands, backed Julian Taylor on Lightfoot’s All I’m After. At times, as Taylor crooned, Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy mouthed lines to himself: “Ain’t it funny, life feels different with each new passing day/ All I need is my reflection in your wild and windswept ways.”

Done off microphone and with a sly smile, this was not performance. It was private joy in plain sight; a salute to a fellow professional’s perfect lyricism; a tribute as meaningful as any.

The concert, filmed for future broadcast on CBC, was divided in two. The first half featured solo presentations and others backed by Lightfoot’s old band, which starred the long-time rhythm section of bassist Richard Haynes and drummer Barry Keane.

Near the end of the first set, Tom Cochrane took on a moody epic, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It is a classic that had to be done. But if Cochrane drew the short straw, his rendition with Lightfoot’s former sideman was strong and faithful to the original.

After the intermission, Murray McLauchlan spoke about Lightfoot’s lonesome Early Morning Rain. He said past interpreters of the song had often taken liberties with the chords, and he would perform it the way Lightfoot wrote it. This was avenging a slight to a songwriter. McLauchlan’s version managed to be both respectful and inimitable.

The Manitoba troubadour William Prince brought the house down with his cover of the counselling The House You Live In. He added a personal touch by mentioning that he wished he knew the song’s fourth verse when he was younger:

When you’re down in the dumps and not ready to deal

Decide what it is that you need

Is it money or love, is it learning to live

Or is it the mouth you must feed?

Be known as a man who will always be candid

On questions that do not relate

The tempo picked up with the arrival of Blue Rodeo. Guitarist Colin Cripps’s cosmic-cowboy suit alone heightened expectations quickly met by a high-spirited Steel Rail Blues.

The concert was not perfect. Host Damhnait Doyle of CBC radio was committed to breathless platitudes, chipper blather and amateurish segues. She described Lightfoot as a man, a myth and a legend “all rolled into one.” That is not accurate. Unlike Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan – she mentioned both of them – Lightfoot was not part-myth. He was a country boy with a gift for melody and melancholic expression. A humble star, he wrote lore but was not lore.

The night closed with a packed-stage presentation of 1971′s Summer Side of Life, about youthful idealism ruined by the realities of living. The buoyant woe was perfect.

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1 Caroline Wiles Bob Doidge Talking In Your...

2 LOOKING AT THE RAIN Aysanabee CHAR WESTBROOK...

3 SYLVIA TYSON At The End of The Day CHAR...

4 TOM WILSON Thompson Wilson Cold On The...

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5 OH SO SWEET Meredith Moon Tony Allen CHAR...

6 SLOW MOVING TRAIN Meredith Moon Tony Allen...

7 TOM COCHRANE introduces Andy Mauck CHAR...

8 ALBERTA BOUND The GOod Brothers Blue Rodeo...

9 GROUP FINALE SUMMER SIDE OF LIFE CHAR...

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https://x.com/DevinCuddy/status/1794073271903695291

[OldDan]

Originally Posted by charlene

William Prince - The House You Live In - LIVE - YouTube

Really like William Prince's version of this song, what a voice. This was always one of my favorite Lightfoot songs over the years.

[OldDan]

Originally Posted by charlene

1 Caroline Wiles Bob Doidge Talking In Your Sleep CHAR WESTBROOK VIDEO MVI 8141 - YouTube

2 LOOKING AT THE RAIN Aysanabee CHAR WESTBROOK video MVI 8143 - YouTube

3 SYLVIA TYSON At The End of The Day CHAR WESTBROOK video MVI 8145 - YouTube

4 TOM WILSON Thompson Wilson Cold On The Shoulder CHAR WESTBROOK VIDEO MVI 8147 - YouTube

I keep playing Aysanabee's 'Looking at the Rain' clip over and over. I can't get this tune out of my head. A little faster tempo than Gord's version. This was such a powerful performance of the tribute evening to see it performed live. Thanks for posting it, Char.

[OldDan]

Haven't seen anything surface on YouTube yet of Meredith Moon singing 'If You Could Read My Mind' with Serena Ryder and The Lightfoot Band. I will be anxious to see the official broadcast of this concert on the CBC in July. I hope it will be available somehow in the US.

[charlene]

IYCRMM
https://www.facebook.com/alisondalto...lCyoRsacQFrmjV

Meredith asked that OH SO SWEET not be shared. she also contacted CBC about not including it in the show. she says she messed up the lyrics.

[charlene]

THE CELEBRATION of GORDON LIGHTFOOT at MASSEY HALL on May 23 will be aired on July 1/CANADA DAY.
(please GOOGLE search the various methods to watch/listen listed below. Canadian regulations do not allow for sharing links on news sites) (NT is Newfoundland time)

To honour the iconic Canadian musician’s legacy, CBC and Massey Hall, in collaboration with the Gordon Lightfoot Estate, present CELEBRATING GORDON LIGHTFOOT, broadcasting nationwide on:
LISTEN: Canada Day, July 1 at 12 p.m. (12:30 NT) on CBC Radio One and CBC Listen ,
4 p.m. (4:30 NT) on CBC Music and CBC Listen ,

and available to stream as of:
9 a.m. ET on CBC Gem in Canada (free membership)
and worldwide on CBC Music’s YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@cbcmusic/streams

Recorded live from Massey Hall’s Allan Slaight Stage in Toronto this spring, the special features a memorable night of music with Blue Rodeo and The Lightfoot Band as the house bands, welcoming some of Canada’s brightest talent to join them on stage to celebrate the late Gordon Lightfoot’s work, including: Allison Russell, Aysanabee, Burton Cummings, Caroline Wiles and Bob Doidge, City and Colour, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, The Good Brothers, Julian Taylor, Kathleen Edwards, Meredith Moon, Murray McLauchlan, Serena Ryder, Sylvia Tyson, Tom Cochrane, Tom Wilson and William Prince.

Lightfoot had many connections to the venue, having performed on the Massey Hall stage over 170 times – more than any other artist in the Hall’s 130-year history. Lightfoot was the last artist to perform before Massey Hall closed for renovations in 2018 and the first to appear after the re-opening in 2021. Following his death on May 1, 2023, Massey Hall opened its doors to allow fans to offer condolences and lovingly remember the legendary artist.

[charlene]

All performances are included in the tightly edited 90 min concert film. It really is a special documentation of truly outstanding and inspired performances by every artist on the bill (!!).
Please note, the performances are not in the exact order in which they were performed…
Create a free account and watch on CBC GEM online - this site is for CANADIAN viewers only.
And here’s a Youtube link that will go live on July 1:

CBC Music Live at Massey Hall: A special...

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1:20 Looking at the rain (Aysanabee)

5:49 The House You Live In (William Prince)

10:44 Slow Moving Train (Meredith Moon)

14:44 Talking In Your Sleep (Caroline Miles & Bob Doidge)

18:52 If You Could Read My Mind (Serene Ryder, Meredith Moon and the Lightfoot Band)

24:36 Cold On The Shoulder (Tom Thompson & The Lightfoot Band)

28:16 The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Tom Cochrane & The Lightfoot Band)

37:30 Sundown (City & Colour/Dallas Green & The Lightfoot Band)

41:34 If You Got IT (Burton Cummings)

45:44 Steel Rail Blues (Blue Rodeo)

49:23 At The End Of The Day (Sylvia Tyson)

52:53 Early Morning Rain (Murray McLauchlan)

57:20 All I'm After (Julian Taylor & Blue Rodeo)

1:02:15 Carefree Highway (Kathleen Edwards & Blue Rodeo)

1:06:40 Black Day In July (Allison Russell & Blue Rodeo)

1:12:21 The Way I Feel (Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson with Blue Rodeo)

1:20:24 Alberta Bound (The Good Brothers, Travi Good & Blue Rodeo)

1:24:44 Everyone (Summer Side of Life)

CBC Music Live at Massey Hall: A special...