Its focus is on youth learning and combining Cree education with the contemporary world. In February 2012 in Fort Albany, Ontario, Downie and the Tragically Hip played at the Great Moon Gathering, a yearly educational conference that takes place in various communities along Northern Ontario's James Bay coast. He was also a part of the Swim Drink Fish Music club, a project that unites artists and environmentalists in a music club to raise money for Waterkeeper organizations in Canada. With Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Downie helped work on a cause to prevent a cement company from burning tires for fuel. He was a board member of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. Philanthropic work Environmentalismĭownie was heavily involved in environmental movements, especially issues concerning water rights. A documentary film, Long Time Running, about the Tragically Hip's summer 2016 cross-Canada farewell concert tour, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017. Downie also appeared in Michael McGowan's 2008 film, One Week. Colin James is also featured in the episode. Downie was also featured in the sitcom Corner Gas in the episode "Rock On!" in which the Tragically Hip are shown as a local band practising in the main character's garage. More recently, he and other members of the band appeared in the episode of Trailer Park Boys entitled "Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys", in which he is harassed while eating a bologna sandwich at a singles dance.
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Downie also appears in the Trailer Park Boys movie The Big Dirty, in which he and Alex Lifeson play a pair of police officers. Downie also made a cameo appearance in the 2008 indie drama Nothing Really Matters, directed by Jean-Marc Piché. In other mediaĭownie had cameo appearances in Men with Brooms, in which the Tragically Hip play a curling team. This marked his last public appearance before his death. On February 2, 2017, Downie joined Blue Rodeo onstage at Massey Hall for a performance of Blue Rodeo's song "Lost Together". That's really compelling to me." The album consists of ten songs. You do it for the company but I'm genuinely shocked by the themes and things you touch based on the music you're singing to. They're writing all the music and I'm writing all the lyrics and we're coming up with some neat stuff. He commented on working with the Sadies, saying, "I enjoy getting together with those guys it's a whole other universe. In 2014, Downie released an album with the Sadies called And the Conquering Sun. In 2008, Downie appeared as a guest vocalist on City and Colour's single "Sleeping Sickness". Terfry composed the track and with the help of Charles Austen, his co-writer, decided Downie's vocals would be the best fit for their song. Terfry collaborated with Downie on the song "Whispers of the Waves" off the album 20 Odd Years. His most famous Canadian collaborations are with Richard Terfry (better known as Buck 65), Dallas Green of City and Colour and Alexisonfire and the Sadies. In addition to his solo works, Downie collaborated with several fellow Canadian and international artists.
The Tragically Hip quickly became famous once MCA Records president Bruce Dickinson saw them performing at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto and offered them a record deal. In an interview with Canadian music journalist Steve Newton, Downie noted that the Tragically Hip's early setlist was originally drawn to bands such as The Yardbirds and The Stones, a decision that was made because the Hip wished other Kingston bar bands would also play the genre. Originally, the band covered popular British rock songs from the 1960s. In 1986, Manning left the band as guitarist-vocalist Paul Langlois joined. In 1984, at age 20, Downie formed the Tragically Hip with Rodents's members Rob Baker and Gord Sinclair, another younger Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute alumnus, Johnny Fay, and saxophonist Davis Manning.
After graduating high school, Downie attended Queen's University where he majored in film studies, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and Science in 1986. In high school, Downie was the frontman for a band called the Slinks performing at the KCVI Variety show and rivaling older members Rob Baker and Gord Sinclair's band the Rodents. In Kingston, Downie attended the downtown high school Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute, where other members of the Tragically Hip also attended. He was the son of Lorna (Neal) and Edgar Charles Downie, a travelling salesman, later a real estate broker and developer. Gordon Edgar Downie was born in Amherstview, Ontario, and raised in Kingston, Ontario, along with his brothers Mike and Patrick, and sisters Charlyn and Paula.
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