Assiniboine Park, West End Cultural Centre to host Tragically Hip TV broadcast

Posted: 11:02 AM CDT Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2016 Last Modified: 11:29 AM CDT Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2016 | Updates

The Tragically Hip will be coming to the giant screen at Assiniboine Park next month.

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The Tragically Hip will be coming to the giant screen at Assiniboine Park next month.

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The Tragically Hip will be coming to the giant screen at Assiniboine Park next month.

On Aug. 20, Assiniboine Park will be airing CBC’s “The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration” at 7:30 p.m. There will be no charge for the show and is open to everyone.

The broadcast of the iconic Canadian band will be projected on a massive 27 foot-wide LED screen on the Lyric Stage. The

RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES
Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip, performs at the MTS Centre in February 2015. — RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip, performs at the MTS Centre in February 2015.

“This concert will be a national celebration and we can’t think of a better way to watch Canada’s favourite band than in the Assiniboine Park with thousands of Manitoba Hip fans,” Kevin Hunter, senior director of marketing and community engagement, said in a statement.

In addition to the free screening, there will be on-site food and beverage vendors.

Yesterday the West End Cultural Centre announced it, too, will offer a free screening of the the live telecast of the group’s show from their hometown of Kingston, Ont. The concert is part of the band’s cross-country tour that coincides with the group’s new album, Man Machine Poem, which came out June 17.

Tickets for the Tragically Hip’s Aug. 5 concert at the MTS Centre sold out almost the minute they went on sale to the general public June 3. Hip singer Gord Downie announced in June he has an incurable form of brain cancer.