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Q: Hello friends. 
  
 We have some very tough news to share with you today, and we wish it wasn’t so. 
  
 A few months ago, in December, Gord Downie was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. 
  
 Since then, obviously, he’s endured a lot of difficult times, and he has been fighting hard. In privacy along with his family, and through all of this, we’ve been standing by him. 
  
 So after 30-some years together as The Tragically Hip, thousands of shows, and hundreds of tours… 
  
 We’ve decided to do another one. 
  
 This feels like the right thing to do now, for Gord, and for all of us. 
  
 What we in The Hip receive, each time we play together, is a connection; with each other; with music and it’s magic; and during the shows, a special connection with all of you, our incredible fans. 
  
 So, we’re going to dig deep, and try to make this our best tour yet. 
  
 We hope you can come out and join us this summer – details and dates will be coming this week. 
  
 And we sincerely thank all of you, for your continued love and support, 
  
 Paul, GordD, Johnny, Rob, GordS ||||| Gord Downie, the lead singer and lyricist of the iconic Canadian rock band the Tragically Hip, announced Tuesday he has terminal brain cancer, but still plans to join his bandmates of more than 30 years for a summer tour. 
  
 The band posted the news of Downie's illness on its website and the band managers released more details about it — an aggressive, incurable form of cancer called glioblastoma — at a news conference at Sunnybrook Hospital later in the day. 
  
 Downie was diagnosed with the disease in December and has since undergone surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. 
  
 "Since then, obviously, he's endured a lot of difficult times, and he has been fighting hard," the band said in their letter to fans. "In privacy along with his family, and through all of this, we've been standing by him." 
  
 Canadians are sending messages of support to The Tragically Hip frontman, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer 3:32 
  
 Downie, 52, and Laura Leigh Usher have four children. 
  
 Despite the diagnosis, The Hip announced it will "dig deep" and hit the road together this summer. The details of that tour should be released later this week, according to the band. 
  
 "This feels like the right thing to do now, for Gord, and for all of us," group members said in their statement. "What we in The Hip receive, each time we play together, is a connection; with each other; with music and it's magic; and during the shows, a special connection with all of you, our incredible fans." 
  
 'I love this country' 
  
 The Tragically Hip's frontman has long established himself as one of the country's greatest songwriters, his lyrics giving a voice to Canada's land, its history and, at times, its official winter sport. 
  
 "You write about what you know," he told CBC's Wendy Mesley in 2012. "And I love this country. I love my idea of this country. 
  
 "Where I go and the people I've met, underlying everything is that commitment to finding the common good." 
  
 Downie's performance has always been characterized by his energy and his dance moves. (Canadian Press) 
  
 His music has given him a chance to bear witness to that, travelling from St. John's to Attawapiskat First Nation to Vancouver since the Tragically Hip began playing the Kingston, Ont., bar scene in 1983. 
  
 Downie and The Hip — now also including Gord Sinclair, Johnny Fay, Rob Baker and Paul Langlois — swiftly ascended from playing cover songs for Queen's University students, following a gig at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern three years later. 
  
 That led to a record deal with MCA and the release of the self-titled 1987 EP, says the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, to which the group was inducted in 2005. 
  
 Downie's evocative lyrics didn't break out into the mainstream, however, until Up to Here, the group's first full-length album, was released in August 1989. 
  
 14 Junos 
  
 That album gave birth to the bluesy-rock single New Orleans is Sinking — which claimed the No. 1 spot on the Canadian content chart — and earned The Hip the first of its 14 Juno Awards. The Hip won Most Promising Group of the Year in 1990. 
  
 The next three full-length studio albums — Road Apples, Fully Completely and Day for Night — cemented the band members' reputation as commanders in the Canadian rock scene, as they quickly graduated to arena-sized venues and were so popular they regularly hosted their own outdoor festival, Another Roadside Attraction. 
  
 The Tragically Hip has won 14 Junos, including Album of the Year for Trouble at the Henhouse in 1997. (Canadian Press) 
  
 The group has been among a select few acts that could garner heavy airplay on both alternative and classic rock radio stations around the country. While Downie was adept at writing something universal like My Music at Work or more enigmatically in the case of Little Bones and Locked in the Trunk of Car, quite often the band's songs were infused with Canadiana — the hockey anthem Fifty Mission Cap, the contemplative Bobcaygeon and Wheat Kings, in part about wrongfully convicted Manitoba native David Milgaard. 
  
 Fellow Kingston native Dan Aykroyd, former Saturday Night Live cast member, was clad in a Canada sweatshirt when he famously introduced the Tragically Hip on the show in 1995 for the performance of Grace, Too and Nautical Disaster. 
  
 'One of the most captivating frontmen' 
  
 Downie channelled his lyricism inward on the band's 2012 album, Now for Plan A, released a year after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. 
  
 "The band, we rallied," Downie said in an interview on CBC's The Hour in 2012. "We're a big family and rallied around my wife, Laura, and helped her through it." 
  
 While the band has appealed to countless fans through their sound and the stories they've told through song, Downie's singular stage presence looms large. 
  
 The Hip's frontman can turn a microphone into a bucking bronco in one minute and a fishing spear in the next, his inimitable footwork earning him a Dora Award for choreography. 
  
 Anyone who has ever seen Downie on stage is used to his perpetual handkerchief, both a prop in his elaborate ballet — and a necessity given the stage lights, his energy and athleticism. 
  
 "His improvised antics are a major part of the show, completely transfixing the audience," the CBC's Jesse Kinos-Goodin wrote in 2013. "One performance and yet it yields, easily, 100 or more separate dance moves; such is the spontaneous genius of one of the most captivating frontmen in Canadian music." 
  
 Man Machine Poem 
  
 Although Downie has also produced three solo albums since 2001, as well as a collaboration with indie darlings The Sadies, his legacy is unquestionably tied to The Hip. The group also received the Governor General's National Arts Centre Award. 
  
 Man Machine Poem, the group's 13th studio album, will be released in June, although the single In a World Possessed by the Human Mind has already been released. 
  
 Performing for the band's legion of fans has always been one of Downie's great loves, he's told the CBC. 
  
 "Enjoy those one-night moments. We'll only be here tonight, this bunch of us in this room," he told The Hour in 2006. "Let's try and find some point of transcendence and leap together." ||||| Tragically Hip frontman and lead singer Gord Downie will be well enough to go on tour despite a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, one of his doctors told a news conference this morning. Downie, 52, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an invasive brain tumour, in his front left temporal lobe in December after he suffered a seizure while walking around his hometown of Kingston, neuro-oncologist Dr. James Perry said. 
  
 Gord Downie found out he had terminal brain cancer in December, the Tragically Hip announced Tuesday on their website. ( Scott Gardner / The Hamilton Spectator file photo ) 
  
 “Fortunately for Gord, he has a type of glioblastoma that is more amenable to treatment than most . . . with a more favourable response to treatment,” Perry told the news conference at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. While he said Downie could have “a significantly higher chance of longer-term survival,” Perry repeatedly declined to give a timeline for the cancer’s progress. He said the cancer is “incurable” and will eventually claim the singer’s life. 
  
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 Notable people who have died from this type of cancer include Beau Biden, the son of U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, and former U.S. senator Ted Kennedy. “There’s no way to buy your way out of this,” Perry said Downie is responding well to treatment, which included brain surgery, radiation therapy and oral chemotherapy, Perry said. The singer’s day-to-day health is back to normal, so much so that his medical team saw no reason he shouldn’t be able to tour with the band this summer as previously planned. “He is doing very well,” Perry said. When fans go to the show this summer, he said, “they will see a survivor continuing with his craft.” The Hip’s manager Patrick Sambrook told the news conference that Downie wouldn’t be going on tour unless he could “blow people’s minds.” 
  
 “Gord absolutely doesn’t want to go out there on tour if he can’t do his thing,” Sambrook said. The band revealed the diagnosis on its website early Tuesday, along with the announcement of a tour this summer promoting their 14th studio album, Man Machine Poem, which will be released on June 14. 
  
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 Tickets for the tour will go on sale Wednesday. “This feels like the right thing to do now, for Gord, and for all of us,” the band wrote. 
  
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 “What we in The Hip receive, each time we play together, is a connection; with each other; with music and its magic; and during the shows, a special connection with all of you, our incredible fans.” Read the band’s statement here Neither Downie nor his bandmates attended Tuesday’s news conference, which the statement said would be the first and last time that representatives for the band will speak about Downie’s health because “the music will stand to answer all.” Perry has worked with the band’s management to ensure that any medical problems that arise can be handled on the road — the most common risks being fatigue, dehydration and seizures. “We’ll have to deal with that week by week, concert by concert,” Perry said. The news came as a shock to many Canadians and musicians who have long followed his career as the emissary of Canadian rock. “No band in our history has embraced/defined #canadianity more than The Hip. Gutted by this news. Gord IS Canada,” said Jonathan Torrens, who played J-Roc on Trailer Park Boys. Downie co-founded the Tragically Hip in 1984 with four friends from high school — including current members Rob Baker, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay. Guitarist Paul Langlois joined in 1986 at the same time as saxophonist David Manning left the band. 
  
 Music video by The Tragically Hip performing At The Hundredth Meridian. (C) 1992 UMG Recordings, Inc. 
  
 Since the release of its first full-length album Up to Here in 1989, the band has been a staple of Canadian radio and tour circuit and has won 14 Juno Awards. The Hip were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2005. The band has maintained a cult following in Canada and elsewhere, and was the first act to perform at the Air Canada Centre. Downie, who is married and has four children, has also released a number of solo albums and campaigned for environmental causes. With files from The Canadian Press More on thestar.com: 10 Gord Downie songs rooted in Canadian experience Tragically Hip’s roots in Canadian sports PHOTOS: The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie through the years ||||| The seed for Wide00014 was: 
  
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Canadian rock band the Tragically Hip is going on tour this summer for what could be the last time. In a statement Tuesday, the band says lead singer and songwriter Gord Downie was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in December. Even so, the 52-year-old father of four—whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011—plans to continue to join his bandmates of 30 years on stage. "He's endured a lot of difficult times, and he has been fighting hard," the band says, per the CBC. But "this feels like the right thing to do now, for Gord, and for all of us. What we in The Hip receive, each time we play together, is a connection; with each other; with music and its magic." The CBC calls Downie "one of the country's greatest songwriters, his lyrics giving a voice to Canada's land, its history and, at times, its official winter sport." In addition to hits like New Orleans is Sinking, he's known for his moves, with a columnist once commenting that a Downie performance "yields, easily, 100 or more separate dance moves; such is the spontaneous genius of one of the most captivating frontmen in Canadian music." A fan on Facebook adds, per the Toronto Star, "he's not the voice of a band, he's the voice of our country." The Tragically Hip signed to MCA in 1987 and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2005. The band's 13th studio album, Man Machine Poem, is due out June 14; tour dates have yet to be announced.