How Dave Bidini came to know and love Canada’s North
Bidini, who visited Yellowknife eight times for his new book, recalls catching a 10-pound northern pike and being dazzled by skies of gold, purple and rosewater
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Dave Bidini
The gift of Gord Downie: ’He gave everything he had to this world’
The Rheostatics’ Dave Bidini—a friend and tourmate of Gord Downie—reflects on the qualities that made the Tragically Hip’s late frontman so special
On the Tragically Hip’s ’golden thread’
The Rheostatics’ Dave Bidini recalls playing with the Hip, and dispels the myth that Downie’s band never made it in the U.S.
Stompin’ Tom: Our national poet
Michael Barclay on the musician who was ’more punk rock’ than most punk rockers
