CBC Music Live at Massey Hall: A special celebrating Gordon Lightfoot

[@deepcovelmf]

It can not be more Canadian on this Canada Day to listen to this dedication to Canada's Gord Lightfoot 🇨🇦

[@gerrigleason4877]

Hey CBC, why do you turn off the comments section on all your political videos?? I guess they dont like criticism . Or are you protecting Trudeau??

[@greatunz67]

Setlist: 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) 37:14 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)

[@zstevenson4996]

Thank you for posting this. I’ll be able to savour the concert again when I return to listen.

[@looloorex]

just like in the DESCRIPTION.

[@CaribooRose]

To be there, in Massey Hall, celebrating Gordon's music with so many like-minded fans and all these musicians was beyond magical!! Gordon has been on my life's soundtrack for as long as I remember... so many beautiful memories have been created while Gord's music was playing in the background! This concert was incredible and I will cherish forever receiving my ticket from my sister for Christmas and getting to travel from BC with her to share this amazing experience!

[@katherinehunter9526]

Wow what a wonderful memory thanks for sharing! Glad you had a wonderful time! Happy Canada Day 🕊❤️🇨🇦🎶🍁🏞🫎🦌

[@denisetartaglia6731]

Ditto.

[@Fvpigpen26]

Agreed!

[@denisetartaglia6731]

Was a privilege to have been able to attend this incredible concert honouring an incredible artist and human Gordon Lightfoot.

[@torontorox]

Gordo 1:20 AYSANABEE 5:49 WILLIAM PRINCE 10:44 MEREDITH MOON 14:44 CAROLINE WILES & BOB DOIDGE 18:52 MEREDITH MOON, SERENA RYDER and THE LIGHTFOOT BAND 24:36 TOM & THOMPSON WILSON and THE LIGHTFOOT BAND 28:16 TOM COCHRANE and THE LIGHTFOOT BAND 37:30 CITY & COLOUR and THE LIGHTFOOT BAND 41:34 BURTON CUMMINGS 45:44 BLUE RODEO 49:23 SYLVIA TYSON 52:53 MURRAY MCLAUCHLAN 57:20 JULIAN TAYLOR and BLUE RODEO 1:02:15 KATHLEEN EDWARDS and BLUE RODEO 1:06:40 ALLISON RUSSELL and BLUE RODEO 1:12:21 GEDDY LEE & ALEX LIFESON and BLUE RODEO 1:20:24 THE GOOD BROTHERS, TRAVIS GOOD and BLUE RODEO 1:24:50 finale

[@greatunz67]

Fixed 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)

[@torontorox]

@@greatunz67 Canadian teamwork ✌🧡

[@dhosquet]

Geddy Lee CRUSHING it on bass. No one else comes up with the bass line. And his vocals are getting better - and lower - as he ages.

[@TheRoamingRoy]

I am sure Gordon Lightfoot was smiling in heaven watching this wonderful tribute to him. 🇨🇦

[@mannymoon1896]

A beautiful tribute to one of the greatest singer songwriters of our time. RIP Good Sir!

[@CarAds4U]

God bless Gordon Lightfoot. God bless the performer/friends who performed his great music. And God Bless the CBC for doing what no one else does: showing us to ourselves. I'm bessed to have been born here to appreciate all our amazing homegrown talent. 🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day!

[@katherinehunter9526]

Amen! Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 🎶🏞 🫎 🦌 ❤

[@markmcarthy596]

Such a beautiful distraction and healing moment from today’s news. Thanks Gordon. Thanks Special Guests. Thanks

[@katherinehunter9526]

Yes it has been a wonderful distraction and a nostalgic memory of that time where we once were! Happy Canada Day! 🕊❤️🇨🇦🎶🍁💫🙏🏼

[@MM1717mm]

Geddy & Alex didn't disappoint.... i could have done without the friggin ad break in the middle of their performance tho 🙄🙄🙄 happy canada day all 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@tammyaikman1990]

Ha , ha , !! How did you like Alex keeping up with the original strumming tempo !! Only the best

[@greatunz67]

dude that's your fault for not knowing how to use an ad blocker lol

[@TWilson-t8h]

“I think that any Canadian that looked at music as something serious to enlighten, enlarge their lives, admired Gordon… “ Beautifully said Geddy! 👍 PS. Happy Canada Day! ❤🇨🇦

[@cindyleonard9241]

Watching Geddy and Alex perform together in any context = pure JOY! (Loved Geddy's voice here...sounded like him and yet unlike him. Lovely!) Happy Canada Day everyone!

[@lightfootfan]

A glorious night forever in my heart as is our legend Gordon Lightfoot.. Miss you Gordon.. a lot.

[@katherinehunter9526]

What a blessing to have this video pop up on KZbin this Canada 🇨🇦 Day Monday afternoon 2024. Gordon would have loved this tribute to him at what Massey Hall is often called, "the house that Gordon Lightfoot built!" I must say it was a deeply moving performance in his honour ! I've been a huge fan since I was 7 years old when my sister brought home his 1st album and they spoke to my heart and soul! Teared up watching this tonight! Thank you, CBC, for this July 1st musical treat! 🕊❤️🇨🇦🎶💫💃🏻🍁

[@lightfootfan]

I've always called it The Church of Gord - he thought it pretty funny when I told him that in 2001..lol..

[@CanadianClub]

A wonderful evening at Massey Hall. Gord would have been delighted.

[@davidcassidybooksbymarlene6014]

Thank you CBC for this masterpiece tribute to Gordon - so emotional and a perfect Canada Day outpouring of love to watch. ❤️🇨🇦

[@sweetcaroline2060]

Perfect timing! I just happened to be here. Gordon Lightfoot is my all-time favorite music hero! Rest in peace, Mr. Lightfoot. And thank you. 🙏🙏🙏

[@MisterKnightly]

The greatest of all time.

[@hltvieira6354]

I hope the CBC puts the entire concert out on DVD, available to be purchased from outside of Canada. It would sell out. I own a region free DVD player (very affordable) so my DVD collection comes from many countries worldwide. Owning the entire concert would mean the world to me. Gordon lives on in all of us, never to be forgotten. I will admit to several teary-eyed moments - my cat noticed & curled up on me to comfort me. Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦

[@margilebold2896]

What a fantastic tribute to Gordon Lightfoot! The Lightfoot band was note perfect and it meant so much to me to hear them again.

[@64slugirl]

9/20/24 ~ First time to hear this tribute to Gordon Lightfoot. I've admired all his music since the early 70's. Here in USA I missed out on his earliest music days. But, I saw him in concert one time in Spokane way back in the 70s. That's when he became more than just a "pretty voice with a pretty face"! USA didn't appreciate Gordon as much as the Nation should have. But John Denver was in the lead still ! Now, at 82, I'm still a biggest fan of this fantastic person, artist, poet. Canada, I've admired your musicians, your Nation. Don't do what we've done.

[@ListeningAmerican]

You damn Canadians can JAM!! ❤

[@NathanPowers-y5g]

He was a Great Artist and this was a terrific show an tribute, Nathan Indiana.

[@123Goldhunter11]

Rainy Day People always hit a chord in me, especially living the the Seattle area. My favorite Lightfoot song. RIP Gordon.

[@bonniyerex7012]

The last song gave me goosebumps. So many greats honouring such a great. Gord attended high school with my two eldest siblings. The way Orillia continually honours Gordon Lightfoot makes me proud of my hometown.

[@davidcassidybooksbymarlene6014]

I think I played that last song 10 times ❤️

[@richierugs6544]

with tears in my eyes i type 'gordon was the best of us all'

[@rationallogo]

Wow. The incomparable Ed Ringwald (aka Pee Wee Charles) returns on the pedal steel after all these years. This hits hard. Thanks for posting.

[@beverlykreller4184]

A beautiful Canuck celebration! So proud to be Canadian when I see this kind of talent come together.

[@paskatefan]

As an "honourary" Canadian, thank you for this concert. I hope that it will eventually be released on DVD in its entirety. Happy Canada Day from the USA!

[@evemoses817]

I would just like to say that Aysanabee’s vocal performance of Looking at the Rain was chilling. Gordon Lightfoot would be smiling down from heaven hearing his tribute. God bless you Gordon….your genius and words will remain long after we are gone.

[@virgilrytaar9083]

Beautiful, I wish that I believed in an afterlife, but I don't. So I don't think that Gordon was looking down on this. I do believe in the human power of positivity. This is as positive as it gets. It also shows that no matter how accomplished these artists are, none of them can get near the the sublime level of joy that Gordon's own versions could generate

[@karendegraaf1146]

The great thing is Heaven and God exist despite who doesn't believe. God believes in you.

[@acousticguitarcanada]

Just brilliant...

[@scottshepherd8895]

How lucky are we to have had Gordon Lightfoot ❤

[@gorfpatrol2073]

Greetings from the shores of lake superior 🇫🇮🇺🇸

[@2404Pepe]

Beatiful beatiful beatiful !!! I took a cassette of Gordon from USA to Argentina in 1983 and imagine the surprise!! no one knew obout him. But over the years I proved right !!! he is great, and he lives in the hearts of all of us that anderstood his music back then. He'll remain for years to come

[@sandynw185]

The incomparable Carter Lancaster on electric guitar!!

[@mycallfromto1112]

One of the best Thank you Gordon for the memories.

[@dianebrown964]

Thank you for sharing this. Lightfoot was a superior musician.

[@seancox3764]

Amazing to have this show on KZbin, but the sound level is so quiet relative to the jarringly loud ads that randomly come on - makes it so hard to properly enjoy.

[@waifer33]

Allison Russell's heartfelt rendition of Black Day in July was refreshing and great to see her in this Canada spotlight for Gordon Lightfoot RIP

[@Fvpigpen26]

Thanks, Canadian Broadcasting Company and First Nation I loved falling to sleep with Gordon Lightfoot in my tender teens in the 70's, and still do today.

[@Steven-qy4wj]

this is an unbelievable tribute. thank you all! Gordon is smiling for sure

[@provincialfish]

Where's Ron Sexsmith?

[@sweetcaroline2060]

What a surprise! I was binging on Gordon Lightfoot and just happened to find this on KZbin. And it was just released yesterday. These musicians did a fantastic job and I'm sure Mr. Lightfoot would be deeply honored. Thanks to everyone who made this possible. Gordon Lightfoot is my all-time favorite singer, songwriter, poet and musician. May his soul rest in peace. 🙏🙏🙏 PS. Happy Canada Day to my neighbors to the North!💕💕💕

[@kamac8761]

I was there! I was SO overwelmed by it all. It was an incredible show!

[@robertclark4509]

I learned. of Gordon by the Newfies doing seismic back in the 80s 90s. The music helped with loneliness of 4 or 5 months away from home.......RIP Gord

[@gregmeagher3945]

I was fortunate to have stumbled onto Gordon in the late '60's because of the college radio station where I was attending school... Sundown was my introduction to his music...I was able to see him twice in small venues in the mid-70's while in grad school in Minnesota...a great talent and someone that you would like to share a meal with...

[@annelouisejamieson402]

Wonderful tribute to our genius who came to us in the form of Gorden Lightfoot! We are blessed, thank you

[@jlg2248]

Love and miss you Gordon Lightfoot! (Can you please credit the artists somewhere in the title and/or description?) Bless everyone!

[@lightfootfan]

@greatunz67 2 days ago (edited) Fixed 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)

[@benjaminholmertz4827]

Never forgotten Gordon!

[@michaelwattie489]

So wonderful, thanks to all of you and to the CBC. Gordon's music will live on for a very long time. Such a great Canadian

[@lovelacetunes]

Gordy and The Beatles, the first artists I really loved as a young boy. Cdn. Railroad Trilogy:EPIC!

[@rukusthelamiaslayer9510]

Simply beautiful 😢❤🇨🇦forever

[@stephenhowland4326]

Amazing outstanding Canadiana! Long live Gordon 😢

[@jayneterry8701]

Thanks CBC. Good to see all the old guys that are still around. Gordon had a daughter! Got to see a bit of second generation . They all seemed to practice hard to do his musical legacy justice 👍💟 . Amazed with Blue Rodeo's band member on dobro and later mandoline! 💓 His stetson and embroidered Canadiana suit 👍🩷🎶

[@ChurchillClementine]

The concert was magical. Unfortunately KZbin here in the States inserted commercials in the MIDDLE of the songs. I am fine with the free version of KZbin having commercials but would it be so difficult to put the commercials BETWEEN the songs?

[@bobmorris5864]

Wonderful tribute, thanks to everyone who made it all possible. Superb!!!

[@neilmcgeachy6198]

Burton --- my fav Lightfoot song - cant believe that You performed it ---- Hurrah !!!! ps obvious but the Kings of Cda music - You, Lightfoot & Bachman !! cheers !!!

[@uriahheep5665]

I saw him 3 times. He is the music of my life. Thank you for this tribute.😞

[@dwightwilliams5892]

My thanks to you all for this.

[@jamesburnside3023]

Awesome glad I found it Thanks Gordon for the memories

[@nancywoo4675]

You tube interrupting every song with a commercial is totally shameful.

[@zstevenson4996]

Is it really KZbin? Is that how it generates income, or does the CBC have control of the presentation and profit by including the ads? Given CBC’s present propensity for advertising on TV and online with GEM, I perhaps mistakenly assumed it was them. Whoever was responsible, I totally agree with you. The constant interruptions were irritating and poorly done.

[@Cobalt_Dragon0716]

R.I.P. to a MASTER storyteller. I'll see you on that carefree highway, Mr. Lightfoot. Please say hello to the crew of the Big Fitz for us, will ya?

[@thespirittrail]

Amazing. Beautiful.

[@Hircismus]

How does this only have 100k views? Absolutely amazing.

[@deecondon2816]

What a lovely tribute!!

[@DollarBill.R]

So terrific that you’ve done this. One more avenue to hear his music. 40 year fan. Great performance by Julian Taylor, love that song.

[@Noone-ro6nm]

Gorden was So Blessed for Us All ❤❤❤❤❤

[@michaeliulamusic]

thank you for posting this

[@greatunz67]

Gordon Lightfoot WAS Canada. His passing in 2023 almost seems fitting because our country has lost so much of what it was that made it so good in the past, it's a shadow of the country it used to be, and without Gord in it now it will forever be different. So glad i grew up in the years when Gord was woven into our fabric.

[@hltvieira6354]

I hope they release the FULL concert on DVD for purchase. For those of us outside of Canada all you need is a region free DVD player!

[@lightfootfan]

Gordon died in 2023. The concert on May 23 was 19 songs. OH So Sweet/Meredith Moon was cut at her request. This CBC video has 18 of 19 songs. They were out of order in this video.

[@greatunz67]

@@lightfootfan yeah i counted wrong i was looking at it on setlist fm lol

[@greatunz67]

@@hltvieira6354 You're good this is the full show, i was mistaken, it's only missing one song by Meredith Moon and one by Burton Cummings doing his 'Gordon Lightfoot as done by Rod Stewart' skit that he did on SCTV back in the 80's

[@sweetcaroline2060]

​@@greatunz67 That sounds like a trip. Geddy Lee doing Rod Stewart doing Gordon Lightfoot? Hmm....🤔

[@andrewbradley199]

Beautifully done, simply wonderful.

[@lindasue8719]

❤CBC, PLEEEASE tell me you'll be releasing this concert to purchase! 🙏🏻For decades and decades, whenever I listen to his songs I marvel at how anything can be so beautiful.❤ Listening to this took me back to wonderful times, and I cried and I cried and I cried. 💔🎶♥️☮️

[@swainsongable]

An eclectic assortment of Canadian artists with a wide spectrum of Lightfoot songs, each with the fingerprint of its performer, in Gord's living room on Canada Day. Alrighty then...

[@dmacdaddy1663]

In my house growing up he was known simply as Gordo.

[@douglasdoucette7352]

I first heard Gord's musical as a preschooler on my parents' LPs from the late 1960s. What a treat to hear his songs played in tribute by generations of Canadian musicians & musical legends like Blue Rodeo, Sylvia Tyson, Burton Cummings, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee & more! Thank you for this magical concert

[@briancampbell5243]

Tom Cochrane doing the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Very Nice. Even with the mispeaks.

[@hughbriggs6989]

Absolutely the best.

[@neilhudson6194]

Only thing missing is J.P. Cormier doing Railroad Trilogy

[@bonniyerex7012]

Now THAT would have been awesome. I have seen JPC twice at Hugh's room and he did a great job.

[@neilhudson6194]

@@bonniyerex7012 Yep--there's a you tube video of a bunch of east coast musicians doing the same sort of tribute to Gordy--JP did Trilogy and it was epic---he put everything into it--he looked exhausted at the end--sounded like the whole Lightfoot band was backing him--he owned that song

[@bonniyerex7012]

@@neilhudson6194 how do I find that tribute?

[@neilhudson6194]

@@bonniyerex7012 type in "Gordon Lightfoot tribute at Nova Scotia's Stan Rogers folk festival 2023"

[@bonniyerex7012]

@@neilhudson6194 I found it, thanks and listened to all three parts. I loved 'the Pony Man' but the highlight was JP doing justice to that iconic Trilogy. Thanks again.

[@bicalho13348]

incredible tribute to the great GL. I'm thrilled listening to these songs. Special moment for everyone.

[@brianwhitney9181]

If there were a Canadian Rushmore Gordon would be the first one carved on it,

[@jimcondon762]

Ged sounds great on this. Not straining and a good level for his voice now.

[@robnamowicz8073]

Thank you Mr Cochrane, thank you, RIP Gordon,,,,

[@lisat.5283]

So awesome! Canada proud!

[@MrGearhead10]

AWESOME!!🙂

[@CanadianMusicandTV]

Ron Sexsmith should’ve been invited.

[@JeromeDukes]

Love Gordon and was a great tribute with some nice moments. Just wish they did Canadian Railroad Trilogy. Geddy ripping the bass, was cool as well.

[@davidfleming4052]

Where is Bruce Cockburn?

[@ffpr1]

What a show!! RIP Gord!

[@wellypet]

A beautiful tribute to Gordon Lightfoot. It's sad and too bad that the organizers declined to include the iconic Canadian songwriter and musician Ron Sexsmith, who Gordon Lightfoot so admired.

[@karendensmore8040]

Yes, there were a few missing that I would have liked to have seen and Ron Sexsmith was one of them.

[@nphojin5273]

Too many commercials. You can’t put commercials in the middle of the song. Nor can you make them louder than the actual content.

[@DavidNelsonO]

The level of the show is way too low. I've got my volume full blast just to listen normally. That's why the commercials are deafening when they come on.

[@nathanball5097]

Why was Meredith Moon's cover of Oh So Sweet cut from this... that was a highlight of the night

[@greendaleforever]

Really thought they'd play the Railroad Trilogy, but I guess some things are best left untouched.

[@unseen_stranger]

Can you please add the songs covered by each artist to the timestamps? Thank-you CBC, this was a great concert!

[@travelinben1966]

R.I.P. legend.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@charlesgreenough9291]

KZbin just inserted a commercial in the middle of Meredith Moon’s song!

[@UncleWally3]

Fantastic tribute but, all I can hear is Lightfoot’s voice.

[@brianbiggs3484]

👍👍🇨🇦✌️🇨🇦✌️🇨🇦✌️👍👍

[@rationalanalysis960]

Spread the meme ... Sankofa Square to be renamed by the people to "Gordo Square". In honor of our great Canadian artists .. Gordon Lightfoot and Gord Downie.

[@chah80]

So nice to see PeeWee Charles on pedal steel for this!

[@hltvieira6354]

I thought the same!

[@rationallogo]

You got that right! The Canadian Buddy Emmons.

[@zstevenson4996]

I wish they’d highlighted more of him during his breaks…