Heksenketel

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Heksenketel
Video by The Tragically Hip
Released 1993
The Tragically Hip chronology
''Heksenketel''
(1993)
That Night in Toronto
(2005)

Heksenketel is a documentary film released on VHS by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It features concert footage and other clips of the band and crew as they travel across Canada from coast to coast during their 1993 tour, Another Roadside Attraction. [1]

Canadians citizens of Canada

Canadians are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, several of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Canadian.

The Tragically Hip Canadian rock band

The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, were a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of lead front man Gord Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker, bassist Gord Sinclair, and drummer Johnny Fay. They released 13 studio albums, two live albums, one EP, and 54 singles over a 33-year career. Nine of their albums have reached No. 1 on the Canadian charts. They have received numerous Canadian music awards, including 16 Juno Awards.

Another Roadside Attraction was a travelling music-and-arts summer festival in Canada in the 1990s. Headlined by The Tragically Hip with a different lineup of supporting bands for each of the three tours, the festival traveled across Canada for between eight and ten dates in each of 1993, 1995 and 1997. Each show usually lasted roughly eight hours.

Trivia

Heksenketel was originally the name of the Another Roadside Attraction tour before it was changed. In the Dutch language 'Heksenketel' literally means "witch's cauldron", though it is mostly used in the vernacular sense, meaning bedlam or pandemonium.

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References

  1. "Hip spell captured in `real' documentary". Kingston Whig-Standard , September 27, 1994.