This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. While this will be the first time the band has performed as the Hip since 2017, members Rob Baker, Paul Langlois and Gord Sinclair played together onstage at the Rockin’ the Big House at Kingston Penitentiary in September 2019. Like the rest of Canada, I’ll be so happy to hear these kings of song play again, and am very honoured to join them as they receive their Humanitarian Award.” “The only way I’m making any sense of it is to imagine I’ll be singing backups for Gord, and know my 20-year-old self wouldn’t believe it. I was a kid in their midst and I’m touched to be invited into the clan now, to play alongside them. “Getting to be a fly on the wall of a camp that operated with such warmth and community by day, and then watch them transform and transcend every night to touch so many people was my first big education. “I had a chance to tour with The Hip early on in my touring life, for something like a year,” Feist wrote. “It’s been such a difficult year for our fellow musicians, we wanted to do something to honour them in a way that would make Gord smile.”įeist, meanwhile, said in a statement that she is “very honoured to join them.” It’s an honour to be able to play one of our songs with her. “We’ve known Leslie Feist for over 20 years, having toured together in 1999. “We’re really happy to be performing on the Juno Awards’ 50th anniversary broadcast on Sunday, June 6th,” the band wrote in a statement posted on social media.

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