Ten years ago, one third of Canada stopped what they were doing to watch The Tragically Hip play their final show. That night didn’t fade. It became part of the country. Now the band is marking the decade with a live album and a nationwide rebroadcast that will bring it all back.
‘Live July 22 – August 20, 2016’ arrives August 21, 2026, via Universal Music Canada. Drawn from the band’s 15-date, coast-to-coast Man Machine Poem Tour, the collection spans arenas from Winnipeg to Hamilton to Kingston, capturing the full emotional arc of a farewell that felt like a national event because it was one. Listen to “Fifty-Mission Cap” and “Locked In The Trunk Of A Car” and Pre-order The Tragically Hip: Live July 22 – August 20, 2016 here.
The album is mixed and mastered in Dolby Atmos by longtime Hip audio engineer Mark Vreeken. The sonic presentation is immersive and detailed, doing full justice to performances that already carried enormous weight in the room. Two tracks are out now: “Fifty-Mission Cap,” recorded in Edmonton, and “Locked In The Trunk Of A Car” from the final Kingston night.
The Kingston finale itself gets its own moment. On Saturday, August 22, 2026, CBC rebroadcasts A National Celebration commercial-free at 7 p.m. local time on CBC TV, CBC Gem, and both CBC Radio services. The concert streams globally on CBC Music’s YouTube channel and throughout North America on SiriusXM on CBC Radio One (ch. 169) and Canada Talks (ch. 167). Simultaneously, ‘Live July 22 – August 20, 2016’ airs in full on SiriusXM’s The Tragically Hip Radio (ch. 757) and Iceberg (ch. 758).
“For three hours on a summer night, all of Canada paused to celebrate and pay tribute together through the power of music,” said CBC General Manager of Entertainment Sally Catto. The rebroadcast honours that collective experience and opens it up to a new generation hearing it for the first time.
The 29-track album is a deep and generous document. Spread across 6 sides of vinyl, it pulls performances from Kingston, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Edmonton, Ottawa, and London, covering the full geography of a band whose music has always been tied to this country’s landscape. The setlist reaches across the catalog, from “New Orleans Is Sinking” and “Bobcaygeon” to “Ahead By A Century” and “At The Hundredth Meridian.”
The Tragically Hip have 17 Juno Awards, over 12 million albums sold in Canada, and a humanitarian legacy that spans decades. This September, they’ll be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame at Massey Hall in Toronto. ‘Live July 22 – August 20, 2016’ arrives at the right moment, a definitive archive release for a band whose catalog only grows in stature.
Pre-order is available now. The album releases August 21. The rebroadcast airs August 22. Communities across Canada are already planning events around the airdate. Follow along at CBCMusic.ca/thehip.
‘Live July 22 – August 20, 2016’ Tracklisting:
Side 1
- At Transformation – Winnipeg
- In View – Calgary
- In A World Possessed By The Human Mind – Kingston
- Family Band – Hamilton
- Lonely End Of The Rink – Hamilton
Side 2
- Something On – Toronto
- Locked In The Trunk Of A Car – Kingston
- Opiated – Winnipeg
- Nautical Disaster – Kingston
- New Orleans Is Sinking – Ottawa
Side 3
- Yer Not The Ocean – Calgary
- Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park – London
- At The Hundredth Meridian – Toronto
- Daredevil – Toronto
- Bobcaygeon – Calgary
Side 4
- Lake Fever – Kingston
- Escape Is At Hand For The Travelin’ Man – Kingston
- Flamenco – Edmonton
- Putting Down – Kingston
- We Want To Be It – Toronto
Side 5
- 50 Mission Cap – Edmonton
- Little Bones – Kingston
- Greasy Jungle – Toronto
- The Last Of The Unplucked Gems – Winnipeg
Side 6
- Fiddler’s Green – Hamilton
- Machine – Kingston
- What Blue – Toronto
- It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken – Toronto
- Ahead By A Century – Kingston