{"id":6436,"date":"2013-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/blog\/polaris-people-stompin-tom-connors-tribute-edition\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T21:59:28","slug":"polaris-people-stompin-tom-connors-tribute-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/fr\/blog\/polaris-people-stompin-tom-connors-tribute-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaris People: Stompin' Tom Connors Tribute Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, March 6 Stompin’ Tom Connors, perhaps the single-most definingly Canadian musician to ever step up to a microphone, passed away<\/a> due to natural causes at age 77.<\/p>\n

The tributes have come quick and wonderfully, with Tom getting called Canada’s Woodie Guthrie<\/a>, the ultimate patriot<\/a>, an unlikely punk rock icon<\/a>, and one of the nation’s great poets<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Rheostatics member and dogged Tom follower Dave Bidini euologized him<\/a>, sports sites went so far as to investigate whether the game Tom sung about in \u00ab\u00a0The Hockey Song\u00a0\u00bb actually really happened<\/a>, and even the New York Times ran an obituary <\/a>of him.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, a great many Polaris People were also affected by the news and took to Twitter to express their appreciation for the Stomper.<\/p>\n

R.I.P. Stompin Tom Connors<\/p>\n

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Stomp on.<\/p>\n

â\u20ac\u201d Joel Plaskett (@jplaskett) March 7, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n