The Oswego Music Hall welcomes Joe Crookston, with Mark Wahl opening, on Saturday, January 10. The venue is the McCrobie Civic Center, 41 Lake Street in Oswego. A Meet & Greet ...

TORONTO, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals will hold an auction of items from the estate of Canadian music legend Gordon Lightfoot, offering fans and musical historians a ...

Like the tragic story it’s based on, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has a knack for getting stuck in people’s heads and haunting its listeners. That’s essentially what happened to Jeremy ...

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- It's been 50 years since the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in the Canadian waters of Lake Superior, taking its crew of 29 with her. The cargo ship's home port was ...

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a tragedy on Lake Superior that claimed the lives of 29 men. In the days following the calamity, songwriter Gordon ...

In 1975, the great Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot read a Newsweek magazine article about a little-known shipwreck in the Great Lakes. The ship was the Edmund Fitzgerald, which lost 29 ...

The Mariners' Church in Detroit will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck. Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 ballad is inextricably linked to the maritime tragedy that killed 29 ...

Most songs about historical events are written many years after the events themselves. It takes a while to know what events will be consequential and which ones will fade from memory. The Edmund ...

Millions grew up listening to Gordon Lightfoot's music — but the man behind "Sundown" was deeply complicated. From his distaste for speaking openly despite being a public figure to his claim that he ...

David James Carlson leads the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Band. He knew the late singer-songwriter personally, and remembers what Lightfoot said about why he wrote "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." ...

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was released in 1976, less than a year after the ship sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s song peaked at number two on the Billboard chart that same year.

“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee” - From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a ...