ronnie hawkins day

So yesterday was Ronnie Hawkins Day in Toronto. I didn't realize this until I wandered down to the Royal Alex at lunchtime to check out what was going on (I could see the crowd from my home office window). Turns out Ronnie Hawkins was being inducted into the Walk of Fame, which is basically Toronto's imitation of Graumann's Chinese Theater.

Here's the Toronto Star story about the event, and here's one from Canoe.

Lots of media were out, including CBC:





And various people made speeches and presentations in honour of Ronnie Hawkins, like The Tragically Hip:





Kris Kristofferson (sure, he makes bad movies, but did you know he used to hang out with Janis Joplin?):





Andy Donato (Toronto newspaper editorial cartoonist) did a caricature of Hawkins:





The deputy mayor of Toronto gave him the keys to our city:





And he got crooned to by Amy Sky ("Love Me Tender"):





and Michael Burgess ("It's A Wonderful World"):





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