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By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canadian music icon Tom Cochrane is 2017\u2019s Hoedown headliner.
\nMagna announced Monday that Cochrane and Red Rider will take the stage on Saturday, September 16, the second evening of their two-night annual country music extravaganza.
\nYork Region\u2019s biggest party, which is set to raise money for 20 York Region community groups serving an estimated 82,000 residents, opens September 15 with the Hoedown Showdown finals, the Ontario-wide talent search looking for the country\u2019s next country music superstar, and that evening\u2019s headliner Chad Brownlee.
\n\u201cTom Cochrane with Red Rider is a legendary Canadian country music icon,\u201d says Hoedown\u2019s Erin Cerenzia. \u201cHe is a Juno winner, he has been nominated for Grammys, and it doesn\u2019t get much more Canadian than that, especially when we\u2019re into the Canada 150 Celebration.
\n\u201cObviously we know he is going to bring an incredible show. The James Barker band is a really up and coming country group as well. They have just been nominated for a bunch of CCMAs (Canadian Country Music Awards), Dani Strong, a local performer who began right here in Aurora, and the lineup itself is just going to give us an amazing range of country talent. Our goal is to sell out the event. Every ticket we sell comes back and puts money into the pockets of charities and 82,000 residents of York Region will benefit from the programs these charities serve. You\u2019re in for a great show, but it is also for an even better cause.\u201d
\nThis wasn\u2019t news to area resident Anna Wood, who was dubbed \u201cone of the most die-hard Hoedown fans\u201d out there. An enthusiastic competitor in Magna\u2019s annual \u201cFind Frank\u201d competition, where social media clues leading music fans to a cardboard cut-out of the Magna founder hidden somewhere in York Region with free Hoedown tickets, Magna saved her the trouble this year \u2013 awarding her a bevy of free event tickets at Monday\u2019s announcement.
\n\u201cI love Hoedown because country is really in my soul,\u201d Ms. Wood explained. \u201cI lost my dad a few years back and he played country music, so when I hear country music it just brings a smile to my heart. I love the Hoedown because, inside the tent, the music and the food is just so amazing \u2013 and I love the fact [proceeds] go to 20 York Region charities. It is a
\nwin-win situation for everyone.\u201d
\nThe Hoedown super fan also gave the thumbs-up to Tom Cochrane, having been first wowed by him at the age of 19 at a particularly rousing concert at Exhibition Place.
\nWith early beginnings as a folk-based singer\/songwriter playing in Toronto coffeehouses in the early 1970s, Cochrane became the driving force with the adventurous rockers, Red Rider, prior to achieving massive international success (over three million units worldwide and a rare diamond-sales status at home) with the breakthrough 1991 album Mad Mad World and its anthemic hit, \u201cLife is a Highway,\u201d which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
\nWith his other recordings combined he has sold over six million worldwide. Over the course of this long and illustrious career, Cochrane has cemented his place in the hearts of Canadians through passionate, crowd-pleasing performances from coast to coast, and his unwavering work on behalf of humanitarian causes and organizations.
\nAn Officer of the Order of Canada recipient and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee, Cochrane has won eight Juno awards and numerous other industry honors, including the 2013 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award and a Grammy nomination.\u201d
\nFor tickets and further information on the annual Wild, Wild West Hoedown, the 2017 Hoedown Showdown competition, participating community organizations and more, visit www.hoedown.ca.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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