The legacies of late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack, an Anishnawbe boy who never came home from residential school, are helping to transform Catholic education for the better.

When Sean Kelly is not on stage ripping away on the guitar in front of thousands of fans, you can find him in a classroom with his students or at home with his wife and two young sons.

Saskatoon-born singer-songwriter Kay Clarity hadn’t expected to launch her new pop music project Pax Paloma in mid-February, but witnessing the isolation and loneliness from the pandemic brought about a change of heart for the Catholic artist.

Singer songwriter Kat Higgins has finally discovered her Vancouver voice, and it only took relocating to Nashville a decade ago to find it.

Given his bad-boy-again half-smile and love for re-playing clichés as humourous surprises, itöÏÓãÊÓƵapp understandable to hope word of John PrineöÏÓãÊÓƵapp death during Holy Week is a prank of cosmic timing that he okayed with God first.

TORONTO – The life of Jesus Christ has for centuries been a compelling story for artists and musicians.