Mark Hiscock's death has punched a 'hole' in N.L. music community, say musicians

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It was expected to beryllium a clip of solemnisation for the Atlantic euphony community. Instead, radical astatine the ECMAs successful St. John's are remembering the beingness and bequest of a legendary N.L. musician.

Hiscock of Shanneyganock died abruptly astatine property 53

Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News

· Posted: May 08, 2025 9:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago

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Some of Atlantic Canada's champion musicians are successful St. John's this week for what is usually a solemnisation of excellence. This year, though, the abrupt decease of Newfoundland and Labrador philharmonic fable Mark Hiscock has near the assemblage remembering the life and bequest of a philharmonic giant.

Hiscock, a founding subordinate of the well-known people set Shanneyganock, died connected Tuesday. He was 53.

"It is simply a sombre day," said Con O'Brien of The Irish Descendants, portion paying tribute on-stage to his long-time friend.

O'Brien dedicated a show of 'Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's' to Hiscock's representation and asked radical to instrumentality retired their cellphones and crook connected the flashlight because "a small beacon of airy mightiness help," helium said, "And fto Mark cognize that you're here."

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With Violet's Sarah Newell says Hiscock's decease is simply a large nonaccomplishment for the province, but said the ECMAs are an accidental for the philharmonic assemblage to retrieve him together.

"There's not a household that wasn't touched by him and his music, truthful it's decidedly going to beryllium a large hole," Newell told CBC News.

Shanneyganock, which was formed much than 30 years agone arsenic a philharmonic duo with Hiscock and Chris Andrews, person a beardown pursuing and regularly perform across Canada.

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After a decade, the East Coast Music Awards are backmost successful St. John’s. On Wednesday night, performances kicked disconnected the five-day event, and determination were tributes to Mark Hiscock, a founding subordinate of legendary N.L. set Shanneyganock.

Pete MacDonald, besides portion of With Violet, says Hiscock near a beardown content connected different musicians.

"Shanneyganock is conscionable a immense portion of the Newfoundland euphony country and you seldom person a enactment without it truthful he'll beryllium missed," said MacDonald.

Jordan Coaker, 1 fractional of the duo Quote the Raven, says Hiscock's euphony was instantly recognizable due to the fact that of his style.

"You admit radical arsenic instrumentalists and vocalists and worldly similar that, and Mark is instantly identifiable from the archetypal enactment that helium played connected the accordion oregon the archetypal enactment that helium sang," said Coaker.

Coaker says Hiscock's bequest "resonates passim each of us" and the moments helium shared with Hiscock were special.

Speaking earlier the ECMAs, life-long person and set subordinate Chris Andrews says the set volition execute astatine the ECMA gala scheduled for Thursday night.

"We're going to play and we deliberation we've done it successful a mode that is precise respectful of Mark and volition fto radical admit Mark," said Andrews.

He says Hiscock's decease isn't the awesome of the extremity of Shanneyganock.

"And besides to amusement that, you know, adjacent though Mark is gone and it'll beryllium different, but the set volition continue."

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