Ronnie Hawkins if anyone had the pleasure of listening to his music.
Ronnie has passed away.
Ronnie ‘The Hawk’ Hawkins, a musician and impresario who helped discover and develop The Band and numerous other musical acts that emerged out of Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s, died around mid-day on Sunday.
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Born in Arkansas in 1935, Hawkins started touring Canada as a musician in the late 1950s, and eventually moved here permanently, living in Mississauga and later in and around Peterborough.
In the 1960s, he played an instrumental role in the flourishing Toronto music scene where many prominent artists including Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, the Band, Rick James, Gordon Lightfoot, Daniel Langois and others