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Stuart McLean cancels Vinyl Cafe Christmas tour after melanoma diagnosis.
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DanNospamSay
Nov 21, 2015, 9:39:45 PM11/21/15
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Several million in his personal lost income?
Or does he have performance insurance.
It has been an irritation in the CBC that they
get no revenue from his "tours"
Stuart McLean cancels Vinyl Cafe Christmas tour after melanoma diagnosis
John Meagher, Montreal Gazette
http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/stuart-mclean-cancels-vinyl-cafe-christmas-tour-after-melanoma-diagnosis?google_editors_picks=true
Published on: November 21, 2015 | Last Updated: November 21, 2015 3:22 PM EST
PHOTO Stuart McLean performs during his Vinyl Cafe show on Monday, July 14 2014. Robert Amyot
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Stuart McLean, one of Canada's most popular radio storytellers, has cancelled the remainder of his annual Vinyl Cafe Christmas tour after learning he has melanoma.
McLean, 67, disclosed news of his illness on Saturday morning with a post on his Vinyl Cafe Facebook page.
"Some unexpected and disappointing news," he wrote. "We have to call off the Vinyl Cafe Christmas Tour as of Monday November 23rd - the day after the concert in Thunder Bay. I have just learned that I have melanoma. I begin therapy next week."
McLean also wrote the that diagnosis is not "as ominous as it sounds (or not as ominous as it sounded to me)."
"Melanoma, which was once a deadly diagnosis, has, over the last couple of years, become eminently treatable. The treatment is, as my wonderful doctor describes it, the poster child of cancer therapy. He tells me a positive outcome for the immunotherapy I will be receiving should be in the neighbourhood of 85 per cent."
The Vinyl Café Christmas tour was scheduled for 16 sets shows, before wrapping up Dec. 22 in Montreal, McLean's hometown.
Tickets from cancelled shows will be refunded at point of purchase, McLean noted.
"I know this is a disappointment to those of you who are looking forward to the show," he wrote. "It is a disappointment to me, too. It feels like I invited everyone to dinner and am calling to say the party's off. I don't know what to say except, I am sorry."
"Finally, I don't want you worrying," McLean added.
"I am otherwise healthy and, as I said, the likelihood of this being a bump in the road rather than the end of the road is by far the most expected outcome. There are many, many people who are much sicker than I am, who both need and deserve your concern.
"My apologies for the disruption and my best wishes to you and your loved ones for the holidays and the year ahead."
McLean's Vinyl Cafe show has toured theatres in cities and towns across Canada and the United States since 1998. The show is a bit of throwback in that it is recorded in front of a live audience, and later broadcast on CBC Radio.
McLean, a three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour literary award, was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011.
McLean attended Lower Canada College and graduated from Sir George Williams University in 1971.
Source: CBC
jmea...@montrealgazette.com
Or does he have performance insurance.
It has been an irritation in the CBC that they
get no revenue from his "tours"
Stuart McLean cancels Vinyl Cafe Christmas tour after melanoma diagnosis
John Meagher, Montreal Gazette
http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/stuart-mclean-cancels-vinyl-cafe-christmas-tour-after-melanoma-diagnosis?google_editors_picks=true
Published on: November 21, 2015 | Last Updated: November 21, 2015 3:22 PM EST
PHOTO Stuart McLean performs during his Vinyl Cafe show on Monday, July 14 2014. Robert Amyot
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Stuart McLean, one of Canada's most popular radio storytellers, has cancelled the remainder of his annual Vinyl Cafe Christmas tour after learning he has melanoma.
McLean, 67, disclosed news of his illness on Saturday morning with a post on his Vinyl Cafe Facebook page.
"Some unexpected and disappointing news," he wrote. "We have to call off the Vinyl Cafe Christmas Tour as of Monday November 23rd - the day after the concert in Thunder Bay. I have just learned that I have melanoma. I begin therapy next week."
McLean also wrote the that diagnosis is not "as ominous as it sounds (or not as ominous as it sounded to me)."
"Melanoma, which was once a deadly diagnosis, has, over the last couple of years, become eminently treatable. The treatment is, as my wonderful doctor describes it, the poster child of cancer therapy. He tells me a positive outcome for the immunotherapy I will be receiving should be in the neighbourhood of 85 per cent."
The Vinyl Café Christmas tour was scheduled for 16 sets shows, before wrapping up Dec. 22 in Montreal, McLean's hometown.
Tickets from cancelled shows will be refunded at point of purchase, McLean noted.
"I know this is a disappointment to those of you who are looking forward to the show," he wrote. "It is a disappointment to me, too. It feels like I invited everyone to dinner and am calling to say the party's off. I don't know what to say except, I am sorry."
"Finally, I don't want you worrying," McLean added.
"I am otherwise healthy and, as I said, the likelihood of this being a bump in the road rather than the end of the road is by far the most expected outcome. There are many, many people who are much sicker than I am, who both need and deserve your concern.
"My apologies for the disruption and my best wishes to you and your loved ones for the holidays and the year ahead."
McLean's Vinyl Cafe show has toured theatres in cities and towns across Canada and the United States since 1998. The show is a bit of throwback in that it is recorded in front of a live audience, and later broadcast on CBC Radio.
McLean, a three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour literary award, was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011.
McLean attended Lower Canada College and graduated from Sir George Williams University in 1971.
Source: CBC
jmea...@montrealgazette.com
Michael Black
Nov 23, 2015, 12:57:58 PM11/23/15
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2015, DanNospamSay wrote:
> Several million in his personal lost income?
> Or does he have performance insurance.
>
> It has been an irritation in the CBC that they
> get no revenue from his "tours"
>
> Stuart McLean cancels Vinyl Cafe Christmas tour after melanoma diagnosis
>
This is unfortunate. So many of his best stories seem Christmas related,
> Several million in his personal lost income?
> Or does he have performance insurance.
>
> It has been an irritation in the CBC that they
> get no revenue from his "tours"
>
> Stuart McLean cancels Vinyl Cafe Christmas tour after melanoma diagnosis
>
and given the tour, it would seem him being live is especially welcomed
around Christmas. So it is a shame that for something that seems
relatively non-malicious, he has to cancel.
I hope he gets well soon.
Michael
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