Blue Rodeo’s Bob Egan leaving band to work at Kitchener Public Library
Posted Aug 21, 2016 09:35:06 AM.
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TORONTO – Blue Rodeo’s pedal steel player Bob Egan is leaving the band for a job with the Kitchener Public Library.
The 60-year-old says it wasn’t an easy decision but that he couldn’t refuse an offer to help build up the community in his southern Ontario home.
The rocker’s new role involves fundraising, expanding library services and overseeing a new digital media studio planned for the library.
Egan is also a new dad with a 14-month-old son, he jokes that he’s “clean-shaven and wearing slacks for the first time in 25 years.”
The Minnesota-born transplant has been with Blue Rodeo for more than 17 years and, before that, with the band Wilco.
Egan’s last gig with Blue Rodeo is set for Saturday in Toronto, but he doesn’t rule out performing with them again one day.
