One Good Reason: Séan McCann & Andrea Aragon

Andrea Aragon and Séan McCann

One Good Reason: Séan McCann & Andrea Aragon

Andrea Aragon and Séan McCann

5:00pm

Friday, October 30, 2020

60 mins

Join husband and wife team, Séan McCann, O.C., and Andrea Aragon, co-authors of One Good Reason: A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery, Music and Love, for a rousing musical performance and intimate interview. McCann draws on his background as former band member of Great Big Sea and his advocacy for those living with mental health and addiction issues. Hosted by Clara Hughes, Olympic gold medalist and Canadian mental health champion, O.C.

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Join husband and wife team, Séan McCann, O.C., and Andrea Aragon, co-authors of One Good Reason: A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery, Music and Love, for a rousing musical performance and intimate interview. McCann draws on his background as former band member of Great Big Sea and his advocacy for those living with mental health and addiction issues. Hosted by Clara Hughes, Olympic gold medalist and Canadian mental health champion, O.C.

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This video may contain sensitive content including the discussion of sexual assault and self-harm. Discretion is advised.

Featured Authors

Born in Utah, raised in Minnesota, Andrea Aragon has had more jobs than most. She’s been everything from a racehorse hotwalker, a Director of Operations for a manufacturing company, and a waitress to a Chairwoman of a board of directors that oversaw a shelter for abused women and children. Her longest and most important position to date is that of matriarch of her small but mighty family. The daughter of a Vietnam War veteran, she is a fiercely loving mother of two growing boys, two indifferent cats and two bad dogs. She is still married to her second husband, Séan.

Read more about Andrea Aragon

Born on May 22, 1967, in Carbonear, Newfoundland, Séan McCann rose to fame as a founding member of the multi-million-selling folk group Great Big Sea. Today, Séan is a renowned mental health, addiction, and recovery advocate, an Order of Canada recipient and a highly sought-after speaker. Most importantly, though, Séan is a singer who is able to weave his story of surviving 25 years of alcoholism that once masked a dark secret of abuse by his childhood priest, through song. Music is Medicine, and Sing. Share. Survive. are the dictums by which he lives today.

Read more about Séan McCann

5:00pm

Friday, October 30

60 mins

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