{"id":25869,"date":"2023-09-06T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=25869"},"modified":"2023-09-06T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:28:18","slug":"bruce-guthro-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/09\/bruce-guthro-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Guthro Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9941449\/canadian-singer-songwriter-bruce-guthro-dead-62\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Guthro, a legendary singer-songwriter from Cape\u00a0Breton, has died.<\/a>\u00a0 His friend and colleague Dave Gunning confirmed that he died Tuesday at the age of 62.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce was the lead vocalist for the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig\u00a0from 1998 until 2018, and also had a successful solo career in\u00a0Nova Scotia, earning several East Coast Music Awards.\u00a0 In July, he posted to social media that he would be taking a\u00a0break from performing due to health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Wishart, Bruce&#8217;s\u00a0former bandmate, described him online as &#8220;an exceptional\u00a0singer, musician and songwriter taken far too soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tributes to the singer-songwriter continue to be shared on social media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QXRaLsSoY2g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V1Tk-Nc9eiU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Guthro, a legendary singer-songwriter from Cape\u00a0Breton, has died.\u00a0 His friend and colleague Dave Gunning confirmed that he died Tuesday at the age of 62. Bruce was the lead vocalist for the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig\u00a0from 1998 until 2018, and also had a successful solo career in\u00a0Nova Scotia, earning several East Coast Music Awards.\u00a0","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":16871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5823],"class_list":["post-25869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-bruce-guthro"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 08:58:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/09\/bruce-guthro-has-died\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25871,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25869\/revisions\/25871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}