Sean Kilbane fell to his death in a freak accident at the bar he co-owned, The Happy Dog, on Saturday night. Sunday my Facebook feed was filled with loving remembrances.
I'm a big Facebook fan and embrace it for the good it's done in bonding the Cleveland music scene, art scene, etc. But I still am coming to terms with how to handle it when it comes to death.
I can't deny that when I hear of the passing of a musician I post about it. In doing so I get people to listen to the music and remember what the artist left to this world. When it comes to people I know be they family or friends I'm a bit hesitant to broadcast it. I don't know why. As I say, I'm coming to grips with it.
Sean Kilbane's Facebook page has turned into a memorial. Local musicians, friends, family and customers to the Happy Dog are sharing their grief at the news that saddened Super Bowl Sunday.
The Plain Dealer and Scene Magazine were quick with obituaries. They tell of the quiet, soft-spoken man who had many friends and was fervent in his passion for original local music. Kilbane was key in garnering The Happy Dog much national press in the past few years.
My thoughts and prayers are with his family, business partner Sean Watterson and the Happy Dog staff and all of his friends. Sean grew up in Fairview Park, like myself. Perhaps it's just a bias but that city sure raised some good people. He was one of them.
I heard about Kilbane's accident just minutes after hearing that Philip Seymour Hoffman had died of a heroin overdose. I literally gasped at that news as I had just met the man two weeks prior at the Sundance Film Festival after the screening of God's Pocket. I'm still rather stunned by these events.
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