Rodeo: Library and Egan

rodeo: The rocker new role involves fundraising, expanding library services and overseeing a new digital media studio planned for the library, according to Hamilton Spectator. Egan — also a new dad with a 14-month-old son — jokes that he "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. 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. Egan last gig with Blue Rodeo is set for Saturday in Toronto, but he doesn't rule out performing with them again one day. "It takes a lot for somebody to leave Rodeo," Egan says Friday from his new office at the Kitchener library. "As you can imagine, it the dream job and after 17 1/2 years it almost impossible to leave. But I got an offer I couldn't refuse." Egan says the library gig is a natural extension of his charity work. It almost like the mob — this is your second family. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.