HomeGrown Live Music Festival

It’s time to apply to play at HomeGrown Live 2026! We’ve been at this for 18 incredible years, and it’s because we get such a phenomenal response every single year that we’ve been able to keep it going this long. Last year, we raised a record $15,400 for Joe’s Music Mill

This year’s HomeGrown Live Music Festival is on Saturday, May 2, at venues in and around downtown Kingston.

Please note we are only accepting applications from artists who live or work in the Kingston area (one or two band members from abroad is okay!)

Applications close on Feb 20.

Apply now!

$15,400! It was a record year for attendance at HomeGrown Live 2025.

Thank you so much to our incredible volunteer musicians, door staff, and venue coordinators. We had over 145 acts on 17 stages – that’s more than 400 individual local musicians who donated their time and energy to this important cause.

Let’s have another round of applause for our sponsors and partners, who make it considerably easier to put this festival on every year.

See you in 2026!

HomeGrown Live 2025 lineup is here!

143 performances on 16 stages – and there still more to come!

As always, all-access wristbands are $10 and will be available at the door of each venue on the day of the festival. And, of course, proceeds go to Joe’s Music Mill.

The tally is complete! We are so excited to be donating $12,800 to Joe’s Music Mill.

Thank you to our incredible volunteer musicians, door volunteers, partners, sponsors, venues, and of course the hundreds of music lovers who came to our festival!