HomeGrown Live Music Festival

We’re excited to announce this year’s incredible HomeGrown Live lineup – over 140 acts on 17 stages!

We’re very pleased to welcome downtown Kingston’s newest venue, Time Out, as well as Tommy’s to the festival, and for the first time in many years, we’re back at the Grad Club.

Here’s the full list of participating venues and our amazing sponsors and partners.

Ambient-electronic – Musiikki
Blues – RCHA Club
Celtic – The Toucan
Classical – Next Church
Comedy – Something in the Water
Country – The Buckle
Folk – The Caesar Company
Hip Hop – Tommy’s
Jazz – Time Out
Mixed Bag – Royal Tavern 2.0
Next Gen – The Buckle Down
Original OG51 – Broom Factory
Psychedelic Snack – Bottom’s Up
Rebel Yell – Grad Club
Singer-songwriter II – The Embassy
Songwriter’s Lounge – Monte’s
Toucan Presents – The Toucan

Thank you to our sponsors and partners: Downtown Kingston, Kingston Sound Works, Island Radio 101.3 fm, Mark Sinnett Century 21 Heritage Group, Peter Finnegan of Gilfillan, Finnegan, Walker & Smith Wealth Management, Waypoint, Ironclad Printing Company, Kingston Live, Kingstonist, Long & McQuade Kingston, MacKinnon Brothers Brewing

We have now closed applications for the 2026 HomeGrown Live Music Festival. We received a record number of applications!

Thank you so much to our incredible music scene here in Kingston for your enthusiasm. Our volunteer venue coordinators are working hard over the next couple of weeks to put this year’s show together. If your act has been accepted, you’ll hear from us by mid-March.

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.