HomeGrown Live Music Festival

If you’re a musician based in Kingston or the surrounding areas, we’d love to hear from you! Brand new players, seasoned vets, future stars – please submit an application. Classical, pop, hip hop, jazz, metal, singer-songwriter, Celtic … the more the merrier. Apply now.

Applications close on March 1.

Homegrown Live Music Festival returns on Saturday, May 4, 2024

Applications for performers will open on Tuesday, February 6 and will close on March 1.

Last night, the HomeGrown Live Productions board and a few of our key volunteers met at the Broom Factory to wrap up Homegrown Live 2023. We’re honoured and excited to have raised $10,100 for The Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Lending Library!
Thank you so much to the hundreds of volunteer musicians, venue coordinators, and door volunteers, as well as our sponsors and partners for making the 15th annual HomeGrown Live another huge success.

The 15th annual HomeGrown Live Music Festival takes place Saturday, May 6, 2023 in Kingston.

We’re very excited to announce our lineup of 113 performances on 13 stages, and as always every act is from the Kingston area! Every single year we’re blown away by the amount of talent and dedication in the Kingston music scene, and of course, we do it all for Joe’s MILL!

We had an AMAZING response to our call for applications – over 130! Thank you to everyone who applied (we really wish had room to accommodate everyone in the festival program).

As always, all-access wristbands will be $10 at the door of each venue.

Please take a moment to look through our amazing sponsors, partners, and volunteers who make the HomeGrown Live Music Festival happen.

2023 Festival Schedule and Venue Lineups

Blu Martini

Live, local indie and alternative music, featuring:

• 6:00 pm – Chris Giguere & The Final Say
• 6:50 pm – Willy Nilly
• 7:40 pm – Forty Seven Teeth
• 8:30 pm – Dennis Bouwman & The Wild Roses
• 9:20 pm – Chris Brown and friends
• 10:20 pm – The Winter in Canada
• 11:10 pm – The Mill•Rights
• 12:00 am – Evil Numbers

The Broom Factory

Live rap and hip hop, featuring:

• 5:00 pm – Wicked
• 5:25 pm – Dan Doesn’t Sleep
• 5:50 pm – ShizNick
• 6:15 pm – Third Eye Rhyme
• 6:40 pm – Kaydence Brown
• 7:05 pm – S-Cape Artist
• 7:30 pm – Hartman
• 7:55 pm – Grampa
• 8:20 pm – Dupel
• 8:45 pm – Swordwall

Monte’s

A live singer-songwriter showcase, featuring:

• 12:30 pm – John Somerville
• 1:00 pm – Jennie Marshall
• 1:30 pm – Dylandylion
• 2:00 pm – Cole LeBlanc
• 2:30 pm – Dennis Clark
• 3:00 pm – Dan Bullock
• 3:30 pm – Clara Smallman & Sarah Zanibbi
• 4:00 pm – Rasmanpierre
• 4:30 pm – “Cousin” Gibbard Suede
• 5:00 pm – Roger Marshall
• 5:30 pm – Jonathan Jones
• 6:00 pm – Gerald McGrath
• 6:30 pm – Mellow Lily
• 7:00 pm – Trevor Strong
• 7:30 pm – TBA

Musiikki Café

Live ambient and electronic music, featuring:

• 8:00 pm – FASTFAST 
• 8:30 pm – Mat Almeida
• 9:00 pm – Dudu Tsuda
• 9:30 pm – KaKaow
• 10:00 pm – Buck’s Moonlight Revival

R.C.H.A. Club

Live blues music, featuring:

• 2:00 pm – Engine 10-95
• 3:00 pm – Steven Tanner
• 4:00 pm – The Freake Blues Band
• 5:00 pm – Izzy Jodoin
• 6:00 pm – Geoffrey Wickham & John Hanson
• 7:00 pm – ROUGHMIX
• 8:00 pm – Hellhound Trail 
• 9:00 pm – Shufflejoint
• 10:00 pm – Sweet Pete & The Heat

Renaissance

Live jazz music, featuring:

• 4:00 pm – Django’s Kitchen
• 5:00 pm – Euro Café Duo
• 6:00 pm – Psychic Mojo
• 7:00 pm – Dave Barton Trio
• 8:00 pm – Clear Breeze
• 9:00 pm – Martello Alley Cats

Royal Tavern 2.0

A mixed bag of local musical talent, featuring:

• 3:00 pm – Echoes
• 3:50 pm – Holy Wow
• 4:40 pm – Doug van der Horden
• 6:00 pm – Shook Planet
• 7:00 pm – Stun Seed
• 8:00 pm – Super Special Guest (Lucanus Pell, Will VanRhyan and James Hildebrand)
• 9:00 pm – Mason Forsey Mackinnon
• 10:00 pm – The Pinkertons
• 11:00 pm – RustPump
• 12:00 am – Lowery Mills

Sizzle at Kingston Market Square Hotel (originally: The Buckle)

Live country music, featuring:

• 12:00 pm – “Cousin” Gibbard Suede
• 12:45 pm – Cork Sniffers
• 1:30 pm – Hips & Harmonies
• 2:15 pm – Saul T. Doggs
• 3:00 pm – Whiskey Smoke
• 3:45 pm – Dennis Bouwman & The Wild Roses
• 4:30 pm – The Blue Grasshoppers
• 5:15 pm – Cody Allen James & Good Co.
• 6:00 pm – The ThoroughFreds
• 6:45 pm – TBA

The Caesar Company

Live folk and roots music, featuring:

• 2:00 pm – Chris Gostling
• 2:40 pm – Tom Savage
• 3:20 pm – Jen Calder
• 4:00 pm – Jonathan Davies
• 4:40 pm – Chanter la Pomme
• 5:20 pm – Chris Morris
• 6:00 pm – Martin Smit and Meghan Balogh
• 6:40 pm – Panache Eh
• 7:20 pm – John Rose
• 8:00 pm – Barb MacDougall
• 8:40 pm – Yan-Nick Michaud
• 9:20 pm – Claire Cooper
• 10:00 pm – Quentin Coughtrey
• 10:40 pm – Simon Webb

The Mansion – Wine Cellar

Live alternative and hard rock featuring:

• 7:30 pm – Mothallah  
• 8:15 pm – Synergy Fix
• 9:00 pm – Exogen
• 9:45 pm – Sweet Machete
• 10:30 pm – Radio Wasteland
• 11:15 pm – Sons of Rick
• 12:00 am – Futura Free
• 12:45 am – TBA

The Mansion – Living Room

Live psychedelic and rock music featuring:

• 8:00 pm – Livingston
• 9:00 pm – Christopher Jackson
• 10:00 pm – Galvanic 42
• 11:00 pm – The Strange Happenings
• 12:00 AM – KaKaow

The Mansion – Living Room

A live music showcase of local youth bands and emerging artists:

• 2:00 pm – Izzy Jodoin
• 2:45 pm – Jade Peter
• 3:30 pm – Claire Cooper
• 4:15 pm – Switzerville Sound Machine
• 5:00 pm – FogRoom
• 5:45 pm – Interrobang‽

The Toucan

A musical smorgasbord ranging from Celtic and funk to rock and punk, featuring:

• 4:00 pm – Tom MacIntosh
• 5:00 pm – Denis Leroux & Don Corbett
• 6:00 pm – Fiddle Earth
• 7:00 pm – Irish Roots
• 8:00 pm – Seventh Town
• 9:00 pm – Sugar Pills
• 10:00 pm – Nice On
• 11:00 pm – Justin Bird & The Thorns of Venus
• 12:00 am – The Meringues
• 1:00 am – Master Nate & The Reprobates

What an incredible response! Thank you to everyone who applied this year.

Our volunteer venue coordinators are now hard at work putting together schedules. Applicants should receive a response by March 22 at the latest. We’ll announce our full lineup to the public on March 31.

See you soon!