Homegrown Live Music Festival - Kingston Ontario
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!
The HomeGrown Live Music Festival is happening on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
Following last year’s successful but scaled-back festival (and a small virtual festival in 2021), the HomeGrown Live board of directors is pleased to announce that the 2023 HomeGrown Live Music Festival will be returning in its full form. It’s also our 15th anniversary!
The HomeGrown Live Music Festival is about encouraging, developing, and celebrating local live music while raising funds for Joe’s M.I.L.L. to help nurture the love of making music. Following several challenging years for Kingston’s music economy that saw the permanent closure of some live music venues, and the hiatus of live music altogether, we want to celebrate the richness and diversity of local music that we are tremendously privileged to still have in Kingston.
Call for Submissions
While the complete list of participating live music venues for 2023’s festival is still being finalized, performer applications are open now until March 8, 2023.
Kingston-based bands and artists wishing to volunteer a live performance for this year’s festival can now apply online here.
We can’t wait to see you on May 6!
The HomeGrown Board
Moira Demorest, Rob Howard, Chris Morris, Tom Stewart, Joel Yearsley
The 2022 Homegrown Live Music Festival was a success! With huge thanks to our many volunteer musicians, venue coordinators, and door staff, we raised $2200 for Joe’s M.I.L.L.
Thank you also to our sponsors and partners Kingston Live, Kingstonist, Visit Kingston, Kingston SoundWorks, and Long & McQuade.
Of course, we can’t do Homegrown without Kingston’s incredible live music fans! We saw happy faces everywhere we went, and although our festival wasn’t quite on the scale it has been in the past (but hopefully we be next year!) we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who came out, and to the venues for hosting us.
See you on May 6, 2023 for Homegrown Live Music Festival #14!
Our schedules are now available, and advance tickets are available online! Tickets will still be sold at the door for each venue. Remember that this year we are not offering all-access bracelets due to COVID-19. See you soon!
We’ve received more than 50 applications for this year’s festival! Our team will be sorting through them all within the next week to make some tough decisions, and we’ll be letting all applicants know their status as soon we can. Look for a full lineup announcement in early April!