The 2024 Kemptville Live Music Festival presented by Explore North Grenville is honoured to announce that we will welcome Canadian music icon Burton Cummings back to the Live stage Friday, July 19, 2024.
Few artists have achieved the level of public success and critical acclaim that Burton Cummings enjoys in a career spanning more than fifty years. Burton’s voice has been rated among the finest in rock music. He has amassed more hit records than almost any performer in Canadian history.
As lead singer and songwriter with The Guess Who, Burton recorded and wrote/co-wrote hits such as “These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “No Time,” “American Woman,” “Share the Land,” “Hand Me Down World,” “Albert Flasher”, “Star Baby”, “Clap for The Wolfman,” and “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature”. As a solo artist, he leaves his mark with the poignant “Stand Tall,” “I’m Scared,” “You Saved My Soul,” and his signature “My Own Way to Rock”. With The Guess Who, he earned recognition for the first U.S. platinum album by a Canadian artist and, as a solo artist, the first quadruple platinum Canadian-produced album.
Burton Cummings performs at the Kemptville Live Music Festival photo Ron Pettitt
Burton is honored to have received, in total, 80 platinum and gold record awards. Recently, the best-selling book The 100 Top Canadian Singles ranked “American Woman” the greatest Canadian single of all time.
As the Voice of all the classic Guess Who hits before leaving the band in 1975 to then go on and make his mark as a solo artist, Burton Cummings remains at the top of his game as an unrivaled singer, songwriter, showman, and recording artist.
Described as Canadian rock ‘n’ roll royalty, a national treasure, and a living legend, for Burton Cummings there has always been one constant: he remains true to himself and his own way to rock…and continuing to perform the songs the way they were originally conceived by the guy who sang and wrote/co-wrote them.
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Kemptville Live Music Festival presented by Explore North Grenville takes place July 18- 21, 2024 on the grounds of the Kemptville Campus, 830 Prescott Street, Kemptville, Ontario, Canada.
Tickets on sale now at Kemptville Live 2024 – Tickets (kemptvillelivemusicfestival.com)
Explore North Grenville encourages tourism to Kemptville and the hamlets of North Grenville as the perfect destination for outdoor activities, memorable events, great shopping, and excellent dining. The municipality boasts over 50 restaurants, cafes, bakeries and food trucks, plus unique boutiques, retail stores and farm gates. Explore UNESCO’s World Heritage Rideau Canal locks at Burritt’s Rapids, or paddle the Kemptville Creek, that flows through the heart of downtown Kemptville. Famous for incredible events like Kemptville Live Music Festival and the Kemptville Buskerfest, you can plan your perfect North Grenville getaway at www.ExploreNorthGrenville.ca
