Kemptville Live Music Festival announces the return of Canadian icon Tom Cochrane to the 2022 Kemptville Live Music Festival. Tom was part of the very first lineup in Kemptville in 2015 contributing to the success that the Festival has now become.

Over the course of a long and illustrious career now spanning more than 45 years, the pride of Lynn Lake, Manitoba has covered more terrain than the Franklin expedition. From early beginnings as a folk-based singer/songwriter playing the coffeehouses of Toronto’s famed Yorkville scene in the early ’70s, Tom became the driving force in adventurous rockers Red Rider prior to achieving massive international success (over six million copies sold worldwide and diamond-sales status at home) with breakthrough 1991 album Mad Mad World and its anthemic hit “Life Is A Highway.”

Tom Cochrane performs at the Ottawa Bluesfest. Photo: Renée Doiron

Since then, he has continued to create potent new material while cementing his place in the hearts of Canadians through crowd-pleasing performances from coast to coast and his unwavering work on behalf of humanitarian causes and organizations. An Order of Canada recipient and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee, Cochrane has won eight Juno awards and numerous other industry honours, including the 2013 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award and a Grammy nomination.

Tom Cochrane will kick off the 2022 Kemptville Live Music Festival, Thursday July 21, 2022. The Kemptville Live Music Festival takes place on the grounds of the
historic Kemptville Campus, just 30 minutes from downtown Ottawa. Tickets are on sale now at www.kemptvillelivemusicfestival.com