Guitarist

Singer

One of Canada’s finest artists, Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity for over 50 years. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and world beat styles while travelling throughout the globe.

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Bruce Cockburn

Lobero Theatre

“Time takes its toll, but in my soul I’m on a roll,” Bruce Cockburn sings on his latest studio album, O Sun O Moon. Smart and catchy, it’s the kind of memorable line—like “gotta kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight” from his classic song “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”—the world has become used to hearing from Cockburn.

Neptune Theatre

has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while earning high praise as a prolific, inspired songwriter and accomplished guitarist. He remains deeply respected for his activism and humanist song lyrics that thread throughout his career. On all his albums Cockburn has deftly captured the joy, pain, fear, and faith of human experience in song.

Algonquin Theatre

Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while earning high praise as a prolific, inspired songwriter and accomplished guitarist. He remains deeply respected for his activism and humanist song lyrics that thread throughout his career. On all his albums Cockburn has deftly captured the joy, pain, fear, and faith of human experience in song.

Bruce Cockburn O Sun O Moon

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

For 50 years, this Canadian musical legend has been capturing in song the essence of human experience – while fiercely striving to make it better.

One of Canada’s finest artists, Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while travelling to such far-flung places as Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, and Nepal, and writing memorable songs about his ever-expanding world of wonders. “My job,” he explains, “is to try and trap the spirit of things in the scratches of pen on paper and the pulling of notes out of metal.”

An Evening with Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn is one of Canada’s most acclaimed artists, known for blending folk, rock, jazz, and worldbeat with sharp political and spiritual insight. Over his 50-year career, he has released 35 albums, written more than 400 songs, and earned 13 JUNO Awards plus inductions into the Canadian Music and Songwriters Halls of Fame. A committed activist, he has long supported organizations such as Oxfam and Amnesty International.

Guitarist, Singer

Bruce Cockburn

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 7, 2026

Bruce Cockburn with Special Guest Livingston Taylor · Broward Center for the Performing Arts

Past events

Apr 24, 2025

Bruce Cockburn · Lobero Theatre

7 - 8 Mar, 2025

Bruce Cockburn · Seattle Theatre Group

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