Massey Hall in Toronto is set to become a hub of musical brilliance, hosting an array of artists who have made their mark globally. With performances lined up from David Gray, Jack White, Colin James, Pink Sweat$, and many more, music aficionados can anticipate an eclectic mix of genres and artistic expressions. This series of events not only celebrates the artists' unique contributions to the music world but also promises to captivate audiences with powerful performances and soulful storytelling.

A Melodious Odyssey: Discover the Vibrant Performances at Massey Hall

In the heart of Toronto, Massey Hall is set to host a series of electrifying events that promise to captivate music lovers of all genres. From the rhythmic strumming of Jesse Cook's guitar to the introspective melodies of Leif Vollebekk, and the soulful voice of Jorja Smith, each event is a unique celebration of artistic excellence. Join us as we delve into the lineup of performers who will grace the stage, leaving audiences with unforgettable memories and a deeper appreciation for the diverse world of music.

A Symphony of Sound: Unveiling the Eclectic Performances at Massey Hall

Massey Hall, the iconic venue in Toronto, is set to host a series of diverse musical events that promise to enthrall audiences in 2025. With performances ranging from the innovative compositions of Max Richter to the rock anthems of Classic Albums Live, the lineup also includes the ethereal Rock Orchestra by Candlelight and the soulful melodies of Samara Joy. Join us as we dive into the eclectic mix of genres and performances that make these events a celebration of musical artistry.

A Symphony of Sounds: Celebrating Iconic Musical Events at Massey Hall

Massey Hall is set to host an incredible lineup of concerts in 2025, featuring legendary acts and fresh sounds that span across genres. From rock tributes to jazz celebrations, and returning favorites to new musical creations, each event promises to deliver unforgettable moments. Highlights include the classic rock renditions of Bon Jovi and Fleetwood Mac, the soulful sound of the Newsboys, and a centennial celebration for jazz icon Oscar Peterson. Join us as we explore these exciting musical events and the artists who bring them to life.

A Musical Journey at Massey Hall: Celebrating Legends and New Sounds

This summer, Massey Hall in Toronto is set to become a musical hub, showcasing an eclectic lineup of performances. From rock classics and tributes to jazz legends and bluegrass pioneers, audiences will be treated to a diverse musical journey. Highlight events include Classic Albums Live celebrating Bon Jovi, Tusk's tribute to Fleetwood Mac, and a centennial celebration of jazz icon Oscar Peterson. With an impressive roster of artists and tribute bands, these events promise to captivate audiences and celebrate the rich tapestry of musical artistry.

Massey Hall's 2025 Concert Series: A Musical Journey Through Genres and Eras

Massey Hall is set to host an extraordinary lineup of events, each showcasing the brilliance of diverse musical genres and legendary artists. From iconic rock performances by George Thorogood and The Destroyers to the ethereal harmonies of The Swell Season, and the vibrant sounds of the Honey Jam concert, these events promise to captivate audiences. Not to mention, bluegrass legends Alison Krauss & Union Station and the renowned Polaris Music Prize Gala will grace the stage, culminating with a memorable performance by Lawrence Gowan. This season at Massey Hall is an unmissable celebration of musical artistry.

A Celebration of Music: Unforgettable Performances at Massey Hall

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, and raised in the Tropic of Canada, Lawrence Gowan enjoyed a lengthy and successful solo career with four Platinum and three Gold albums and one Gold single to his credit, prior to joining Styx in 1999 as keyboardist and one of their three lead vocalists. At age 19, Gowan achieved an ARCT in classical piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. As a solo artist, he released six studio albums in the ’80s and ’90s, leading to a Best Of... greatest hits record in 1997. Gowan’s second album, Strange Animal (1985), was recorded at Tittenhurst Park in England, then the home of Ringo Starr and former home to John Lennon, who recorded his highly influential Imagine album (1971) in the same home studio. Strange Animal went triple platinum in Canada, and the video for “A Criminal Mind” (a song he continues to perform solo and also with Styx) won the Juno Award for Best Video of 1985. Gowan albums have featured guest appearances from Jon Anderson of Yes, Alex Lifeson of Rush, Jerry Marotta and David Rhodes of Peter Gabriel, Tony Levin of Peter Gabriel and King Crimson, Robert Fripp of King Crimson, and John Sebastian of The Lovin’ Spoonful. In 1998, Gowan was invited to play his original piece “Healing Waters” with the BBC Orchestra at the opening of Princess Diana’s Memorial at her home in Althorp, England. Four of Gowan’s songs have been certified with SOCAN (ASCAP) Classic Awards, each having surpassed 100,000 spins on Canadian radio. In 2011 he was awarded a star on the Walk of Fame from his hometown of Scarborough, Toronto Canada. As a member of Styx, Gowan has recorded four studio albums, three live DVDs/Blu-rays and toured the world over, playing more than 1,600 shows with the band. He continues to abide in the hope that the Gods of Rock will smile

Gowan

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Polaris is dedicated to celebrating the art of music. It brings together music lovers, artists and a dynamic jury to discover, discuss and award the best in Canadian music based on artistic merit.

Polaris Music Prize Gala

For nearly four decades, Alison Krauss & Union Station have upheld their legacy as one of the most influential and widely celebrated acts in bluegrass and roots music. Known for an immaculately crafted but endlessly surprising sound that transcends the boundaries of roots, country, rock & roll, and pop, Alison Krauss & Union Station are putting the finishing touches on a new album to be released in 2025 - their first album since the 2011 masterpiece Paper Airplane—a critically lauded, multiple Grammy Award winning LP that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country, Bluegrass, and Folk Album charts. Over the years, Alison Krauss & Union Station have brought their phenomenal live show to sold-out performances at famed venues like Red Rocks Amphitheatre, The Greek Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, and London’s Royal Festival Hall, in addition to supporting Paul Simon in Hyde Park for his 2012 Graceland reunion.

Alison Krauss & Union Station

Titled “INSPIRATIONS,” the 30th anniversary Honey Jam concert promises to spotlight extraordinary diverse talent and will be a dynamic evening of music that spans several genres including Hip Hop, Jazz, Pop, Gospel, Opera, RnB, Rock, Country, Dancehall and more!

Inspirations

The Swell Season is back. After reconvening for a limited number of sold-out shows in March 2022, followed by a more extensive US tour in August 2023, the duo returns with new music. A studio session that started out as an effort to create a couple new singles to bring with them on tour, ended up yielding a full length album, fittingly titled Forward. Although The Swell Season released a stand alone single ´The Answer Is Yes´ in June 2023, Forward will be their first full length album in 16 years.

The Swell Season

In a five-decade career fueled by 8,000+ live shows, more than 15 million albums sold, and a global reputation as “the band that plays hot enough to melt the polar icecaps” (Rolling Stone) and “one of the 5 best acts left out of The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame” (WNBF Binghamton), where can “one of the most iconic bands in rock history” (Rapid City Journal) possibly go from here?

George Thorogood and The Destroyers

The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

In celebration of GRAMMY Award-winning, International jazz legend Oscar Peterson’s 100th birthday next year, Massey Hall and the Oscar Peterson Estate announce a centennial celebration honouring the titan of jazz on Saturday, June 14, 2025.

Oscar Peterson at 100

James Blunt has announced a North American leg for his 2025 Back To Bedlam 20th Anniversary Tour, celebrating one of the top ten best-selling albums of the Noughties.

James Blunt

Newsboys, one of the most successful Christian bands of all time, has sold over 6 million albums, earned five gold records, charted more than 25 No. 1 radio hits, and received four Grammy nominations. Their album In the Hands of God offers a fresh perspective on the band’s journey, reflecting on their early struggles with raw energy and urgency. By revisiting their humble beginnings, the band channels that fire into a collection of unrelenting, catchy melodies.

Newsboys

Tusk has been criss-crossing the country since 2008 as The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute. But of all the Fleetwood Mac tributes playing around the United States today, what exactly sets Tusk apart? Is it more than five skilled professionals with decades of individual musical study, live performance, creative risk, and devotion to the art? Is it more than affection and respect for the Fleetwood Mac experience, an entity that endures over 50 years of musical and cultural evolution? Is it more than vocal similarities, common physical traits, or good costumes? Few acts would find success in the tribute scene without displaying some or all of these characteristics. So what qualities does Tusk possess that can’t be learned, bought, or created simply from a desire to have them?

TUSK: The Classic Fleetwood Mac Tribute

Classic Albums Live and its roster of A-list musicians from across the country will be performing rock favourites exactly as you remember hearing them, note for note, cut for cut.

Classic Albums Live: Bon Jovi

Rising out of the ashes of psychedelia in 1969, Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees, Chilliwack released 12 albums over a 15 year period producing numerous Canadian and international hits including “Lonesome Mary”, “Fly At Night”, & “California Girl” in the 70’s; and “My Girl (gone gone gone)”, “Whatcha Gonna Do” in the 80’s. All this work led to fifteen gold and platinum certifications, a host of awards, high profile TV appearances and coliseum concert tours. Chilliwack’s reputation for consistently powerful shows continue, and with the live CD There And Back still winning over new fans and delighting long time ones, Bill Henderson and the band are rocking like never before. Hearing the revitalized Chilliwack of today is like hearing those songs for the first time… all over again.

Chilliwack

A native of the Bronx, Samara Joy became entranced by classic R&B as a child and cut her teeth as a singer in her church’s gospel choir. And while her family history is deeply musical—her grandparents helmed the Philadelphia gospel group the Savettes, and her father, the musician and songwriter Antonio McLendon, has produced, composed, and arranged his own astounding original work—she didn’t delve into the jazz tradition until college at SUNY Purchase.

Samara Joy

Classic Albums Live: Michael Jackson

Nils Frahm has announced details of a new live album due for release by his LEITER label on December 6, 2024. Paris was recorded in the dramatic surroundings of the Philharmonie de Paris’ Grand Salle Pierre Boulez one and a half years after his magnum opus, Music For Animals, “a musical waterfall,” according to PopMatters, “of monumental proportions”. In what’s becoming a tradition, it follows 2013’s Spaces, a Pitchfork Album of the Year taped at shows over the preceding 18 months, and 2020’s Tripping With Nils Frahm, also released as a film.

Nils Frahm

After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the band’s first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills — an innovator of uncommon subtlety, known for his work with everyone from Bob Dylan to Fiona Apple and quietly regarded as many a legacy artist’s favorite guitar player — and tracked at the venerable Sound City in Los Angeles — birthplace of After The Gold Rush, Fleetwood Mac and Nevermind among other classics — the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.

Japanese Breakfast

After mesmerizing audiences across Europe and the UK, The Rock Orchestra by Candlelight is set to electrify the USA once again. Prepare for a spellbinding 90-minute spectacle that infuses iconic Rock & Metal anthems with a hauntingly beautiful energy. In ethereal candlelit settings, this band of 14 classical musicians unleash effortlessly enchanting melodies alongside powerful walls of distortion. Witness the unexpected union of Classical music and Metal.

Rock Orchestra by Candlelight

Max Richter is one of the most influential and acclaimed composers of all time. His fusion of classical technique and electronic technology, heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion, has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.

Max Richter

Three-time GRAMMY award winner Lucy Dacus is a musician, performer, storyteller, and widely regarded as “one of the best songwriters of her generation” (Rolling Stone). She has released three full-length albums under her name: 2016’s No Burden, 2018’s Historian, and 2021’s Home Video. This year she’s back with her fourth studio album Forever Is A Feeling after a career-defining year with boygenius, her band with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. boygenius' the record landed #1 on the UK, Irish and Dutch album charts, #1 on Billboard’s Vinyl Album chart, and #4 on Billboard 200 and was named a top 10 album of 2023 by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Billboard, Variety, and many more. Dacus has performed on Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and CBS This Morning. 2025’s Forever Is A Feeling will be released via Geffen/Interscope on 3/28.

Lucy Dacus

Chilly Gonzales is as well known for his intimate approach to the piano through his Solo Piano album trilogy as for his undeniable talents as a showman. Dressed in a bathrobe and wearing slippers, he fills philharmonic halls around the world; in the space of a single evening, he can give a moving piano recital, dissect the inner workings of a Billie Eilish hit, and amaze audiences with his rapological dexterity. He writes and performs songs with internationally renowned artists such as Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, and won a Grammy in 2014 for his collaboration on Daft Punk's Best Album of the Year.

Chilly Gonzales

Regulars and fan favorites from Kill Tony, the #1 live podcast in the world, bring their standup show on the road with Killers of Kill Tony, coming to Massey Hall on Saturday, April 12, 2025. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, October 4, at 10:00AM.

Killers of Kill Tony

Classic Albums Live: Pink Floyd

Lives Outgrown is, by some measure, Beth Gibbons' most personal work to date. She has never talked about the subject matter of any of her songs until now. She has never deployed backing vocals until now. The songs sit where her voice lives now. The album is the result of a period of sustained reflection and change — “lots of goodbyes,” in Beth’s words. Farewells to family, to friends, even to her former self. These are songs from the mid-course of life, when looking ahead no longer yields what it used to, and looking back has a sudden, sharper focus. “I realised what life was like with no hope,” says Beth. “And that was a sadness I’d never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you’re up against your body, you can’t make it do something it doesn’t want to do.”

Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown Tour

Before he was an Emmy-winning TV star, Mandy Patinkin was already a Tony-winning Broadway legend. Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, presents the acclaimed actor/singer/storyteller in his most electrifying role: concert performer. “Mandy Patinkin is in the business of show-stopping,” raves The New Yorker, and that’s exactly what he does in this powerful, passionate evening of song. BEING ALIVE is a collection of many of Mandy’s favourite Broadway and classic American tunes. From Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim, from Cole Porter to Harry Chapin, Mandy Patinkin takes you on a dazzling musical journey you’ll never forget.

Mandy Patinkin In Concert

Anoushka Shankar brings to Toronto a new band of musicians with whom she has carved out a new, multifaceted and dynamic sound as they perform music from her three newly-released mini-albums Chapter I: Forever, For Now, Chapter II: How Dark it Is Before Dawn, and marking the release of Chapter III: (Untitled) coming in March 2025, alongside thoroughly shaken-up, reinterpreted gems from her previous releases including the Grammy-nominated live album Between Us…

Anoushka Shankar

Stereophonics are one of the UK's most enduring and most loved bands with Kelly Jones continuing to cement his place amongst the great British songwriters.

Stereophonics

The Experience Hendrix Tour evokes the era when artists treated each performance as a unique interaction with their audience. Jimi Hendrix called this his ‘Electric Church.’ The Experience Hendrix Tour fully embraces this approach, presenting multiple opportunities for performers and audiences to witness unique collaborations among the participating artists, and will highlight these artists performing their favourite Hendrix signature songs including “Little Wing,” “Fire,” “Purple Haze,” and “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).”

Experience Hendrix

Classic Albums Live: David Bowie

GRAMMY-winning trumpeter Chris Botti has been one of the most popular instrumentalists in the world for nearly three decades; he’s collaborated with some of the biggest superstars on the planet, including Sting, Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell, Steven Tyler, Andrea Bocelli, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma, and others; he’s topped the jazz charts with numerous albums, earned multiple Gold and Platinum records, performed with symphony orchestras and on prestigious stages from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl to the Sydney Opera House.

Chris Botti

You’ve heard them at clubs, festivals, and on the street. Now experience the energetic sound of Toronto’s heavy-hitting brass band on stage at Canada’s most renowned music venue! BSB will perform original compositions and fresh takes on pop classics and recent hits. Also get your vocal cords ready—audience participation will be encouraged!

Big Smoke Brass

The multi-media project Kraftwerk was started in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. They set up their electronic Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they conceived and produced all Kraftwerk albums. By the mid 1970’s Kraftwerk had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electronic ‘sound scapes’ and their musical experimentation with robotics and other technical innovations. With their visions of the future, Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st century. Their compositions, using innovative techniques, synthetic voices and computerized rhythms, have had a major international influence across an entire range of music genres: from Electro to Hip-Hop, from Techno to SynthPop. In their live performances, Kraftwerk composer, author and producer Ralf Hütter illustrates his belief in the respective contributions of both man and machine.

Kraftwerk: Multimedia Tour 2025

Peter Bence is a globally acclaimed, award-winning piano sensation, composer, andmusic producer. Known for his edgy, percussive, and expressive playing style, Bence has captivated audiences worldwide by breaking the boundaries between classical and popular music. He elevates the piano to new heights, transforming the instrument into a full orchestra, inspiring music lovers of all ages. His live performances attract thousands across the globe.

Peter Bence Pianosphere

At 25-years-old, British singer-songwriter Jorja Smith has already spent close to a decade soaring in the music world, with her gorgeous voice and searing pen. From Walsall, the West Midlands, Smith has collaborated with an astonishing roster of international stars like Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Stormzy, Burna Boy, Kali Uchis, Popcaan; in 2018, she was the first independent artist to win the coveted BRITs Critics Choice Award; that same year, Lost & Found, her debut album, was released to rave reviews and a Mercury Prize-nomination. She also won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist in 2019, and was nominated that same year for the Grammy for Best New Artist.

Jorja Smith

Canadian singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Leif Vollebekk is a philosophy student turned troubadour who marries Carl Jung’s I Ching musings and Wittgenstein’s love of language with his own lyrical poetry on the aptly named Revelation, his third album on Secret City Records, a product of the introspection brought on by the lockdown. The 11 tracks, including a pair of orchestrated, cinematic set pieces, evoke the narrative skills of fellow countrymen Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot, the crystalline sound of The Eagles, anchored by the rich intimacy of Nick Drake. The completed work, organic, earthy and homemade, weaves themes of nature -- water, astral constellations, mortality – into a meditation on living in an ever-changing present laced with existential doubt, the search for a higher power.

Leif Vollebekk

Jesse Cook's musical legacy spans more than 25 years. An accomplished guitarist and producer, he has performed his unique brand of rhythm and rhumba in thousands of concerts around the world, sold more than 2 million albums, and recorded 5 PBS specials. His music videos have garnered more than 25 million views on YouTube and his songs have been streamed more than 400 million times.

Jesse Cook

Trisha Paytas is an American personality, entrepreneur and author that has amassed an audience of more than 20 million followers across platforms since the mid-2000s. She has helped shape the creator landscape, being one of the first to bubble off of YouTube. Embracing monumental life milestones including sobriety, marriage, and motherhood, she has cultivated a newfound sense of purpose and garnered a cult-like following of adoring fans over two billion views in just the last 12 months.

Trisha Paytas

Father John Misty has announced a new headlining tour for 2025 in support of Mahashmashana, which will stop at Massey Hall on February 21, 2025. The tour will feature special guest and Merge Records artist Destroyer.

Father John Misty

The multiplatinum West Philadelphia-born and East Coast-based R&B maven, Pink Sweat$ pushes love anytime he picks up a microphone. “Love is the one thing that never gets old,” he muses. “It will never go out of style, like Jordans. It’s a dark world, and I’m spreading light and love to people. We are all walking around in these adult bodies with little children inside of us we’re trying to protect. My purpose is to speak to your inner child.”

Pink Sweat$

After 20 studio albums, 8 Juno Awards, 31 Maple Blues Awards and multi-platinum record sales, Colin James remains at the top of his game, continuing to challenge himself musically.

Colin James

Jack White will celebrate his GRAMMY Award-nominated new album No Name with a global headline run. The No Name Tour stops off at Massey Hall for two nights on February 7 & 8, 2025.

Jack White

David Gray is back doing what he does better than almost anyone, and fans of complex, serious, lyrical songcraft should rejoice. Dear Life may be the deepest, strangest, loveliest album this pioneering British singer-songwriter has ever delivered. Years in the making, it is an album of emotional crisis and resolution, mortality and faith, reality and illusion, love and heartbreak, magic, science, loss and acceptance.

David Gray

The fifth album from shoegaze giants Slowdive contains the duality of a familiar internal language mixed with the exaltation of new beginnings. everything is alive is transportive, searching and aglow, the work of a classic band continuing to pitch its unmistakable voice to the future. Six years after the group’s monumental self-titled album, everything is alive finds Slowdive—vocalists and guitarists Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead, guitarist Christian Savill, bassist Nick Chaplin, and drummer Simon Scott—locating evermore contours of its immersive, elemental sound.

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