Bruce Cockburn will embark on an in depth 2026 North American tour, performing throughout Canada and america in celebration of his five-decade profession. The run will spotlight picks from his huge catalogue, spanning people, rock, jazz, and spiritually reflective songwriting that has earned him enduring acclaim. The tour additionally arrives alongside continued inventive output, together with a forthcoming album that displays his ongoing evolution as an artist.
A press launch from Bruce Cockburn’s administration introduced that the tour will kick off on July tenth in Saskatoon, SK through the SaskJazz Competition at Victoria Park.
Bruce Cockburn is undoubtedly one in all Canada’s most celebrated and enduring singer-songwriters. And his sweeping North American tour spanning 2026 is about to deliver his extraordinary catalogue of songs to phases from coast to coast throughout Canada and america. The run of dates represents some of the anticipated stay occasions of the live performance season, uniting longtime devotees, and new listeners round a physique of labor that has formed the very soul of Canadian music for greater than 5 a long time.
Bruce Cockburn upcoming new album, as-yet-untitled and to be launched in Fall, 2026 – continues the legendary songwriter’s decades-long journey by means of people, rock, jazz, and non secular reflection with the knowledge and craftsmanship which have outlined his profession.
Ottawa-born and now based mostly in San Francisco, Cockburn has spent greater than 40 years documenting the total breadth of human expertise throughout people, rock, jazz, and worldbeat, travelling to Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, and past within the service of each his music and his activism. His guitar taking part in, each acoustic and electrical, has positioned him within the firm of the world’s high instrumentalists, and his songs of romance, protest, and non secular discovery are among the many most interesting to have emerged from any nation during the last half century. Music journalist Nicholas Jennings has written that Cockburn has deftly captured the enjoyment, ache, concern, and religion of human expertise in music, whether or not retreating to the nation or going up towards chaos, tackling imperialist lies or embracing ecclesiastical truths, all the time expressing what Cockburn himself has referred to as a troublesome but hopeful stance: to kick on the darkness until it bleeds daylight.
His outstanding journey has seen him embrace an extraordinary vary of sounds and material whereas engaged on behalf of organisations together with Oxfam, Amnesty Worldwide, Docs With out Borders, and Mates of the Earth, lending his voice to causes from native rights and land mines to the surroundings and Third World debt. For his many achievements, the artist has been honoured with 13 Juno Awards, induction into the Canadian Music Corridor of Fame, a Governor Common’s Performing Arts Award, and has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada. His thirty eighth album, ‘O Solar O Moon,’ continues some of the outstanding our bodies of labor within the historical past of widespread music.
Becoming a member of Cockburn for a major run of dates on the tour are Jeff Pevar and Inger Nova, the Oregon-based duo whose authentic music blends soul, rock, R&B, jazz, people, and blues right into a sound that feels each deeply rooted and distinctly their very own. Jeff Pevar is a guitarist, bassist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer whose profession spans a long time of collaborations with legendary artists. A founding member of CPR alongside David Crosby, he has toured extensively with Crosby Nash, Crosby Stills and Nash, and Crosby’s Sky Trails Band, and his expansive profession contains work with Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Phil Lesh, Marc Cohn, Rickie Lee Jones, Bette Midler, Jennifer Warnes, and Jefferson Starship, amongst many others. A New York Blues Corridor of Fame inductee, Pevar brings multi-instrumental manufacturing depth and a lifetime of world-class musicianship to each stage he inhabits.
Inger Nova Jorgensen is a vocalist, songwriter, sculptor, and painter whose multidisciplinary profession deeply informs her musical voice. Collectively, Pevar and Nova have spent greater than 20 years writing, recording, and performing authentic music all through america and Europe, together with a number of excursions throughout Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.
Cockburn has all the time insisted on persevering with to develop, citing his fashions for swish getting old as John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Damage, musicians who by no means stopped working or deepening their craft. That spirit of perpetual inventive renewal has carried him from the Riverboat in Toronto in 1969 by means of to the current day, and this tour is a vivid reminder of simply how uncommon and valuable the connection between an artist and his listeners actually is. The tour features a significantly significant Canadian homecoming, with Cockburn visiting among the nation’s most storied rooms, amongst them the Nationwide Arts Centre in Ottawa, Massey Corridor in Toronto, Centre within the Sq. in Kitchener, and Gesù Salle in Montréal. A spotlight of the broader run was his look at Legacy: A Celebration of David Suzuki at 90 in Vancouver on Might 22, an occasion that sits squarely on the intersection of artwork, activism, and the pure world that has all the time animated Co ckburn’s most interesting work. A number of dates additionally characteristic performances alongside the legendary Judy Collins on her “Candy Judy Blue Eyes” Farewell Tour, and Cockburn appeared at Jefferson Airplane’s Jorma Kaukonen’s eighty fifth Birthday celebration.
A number of dates on the tour will characteristic performances alongside legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins on her “Candy Judy Blue Eyes” Farewell Tour for from July 22 to October 3. Livingston Taylor will be a part of Cockburn for dates starting October 20 by means of November 8.
Tickets and full particulars can be found at brucecockburn.com.
Bruce Cockburn 2026 Tour Dates
Jul 10 — Saskatoon, SK — SaskJazz Competition, Victoria Park
Jul 22 — Denver, CO — Botanical Gardens **
Aug 7 — Los Angeles, CA — Ford Theatre **
Aug 26 — Iowa Metropolis, IA — Englert Theatre **
Aug 27 — Des Moines, IA — Hoyt Sherman Place **
Sep 8 — Omaha, NE — Astro Theater **
Sep 9 — Lawrence, KS — Liberty Corridor **
Oct 3 — Eugene, OR — McDonald Theatre **
Oct 15 — Kitchener, ON — Centre within the Sq.
Oct 16 — Ottawa, ON — Nationwide Arts Centre
Oct 17 — Toronto, ON — Massey Corridor
Oct 18 — Montréal, QC — Gesù Salle
Oct 20 — Plymouth, NH — Flying Monkey&
Oct 21 — Portland, ME — State Theatre&
Oct 23 — Boston, MA — Chevalier Theatre&
Oct 24 — New York, NY — City Corridor&
Oct 25 — Philadelphia, PA — Keswick Theatre&
Oct 27 — Washington, DC — Warner Theatre&
Oct 29 — Durham, NC — Fletcher Corridor&
Oct 30 — Charlotte, NC — Carolina Theatre&
Nov 1 — Nashville, TN — CMA Theatre&
Nov 2 — Knoxville, TN — Bijou Theatre&
Nov 4 — Atlanta, GA — Selection Playhouse&
Nov 6 — Ponte Vedra, FL — Ponte Vedra Live performance Corridor&
Nov 7 — Fort Lauderdale, FL — Amaturo Theatre&
Nov 8 — Key West, FL — Key West Theatre&
** With Judy Collins
& With Livingston Taylor