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HomeGrown Live Music Festival 2023
The full festival listing for the 15th all-local music celebration.
In-Person Event
Sat. May 6th 2023 + Add to Calendar
Various Venues
1:00pm - 11:00pm
$10
Presented by:
HomeGrown Live Music Festival
Kingston's annual festival of all-local live music.
Kingston Ontario
Open / Operational
Event Description
Kingston's popular all-local live music festival returns Saturday, May 6, 2023
Over 100 local bands and artists perform live at 13 Kingston music venues, all in support of Joe's M.I.L.L.
All-access festival wristbands are only $10 each, and allow admittance into every festival venue. Wristbands are available for purchase (cash only) at the door of each venue on the festival date.
Festival Schedule and Venue Lineups
Blu Martini
Live, local indie and alternative music, featuring:
- 6:00 pm – Chris Giguere & The Final Say
- 6:50 pm – Willy Nilly
- 7:40 pm – Forty Seven Teeth
- 8:30 pm – Dennis Bouwman & The Wild Roses
- 9:20 pm – Chris Brown and friends
- 10:20 pm – The Winter in Canada
- 11:10 pm – The Mill•Rights
- 12:00 am – Evil Numbers
The Broom Factory
Live rap and hip hop, featuring:
- 5:00 pm – Wicked
- 5:25 pm – Dan Doesn’t Sleep
- 5:50 pm – ShizNick
- 6:15 pm – Third Eye Rhyme
- 6:40 pm – Kaydence Brown
- 7:05 pm – S-Cape Artist
- 7:30 pm – Hartman
- 7:55 pm – Grampa
- 8:20 pm – Dupel
- 8:45 pm – Swordwall
Monte’s
A live singer-songwriter showcase, featuring:
- 12:30 pm – John Somerville
- 1:00 pm – Jennie Marshall
- 1:30 pm – Dylandylion
- 2:00 pm – Cole LeBlanc
- 2:30 pm – Dennis Clark
- 3:00 pm – Dan Bullock
- 3:30 pm – Clara Smallman & Sarah Zanibbi
- 4:00 pm – Rasmanpierre
- 4:30 pm – “Cousin” Gibbard Suede
- 5:00 pm – Roger Marshall
- 5:30 pm – Jonathan Jones
- 6:00 pm – Gerald McGrath
- 6:30 pm – Mellow Lily
- 7:00 pm – Trevor Strong
- 7:30 pm – TBA
Musiikki Café
Live ambient and electronic music, featuring:
- 8:00 pm – FASTFAST
- 8:30 pm – Mat Almeida
- 9:00 pm – Dudu Tsuda
- 9:30 pm – KaKaow
- 10:00 pm – Buck’s Moonlight Revival
R.C.H.A. Club
Live blues music, featuring:
- 2:00 pm – Engine 10-95
- 3:00 pm – Steven Tanner
- 4:00 pm – The Freake Blues Band
- 5:00 pm – Izzy Jodoin
- 6:00 pm – Geoffrey Wickham & John Hanson
- 7:00 pm – ROUGHMIX
- 8:00 pm – Hellhound Trail
- 9:00 pm – Shufflejoint
- 10:00 pm – Sweet Pete & The Heat
Renaissance
Live jazz music, featuring:
- 4:00 pm – Django’s Kitchen
- 5:00 pm – Euro Café Duo
- 6:00 pm – Psychic Mojo
- 7:00 pm – Dave Barton Trio
- 8:00 pm – Clear Breeze
- 9:00 pm – Martello Alley Cats
Royal Tavern 2.0
A mixed bag of local musical talent, featuriing:
- 3:00 pm – Echoes feat. Joey McWilliams (ex-Chalk Lines)
- 3:50 pm – Holy Wow
- 4:40 pm – Doug van der Horden
- 6:00 pm – Shook Planet
- 7:00 pm – Stun Seed
- 8:00 pm – Super Special Guest (Lucanus Pell, Will VanRhyan and James Hildebrand)
- 9:00 pm – Mason Forsey Mackinnon
- 10:00 pm – The Pinkertons
- 11:00 pm – RustPump
- 12:00 am – Lowery Mills
The Buckle
Live country music, featuring:
- 12:00 pm – “Cousin” Gibbard Suede
- 12:45 pm – Cork Sniffers
- 1:30 pm – Hips & Harmonies
- 2:15 pm – Saul T. Doggs
- 3:00 pm – Whiskey Smoke
- 3:45 pm – Dennis Bouwman & The Wild Roses
- 4:30 pm – The Blue Grasshoppers
- 5:15 pm – Cody Allen James & Good Co.
- 6:00 pm – The ThoroughFreds
- 6:45 pm – TBA
The Caesar Company
Live folk and roots music, featuring:
- 2:00 pm – Chris Gostling
- 2:40 pm – Tom Savage
- 3:20 pm – Jen Calder
- 4:00 pm – Jonathan Davies
- 4:40 pm – Chanter la Pomme
- 5:20 pm – Chris Morris
- 6:00 pm – Martin Smit and Meghan Balogh
- 6:40 pm – Panache Eh
- 7:20 pm – John Rose
- 8:00 pm – Barb MacDougall
- 8:40 pm – Yan-Nick Michaud
- 9:20 pm – Claire Cooper
- 10:00 pm – Quentin Coughtrey
- 10:40 pm – Simon Webb
The Mansion – Wine Cellar
Live alternative and hard rock, featuring:
- 7:00 pm – TBA
- 7:45 pm – Synergy Fix
- 8:30 pm – The Day Street Brothel
- 9:15 pm – Sweet Machete
- 9:45 pm – Radio Wasteland
- 10:30 pm – The Astros
- 11:15 pm - Mothuallah
- 12:00 am - Futura Free
- 12:45 am - TBA
The Mansion – Rec Room
Live psychedelic and rock music featuring:
- 8:00 pm – Weathered Siding
- 9:00 pm – Christopher Jackson
- 10:00 pm – Galvanic 42
- 11:00 pm – The Strange Happenings
- 12:00 AM – KaKaow
The Mansion - Living Room
A live music showcase of local youth bands and emerging artists:
- 2:00 pm – Izzy Jodoin
- 2:45 pm – Jade Peter
- 3:30 pm – Clara Smallman & Sarah Zanibbi
- 4:15 pm – Switzerville Sound Machine
- 5:00 pm – Interrobang‽
- 5:45 pm – FogRoom
The Toucan
A musical smorgasbord ranging from Celtic and funk to rock and punk, featuring:
- 4:00 pm – Tom MacIntosh
- 5:00 pm – Denis Leroux & Don Corbett
- 6:00 pm – Fiddle Earth
- 7:00 pm – Irish Roots
- 8:00 pm – Martin Smit and Meghan Balogh
- 9:00 pm – The Sugar Pills
- 10:00 pm – Nice On
- 11:00 pm – Justin Bird & The Thorns of Venus
- 12:00 am – The Meringues
- 1:00 am – Master Nate & The Reprobates
The 2022 Homegrown Live Music Festival was a success! With huge thanks to our many volunteer musicians, venue coordinators, and door staff, we raised $2200 for Joe's M.I.L.L.!
HomeGrown Live donates all proceeds to the Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Lending Library (Joe's M.I.L.L.).
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