The stage is set at Toronto’s Massey Hall for the Canada Rock of Fame to get loud!
Featuring a selection of the country’s most recognizable names in broadcasting and electrifying tribute performances by today’s biggest rock voices, 13 of Canada’s greatest classic rock bands of the 70s and 80s are set to join the stars along Canada’s Walk of Fame with a Massey Hall with a star-studded event on September 28.
Joining Canada’s Walk of Fame’s distinguished ranks are original Halifax rockers, April Wine, superstar pop-rockers, Chilliwack, Scottish-Canadian superstars, Glass Tiger, the Queen of Canadian Metal, Lee Aaron, jazz-rock fusion originators, Lighthouse, ‘80 international superstars, Loverboy, progressive rock pioneers, Max Webster, auteur compositeur légendaire du Québécois, Michel Pagliaro, hair metal video stars, Platinum Blonde, spaceship superstars, PRISM, LGBTQ+ icons, Rough Trade, world new wave favourites, The Parachute Club, and original arena rockers, Trooper.
Joining the celebrations to pay tribute to these legends will be rocker Fefe Dobson, emerging artist Charlie Edward, Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar, rising rockers, Crown Lands, and Colin Macdonald and John Angus Macdonald of The Trews. In addition, the event will feature a uniting of renowned DJs and VJs of the classic rock era, including co-hosts music, fashion, and TV icon, Jeanne Beker, and media legend Terry David Mulligan, and presenters including long-time CHUM-FM morning show co-hosts Roger Ashby and Marilyn Denis, Steve Anthony (CHOM FM, CHUM FM, MuchMusic), Alan Cross (The Edge, Q107), Terry Dimonte (97.7 CHOM-FM, Citi-FM), John Donabie (Q107) Erica Ehm (MuchMusic), Liz Janik (CFNY-FM), Stu Jeffries (Boom 97.3), David Marsden (CFNY-FM, CHUM-FM), Maie Pauts (Boom 97.3, CFNY-FM), Ingrid Schumacher (CHUM-FM), Christopher Ward (MuchMusic) and Michael Williams (CHOM-FM, MuchMusic). The Canadian Rock of Fame will also feature renowned drag entertainer Brooke Lynn Hytes and Poet Laureate of Ontario Randell Adjei.
This once-in-a-lifetime celebration is the first of two induction ceremonies in 2023 as part of Canada’s Walk of Fame’s 25th-anniversary events, followed by the annual induction ceremony (which will see Avril Lavigne inducted alongside TV personality Rick Mercer, Edmonton Oilers’ superstar, Connor McDavid and the cas of Degrassi) and broadcast in December.
For more information on Canada’s Walk of Fame, please be sure to visit www.canadaswalkoffame.com; and to purchase tickets to Canada’s Rock of Fame, make sure to visit here.