CITY AND COLOUR + ALEXISONFIRE
Announce Both Bands Will Play Debut Albums In Full at BORN & RAISED
June 30 – July 3, 2022 | Montebello Park, St. Catharines
Alexisonfire and City and Colour, Dine Alone Records and Live Nation Canada recently announced a must-see 4-day concert event that will take over Montebello Park in the band’s beloved hometown of St. Catharines from June 30 to July 3. In celebration of their 20th Anniversary, Alexisonfire and City and Colour will be giving fans a special treat. Today, the bands announce they will both perform their debut albums front-to-back for the first time ever live on Thursday, June 30 and Sunday, July 3, respectively, and play full band sets on Friday and Sunday. This will be the only opportunity to catch Alexisonfire and City and Colour perform in Southern Ontario in 2022.
Tickets for the Born & Raised are available via ticketmaster.ca. Alexisonfire and City and Colour have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the Indspire Building Brighter Futures Scholarship program.
Alexisonfire and City and Colour have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the Indspire Building Brighter Futures Scholarship program through the City and Colour Indigenous Student Bursary and the Alexisonfire Indigenous Music Bursary, which were established in 2019 with the goal of supporting students as they complete their education and achieve academic success. To date Alexisonfire and City and Colour have donated over $120,000 combined.
Born & Raised is a celebration and homecoming for bandmates Dallas Green, George Pettit, Wade MacNeil, Chris Steele, and Jordan Hastings. Alexisonfire rose up out of the St. Catharines, Ontario underground in late 2001 with City and Colour’s Platinum certified album Sometimes debuting a few short years later in 2005. AOF released four hugely successful studio albums, all Music Canada Platinum-certified and would go on to define a generation of contemporary music in Canada and abroad. Now back with a vengeance, and on the heels of announcing their first studio album in over 13 years, Otherness, Alexisonfire, in partnership with Dallas Green’s multiple award-winning and critically acclaimed act City and Colour, is bringing the music back to where it all started. Featuring 4 nights of music, food, and drink in the city’s Montebello Park over the July long weekend, Born & Raised is a not-to-be missed concert event.
“Something special happens when Alexisonfire gets together,” says AOF vocalist George Pettit. “When we’re all on stage playing in the pocket, we elevate and the audience comes with us. Born & Raised is going to be a beautiful spectacle. City and Colour and AOF are returning to the very streets that created us, joined by a slew of great bands. Can’t wait.”
Joining Alexisonfire and City and Colour are longtime friends and very special guests, Billy Talent. The concert series also features a stellar line up of support acts including Broken Social Scene, Pup, Sam Roberts Band, Elliott, Hot Water Music, cleopatrick, Ruby Waters, Chastity, Dooms Children, NOBRO and The OBGMs.
June 30
City and Colour
performing Sometimes
Sam Roberts Band
Ruby Waters
Chastity
July 1
City and Colour
Broken Social Scene
Elliott
Dooms Children
July 2
Alexisonfire
performing their self-titled debut
Billy Talent – SPECIAL GUEST
Hot Water Music
NOBRO
July 3
Alexisonfire
Pup
cleopatrick
The OBGMs
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