CallHome Music Festival

06/17/2026

🤘 SIDE STAGE ANNOUNCEMENTS! 🤘

We're pleased to announce some of the awesome bands who will be appearing on our Grand River Insurance Brokers Side Stage

Friday will be headlined by 50 Mission - A Tragically Hip Tribute. Hands down the BEST tribute to The Hip and a fan favourite of the festival.

Saturday we've got Barstool Confession headlining and bringing their high energy rock show back to Brantford with direct support from local punk legends GAG ORDER who will be making their festival debut and will no doubt get the energy kicked up a notch.

We'll be filling out the remainder of the side stage with bands from our Battle of the Bands -- make sure you check it out and vote here for the bands you wan to see: http://battle.callhomefest.ca

06/16/2026

BATTLE OF THE BANDS VOTING IS NOW OPEN!

VOTE HERE: https://battle.callhomefest.ca/

Congrats to the following 12 bands who have advanced to the VOTING round:

Frontline Poets
The Divine Project
Hey Brother
Circle Of Black
Treading Zero
FOOLPROOF
The Social Era
The Wounded Sons
Full Throttle
Cruel Hope
Black Paint
TheUnbornBand

5 of these bands will move on to play CallHome Music Festival, with ONE band winning the opening spot on the main stage for Friday, July 24th sharing the stage with BUSH, Matthew Good and Fefe Dobson.

Fans can vote for up to 5 bands daily.
Voting will end at NOON on July 6th.
Top 5 bands will be announced on July 7th.

The 5 winning bands will then perform at The Rope Factory Event Hall on Saturday, July 18th where a winner will be selected. Please note that in order to play CallHome and claim your spot -- all 5 winning bands need to compete on July 18th.

Play the tunes, watch the videos and help us pick the 5 bands that deserve a spot at CallHome Music Festival 😎

THANK YOU TO ALL BANDS WHO APPLIED! Our judges sure had a hard time narrowing this down to 12 bands. There is a rumor that a fight broke out between two judges for the final spot -- although we can't confirm or deny.

VOTE HERE: https://battle.callhomefest.ca/

GOOD LUCK!

06/15/2026

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

Due to a technical error with our platform, our battle of the bands voting page will not be posted until tomorrow afternoon. (Although it might also appear at 3AM)

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE TECHNOLOGY? 😂

Thank you to ALL the bands who applied -- not an easy job for our judges. We look forward to getting online and starting our voting round.

06/15/2026

HEY MOM, WE HAVE OUR OWN HOT SAUCE! ❤️

Our friend Chris from Villain Sauce Co. dropped by this afternoon to drop off samples of his CALL HOME ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Hot Sauce that’ll be available exclusively at our festival.

Make sure you pop by his tent to grab a bottle and sample his other amazing flavours. Chris always has some great package deals available 🤘

06/08/2026

We're excited to announce that we've teamed up with Black Fly Beverage Company this year as one of our featured beverage partners.

We'll have a few of their delicious Vodka and Gin coolers available, and we'll also be featuring... VODKA SLUSHIES! 😍

Drop a comment below and show them some love -- we'll be randomly selecting a winner from the comments and hooking them up with a Black Fly prize package.

PS: DID WE MENTION VODKA SLUSHIES?!? 😎

05/31/2026

Thanks for helping us build our 2026 CallHome Music Festival Official Spotify playlist! Are we missing any songs you wanna hear? We're happy to add them -- drop requests below.

Crank it up and get ready to pack the park on July 24th & 25th!

Playlist · Jamie Stephens · 70 items

05/31/2026

Check back here @ 4:30PM tonight -- we're going to go LIVE and build our Official 2026 Spotify playlist and we want your input! 🤘

05/31/2026

Huge shoutout to our friends at Meadows Music Festival for inviting us again this year to come down and promote our show -- we love have a working relationship with other festivals and events.

What a fun weekend in Fergus!

Thank you to our team members who went down to pass out flyers and represent our festival -- Mandi for taking the lead on this for us. Shari, Jim & Aydin, John, Becci & And Ryleigh, Jamie & Erin, Alex and Derek. As well as, Crystal who went down to promote our Marketplace.

We can't wait to come back next year 😍

05/29/2026

Met up with one of our CallHome Super fans — Bernie Rivers (pictured right) and his buddy Steve at Meadows Music Festival in Fergus 🤘

05/29/2026

Our team is heading to Meadows Music Festival this weekend. Our friends at Meadows have graciously invited us to come promote our festival at theirs.

How cool is that? It’s fun when festival support each other ❤️

We’re excited to check out this show. Come find us — we will be decked out in our CallHome swag and handing out flyers.

Check out Meadows here: https://www.meadowsfest.ca/