Three days, three headliners, and more than 30 acts across two stages worth of programming — RockStock Canada‘s debut lineup pairs Canadian rock royalty with a wave of tribute bands built for a festival that’s explicitly channeling Woodstock’s spirit. Here is the full day-by-day breakdown of who’s playing.
Curious about what you can expect at this year’s RockStock Canada? Before digging into the lineup, feel free to read up on our RockStock Canada guide right here.
Friday
*special appearance by Innifil Mayor Lynn Dollin to open the day at 11:45 am.
Matt & Ashley Bergman: Opening RockStock with Ceremony and Song
Matt and Ashley Bergman are Indigenous community leaders from Ontario who’ve built a reputation opening regional festivals and commemorative gatherings with traditional drumming, song, and ceremony. Matt is the co-founder of the Indigenous Action Committee and works in songwriting and production on the side, while Ashley operates Ashley Bergman Child & Family Therapy, offering counseling for children, youth, and families with services tailored to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities. The pair are no strangers to opening ceremonies with real cultural weight behind them. Most recently, in May 2026, they drummed together at the opening of a Red Dress Day installation in East Gwillimbury, part of the broader awareness movement honoring missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. RockStock Canada’s own organizers describe the Bergmans’ opening set as a chance to “honor” the festival with a traditional Indigenous ceremony, featuring drumming, heartfelt songs, and a sacred smudge. Fitting for a festival built around themes of community and legacy, Matt and Ashley open RockStock’s Friday program before the amps kick in, setting a tone of land acknowledgment and shared history ahead of a weekend built on live music.
Full Throttle: Barrie’s Seasoned Classic Rock Cover Act
Full Throttle is a Barrie, Ontario cover band made up of seasoned musicians with a wide-ranging repertoire, built to deliver, in the group’s own words, “non-stop hits from the ’70s to today, and whatever else gets the crowd moving.” The band has built its local reputation the working-musician way — steady bookings across the Barrie and Orillia area circuit through platforms like GigSalad, where past clients praise their variety of classic rock covers and dance-floor-filling sets. One reviewer summed up a typical Full Throttle gig simply: “Great fresh food and beverages kept everyone happy. They liked our variety of classic rock music.” That reputation has carried the band to venues and events well beyond one-off private bookings, cementing their standing as one of the area’s go-to rock cover acts. With their attitude-first, hits-heavy approach to a live set, Full Throttle opens the music at RockStock Canada on Friday, kicking off the festival’s first full day at Sunset Speedway.
Wayward Saints: Toronto’s Heartfelt Old-School Rock Revivalists
Wayward Saints are a Toronto-based old-school rock five-piece on what they describe as a mission to bring the heartfelt spirit of rock back to both longtime fans and a new generation. Fronted by vocalist Lindsay Coleman, the band’s lineup features twin guitarists Darren Flower and Justin Bennett, bassist Bil Bertram, and drummer Dylan Beneteau, a configuration built for the kind of dual-guitar attack that defines their sound. The group has built real momentum in a short window, earning Mississauga Music’s Best New Group honor in 2022, releasing their debut EP Survivor, and touring internationally with dates in Spain, all while working with JUNO-nominated producer Ross Hayes Citrullo and Grammy-nominated mastering engineer Joao Carvalho. That reach extends to radio, too, with the band’s singles picked up by stations in 15 countries. Wayward Saints have also become a familiar name on the Ontario festival circuit closer to home, headlining stages like the Barrie Waterfront Festival, where they’ve drawn on the same high-energy, twin-guitar live show that’s become their calling card. That same old-school rock-and-roll energy lands at RockStock Canada on Friday, giving the festival’s opening stretch a shot of classic-rock revivalism from one of Toronto’s fastest-rising acts.
Wicked Truth: Decades of Music, One Epic Party Band
Wicked Truth has spent a decade building a reputation as one of Ontario’s premier party bands, formed in 2016 and celebrating ten years of music in 2026. The band’s calling card is its genre-spanning mash-up style, blending classic and new rock into original arrangements that stretch across seven decades of music — one night might move from Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith through to Adele and Taylor Swift. That approach has earned the band real industry recognition, including a first television appearance on a long-running CBC program. Billing itself as an internationally touring, award-winning concert experience, Wicked Truth keeps a packed regional schedule, with 2026 stops spanning Barrie’s Donaleigh’s Irish Public House, Toronto’s Ballroom Bowl, Oshawa’s Whiskey John’s, and a run of dates on the Northern Heat Rib Series circuit across Southern Ontario. Wicked Truth brings its unique mash-up-driven, crowd-built party energy to RockStock Canada’s Friday lineup at Sunset Speedway.
Midlife Crisis (MLC): Innisfil’s Own Rock N’ Roll Outfit
MLC Rock N’ Roll, also known as Midlife Crisis, is a rock covers band based right in Innisfil, formed out of nearby Alcona as a newly built group playing classic and hard rock staples across the region. The band has kept up a steady schedule of local and regional shows, with stops ranging from Barrie stages to Northern Ontario venues like North Bay’s The Fraser and a memorable outdoor date at Lake Monomonac. That grind has built them loyal following. Playing under both a full-band rock lineup and a stripped-down acoustic duo format depending on the booking, MLC has built a reputation as a dependable, community-rooted act on Simcoe County’s live music circuit. The band brings that same hometown energy to RockStock Canada’s Friday program, giving the Innisfil crowd a set from a genuinely local act on their own turf at Sunset Speedway.
Aeroforce: Canada’s Premier Aerosmith Tribute, Approved by Steven Tyler Himself
AEROFORCE traces its roots back to the early 1990s, when “Tyler” Bob Gregory and Paul Gayne brought the band together for true Aerosmith fans, and more than three decades later it’s earned the title of Canada’s premier tribute to the band. The group has built its reputation on faithfully reproducing Aerosmith staples like “Sweet Emotion,” “Walk This Way,” and “Dream On,” and that authenticity has been noticed at the highest level. Steven Tyler himself has even acknowledged AEROFORCE as “those cool guys from Canada.” Over more than two decades on the road, the band has shared stages with major rock acts including April Wine, Nazareth, and Night Ranger, and it keeps a steady touring schedule across Ontario theaters and community halls, from a recent Kiwanis Club fundraiser at Barrie’s Ferndale Banquet Hall to regular stops at Hamilton’s FirstOntario Concert Hall studio and Waterloo’s Maxwell’s Concerts & Events. That decades-deep, Tyler-approved take on Aerosmith’s catalog lands on the RockStock main stage Friday evening at Sunset Speedway.
Hell N Back: Canada’s High-Voltage Tribute to AC/DC
Hell N Back bills itself as the Canadian tribute to AC/DC, covering the best of both the Bon Scott and Brian Johnson eras with what the band describes as AC/DC “with balls and high energy.” The five-piece lineup — James Alcock on lead vocals, Steve Attwood on lead guitar, Sabastian Burnside on guitar and vocals, Terry Bugg on bass and vocals, and Gary Lennox on drums — got its start playing its first gig in Mississauga under the name “Powerage,” before evolving into the act now regularly headlining events across Simcoe County. The band has become a fixture of Ontario’s Ribfest circuit specifically, with Ribfest X booking them across multiple stops including Barrie, Innisfil, Alliston, Vaughan, and Markham, and they’ve built a local following at Barrie venues. True to their tribute-band mission, the band’s own goal is simple, as stated on Instagram: “fire up the crowd wherever we play.” That reputation for a flawless reproduction of AC/DC’s catalog, paired with a casual, fun live atmosphere, brings Hell N Back to RockStock Canada’s Friday night headline slot at Sunset Speedway.
Saturday
*Critters Legacy Bike Show N’ Shine opens the day’s festivities at 10 am.
Just Janice: The Festival’s Own Janis Joplin Tribute, Straight from Its Creators
Just Janice is a Janis Joplin tribute project rooted in Barrie’s own Simcoe County scene, and it comes with an unusually direct connection to RockStock Canada itself — the act features Deb Munro, RockStock’s own co-creator and director, alongside members closely tied to the festival’s founding house band, BootLegged. The project has already been previewing its RockStock set well ahead of the festival weekend, playing a pop-up “RockStock Canada Party” at Barrie’s Queens Hotel in June, billed as featuring band members “representing Just Janice, your creators.” Built around Joplin’s raw, blues-soaked vocal style, Just Janice channels the same “peace-and-power” spirit that RockStock Canada was founded to celebrate — a fitting fit for a festival explicitly modeled on Woodstock’s legacy. Just Janice opens Saturday’s programming at RockStock Canada, giving the festival’s second day a set that comes straight from the people who built the whole weekend.
JukeBox: Barrie’s Party Band Turns Its Dial to the Woodstock Greats
JukeBox has built its name the way most working dance bands do in Barrie: showing up night after night and keeping the floor full, billed simply as a “band for all occasions” with a broad, genre-spanning setlist built to get a room moving. That versatility has made them regulars on the local circuit, with recurring Friday-night dates at the Barrie Legion Branch 147 and a steady run of shows at The Tap House, where staff have credited the band with “another amazing show” and called them “a great band full of great people.” For RockStock Canada, JukeBox is tuning that same crowd-first approach toward the festival’s founding inspiration, building a set around the artists who defined the original Woodstock weekend more than five decades ago. It’s a fitting turn for a band whose whole reputation is built on knowing exactly what a crowd wants to hear, and it dovetails neatly with RockStock’s own mission of keeping what organizers call the “peace-and-power movement” alive in Canada. JukeBox brings that Woodstock-legends set to RockStock Canada’s Saturday lineup at Sunset Speedway.
BigMotorGasoline: Working Man’s Rock and Roll, Fueled by Fast Cars and Good Times
BigMotorGasoline formed in the fall of 2014 out of Belleville, Ontario, and has spent more than a decade building a reputation as a genuine working man’s rock and roll band, blending indie rock songwriting with a bluesy southern-rock edge. The band — Sterling Dale on drums, David Leslie on guitar, Darren Sullivan on bass, Dave Conely on keys, Terry Reynolds on background vocals, and John Freitas on vocals and guitar — writes about exactly what its name promises: motorcycles, fast cars, life, and good times. That straightforward approach has earned them real traction on the airwaves, with the band picking up rotation on more than 150 radio stations and podcasts worldwide, spanning Canada, the U.S., and beyond. Their discography includes the debut Fuel To Burn, The Way Things Used To Be, and 2023’s Devil At Your Door, and outlet Code Zero Radio has called the band’s sound “honest rock desperately needed” in today’s scene. That high-energy, road-tested southern rock sound rolls into RockStock Canada’s Saturday lineup at Sunset Speedway.
Stoned and Rolling: Barrie’s High-Octane Rolling Stones Experience
Fronted by electrifying frontman Ryan Silver, Stoned and Rolling bills itself as “A Rolling Stones Cover Experience,” built on more than just note-for-note covers — the band draws on the blues, R&B, and rock and roll influences that shaped the Stones’ own sound in the first place. Rather than imitating the band wholesale, the group works to emulate the Mick Taylor era specifically, delivering a talented, passionate, and wild live show built around that classic-era catalog. That reputation has kept Stoned and Rolling touring steadily across Ontario, with recent stops spanning the Regent Theatre in Oshawa, Drums N Flats, The Blue Room in Coboconk, and a run of festival dates including Toronto’s Second Summer Festival. RockStock Canada’s own organizers have already singled the band out on social media as one of the must-see acts on this year’s bill.
Big Shiny ’90s: Canada’s Original Alt-Rock Tribute, One Song List Deep
Formed in 2015 and based out of Toronto, Big Shiny ’90s has built its identity around a genuinely sprawling catalog — roughly 150 songs deep — that jumps from pop-punk to alternative rock to ’90s hip-hop in a single set, moving between Green Day, Foo Fighters, Weezer, and Britney Spears without missing a beat. The five-piece lineup reads like a snapshot of the decade’s own range: vocalist Craig Burnatowski names I Mother Earth as his favorite ’90s band, guitarist Peter Cardillo picks Limp Bizkit, drummer Neil Lukewich leans toward Soundgarden, bassist Scott Everatt cites the Canadian act Glueleg, and guitarist Mike D goes with 311 — a lineup of influences that helps explain why the band’s live show swings so far beyond a single genre. That range extends into deeper cuts, too; alongside the expected radio staples, the band’s live catalog includes covers of Canadian alt-rock act the Northern Pikes and even a detour into Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson.” Now in their second decade together, Big Shiny ’90s keep a busy regional booking calendar across festivals, markets, and club dates throughout southern Ontario, and now RockStock Canada.
BootLegged: The Barrie Band That Makes You Part of the Show
BootLegged is a five-piece classic and modern rock outfit out of Barrie, fronted by Deb Nordeen on lead vocals alongside guitarists Wayne Nordeen and Tony Wielki and drummer Devan Puskas, with backup vocalists David Bergin and Krista Puscuzzi rounding out the lineup for bigger shows. The band’s whole philosophy is baked into its own tagline: “A Rock Band that kicks… You in the a$$ and makes you a part of the show!” That female-fronted, high-energy approach has kept them booked two to three weekends a month across Barrie’s pub circuit, with regular stops at Donaleigh’s Irish Public House, The British Arms, and The Coulson, alongside larger regional bookings like the Alliston Potato Festival. Beyond the standard cover-band mix of classic and modern rock, BootLegged also works original material into its sets, a detail that separates it from a straightforward tribute act. There’s an extra layer to their RockStock Canada booking, too: BootLegged is the festival’s own founding production act, giving Deb Munro — who performs at RockStock separately as part of the Janis Joplin tribute Just Janice — a second credit on this year’s bill. Saturday night at Sunset Speedway, they get to headline the very festival they helped build.
Lee Aaron: Canada’s Reigning Metal Queen
Born Karen Lynn Greening in Belleville, Ontario, Lee Aaron took her stage name from the local Brampton band she joined as a teenage backup singer before rising to frontwoman and striking out on her own with 1982’s The Lee Aaron Project. Her 1984 sophomore album, Metal Queen, released through Attic Records, made her a star and stuck her with a nickname — “Canada’s Metal Queen” — that has followed her for four decades, despite her own mixed feelings about the sexualized image that came with it. She hit her commercial peak in 1989 with Bodyrock, which sold more than 200,000 copies in Canada on the strength of hits like “Whatcha Do to My Body” and “Hands On,” before spending much of the ’90s and 2000s reinventing herself as a jazz, blues, and pop vocalist. Aaron returned to her hard rock roots with 2016’s Fire and Gasoline, followed by Diamond Baby Blues (2018), Radio On! (2021), and Elevate (2022), and in 2024 released Tattoo Me, an 11-track covers album paying tribute to the artists who shaped her. She was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2023, cementing her status as a trailblazer for women in Canadian rock. Aaron headlines RockStock Canada’s Saturday lineup, bringing four decades of raw vocal power and rock ‘n’ roll grit to the Sunset Speedway stage.
Sunday
*The Rockin Classic Car Show opens the day at 10 am.
Rockstock Icon Solo Finalists
RockStock Canada’s inaugural “RockStock Icon” competition put out an open call for solo performers hoping to become the festival’s first-ever crowned Icon, judged by a celebrity panel and put to a public vote. From dozens of submissions, a handful of finalists made the cut, each earning a spot in the RockStock Icon Finals on Sunday, August 16th from 11 am to 12:40 pm.
- Kieran Williams
- Brynley Peterson
- Brenan Ackert
- Anna Goldsmith
- Def Button
Rockstock Icon Band Semi-Finalists
1. Social Era
Barrie/Collingwood, Ontario-based punk rock trio The Social Era built a following on regional airwaves and stages, earning a spotlight on Rock 95 Barrie’s “Garage to Glory” segment and a slot at 2025’s Blue Mountain Rock Fest, alongside shows at Toronto’s Bovine Sex Club and a run of Ontario dates with The Bloodshots. Fronted by vocalist Bryan Crouch, the band released the singles “She’s The One” and “We Got a Live One Here” in 2025, following up with “Uh Oh! Uh Oh!” in 2026.
2. Brotherstone
Sudbury, Ontario-based rock band Brotherstone has built a following across Northern Ontario’s pub and festival circuit with a sound blending original hard rock, acoustic, and classic rock influences. The band is set to play the main rock night lineup at The Massey Fair on August 28, 2026, sharing the bill with Superstack and a Tragically Hip tribute act.
3. Charm
Barrie, Ontario-based rock trio Charm has become a fixture of the city’s local gig circuit, playing venues like CW Coops and OnTheMark Vintage alongside fellow regional acts. The band kicks off a new single this year and plays OnTheMark on August 15, 2026, closing out the summer with a hometown show.
4. Nix Ironstone
Alliston, Ontario-based artist Nix Ironstone (formerly known as Nicole Rayy) spent over a decade in Canadian country music, earning multiple CMA Ontario nominations and a 2024 Music Video of the Year win before pivoting to a darker alt-rock/goth-pop sound. Her debut single under the new name, “Dead to Me,” dropped in October 2025, co-written with pop artist Malory and produced by JUNO Award-winner Hill Kourkoutis.
5. Harley Olivia
A Toronto-based alt-rock singer-songwriter and former flight attendant, Harley Olivia writes high-energy, emotionally raw music about mental health and self-empowerment, drawing comparisons to Halestorm and The Pretty Reckless. Her debut EP “Hiding Little Pieces” (2024) helped her win the Jack Daniel’s Supporting Act Competition and Gussapolooza’s Rising Sun Award, and she’s shared stages with Finger Eleven, July Talk, and Sumo Cyco.
Carole Pope: Rough Trade’s Fearless Frontwoman
Born in Manchester, England, and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Carole Pope met musical partner Kevan Staples at a Toronto band audition in 1968, and the pair spent years performing under various names before settling on Rough Trade in the mid-1970s. Fronting the band’s provocative, glam-tinged art-punk sound, Pope became one of the first openly gay pop stars in North America, pairing explicit queer and BDSM-inflected imagery with hooks sharp enough for mainstream radio. Rough Trade broke through with 1980’s Avoid Freud and its Top 40 hit “High School Confidential,” a song later inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Pope won three Juno Awards — Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1981 and Best Female Vocalist in 1983 and 1984 — as the band racked up four gold and two platinum records before disbanding in 1986. She went on to a prolific solo career spanning the EPs Nothing But a Heartache, Radiate, and The Silencer, the memoir Anti Diva, and albums including Transcend (2005) and Landfall (2011), while Rough Trade itself earned induction into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2023. Following the death of longtime collaborator Kevan Staples earlier in 2025, Pope continues to carry the band’s legacy forward on stages across the country. She closes out RockStock Canada’s Sunday lineup with a career-spanning set drawn from one of Canadian rock’s most fearless catalogs.
Are you ready for RockStock Canada 2026 on August 14-16 at the Sunset Speedway in Innisfail, Ontario? Come see your favourite acts and make this August weekend unforgettable. Buy your tickets here and choose from a ticket for Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, or pick up a Weekend’s Pass from Ticketscene!
