Alexisonfire headlines St. Catharines ‘Born & Raised’ summer shows

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Published June 8, 2022 at 4:09 pm

Alexisonfire will be the headliners with City and Colour at the upcoming Born and Raised music show in St. Catharines.

The “Born & Raised” music series playing in St. Catharines’ Montebello Park over the Canada Day weekend (June 30 to July 3) is pretty literal to the name.

That is, the artists were all born and raised in the Garden City. For those unfamiliar, these are indeed some pretty big names – Alexisonfire, City and Colour and Dine Alone Records. (For those uncertain, Alexisonfire is said “Alexis on fire.”)

While both Alexisonfire and City and Colour have one thing in common – they share musician Dallas Green – their successes had also come one after the other.

The series is a celebration and homecoming for Alexisonfire bandmates Green, George Pettit, Wade MacNeil, Chris Steele, and Jordan Hastings. The group 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.

It’s four 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.”

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 Bursery 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.

Not every band is from St. Catharines, though, as 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.

For more information on who’s playing which nights and tickets, check this link HERE.

 

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