Line Spike 2025
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| Line Spike 2025 | |
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| Dates | June 28–29, 2025 |
| Location(s) | Harrowsmith, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 44°24′14″N 76°38′53″W / 44.404°N 76.648°W |
| Founders | Jeremy Campbell |
| Website | www |
Line Spike Frontenac was an inaugural two-day music festival held on a farm near Harrowsmith, Ontario over the weekend of June 28 and 29, 2025.
The festival organizer, Jeremy Campbell of Get2ThePoint Productions Inc. who worked at Woodstock '99, promoted a "Power of Positivity Musical Harvest" weekend after a personal cancer diagnosis and amid tense United States and Canada trade tensions, and threatened annexation as the 51st state in early 2025. Following the broadcast of Mike Myers giving an "elbow's up" sign on Saturday Night Live [1] and a subsequent grassroots movement of patriotism in Canada, Campbell formed an all-Canadian lineup consisting of former Juno Award winners and nominees, Canadian Music Hall of Famers, as well as local talent, MC'd by former MuchMusic veejay Bill Welychka [2][3][4]
An organizational dispute ended in the pulling of the festival's liquor licence by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, as the request of the council of South Frontenac two days before the event regarding perceived safety measures. Regardless, the festival proceeded with no incidents, and drew a crowd of over 4000 attendees.[5][6][7]
Day 1 Performers
[edit]Day 2 Performers
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hunter, Paul (July 1, 2025). "He made the decision on impulse, but it sparked a movement. Mike Myers on elbows up". CBC News. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
- ^ Sterdan, Darryl (March 26, 2025). "Line Spike Frontenac 2025 Announces All-Star Canadian Lineup". The Tinnitist. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
- ^ Eltherington, William (March 26, 2025). "# New all-Canadian music festival near Kingston coming to eastern Ontario this summer". CTV News. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
- ^ Alper, Eric (April 19, 2025). "# Line Spike Frontenac 2025 Announces Location And More Artists For All-Star Canada Day Weekend Lineup". That Eric Alper. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
- ^ Hall, Bill (June 28, 2025). "Music festival in Harrowsmith loses liquor license, opens gates for free Burton Cummings show". The Kingston Whig Standard. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
- ^ Ken, Hashizume (July 2, 2025). "Line Spike hits a snag on the eve of the festival". The Kingston Daily. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
- ^ Jemma Dooreleyers and Jeff Green (June 28, 2025). "Line Spike Frontenac Loses Liquor License at the Last Minute - selling bottled water to recoup losses". South Frontenac News. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
- ^ "Ontario Morning with Nav Nanwa - Walk Off the Earth drummer Joel Cassady at Line Spike Frontenac 2025". CBC Radio. June 27, 2025. Retrieved July 3, 2025.