{"id":639126,"date":"2026-04-30T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639126\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:45:11","slug":"cne-concert-headliners-heres-whos-coming-to-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639126\/","title":{"rendered":"CNE concert headliners. Here\u2019s who\u2019s coming to Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian National Exhibition has announced its first group of headliners that will perform during the fair\u2019s 18-day summer event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release issued Thursday, officials teased that music artists such as Lupe Fiasco (Aug. 21), Shaggy (Aug. 23), Tom Cochrane (Sept. 5), The Trews (Aug.27), Lights (Aug. 22) and Silverstein (Sept. 3) will be among the \u201cfirst set of headliners\u201d as more names are expected to be revealed in the coming months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Organizers say artists will perform at five different stages including the NXNE Stage, and the CNE Bandshell stage (rebranded as the Bell Sound Stage). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe Bandshell has been the heartbeat of Canadian music for 90 years. Nine decades of artists, genres, and generations, all on this one stage,\u201d said CNE CEO Mark Holland. \u201cThis summer, we\u2019re not just celebrating that legacy, we\u2019re expanding it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to officials, \u201call concerts are free with CNE admission,\u201d and visitors can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theex.com\/tickets\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theex.com\/tickets\/\">now purchase advance tickets<\/a> with savings up to 35 per cent off until Aug. 20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The CNE will also be offering a new front row VIP experience dubbed as an \u201cadd-on option to their admission ticket with dynamic pricing.\u201d It will include reserved front of stage viewing, access to the VIP Lounge and a dedicated VIP bar and complimentary drink ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian National Exhibition has announced its first group of headliners that will perform during the fair\u2019s 18-day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[712,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-639126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}