CBC Presents: Road to the Junos Terra Lightfoot w/Logan Staats Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM @ Mills Hardware

CBC Presents: Road to the Junos

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The Juno Awards are returning to Hamilton in March 2026, and to kick off Juno season, CBC is proud to present Road to the Junos, a six-day concert series featuring some of the best talent from the Hamilton region. Happening in downtown Hamilton across three venues and over two weekends this January/February, Road to the Junos will showcase a wide range of genres and local talent. These concerts will be recorded by CBC Music for broadcast on CBC Radio, CBC Gem and YouTube. You can find more information at cbcmusic.ca/junos.  All proceeds from this show go to MusiCounts.

Terra Lightfoot

Seasoned rocker Terra Lightfoot has a well-earned reputation as a tireless live performer, with a tour history mapped across the globe and awards testifying to every mile logged along the way. To date, Lightfoot’s marathon tours have touched down in eight countries across four continents (including support slots for Bruce Cockburn, Blue Rodeo, The Posies, Matt Andersen, The Sheepdogs, and Willie Nelson). She also conceived, created, curated, produced and co-headlined The Longest Road Show, an all-female touring revue. Most fans would reasonably assume that the singer-songwriter’s natural element is in the spotlight. But even accomplished touring artists like Lightfoot feel the insistent tug of home. That place, which for Lightfoot is a scenic hideaway in Ontario’s Haliburton Highlands, is captured in warm detail on the artist’s intimate new album, Home Front. In stark contrast to the anthemic alt-pop riffs of 2017’s New Mistakes and 2023’s Healing Power (each of which earned the artist JUNO Award nominations and Polaris Music Prize long list nods), this is an unplugged session in more ways than one. “Home Front was recorded in the living room, on the back porch, in the relaxing moments after dinner or the late evening, when the crickets and peepers were singing their loudest,” says Lightfoot. “This house is a special place. It sits all by itself between woods and streams that go on for acres and acres and a beautiful wetland teeming with wildlife. I find myself living more comfortably in my own bones than ever before when I’m here. There is a deep quiet here, in the house that backs onto the beaver marsh. Blue herons fly, and moose and bears walk the forest path out back. It is a place where I can’t help but be more connected to the natural world. Being so engrossed in the world of loud rock n roll guitar doesn’t leave a lot of space for field recording or softly strummed nylon strings. Home Front is the place I can share all those softer and sweeter moments.”

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Logan Staats

Mohawk rocker turned folk and soul musician Logan Staats began as a diamond in the rough on the streets of Brantford, Ontario. He had no formal musical training, no connections, just a good ear and raw lyrical talent- and always a guitar in hand. He played the local circuit for years before his 2015 debut release Goodbye Goldia, an unvarnished yet hard-hitting solo acoustic album. He went on to win CTV’s The Launch in 2018, gaining commercial success and touring across North America and Europe. But traveling the world can really open your eyes to what’s going on right at home, and the fight for indigenous sovereignty has become a focal point for Staats in recent years. It all intermingles with the music; the passion, the rage, the love, and most of all the healing. He’s making roadtrippin’ music for those traveling ‘the red road’; a path towards reconnecting and relearning indigenous ways. “I wanted to bring my songwriting back to the medicine inside of music, to the medicine inside of reclamation,” he says. This is the driving philosophy behind his sophomore album A Light In The Attic, released 2023. These songs are a healing salve, contemplatively composed and offered to listeners in need of comfort. His sound draws heavily from the rich blues and rock legacy of Six Nations. His music has garnered a Juno nomination, multiple Native American Music Awards, and the SOCAN Indigenous Songwriter of the year. Nowadays, he’s cooking up a southern country-flavoured third album, and touring the back of Turtle Island and beyond.

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About MusiCounts

MusiCounts is Canada’s music education charity associated with The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and The JUNO Awards. MusiCounts is working to build a thriving culture of music education across Canada that prioritizes inclusivity, sustainability, and innovation. Established in 1997 by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in collaboration with media companies, record labels, and high-profile artists, MusiCounts understands that music transforms the lives of young people.

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