Tickets on sale Friday for Nov. 23 Lightfoot show
Iconic Canadian folk-rock singer Gordon Lightfoot is returning to the Peterborough Memorial Centre for a concert on Nov. 23 at 8 p.m.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. at the box office and online.
Lightfoot, 79, last performed concerts at the Memorial Centre in 2014 and also in 2010.
He memorably headlined the 2004 flood relief concert at the Memorial Centre and also played one of the largest concerts in the history of the Peterborough Musicfest/Little Lake Music Festival summer free outdoor series at Del Crary Park in 2001.
Lightfoot, who was born in Orillia and lives in Toronto, was in Peterborough back in December to donate three canoes from his collection to the Canadian Canoe Museum, including the yellow canoe featured in his song Canary Yellow Canoe.
Lightfoot is also scheduled to perform at the First Ontario Concert Hall (the former Hamilton Place) on Nov. 15, the Tribute Communities Centre (the former General Motors Centre) in Oshawa on Nov. 16 and the Budweiser Gardens in London, Ont. on Nov. 24. He is performing his annual Massey Hall shows in Toronto on June 29 and 30 and he is currently touring in Florida.
The Peterborough concert will coincide with the 50th anniversary of Lightfoot’s Dec. 6, 1968 concert at the Memorial Centre, organized by the Champlain College Social Committee at Trent University.
Lightfoot’s 80th birthday is also on the Sunday prior to the Peterborough concert.