Rush opened the 2026 Juno Awards on 03/29 with their first reside efficiency in over 11 years, and the primary of any sort for the reason that dying of drummer and lyricist Neil Peart in January 2020.
Taking part in the TD Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, new drummer Anika Nilles, and keyboardist Loren Gold ripped via “Discovering My Manner,” the opening monitor from the band’s 1974 self-titled debut.
The track selection was no accident, even when the decision-making was easy. Talking to reporters within the media room after the efficiency, Lee defined (by way of CBC Music): “You actually cannot ask us what track to play. If we now have to decide on one track, it is virtually not possible. We’ve got so many. So we simply requested administration, and so they mentioned first track, first album.”
Lifeson had a less complicated clarification: “Additionally, it is the one track we all know methods to play.”
The looks had been teased by the band within the lead-up to the ceremony with a intentionally cryptic e-newsletter message to followers: “We need to allow you to in on one thing. Have fun a particular second with Geddy & Alex.” The Juno Awards Instagram account had added to the build-up by posting a photograph of the band’s 1975 Juno for Most Promising Group with the caption: “What a promising yr… 03/29/2026 at 8 PM ET.”
The efficiency at Hamilton’s TD Coliseum marked the primary time Lee and Lifeson had performed as Rush since closing out their career-spanning R40 tour on the Discussion board in Los Angeles on 08/01/2015. Within the decade-plus since, the 2 had appeared collectively solely sporadically — billed beneath their very own names moderately than the band’s — together with at tributes to the late Gordon Lightfoot and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
The Juno outing doubles as a warm-up for the Fifty One thing tour, which opens 06/07 on the identical Discussion board in Los Angeles the place Rush performed their final present with Peart in 2015. What was introduced in October 2025 as a modest 12-date North American run has since expanded into 58 exhibits throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico, with 4 nights at Toronto’s Scotiabank Enviornment in August among the many additions. Every live performance is designed as an immersive two-set night drawing from a rotating pool of roughly 35 songs.
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