Top Montréal concerts and live-music events in 2026

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Jamie O'Meara

Jamie O'Meara

Montréal’s 2026 concert calendar is packed with superstar tours, legacy acts and homegrown icons performing at the city’s top venues, such as the downtown Bell Centre, Place des Arts in the Quartier des Spectacles and Place Bell in nearby Laval.

From AC/DC to Lady Gaga to Luke Combs, the next many months have top-tier artists as varied as the seasons in Montréal, and this year is shaping up to be musically monumental. Let the following be your guide to all the biggest, can’t-miss Montréal concerts and live-music events in 2026, and where to get tickets.

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Brit Floyd celebrates iconic Pink Floyd albums at Place Bell

Montrealers’ love of legendary British prog-rockers Pink Floyd is bottomlessly deep. In the absence of the real thing, cover band Brit Floyd continues to do an epic job of filling the hole in music fans’ hearts. Brit Floyd’s newest world tour, The Moon, The Wall and Beyond, is a monumental production celebrating two of the most influential albums in rock history: The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. Expect a state-of-the-art light show, lasers, video projections, inflatables and theatrical staging.

Nine Inch Nails will Peel It Back at the Bell Centre

Anybody who’s ever seen industrial alt-rock icons Nine Inch Nails knows their shows are not an experience you’re going to forget anytime soon, and the current rave-reviewed Peel It Back Tour promises the kind of sensory onslaught that few bands other than NIN can deliver. Concertgoers can expect hits, rarities and tracks from the chart-topping TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), the group’s first-ever film score. With special guests Boys Noize.

The Offspring and Bad Religion are Supercharged Worldwide in 2026

Come out and play when SoCal punks The Offspring, coming off a record-setting sold-out European tour, return to Montréal with the epic Bad Religion in the opening slot. Their popularity unabated, The Offspring’s recently released Supercharged LP reached historic milestones with multiple songs joining the coveted Spotify Billions Chart.

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Twice doubles the K-pop fun this March in Montréal

They were the first all-girl K-pop group to headline Lollapalooza, and the first to headline both MLB and NFL stadiums in the United States, selling out Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium and New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium in 2024. Now the nine-member, bubble-gum pop juggernaut Twice are expanding their global footprint with the <This Is For> World Tour, which will see them debuting their first 360-degree, in-the-round stage experience for fans.

Alt-rockers +LIVE+ arrive with Big Wreck at Place Bell

Nineties alt-rock gets its due when multi-platinum band +LIVE+ headline their first Canadian cross-country tour in over 20 years in celebration of the 35th anniversary of their 1991 hit album Mental Jewelry. Sweetening the deal, longstanding Canadian/American group Big Wreck will join them on the Like a Rollin’ Thunder Tour 2026, while popular Montréal rockers The Damn Truth will set the tone.

Journey’s classic rock odyssey ends with the Final Frontier Tour

After more than 50 years of chart-topping anthems such as Don't Stop Believin’, Any Way You Want It, Faithfully, Lights and more, San Francisco arena rockers Journey are calling it a day. And they’ve earned it, with 25 gold and platinum albums in addition to the 18-time platinum Greatest Hits album from 1988.

The metal will be heavy when Lamb of God shakes Montréal

We’ll let Lamb of God lead guitarist Mark Morton speak for himself (because, frankly, it would be nigh on impossible to say it better): “We are beyond thrilled to announce the loudest, proudest, floor shakin’-est, earth quakin’-est, ear-splittin’-est, mosh pittin’-est, undiluted, undisputed heaviest tour of the whole damn year,” Morton says. “Lamb of God, Kublai Khan TX, Fit For An Autopsy and Sanguisugabogg. Do not miss this s**t.” You heard the man.

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Lady Gaga is bringing Mayhem to the Bell Centre

Lady Gaga’s popularity appears to have no upper reaches. In Rio de Janeiro during May 2025, her free show at Copacabana Beach drew an estimated 2.5 million fans, setting a new record for the highest-attended concert by a female artist in history. And her eighth and latest studio album, Mayhem, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making it her seventh consecutive number one solo album.

Everybody scream for Florence + The Machine

Dubbed pop music’s “glorious enchantress” by The New York Times, Florence of Florence + The Machine, after undergoing lifesaving surgery on her Dance Fever tour, is back with a new album on her Everybody Scream Tour. Her recovery, she says, took her down a path of spiritual mysticism, witchcraft and folk horror as she explored what it means to be healed. Heal thyself when Florence + The Machine performs with opener RachelChinouriri.

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Lewis Capaldi plucks heartstrings at the Bell Centre

From bedroom musician to U.K. superstar, the otherwise unassuming Scottish pop/soul singer and songwriter Lewis Capaldi has parlayed heartbreak and emotional anguish into a stellar musical journey. Indeed, his debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent was the biggest selling U.K. album of 2019 and 2020, and the multi-award-winning single Someone You Loved stands as the U.K.’s most streamed song of all time and the fourth highest-ever streamed song in the world.

Rockers Bring Me the Horizon bring the loud to downtown MTL

British deathcore cum alt-metal cum electro-rockers Bring Me the Horizon have definitively demonstrated that, at the very least, their own musical horizon is vast and that keeping it complicated is its own reward. Vocal cords will be shredded when the popular four-piece appear with openers Motionless in White, The Plot in You and Amira Elfeky.

Pop star Khalid brings summer love to Place Bell this spring

There aren’t a lot of artists who release two diamond-certified songs before they’ve even graduated high school, and then, two years later, get named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, but Khalid is that artist. The pop/R&B/hip-hop singer and songwriter has been making waves and racking up awards and acknowledgements (six Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards and six Grammy nods) since his 2017 debut. Don’t miss out on a chance to catch the magic on his It’s Always Summer Somewhere tour with special guest Lauv.

The Guess Who are takin’ care of business at Place Bell

Canadian classic-rock legends Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman will once again tour as The Guess Who this coming spring for the first time in 23 years. After six decades — and a long and hard-fought battle to reclaim the band’s name — The Guess Who have announced their Takin’ It Back Canadian Tour 2026. The Can-rock icons, who have placed 14 singles in the U.S. Top 40 chart and more than 30 in Canada, will bring the magic back with special guest Don Felder, formerly of The Eagles.

Luke Combs

Country superstar Luke Combs calls Parc Jean-Drapeau his own for a weekend

Trying to measure country music phenomenon Luke Combs’ immense, ever-expanding popularity is like trying to imagine the size of the universe — it’s truly unknowable. His upcoming My Kinda Saturday Night Tour adds to an already historic career for Combs, who recently made history as the first country musician to headline both Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. Combs will put some twang in your thang with special guests Dierks Bentley, Ty Myers, Jake Worthington and Thelma & James.

A$AP Rocky keeps it super smart on Don’t Be Dumb tour

There aren’t many artists who can afford to wait eight years between albums, but A$AP Rocky isn’t just any artist. The rapper, entrepreneur, actor and fashion icon has been a bit busy stretching his artistic wings of late. And fans don’t seem to mind: his fourth and latest full-length studio album, Don’t Be Dumb, racked up over one million pre-saves on Spotify, making it hip-hop’s most pre-saved album. Add that to a career total of more than 25 billion streams including a staggering 5 billion combined views on YouTube and you’ve got a testament to playing it smart.

Get sauced with 5 Seconds of Summer on their Everyone’s a Star! tour

While AC/DC probably don’t have anything to worry about just yet, Australian pop-rock foursome 5 Seconds of Summer (or 5SOS, or five sauce, you pick) have racked up more than seven billion streams of their catchy, dancey tunes since their 2011 inception, making them one of the most successful Aussie music acts in the country’s history.

Ne-Yo and Akon turn the Bell Centre into the city’s biggest dance club

It will be a massive, old-school R&B dance party when two generational artists, Ne-Yo and Akon, whose catalogs have defined radio, nightlife, and pop culture throughout the 2000s, co-headline the stage on their Nights Like This global tour. From era-defining hits to club classics, slow jams and sing-along anthems, every night of the tour is designed to feel like a throwback party.

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The superstars align when Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire play Montréal

It’s a pop and soul smackdown when two of the greatest artistic difference-makers of the last five decades team up for what will be an unforgettable show of music-and-party-making prowess. Lionel Richie (125 million albums sold and enough awards and accolades to fill a decent-sized museum) will partner with Earth, Wind & Fire (100 million records sold and a very impressive nine Grammy Awards) on the can’t-miss Sing a Song All Night Long tour.

Alex Warren to be anything but ordinary at the Bell Centre

After a difficult childhood marked by the untimely deaths of his parents and a period of homelessness as a teen living in his car, rapidly ascendant Californian folk-pop star Alex Warren chose to swim where others might sink, channelling his pain into his songwriting. Warren’s 2025 hit single Ordinary is three-times platinum with well over two billion streams and counting. And keeping a sense of humour appears to have played a key role in his success, as concertgoers will doubtless witness at his Montréal Little Orphan Alex Live tour stop.

One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson asks How Did We Get Here? on new tour

The members of U.K. boy band One Direction may have split into five directions, but all of those paths have led to individual stardom and musical success (albeit RIP Liam Payne). The platinum-selling Louis Tomlinson carries on that tradition with his third and latest album, How Did I Get Here?, which finds him making Lemonade, the recording’s crazy catchy first single.

Get ready for wicked shows when Ariana Grande plays downtown Montréal 

Quiz time: Who has over 115 billion global streams, 70 million albums sold worldwide, the most billion-streamed songs in Spotify history, is the artist with the most number 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 this decade (seven), and starred in the blockbuster film Wicked, which became the highest-grossing Broadway musical adaptation in box office history? It can only be Ariana Grande, whose new Eternal Sunshine Tour will raise the temperature in MTL this summer.

The Bell Centre hosts a masterclass in the art of loving with Olivia Dean

British pop/soul singer and songwriter Olivia Dean’s career trajectory has been nothing short of meteoric. It was only in 2023 that Dean released her critically hailed debut album Messy. Also, in the “That’s Not Nuthin’ Department,” her recently released 2025 sophomore album, The Art of Loving, has seen her become the first British woman to have a number one album and number one single (Man I Need) simultaneously in the biggest opening week for a British female artist since Adele in 2021.

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Expect the epic when Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte rock the Bell Centre

Two gritty and creative rock powerhouses in their own right, Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte — close friends and allies since the very earliest days of their respective careers — have sold multi-millions of albums each and still regularly feature on Billboard charts. Now the two bands are teaming up for a tag-team, one-two punch tour that will hit Montréal this summer.

Iconic prog-rockers Rush ready to wow Montréal fans once again

All the world’s a stage, and they aren’t merely players. One of Canada’s most formidable musical exports, Rush, are on tour for the first time since the passing of drummer and lyricist Neil Peart in 2020. The much-loved, multiple-hall-of-fame inductees are taking 50 years of transformational music on the road as part of their rapidly selling out Fifty Something Tour (four sold out shows in each of the cities of New York, Toronto, Chicago and Fort Worth, Texas alone). Be there or be sad.

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Metal legends Iron Maiden, Megadeth and Anthrax set to shred Parc Jean-Drapeau

Three of the original monsters of metal are about to set foot in Montréal, led by the truly legendary Iron Maiden (and, of course, fearsome mascot Eddie the Head). As time certainly does fly, somewhat unbelievably the Maiden are celebrating their 50th anniversary on their Run for Your Lives World Tour 2026, and promise a setlist featuring the biggest songs of their lengthy career. Sweetening the deal, Iron Maiden will be accompanied by fellow metal pioneers Megadeth and Anthrax.

For those about to rock, AC/DC salutes you as they Power Up

Formidable Aussie rockers AC/DC are among the most popular bands to grace the face of the planet. Ever. Their brilliant 1980 release Back in Black not only still stands the test of time, it’s the second best-selling LP in the history of recorded music, behind only Michael Jackson’s Thriller. AC/DC’s Power Up tour, named for their latest studio album (which reached number one in 21 countries), will leave Montréal concertgoers thunderstruck.

Catch a cool, pop-rap Doja Cat in Montréal this fall

Not everyone can parlay an internet meme into a massive music career, but that’s exactly what L.A. rapper, singer and songwriter Doja Cat did with her 2018 novelty single Mooo!, on which she portrays herself as a cow. Like, an actual cow. Fast forward to 2025, and the “Queen of Pop-Rap,” or the “Queen of Memes” as she is alternately known, is taking her massive, year-long, 62-city Tour Ma Vie World Tour to no less than five continents.

Jamie O'Meara

Jamie O'Meara

Jamie O'Meara was the Editor-in-Chief at C2 Montréal and the former Editor-in-Chief of alt-weekly newspaper HOUR Magazine.

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