Line Spike, A Two Day Concert, Set For Canada Day Weekend In South Frontenac

Jeff Green | Mar 26, 2025

Jeremy Campbell has a big vision, and he is bringing it to a location in the Sydenham/Harrowsmith/Verona triangle on the weekend of June 28 and 29.

The idea for a major concert in South Frontenac, the community where Campbell is originally from, and is coming back to after a career in the film and event management industry, has been in the planning stages for a while now.

He has gravitated towards the producing side of the business, and has expanded his scope to live events through his work on the first Invictus Games in Toronto in 2017.

After receiving a cancer diagnosis in 2024, which he has been open about, he began to refocus his career, and think about bringing new opportunities to the community where he grew up.

He was born in Toronto but raised in Sydenham, and began being drawn to the film industry while attending Sydenham High School in the 90s.

So, in early 2024 he began developing the vision for an annual concert in South Frontenac, with the intention of bringing in tourists to the event itself, and developing the skills and opportunities that a large event brings to the local community, as a ripple effect.

He formed Get2thePoint Productions and approached South Frontenac Council last spring about using the Point Park in Sydenham as a concert venue for a major show last summer. But the timelines were too tight for the comfort of Council, and the concert did not get beyond the site approval stage.

He did not stop working on the idea, however. In fact, it spurred him on in a way, and he began to think about an event this summer, with more lead time to make all the local and national connections necessary to pull it off.

“I was disappointed at the time, but I moved on quickly. I managed a TV show for Sony last summer and when it wrapped up in the fall I turned my attention full time to this project,” he said, in a phone interview early this week.

Moving the project off of public property and onto a private site was one of the key pieces, since it simplified relations with the township, and gave him time to work collaboratively with both Frontenac County’s Economic Development Department and the township’s public works department, on logistics.

He began to book some bands last fall, including some US based and other international bands. Then, everything changed.

When it be came clear that Canada was a target for the new United States government in the late fall and early winter, Jeremy decided that since he was already planning an event for Canada Day weekend, and was already working with some iconic Canadian rock and pop bands, the focus would be national unity. “The American bands understood when I told them I was not going to work with them on this project. They know what is going on,” he said.

And while there are more surprises to come as part of the marketing campaign for the Line Spike Frontenac two-day con cert, a five band lineup has already been announced, all of whom fit the theme of the concert perfectly.

Chantal Kreviazuk has had a 25-year career as a recording artist and a songwriter. She made headlines recently when she performed “Oh Canada” at the high profile 4 Nations hockey final in Boston last month. She altered the lyrics slightly, singing “in only us command” instead of “in all of us command”, a signal of defiance against US threats to Canadian sovereignty.

The mostly American audience at the game likely did not catch the subtle word change, as they were booing the anthem at the time.

Alan Frew, the lead singer and songwriter with Glass Tiger, a band with a string of hits and best-selling albums in the 1980s, including “Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone”. The band is still active, but Alan is coming to Line Spike with his 80290 Rewind show, based on his 2015 album of reimagined hits from the 80s and 90s. Frew recently put out a new song and video, called “Free to Be, Strong and Free” that has generated a lot of interest for its message.

The biggest coup for Line Spike, so far, has been to book Burton Cummings, famous for the songs he wrote and per formed with “The Guess Who” as well as his long solo career.

Other bands that have already been announced are the Alt-Pop band Walk off the Earth, and two stars with growing followings, country singer Kelsi Mayne and roots/ alt-country star Madison Galloway.

The concert will feature twin stages for continuous entertainment from noon to 11pm each day, and there will be a vendor village, up to 50 food trucks, beer from local and national brewers, and other amenities, all on site. Parking will be plentiful near the site, with a shuttle bus running to the con cert all day and evening. Tickets are available for pre-sale for lo cal residents before the official launch next week at https://linespike.ca/frontenac/ for $99. The price will go up at the end of the month.