Kentucky: In Kingston Tonight
- Folk Canada
- 12 hours ago
- 1 min read
Kentucky, the musical project of Almonte, Ontario-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Jordan Holman, released his stirring new single "" In Kingston Tonight"" on Canada Day, July 1, 2026, a song that arrives as both a love letter to one of Canada's great music cities and a deeply felt call to every Canadian to take what The Tragically Hip gave us and carry it forward. Written, recorded, engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered entirely by Holman at his home studio, The Kentucky Bend, the single is his most passionate and fully realized work to date, and its release is timed with a headline performance at the municipal Canada Day celebrations at Hardy Park in Brockville, Ontario.
The song grew from a real and specific moment: a Filipino girl at a Kingston bar singing traditional Irish songs and eating poutine, the kind of quietly extraordinary Canadian scene that holds a whole country's story in a single frame. "There's music outside / In Kingston tonight / In the square where we prayed, cried, and stayed, " Holman sings, before the lyric opens up into something larger, reaching toward the night of August 20th, 2016, when The Tragically Hip played their final show in Kingston and an entire nation gathered around screens and in public squares to witness it together. "So here we are / And now we're the stars / Now we're the stars" is not a boast but an inheritance, a recognition that the torch has been passed, and the only question is what we do with it.