Luke Wallace @ Massey Hall
- Folk Canada
- May 16
- 2 min read
Chilliwack w/ Luke Wallace
Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 8:00 pm
Massey Hall - Toronto, ON
Luke Wallace has been making waves in communities all over Canada. Next week, this west coast folk singer is making his debut at Massey Hall.
With a devoted following built over years of touring, collaborating with choirs in the UK and across Canada, Wallace’s repertoire has one irresistible earworm after another. His lyrics — about climate change, living lightly, and the power of solidarity — have been sung by crowds at UN conferences, festivals, and old-growth logging blockades.
That’s why it’s so fitting for him to be invited to open for Chilliwack, whose frontman Bill Henderson played a little-known part in launching Greenpeace back in 1971. Henderson extended an invitation to join the (date) show, saying “ "Luke has a way of articulating things that gets under the ‘I hate politics’ radar. That's a great skill. And hey, they're all really good songs, sung very well with a good sense of humour."
While Wallace is being passed a baton from a Canadian music legend, he’s also cultivating the next generation of artists and activists. One of this songs was chosen as part of the CBC’s Canadian Music Class challenge in 2023; last year Saint John Fisher Senior Elementary School from Pointe-Claire, Que. won first place with their performance of his song "Turning the Tide", scoring $3000 worth of instruments for their school.
Wherever he goes, this beloved folk musician gets audiences — ranging in age from one to one hundred — on their feet and singing: no mean feat in this day and age. Ontario folks can catch Wallace at Massey Hall and the 50th Summerfolk Festival before he takes off for a fall tour of the UK.
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