The Beaumont Music Festival will welcome Canadian rock supergroup Toque as its Friday night headliner on June 19, 2026, bringing internationally seasoned musicians to the B.A.D.A.S. fairgrounds. The four-piece band, made up of players who regularly perform alongside Slash, Kelly Clarkson, and Japan’s B’z, closes out night one of the two-day outdoor festival that runs June 19 and 20 at 24358 Township Road 505 in Beaumont, Alberta.
Toque features Todd Kerns on lead vocals and guitar, Brent Fitz on bass, Shane Gaalaas on drums, and Cory Churko on guitar. The members’ resumes outside of Toque read like a who’s-who of rock and pop: Kerns and Fitz both play in Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Gaalaas has been the drummer for Japanese icons B’z since 2002, and Churko has spent more than two decades in Shania Twain’s band and currently performs with Kelly Clarkson in Las Vegas.
The band arrives in Beaumont riding a wave of 2025 successes. Their original single “Fighters,” released last July, became their fastest-rising track on Spotify and YouTube while landing radio play across the country. Another Toque song, the fan-favourite “Never Enough,” was featured in the Netflix film Aftermath, which hit number one on the platform after its February 2025 release. The band also launched a “Never Enough” craft beer with Rebellion Brewing in Regina, Saskatchewan.
“We are just that band that everyone seems to want to come out to have a beer and a good time with,” says Toque bassist Brent Fitz, summing up the group’s down-to-earth appeal.
The Beaumont Music Festival, which began in 2008 and bills itself as Canada’s longest-running all-Canadian music festival, relocated this year to the Beaumont and District Agricultural Society fairgrounds on the west side of town. Festival passes are on sale now through the festival website, with on-site camping and reserved parking available. The 2026 lineup remains entirely Canadian, with Toque anchoring a Friday evening that also includes Crown Lands and RadioActive.
