Music fans will fill the Bracebridge Fairgrounds on July 3 and 4, 2026, as the Honky Tonk Summer Jam returns for a second year, bringing 12 Canadian country acts to the stage and raising money for Andy’s House at Hospice Muskoka.
The two-day festival runs from 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Friday and 1 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. on Saturday at 331 Fraserburg Road. On-site camping is available, and organizers hope to beat the more than $20,000 raised during last year’s debut.
“I started this event because I wanted to give something back to the community,” said founder Jason MacKenzie, whose Knight Hawks Entertainment launched the festival in 2025. “When we raised over $20,000 for Andy’s House in our first year, it confirmed that Muskoka was ready for something like this.”
That first edition was a single night with three performers and drew more than 300 people. This year’s expanded lineup features Saturday headliners The Martin Boys, runners-up on Canada’s Got Talent in 2025 who were personally endorsed by Shania Twain, and Ryan Langdon, who has multiple Top 40 Canadian country hits and more than 20 million streams. Local Bracebridge band Black Water Union opens the Friday night bill.
All proceeds go to Andy’s House, a 10-bed residential palliative care home in Port Carling that opened in October 2020. The facility, named in honour of OPP Constable Andy Potts who died on duty in 2005, provides round-the-clock care to residents across Muskoka.
Earlier this year, the Ontario government announced funding for four additional hospice beds, bringing the total of publicly funded beds to seven. That support reduces the need to raise over $1 million per year in donations, but community events like the Honky Tonk Summer Jam remain vital for its operations.
Tickets and camping passes are available through the festival website, and part of the message to attendees is simple: come for the music, stay for a cause that touches many families in the region.
