For the Very First Time, Chris De Burgh Coming to Brockville March 22nd, 2026

To celebrate 50 Years of his career, 40th anniversary of ‘Lady in Red’ & Brand New Album – 50!

Montreal – One of Canada’s favourite legendary Irish singer/songwriters, Chris de Burgh, returns to Canada next spring with a solo tour celebrating an incredible 50 years of his career and his favourite songs. 2026 will also mark the 40th anniversary of his mega hit song The Lady In Red, which reached the #1 position on the charts in 47 countries.

To celebrate his longstanding relationship with his fans around the world and his musical longevity, Chris released a new album, ‘50’, last year and has embarked on a solo tour that brings him to Canada and Europe. Canada has always had a very special relationship with Canada, one of the first countries that embraced his music and where he had massive success.

“I will select my favourite songs for the new album from each one of my previous studio albums”, he says, “and I will also write and record three new songs. That will be a great way of going out there and saying, ‘This is what I’ve done.’ It’s just a taste of what I’ve done, of course, because I’ve written some 330 songs and counting.”

“The tour will be about referring back to when I started out, as a single guy with a guitar and piano. So it will be me performing and talking about the music, talking about the origin of the songs and their background.”

Meanwhile, ‘Robin Hood – The Musical’, co-created by Chris and already a smash hit production, premiered at new locations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, having initially opened in Fulda and then in Munich and Hameln.

“Ticket sales for the production are astonishing,” says Chris, “and 200,000 people have been to see it performed in a small, 700-seat theatre in Fulda. It’s been very exciting, and I’m immensely proud of the musical.”

It’s evident from this latest successful twist in his career that Chris continues to be creative and enjoys new challenges.

Tickets for the Brockville concert go on sale this Friday, December 5th, at 10 am
online at www.brockvilleartscentre.com

The Canadian Tour was produced and promoted by long-time CdeB promoter Andre Hudon in collaboration with F7 Live for the Ontario dates.

About Chris de Burgh:

Chris de Burgh celebrates a remarkable and rare career milestone: over half a century as a recording artist.

He signed his first recording contract in 1974, and his debut album, ‘Far Beyond These Castle Walls’, was released by A&M Records that same year.

“As I held a copy of that record in my hands, I had absolutely no idea that this would even go any further,” he recalls. “I was incredibly naive about the music business, but I was full of hope and dreams and, spectacularly, my dreams not only came true, but they also came truer than true. I had no concept that I was going to last as long as this. Fifty years? Wow!

A song, ‘Flying’, from that first album spent 17 straight weeks at No.1 in Brazil. “I thought, ‘Right, I’m off! A world star, overnight!” Chris remembers. “Not a chance. From then on, it was a real, real slog and a hard, hard time, but the grounding that I’d had in my parents’ hotel, Bargy Castle, performing for the guests there made me believe that I did have something that I could give to people.”

Gradually, market after market – Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Norway, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lebanon, to name a few – tuned into his music with the release of each new album and a solid foundation for a lasting and meaningful international career was built.

Over the course of five decades, Chris has achieved worldwide album sales in excess of 45 million, performed approaching 4,000 concerts globally, and, perhaps more remarkably than anything else, continued to make his music, his way, for his loyal followers. “Without the love and support of my audience, I would never have had such a long career,” Chris acknowledges.