One of Canada's biggest rock bands of all time is coming to one of Vancouver's newest stages next summer.
Legendary classic rockers Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman are heading out on the road as The Guess Who, and will be playing the Freedom Mobile Arch as part of the 2026 PNE Fair.
It will be the first time in 23 years that Cummings and Bachman are touring under the name The Guess Who, having settled their trademark lawsuit with original members Jim Kale and Garry Peterson in 2024.
Vancouver is one of 12 Canadian cities where the band will bring the Takin' It Back tour next year.
The Guess Who found enormous success, both nationally and internationally, throughout the 1960s and 1970s with a long list of hit albums such as American Woman and Share The Land.
The band sold more records than the entire Canadian music industry combined by 1970 and was the very first Canadian group to reach Number 1 on the Billboard charts.
"Randy and I are thrilled that our songs have never gone away. That people still want to hear us perform them live," said Cummings in a release. "We are going to go out and honour the music."
Cummings also recently posted on X that the last show The Guess Who performed was on July 30, 2003, at the SARSfest in Toronto.
Construction on the new Freedom Mobile Arch amphitheatre at the PNE in Hastings Park reached a significant milestone this summer, with the installation of the final segment of glulam beam for the landmark mass-timber roof structure.
The long-planned venue's very first event will be its use for Vancouver's official FIFA World Cup Fan Festival, spanning five weeks at the PNE fairgrounds as a key celebration of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Later in Summer 2026, the amphitheatre will see its first use for greatly enhanced programming for the annual PNE Fair.
The venue will adopt its title sponsor name, Freedom Mobile, along with other partner designations -- including the announced BC Lottery Corporation (BCLC) -- after the World Cup.
"I'm looking ahead and very excited to be joining up with Burton and touring as The Guess Who again," added Bachman in a statement.
"Together we created decades of incredible songs and memories that still stand strong today. Can't wait to sing them with you all soon."