Both Canadian country acts are relatively new to the music scene.
Raised in Warkworth, Sacha’s star has risen quickly since the July 2020 release of her EP The Best Thing and the single Standards, which, to date, has been streamed 10 million times and counting. Her follow-‐up collaboration with The Reklaws on their smash What The Truck gave Sacha her first gold-‐certified hit.
Sacha arrives in Peterborough riding high on the success of her new four-‐track EP We Did, one of those tracks being What The Truck – the fastest-‐ever Canadian country song to go gold in the streaming era. She’s also coming off a 16-‐city trek in the US that saw her open for Maddie & Tae’s Next Women Of Country All Song No Static Tour.
A Country Music Association of Ontario Rising Star nominee in 2021, Sacha was named an iHeartRadio Future Star, and three of her videos – for the songs Cheers, Standards and What The Truck – have received regular play on CMT.
Meanwhile, Toronto born and raised Owen Barney first strummed a guitar at age seven and, influenced by country music heavy hitters such as Eric Church, Steve Earle and Jason Aldean, started performing shows in the big city at age 14.
2019 saw the release of Barney’s debut EP Home and appearances on bigger stages, but it was his 2020 follow-up EP, No Road Too Long, that took him to the next level with the charting singles Thank Her For That and Pour Me – the video for the former garnering 320,000 views before he was named Amazon Breakthrough Artist of the Month in September 2020.
Barney has since issued a third EP, Tough Times, a three-‐song collection that gave him another hit in You Make Me Wanna (Brown Eyed Girl).
This event is completely free, with first come first served seating. it is suggested that concert goers bring a lawn chair, chairs will be available to rent at the venue.
If a storm occurs during a concert, a cancellation announcement will be made from the stage. Peterborough Musicfest will not issue a cancellation call until 7:45 p.m. a fifteen minutes before the scheduled start of 8 p.m. Rescheduling of weathera cancelled concerts is not guaranteed.
