Following the end of a contentious legal battle with their former bandmates, Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman will hit the road as the Guess Who next year for the first time in over 20 years.
The band has announced a summer tour of their home country, Canada, with the run starting on May 26 at the Avenir Centre in Moncton, New Brunswick, and wrapping up on June 10 at Rogers Place in Edmonton. Don Felder, former Eagles guitarist, will join the Guess Who throughout the trek.
Tickets for all of the Guess Who’s headlining shows will go on sale Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. local time, with ticket pre-sales starting tomorrow, Nov. 11. Full info is available on the Guess Who’s website.
“Randy and I are thrilled that our songs have never gone away,” Cummings said in a statement. “That people still want to hear us perform them live. We are going to go out and honor the music.”
Bachman added, “I’m looking ahead and very excited to be joining up with Burton and touring as the Guess Who again. Together, we created decades of incredible songs and memories that still stand strong today. Can’t wait to sing them with you all soon!”
The 2026 Canadian run will be Cummings’ and Bachman’s first as the Guess Who in 23 years. (They previously announced a tour together in early 2020, but it was scrapped because of the pandemic.) Part of the reason for that delay stems from a trademark dispute with their former bandmates, bassist Jim Kale and drummer Garry Peterson, which was finally settled in 2024.
The Guess Who were one of the biggest classic rock acts to emerge from Canada, scoring memorable hits during the Sixties and Seventies, like “Shakin’ All Over,” “Laughing,” “No Time,” “Share the Land,” and “American Woman.” Not long after the release of that song, Bachman left to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive, while Cummings embarked on a successful solo career after the Guess Who officially broke up in 1975.
While Bachman and Cummings occasionally returned to the Guess Who for reunion stints in the Eighties and 2000s, the band (or at least a version it) continued primarily under the direction of Kale. Kale, who was fired from the band in 1972, started performing with a group also called the Guess Who in the late Seventies, claiming he got permission from Cummings to use the name. Then, in the mid-Eighties, Kale filed a trademark request for the Guess Who name, after learning the band had apparently failed to secure a mark during their heyday.
Over the next few decades, Kale and Peterson’s version of the Guess Who toured with a rotating lineup of musicians, many of whom had no connection to the original Guess Who. Kale retired from touring in 2016, leaving Peterson the sole original member, though he reportedly played infrequently with the band.
In 2023, Bachman and Cummings filed a lawsuit, accusing Kale, Peterson, and their version of the Guess Who of misleading fans to believe that this iteration of the group — which was described as “little more than a cover band” — was the original group. Cummings even took the extreme and unprecedented step of terminating his publishing agreement with his performing rights organization, which meant sacrificing royalties but effectively prevented Kale’s Guess Who (or anyone else) from performing the band’s hits at concert venues.
When the settlement was reached in September 2024, specific details were not divulged, but Bachman and Cummings did confirm that they had acquired the trademark to the Guess Who as part of the deal.
The Guess Who 2026 Tour Dates
May 26 – Moncton, NB @ Avenir Centre
May 27 – Halifax, NS @ Scotiabank Centre
May 29 – Laval, QC @ Place Bell
May 30 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
June 1 – Hamilton, ON @ TD Coliseum
June 2 – London, ON @ Canada Life Place
June 5 – Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre
June 6 – Saskatoon, SK @ SaskTel Centre
June 8 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
June 10 – Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
July 19 – Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest (festival show)
Aug 23 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pacific National Exhibition (festival show)
