Arcade Fire to perform at The 51st Annual JUNO Awards Broadcast, live on CBC

The iconic rock band and 11-time JUNO Award winners will hit the stage on the heels of their sixth studio album release, WE

Tickets to The 2022 JUNO Awards are on-sale now at ticketmaster.ca/junos

TORONTO, March 23, 2022 /CNW/ - The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) and CBC today announced a grand performance from Arcade Fire at The 2022 JUNO Awards Broadcast. The legendary band from Montreal return to the JUNO stage for the first time since their show-stopping performance at the 2018 awards. The band will elate audiences with a performance off their upcoming new album, WE, set for release May 6, 2022. The first in-person iteration of the show since 2019, this year's event will be held at Budweiser Stage in Toronto, on Sunday, May 15 and broadcast and streamed live across Canada at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music, CBC Listen, and globally at CBCMusic.ca/junos and CBC Music's Facebook, YouTube and Twitter pages.

Tickets for The 2022 JUNO Awards start at $39.95 and are available for purchase at www.ticketmaster.ca/junos.

Emerging from Montreal in the early 2000s, Arcade Fire quickly earned a reputation as "the greatest live band in the world" (per the Daily Telegraph), while building a JUNO, Grammy and BRIT Award-winning discography. Their debut album Funeral, released in 2004, earned the group JUNO and Grammy nominations, and was chosen by Rolling Stone as the Number 1 album of the '00s. 

The band released four more critically and commercially acclaimed albums with accolades that include 11 JUNO Award wins, 27 nominations and a Grammy Award win for Album of the Year for The Suburbs. No strangers to the JUNOS stage, this will be the fourth time the group entertains audiences in celebration of Canada's biggest night in music.

The 51st annual JUNO Awards and JUNO Week 2022 will be hosted in Toronto, ON from May 9 through May 15, 2022, culminating in The JUNO Awards. Produced by Insight Productions (a Boat Rocker company), The 2022 JUNO Awards, hosted by Simu Liu, will make history on Sunday, May 15 as it broadcasts and streams for the first time from an outdoor venue at Budweiser Stage in Toronto. 

Full press release here.

SOURCE CARAS/The JUNO Awards

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