The Nickel Days Corporation, which runs Thompson’s annual summer fair, announced on its Facebook page March 14 that Lynn Lake-born Canadian rocker Tom Cochrane would be the marquee performer for the Saturday night social of this year’s edition, which will run June 18-21.
Tickets for the show will be $40.
Cochrane, best known for the Grammy-nominated song “Life is a Highway,” left Lynn Lake for Ontario by the time he was four years old in the late 1950s. A seven-time Juno award winner, member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, an officer of the Order of Canada, and an inductee in the Canadian Walk of Fame, Cochrane has released seven solo albums, including Take It Home in 2015 and seven as a member of Red Rider, as well as four compilation albums.
His Nickel Days performance will be the second of his career, having also been the headliner at the fair in 2003.
