Tenille Arts, Dean Brody among performers at 2026 Canadian Country Music Awards

Tenille Arts performs at the Canadian Country Music Awards in London, Ont., Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Geoff Robins

Tenille Arts, Dean Brody and James Barker Band are among the artists tapped to perform at this year’s Canadian Country Music Association Awards.

The gala celebrating the best in Canadian country music will take place Sept. 19 in Saskatoon.

Other performers include 10-time CCMA winners The Reklaws and Owen Riegling, who took home the CCMA award for album of the year in 2025.

The evening will also feature several Saskatchewan-born stars, including Arts, who is from Weyburn; the Hunter Brothers from Shaunavon; Kalsey Kulyk of Hudson Bay and Jess Moskaluke, who lives in Rocanville.

The nationally televised bash will cap off Canadian Country Music Week, a multi-day run of industry conferences and fan events starting Sept. 16.

More performers will be announced in the lead-up to the event.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 24, 2026.

Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press