Rush launches 2026 North American reunion tour honoring Neil Peart

Cofounders Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson will revive Rush for a broad North American reunion tour in 2026, launching June 7 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, and running through a newly expanded schedule that now stretches into December with a final date in Vancouver. The Fifty Something tour will celebrate the band's music and legacy and honor the late drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, who died in January 2020.

Lee and Lifeson announced the trek as their first concerts together under the Rush name since the 2015 R40 tour. The initial slate of 23 summer dates, which included multiple sold out shows in Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Chicago, New York and Toronto, was expanded with 17 additional cities, bringing the total to approximately 40 shows. The enlarged itinerary adds stops in Philadelphia, Detroit, Montreal, Boston, Denver, Seattle, San Jose, Washington, D.C., Uncasville, Hollywood, Tampa, Charlotte, Atlanta, Glendale, Edmonton and Vancouver, among others. Madison Square Garden will host four New York performances in late July and early August.

German drummer Anika Nilles, who has toured with guitarist Jeff Beck and released work with her band Nevell, will join Lee and...