[WATCH] Rush Performs Live for First Time Since 2015 at Juno Awards
For the first time since the close of the “R40 Tour” in 2015, Rush returned to the stage at the 2026 Juno Awards on Sunday. It was the band’s first time performing without late drummer Neil Peart since 1974.
The band, now featuring drummer Anika Nilles and keyboardist Loren Gold, performed “Finding My Way” during Canada’s biggest music awards show. It’s the first time Rush had performed the song in its entirety since 1976, according to SetList.fm.
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“Finding My Way” was the lead track off of Rush’s 1974 self-titled debut album, the only studio album that did not feature Peart.
In October of 2025, surviving Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson announced they’d be reforming Rush for the “Fifty Something Tour.” Previously, Lifeson had shut the door on any future Rush reunions following Peart’s death in 2020:
“There’s no way Rush will ever exist again, because Neil’s not here to be a part of it,” Lifeson said in 2021. “That’s not to say that we can’t do other things, and we can’t do things that benefit our communities and all of that.”
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Less than half a decade later, the duo’s tune had changed significantly following a jam session together that sparked the idea of reforming Rush:
“It’s been over 10 years since [Lifeson] and I have performed the music of Rush alongside our fallen bandmate and friend Neil,” Lee said during Rush’s reformation announcement. “A lifetime’s worth of songs that we had put our cumulative hearts and souls into writing, recording and playing together onstage. And so, after all that has gone down since that last show, Alex and I have done some serious soul searching and come to the decision that we [expletive] miss it, and that it’s time for a celebration of 50-something years of Rush music.”
Rush is set to embark on their “Fifty Something Tour,” starting on June 7 at The Forum, the same place where the “R40 Tour” had ended. The tour has 86 shows scheduled, with the North American leg of the tour taking place in 2026 and the international leg in 2027.
Watch Rush’s return to the stage at the Juno Awards with Nilles behind the drum kit below.
Peart, one of music’s most famed and revolutionary drummers, died on Jan. 7, 2020, at the age of 67 after a three-and-a-half year battle with brain cancer.
He spent 40 years behind the kit for Rush, culminating in the band’s farewell show on Aug. 1, 2015 in Los Angeles.
