Merle Haggard – “the Poet of the Common Man” – is widely considered one of the most important singer-songwriters in the history of country music. During a career that lasted from the 1960s until his death in 2016, he recorded more than 70 albums and had more than 40 No. 1 singles.

Merle says that “Country music is about those things that we believe in but we can’t see – like dreams, and songs, and souls.”

Lawrence Maxwell is a PEI-born singer-songwriter, a multiple Music PEI award winner, and ECMA-nominee with three studio albums under his belt. He has toured internationally in the UK and Europe and he brings his band of Fugitives, consisting of: Peter Cann, Thomas Webb, Nick Doneff, Mark Geddes, and Ben Aitken to interpret the music of country music legend, Merle Haggard.