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RUSHfest Scotland 2026 - earlybird weekend ticket offer.

Before general tickets go on sale PLEASE EMAIL STEVE@BROON.NET for discounted earlybird tickets which include a hotel discount code and one of the limited seats at The Barrowland show.

We're pulling out all the stops for our next weekend of events.
15, 16 and 17 May 2026 in Glasgow.

Main event - MacFloyd and Moving Pictures at BARROWLAND BALLROOM, Glasgow - Sat 16 May from 6pm
All other events will take place in DRYGATE BREWERY, GLASGOW.


Fri 15/5/26 - 6pm - 1am - DRYGATE BREWERY
DAVID KING, chat with author KEVIN J ANDERSON, Auction, LA VILLA STRANGIATO
(5pm Meet n Greet Kevin J Anderson)

Sat 16/5/26 - 1pm - 5pm - DRYGATE BREWERY
THE RFS ALLSTAR BAND, VIP CHAT, OUTSIDE THE ORIGINAL, RUSH3TTE

Sat 16/5/26 - 6pm - 10:30pm - BARROWLAND BALLROOM
MACFLOYD, MOVING PICTURES - two full sets with spectacular stage production

Sat 16/5/26 - 10:30pm - 1am - DRYGATE BREWERY
Aftershow party - live RUSH videos on big screen cranked through the in-house PA system

Sun 17/5/26 - 2pm - 6pm - DRYGATE BREWER
ALAN REED (PALLAS) & NEIL WINTON, THE AUDIORAYZ


General tickets on sale soon.

PLEASE EMAIL STEVE@BROON.NET for discounted earlybird tickets which include a hotel discount code and one of the limited seats at The Barrowland show.

The Professor Whisky

Online worldwide raffle for one of the last remaining bottles of The Professor whisky - this one is signed by Betty Peart and Hugh Syme and could be yours for a fiver!

Visit justgiving.com/page/rfswhisky for details.

RUSH FANS HAVE DONE IT AGAIN!

RUSHfest Scotland 2025 was a roaring success, bringing musicians in from Brazil, Norway, Canada, USA and Europe, this was our most international event to date. We made £15,777.35 profit from the weekend and online whisky raffle - congratulations to the winner Jeremy Race from Arizona. £15,000 was donated to Funding Neuro (registered charity SC042061).

Photo of 2025 cheque to Funding Neuro.

RUSHfest Scotland 2026 is already being planned - 15, 16 & 17 May 2026 - and we're stepping things up again. The main event will take place in the iconic BARROWLAND BALLROOM on 16 May - full sets from MacFloyd and Moving Pictures. Other events will happen at the Drygate Brewery. Keep an eye on this site and our Facebook page.

RUSHfest Scotland Fantoon

Founded in late 2013 by Steve Brown, RUSHfest Scotland is an annual fan convention celebrating Canada's finest musical exponents RUSH. All profit goes to registered cancer charities.

To date we have donated £157,920.70 GBP / $210k USD / $293k CAD / 5.5 Billion Vietnamese Dong!

RUSH FANS RAWK!!!

All profits made will go to Funding Neuro and Brain Tumour Research. All donations appreciated — all year round. Please send to Steve Brown via paypal.me/stevebrownmusic. Every penny will go to charity. Thank you.

SEPTEMBER 2025

OUT NOW — SONGS FOR NEIL VOLUME 6

TRIBUTES - Songs for Neil Vol VI by RUSHfest Scotland

Featuring LIMELIGHT Nina DiGregorio & Brody Dolyniuk, SECOND NATURE Mike Massé & Gilson Naspolini, 2112 Pyroclast, DRIVEN Moving Pictures


RELEASE DATE 12 September 2025 (Neil Peart's birthday).

Order via Bandcamp

For multiple sales, economy shipping rates and all other enquiries please email steve@broon.net.

All profits to FUNDING NEURO registered charity SC042061.

SEPTEMBER 2024

Songs For Neil VOL.5

SONGS FOR NEIL Volume 5 — release date 12/9/24 — see SONGS FOR NEIL page.

JULY 2024

Photo of 2024 cheque to Brain Tumour Research

£5000 donated to Brain Tumour Research from sales of The Professor whisky.

JUNE 2024

All profits from RUSHfest Scotland events, Songs For Neil albums and merch sales will now go to Funding Neuro Registered charity number SC042061.

MAY 2024

We thought we couldn't top RFS 2023 - I think we did!!
Thanks to everyone involved in RUSHfest Scotland event weekend in May 2024.
We raised £12,800 for Cancer Support Scotland!
On top of our other fundraising, merch and album sales in the past 12 months, we donated an incredible £20,100 to the charity.
We also donated £1000 to Myeloma UK

Here's one of the many highlights from RFS 2024 - LOSING IT performed by MOVING PICTURES with JONATHAN DINKLAGE.

THE PROFESSOR WHISKY - VOLUME ONE

The Professor Whisky

Based on Neil’s favourite dram, we have one cask, 178 bottles of 15 year old Speyside Sherry cask at cask strength 53.3%. See merchandise page for details.

RUSHfest Scotland 2023 has been hailed by many as the one to beat. Everything was knocked out of the park in terms of musicians, VIPs and a record amount raised for charity. Thanks to Graeme Ogle for this magnificent montage featuring all participants including Terry Brown, Hugh Syme, Judy & Nancy Peart.

RUSHfest 2023 Montage
RUSHfest 2023 VIPs

VIPs with organisers Steve, Sandy and Paul Beaulieu from the Canadian Music Scene.

RUSHfest 2022 Crowd
RFS 23 with Nancy Peart

Moving Pictures after their headlining set at RFS 2023 with one of the Very Important Persons - Nancy Peart.

A Night For Neil

Steve was honoured beyond belief to toast Neil Peart at the Memorial / Celebration concert A Night For Neil in St. Catharine's, Canada on 22 October 2022.
He was joined on stage by Neil's sister Nancy, brother Danny, Starman Bob King and organisers Lance Kasten and Paul Beaulieu.

SONGS FOR NEIL VOL.4 - release date 12 Sept 2023

Songs For Neil VOL.4

OUT NOW — Go to SONGS FOR NEIL page for info and orders.

SONGS FOR NEIL VOL.3

Songs For Neil VOL.3

All artwork by Hugh Syme — please head to SONGS FOR NEIL page for details.

THE STARS LOOK DOWN — SONGS FOR NEIL VOL.2

The Stars Look Down Album Cover and Vinyl

TRIBUTES — SONGS FOR NEIL VOL.1

Tributes Album Cover and Vinyl

RUSHfest Scotland has produced three albums of Rush songs covered by Rush tribute bands from around the world - including Jacob Moon (Canada), Fleesh (Brazil), YYNOT (USA), Moving Pictures (Scotland) and many more.

These limited edition albums are available on CD, coloured vinyl (Vol. 1 sold out) and download - with all profits going to Cancer Support Scotland in the UK and Glioblastoma Foundation Neil Peart Research Award in USA.

See Songs For Neil page for details.

In September 2020 Steve Brown was interviewed by the guys on the SFN Rush Fancast to promote the first Tributes album. listen to the interview and a few tracks from the album here.

Photo of Steve and John Petrucci Wearing RUSHfest Beanies

Steve from RFS gave John Petrucci a few beanies for the band - we think he liked them! Dream Theater are massive Rush fans.

Photo of R40 Meet 'n' Greet.

Organiser Steve Brown and fellow fan Maurice Pickles sporting the 2015
RUSHfest Scotland t-shirts when they met Alex and Geddy on the R40 tour.

Credits

We have our very own YouTube channel

Thanks to the wonderful Graham “Gebs” Gebbie for setting this up and filming every RUSHfest Scotland event.

You can jump to the complete Terry Brown interview from the 2016 event here.

For more updates see facebook.com/rushfestscotland.


Neil Peart tribute.

I NEVER MET YOU.
SO YOU HAVE NEVER LEFT ME.
AND YOU NEVER WILL.