The Sound of Music Festival (SoMF) is throwing it back to the 90s with its kick-off concert this year featuring headliners The Offspring and LIVE.

The ticketed event on June 10 launches an extended weekend of free music on Burlington’s waterfront, from June 15-18.

“We’re very excited to have these bands to Burlington and put on a show of this calibre, the success of previous kick-off concerts is an indication that our fans keep coming for the music,” Dave Miller, SoMF executive director.

“This is just the beginning… there is still a whole afternoon of music to be announced.”

The Offspring, made up of Dexter Holland (vocals, guitar), Noodles (guitar), Greg K (bass) and Pete Parada (drums), is largely one of the bands credited with reviving punk rock interest into the mainstream during the 1990s.

The band has performed more than 1,100 shows and sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. The release of Smash in 1994 stays the highest-selling album of all-time on an independent label, according to a media release.

The original line-up of LIVE, Ed Kowalczyk (vocals, guitar), Chad Taylor (guitar, backing vocals), Patrick Dahlheimer (bass) and Chad Gracey (drums, percussion), has reunited for a worldwide tour this year and is known as one of the most “potent alternative rock acts.”

LIVE was said to achieve worldwide success with its 1994 album Throwing Copper, which sold eight million copies in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

The kick-off concert is a one-day, one-stage show with the identities of the remaining performing bands expected to be released in the coming weeks.

Gates open at 1 p.m. with the show running until 11 p.m. Tickets cost $60, plus fees and tax, and can be purchased at soundofmusic.ca — prices will go up, according to organizers.