TORONTO, ON (August 21, 2023) – This October, legendary alt-country rockers Blue Rodeo will be on tour celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the band’s massively successful fifth studio album Five Days in July.  Fans can look forward to seeing the band hit the stage in Montreal, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Moncton and Halifax and hearing songs from the six-time platinum classic record, while also enjoying some more favourites from over the years.

Corteo invites its audience into a world of wonder. The story unfolds in the imagination of Mauro, a clown who conjures a joyous celebration somewhere between heaven and earth to mark his funeral in the company of celestial angels and zestful carnival entertainers.

Four-time Grammy Award winners and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, The Doobie Brothers, have added a Canadian leg to their 50th Anniversary Tour which has had Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons and John McFee back on the road together for the first time in over 25 years. The tour will make ten stops across six provinces kicking off in Halifax, the band’s first time performing there in over 40 years.

Great news Bublé fans! The Grammy winning, multi-platinum superstar entertainer will bring his Higher tour home to Canada this fall. Travelling to 11 Canadian cities, the tour produced by Live Nation Canada, will start at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Saturday, Oct. 1.

Avril Lavigne @ Scotiabank Center in Halifax

Approaching the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax there was no mistaking the crowd heading to the show. Many lined up around the corner eagerly awaiting to get in donned plaid skirts, fishnets, and fingerless gloves. As a twenty-something music lover I grew up listening to Avril and was surprised to see the age range in the crowd of passionate Avril fans.

Thursday night started off with a favorite of mine, The Beaches. The Toronto based rock band brings to the stage with lots of energy, and typically have on flashy outfits you can always count on them for a fast paced set filled with hair flips and high kicks. The crowd who were still mingling around when the set started quickly tried to find their seats once they could hear what they were missing and the arena filled up. The Beaches have a number of summer dates set for 2022 including festivals like Ottawa Bluesfest and Festival d’été de Québec in July, plus their “Future Lovers” tour stars in Toronto in August.

Avril kicked things off with balloons which have been a signature piece of the Bite Me Tour. The crowd took to their feet and kicked off the night with two songs from her new Love Sux album, Cannonball and Bite Me. Shooting off confetti and releasing large balloons, the audience was loving the show. The energy really kicked up when she jumped into throwbacks like What the Hell from her Goodbye Lullaby album. The show was high energy, filled with a balance of nostalgia and throwbacks with lots of new songs (2022 marks the 20 year anniversary of Avril’s Let Go album which has a number of well known hits including Sk8r Boi and Complicated).

This was the last stop on this leg of Avril’s Bite Me Tour, but she has more dates scheduled throughout the summer including Madison Square Garden in NYC Jun 28th and Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on July 6th. Avril will be touring well into 2023 globally and her full tour schedule can be found HERE.

Set List: 

Cannonball

Bite Me

What the Hell

Here’s to Never Growing Up

Complicated

My Happy Ending

Smile

Losing Grip

Love it When You Hate Me

Hello Kitty

Girlfriend

Platinum selling and Grammy Award winning musician Bryan Adams returns to Canada for a colossal coast-to-coast Canadian tour, in support of his 15th studio album, released in March 2022, aptly titled So Happy It Hurts.

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For the first time ever, James Taylor & His All-Star Band, with special guest Jackson Browne, will perform together across Canada. Jackson will replace the previously announced Bonnie Raitt who unfortunately is no longer available to join these rescheduled concert dates due to her prior touring commitments.

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