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Eagles Add Six Canadian Dates to ‘Hotel California’ Tour

Eagles have announced six Canadian dates for their  Hotel California  Tour , beginning Sept. 9 in Toronto.

The band will continue through several other Canadian cities in September, including Ottawa, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Vancouver.

You can view the list of dates down below.

Several pre-sales will launch on July 14; a day later, all tickets, plus a limited number of VIP packages and other exclusive offers will be available. More information and tickets can be found on the band's website .

Eagles  resumed their Hotel California Tour, which has been running since 2019, earlier this year. They first performed to a sold-out crowd in February, and in April, Deacon Frey , son of the late Glenn Frey , stepped down from performing with the band.

"We are grateful to Deacon for his admirable efforts and we wish him well as he charts his future," the band said in a statement at the time . "Deacon's Eagles family will always be here to surround him with love, support and goodwill, and he is always welcome to join us onstage at any future concerts if he so desires. We hope our fans will join us in wishing Deacon the very best as he moves into the next phase of his career."

Eagles' touring lineup consists of co-founder  Don Henley , longtime bandmates Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, and country star  Vince Gill .

Eagles 'Hotel California' Canadian Tour Dates 2022 Sept. 9 - Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena Sept. 13 - Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre Sept. 16 - Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre Sept. 18 - Saskatoon, SK @ SaskTel Centre Sept. 20 - Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place Sept. 22 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena

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The Eagles announce 'Long Goodbye' final tour: 'This is our swan song' Back to video

The ’70s rockers, famous for Hotel California , Desperado , Take it Easy and many more, announced Thursday they will embark on their final tour, which they are dubbing The Long Goodbye.

“We know how fortunate we are, and we are truly grateful,” the six-time Grammy winners said in a statement posted to their website . “Our long run has lasted far longer than any of us ever dreamed. But, everything has its time, and the time has come for us to close the circle.”

The band — comprised of core members Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, along with Vince Gill and the late Glenn Frey’s son, Deacon — said they “hope to see as many of you as we can, before we finish up.” The first set of dates kicks off at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sept. 7 and includes shows in Detroit (Oct. 13), Cleveland (Oct. 17) and Atlanta (Nov. 2).

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VIP packages go on sale July 12 with general tickets available beginning July 14. More dates expected to be added in the coming months and the tour is expected to continue into 2025.

“We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for embracing this band and its music,” the classic rockers added in their statement. “At the end of the day, you are the reason we have been able to carry on for over five decades. This is our swan song, but the music goes on and on.”

Steely Dan, the group’s longtime friends and fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, will open the initial run of shows, which wraps Nov. 17 in Minnesota.

After Frey’s death in 2016, Henley hinted that the band was finished. “I don’t see how we could go out and play without the guy who started the band,” he said in an interview with the Washington Post .

But he was convinced the group could grow new wings by adding Deacon to the fold to sing his late father’s parts.

After ruling the airwaves in the ’70s, the Eagles acrimoniously broke up in 1980 with all the members pursuing solo careers. They reunited in 1994 for the MTV Unplugged special, Hell Freezes Over , which lead to them touring again. In 2007, they released their seventh studio LP, Long Road Out of Eden .

In an interview with Postmedia in 2013, Henley, now 75, opened up on the band’s different eras, saying, “It’s all been fun.”

“In the first act, the highs were higher and the lows lower,” he said. “Since we resumed working together in 1994, things have proceeded on a much more even keel.”

Henley also reflected on what his older self would have thought about the journey he undertook as a young musician struggling to make a name for himself in Los Angeles in the early ’70s.

“It was no small thing for a kid from a town of 2,500 to pick up stakes and move to a metropolitan area of about 10 million people where he knew only one resident. But he’s on a mission, he’s found his fellow travellers and his intentions are good,” Henley said.

“I see him wrestling with the big questions that plagued him for much of the first half of the Eagles’ career: ‘Is this worth the all the risk and the stress? Are we really any good? What if things don’t work out?’ I had three-and-a-half years of college under my belt, but I didn’t really have a Plan B.”

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The Eagles Add Canadian Dates to 2022 Hotel California Tour

They'll play the 1976 album in its entirety in Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Vancouver

BY Megan LaPierre Published Jul 8, 2022

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The Eagles Hotel California Tour comes to Rogers Arena

California country rock legends play Hotel California with an orchestra.

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When : Sept. 22, 6 p.m.

Where : Rogers Arena

Tickets/Info : On sale Fri., July 15, 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.ca

They may not be living life in the fast lane anymore, but California country rock legends the Eagles are still on stage taking it easy.

The celebrated band featuring founding singer/drummer Don Henley, as well as long time guitarists Joe Walsh and bassist Timothy B. Schmidt will be joined by country singer Vince Gill who replaces late founding member Glenn Frey. Frey died in 2016. His son Deacon had been performing with the band but left the group to pursue other interests in April this year.

The Hotel California 2022 Tour sees the band performing the entire 1976 album of the same title followed by a greatest hits set.

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Hotel California became the group’s best-selling album with over 26 million in sales. Their Greatest Hits (1971 — 1975) compilation is the band’s only album to outsell Hotel California. It remains the best-selling album in the United States with over 38 million in sales. Michael Jackson’s Thriller is number two at 34 million.

Formed in 1971, the Eagles enjoyed one of the most commercially successful runs of any band in the 1970s before disbanding in 1980. The group reunited for the hell Freezes Over tour in 1994 and were active until 2001. They returned to active touring in 2007 and have been consistently active since then, including releasing the album Long Road Out of Eden in 2007.

For the Hotel California 2022 Tour, the band will be joined by both an orchestra and choir. The group’s six Canadian dates begin on Sept. 9 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. The full tour list is included:

Toronto, Ontario Friday, Sept. 9 Scotiabank Arena   Ottawa, Ontario Tuesday, Sept. 13 Canadian Tire Centre   Winnipeg, Manitoba Friday, Sept. 16 Canada Line Centre   Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Sunday, Sept. 18 SaskTel Centre   Edmonton, Alberta Tuesday, September 20 Rogers Place   Vancouver Thursday, Sept. 22 Rogers Arena

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You can check out of the Eagles’ Hotel California anytime you like, but why would you?

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The Eagles opened the Canadian leg of their Hotel California tour at a packed Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. Ebru Yildiz/Supplied

At a packed Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Friday, the Eagles opened the Canadian leg of their Hotel California tour. The concert’s first set was dedicated to that landmark 1976 rock album, one of the top selling LPs of all time. It was played in its entirety, front to back . It was a well-received revisit – an audience murmured along to lyrics about lost dreams, last resorts, the warm smell of colitas, and a new kid in town.

Hopeless romantics, here we go again.

The tour comes at a time when countless legacy acts are hitting the road, with concert ticket pricing in the news. Earlier this summer, Bruce Springsteen fans united in spit takes over the high cost of seats for his 2023 tour. The furor was fierce enough that Ticketmaster felt obliged to put out a statement explaining that artists and promoters set ticket prices, not Ticketmaster.

Of course, Ticketmaster is owned by Live Nation Entertainment, which just happens to also own concert promotion behemoth Live Nation. The oft-maligned seat-sellers supplied statistics to suggest outrage over the “dynamic pricing” system that pushed VIP packages well into four figures was unwarranted. According to Ticketmaster, the high-priced “platinum” tickets, with variable (surge) pricing based on demand, represented a small fraction of the Springsteen tickets sold on the first day of sale. The company said 88 per cent of tickets were sold at set prices, ranging from US$60 to $US399 (before taxes and fees).

When it comes to the current accusations of rock ‘n’ roll price gouging, the Eagles must be yawning at hubbub. Back in 1994, the just-reunited band had fans and the press clutching pearls by setting prices for its When Hell Freezes Over tour that broke the US$100 barrier for the most expensive seats.

Now, $100 wouldn’t get you into the building for the Eagles in Toronto, where nosebleed seats went for $125 and lower-bowl accommodation cost more than twice as much – standard fares for an act of the Eagles’ stature.

Drummer and singer-songwriter Don Henley has said the Hotel California album was a comment on the souring of sixties ideals of peace, love and understanding, and the rise of rock ‘n’ roll greed and hedonism in the Southern California seventies. Self-criticism? From the Eagles? Probably not. More likely, Henley had mistaken a mirror for a window.

Themes that run through the Hotel California include loss of innocence and the cost of naiveté. But if there are any lifelong fans of the fractious, mercenary Eagles who still have any innocence left when it comes to this band, they were never paying attention in the first place.

Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine in 1979, Eagles manager Irving Azoff said the band’s motto when dealing with concert promoters and record labels was to be paid now, and then paid more again later. “Figure out a fair price, add a third, and that’s what we get in our contracts,” he said.

This is the band whose songwriters took a particularly bottom-line approach to the art of composing music. One Eagle would suggest a minor change in a song being written by two others, thus gaining partial credit for the lucrative publishing royalties: “Change a word, gain a third” is what they called it.

At Scotiabank, during a long second set of greatest hits, the Eagles performed Take it Easy . Fact is, these guys always took what they could get, ruthless for that extra thirty-three and a third.

Historically, as a live band, the Eagles have never really been worth a premium. They barely acknowledged their audiences and didn’t get along with each other, either. The glaring lack of camaraderie was a drag. Harmony for the Eagles was a pretty vocal technique, not an ethos.

I’d previously been disappointed with the Eagles bland, corporate onstage demeanour. The late Glenn Frey in particular was ill-equipped for front man duties. In later years, when he took on more of an emcee role, his stiff, scripted banter was painful to endure.

But the band at Scotiabank Arena seemed revitalized. The celebration of their greatest album gives a sense of purpose to an act that has released just one studio album in the past 43 years. Frey, who died in 2016, has been replaced by country singer-songwriter and guitarist Vince Gill, with Frey’s son Deacon Frey providing guest lead vocals on Take It Easy , Peaceful Easy Feeling and Already Gone .

Joe Walsh, who first joined the band for the recording of Hotel California 46 years ago, was a lively, weird-uncle presence as ever, whether on Eagles material or on his own Life’s Been Good and James Gang numbers Funk #49 and Rocky Mountain Way . Walsh rips guitar solos and rallies the crowd for the same reason he dyes his hair blond: to please us.

The group, with longtime bassist Timothy B. Schmit, played nearly three hours flawlessly, with a local choir and orchestra contributing on a number of the 26 songs performed. After the Hotel California set, Henley said the band would be back after an intermission to wear us out. They did, in the best possible way.

Buy the ticket, take the ride and smell the colitas. The Eagles are finally giving fans their money’s worth.

The Eagles Hotel California tour continues to Ottawa, Sept. 13; Winnipeg, Sept. 16; Saskatoon, Sept. 18; Edmonton, Sept. 20; Vancouver, Sept. 22.

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly said Glenn Frey died of cancer.

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I have always wanted to see The Eagles as a matter of fact it is a bucket list concert. My very first time going to the see them and I was not disappointed. Three and a half hours of pure music with a small break. I sang along with almost every song the band played. I have gotten used to politics in concerts this was a politics free zone. thank you so much for the break.

One gripe if I have one it seemed like the special guest was Joe Walsh, he played James Gang to Eagles songs. It is a small gripe because the guy is just amazing. One thing I noticed just from being old when the girl came out in the Hotel California set to flip the album she actually did not flip the the album. yes I am old. but it was a great effect.

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What. A. Show! I grew up listening to the Eagles, either on album, CD, or my dad playing his guitar. It was a truly wonderful experience to be able to see them live with my dad and watch his enjoyment of seeing a band he’s loved for so long live. The staging and pace of the show was absolutely amazing and set the tone perfectly, and the graphics and lighting designers definitely did their best work. We were close to the stage and it was absolutely fascinating to watch all the cameras recording the event, as well. The band was exceptional but the team behind them is definitely to be commended for this one! I hope everyone who sees this tour has the same level of enjoyment my family and I did!

Experiencing the September, 2019 Eagles "Hotel California" concert at the MGM was a musical trip into near perfection.

The sound was very good even in our very expensive nosebleed seats.

The place was packed and the audience nonstop in its loud and persistent appreciation of all things Eagles, especially new members Deacon Frey and Vince Gill.

Longtime mega-talented members Henley, Walsh and Smith were true crowd pleasers, as they always are.

Having a full orchestra and an angelic choir from UNLV supporting the endeavor was at times ethereally mesmerizing to the point of enthrallment.

Once again the Eagles have lived up to their reputation as purveyors of musical excellence.

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Eagles rock LA homecoming for Long Goodbye tour, knock nearby 'spaceship' SoFi Stadium

LOS ANGELES – "Good evening and welcome to whatever this is," Eagles founding member, drummer and singer Don Henley said to kick off the band's first 2024 concert of The Long Goodbye tour.

The seminal rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1971, checked into Hotel California again Friday for the first of four sold-out concerts at the Kia Forum for what is promised as the Eagles' final tour. Henley took pride that the four nights ending Jan. 13 will mark 26 times at the iconic 17,500-seat venue.

"We've been playing this joint for 49 years," Henley said, adding that it was the band's strong preference over the gleaming 70,000-seat SoFi Stadium just across the street.

"We could have just done one night at the spaceship next door and been done with it. But it sounds much better in here," said Henley, sending the Kia Forum crowd into a frenzy. "We prefer to work a little harder and give you a better listening experience."

The Eagles lived up to the great listening experience with Henley, 76, joining longtime guitarist Joe Walsh, 76, bassist Timothy B. Schmit, 76, along with guitarist Vince Gill , 66, who stepped in after founding member and guitarist Glenn Frey  died in 2016 at age 67. Frey's guitarist son Deacon, 31, has also rejoined the band.

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Dropping into an acapella version of " Seven Bridges Road " to start the show, the Eagles proved they can still harmonize with startling beauty, following that up with hit-after-hit including "One of These Nights," "Lyin' Eyes," "Best of My Love" and "New Kid in Town."

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Songwriter J.D. Souther, who Henley said played a "critical role" in writing the latter two mega-Eagles hits, among others, made frequent stage appearances, including handling lead vocals in "New Kid in Town," duties once performed by the late Frey.

Deacon Frey, propped up sunglasses holding back his long black hair, handled his father's lead vocal duties on "Peaceful Easy Feeling," a pitch-perfect nostalgic rendition that ended with the stage screens showing a black-and-white photo of the smiling late Eagles founder.

Henley continued to pay concert tribute to Jimmy Buffett , dedicating his solo song "Boys of Summer" to "our dear friend" who died in September at 76.

Walsh held claim to his place as the Clown Prince of Rock by vamping onstage after a retro introduction from Schmidt as "the irreplaceable, the undeniable, the Master of the Stratocaster." Walsh proved worthy of the plaudits, pulling off power guitar solos in songs such as his hit "Life's Been Good."

But Walsh has slightly adapted to the times, changing the line in his ode to spoiled rock stars from "They write me letters, tell me I'm great" to "They write me emails, tell me I'm great."

By the time the band kicked into the classic road anthem "Already Gone," it was clear the Eagles are in fighting shape after performing the tour since kicking off Sept. 7 at New York City's Madison Square Garden.

"How we doing?" Henley asked after the song ended. "We've been practicing."

As promised in the title, The Long Goodbye will continue through 2025.

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Fagen, 75, rejoined The Long Goodbye and opened the show Friday with Steely Dan after being hospitalized for an unspecified illness in October. Fagen thanked the audience for the enthusiastic response to Steely Dan's classic song "My Old School."

"It's my first show of the year, and you're making it nice," Fagen said.

After playing "Reelin' In the Years," Fagen paid tribute to fellow band founder Walter Becker, who died in 2017 at 67.

"I want to thank Walter Becker for helping me write all of these tunes," said Fagen.

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He was best known as a jazz musician, but his shimmering sound was also heard on classic albums by David Bowie, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen.

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David Sanborn, whose fiery alto saxophone flourishes earned him six Grammy Awards, eight gold albums and a platinum one, and who established himself as a celebrity sideman, lending indelible solos to enduring rock classics like David Bowie’s “Young Americans,” died on Sunday in Tarrytown, N.Y. He was 78.

He died after long being treated for prostate cancer, according to a statement on his social media channels. He had received the diagnosis in 2018 but had maintained his regular schedule of concerts until recently, with more planned for next year.

Drawing from jazz, pop and R&B, Mr. Sanborn was highly prolific, releasing 25 albums over a six-decade career. “Hideaway” (1980), his fifth studio album, featured two instrumentals written with the singer Michael McDonald as well as “The Seduction,” written by Giorgio Moroder, which was the love theme from “American Gigolo,” the ice-cool Paul Schrader film starring Richard Gere.

“Many releases by studio musicians suffer from weak compositions and overproduction, including some albums by Sanborn himself,” Tim Griggs wrote in a review of that album on the website Allmusic. In contrast, he continued, “Hideaway” had a “stripped-down, funky” quality that showed off his “passionate and distinctive saxophone sound.”

Mr. Sanborn’s albums “Hearsay” (1994), “Pearls” (1995) and “Time Again” (2003) all reached No. 2 on the Billboard jazz chart.

While the records he made under his own name were often pigeonholed as smooth jazz, Mr. Sanborn chafed at the description. So did many of his fellow saxophonists, who found his tone and approach anything but mellow.

“The ‘Sanborn’ sound is more of an extreme sound tone wise,” the saxophonist and educator Steve Neff wrote on his blog in 2012. “It is very raw, bright, edgy and tough sounding. It’s right in your face.”

“What Michael Brecker did for the tenor sound, Sanborn did for the alto sound. It’s not a middle of the road type of sound,” Mr. Neff added. Mr. Brecker and his trumpeter brother, Randy, often collaborated with Mr. Sanborn.

Mr. Sanborn had little use for labels. “I’m not so interested in what is or isn’t jazz,” he said in a 2017 interview with DownBeat, the jazz magazine. “The guardians of the gate can be quite combative, but what are they protecting? Jazz has always absorbed and transformed what’s around it.”

“Real musicians,” he added, “don’t have any time to spend thinking about limited categories.”

While growing up in suburban St. Louis, Mr. Sanborn was influenced by the sound of blues in Chicago, and by 14 he was playing with Albert King and Little Milton . “I guess if push comes to shove, I would describe myself as coming out of the blues-R&B side of the spectrum,” he said in a 2008 interview with NPR. “But I mean, if you play the saxophone, you certainly can’t escape the influence of jazz.”

Among the jazz musicians with whom Mr. Sanborn recorded were the guitarists George Benson, Mike Stern and John Scofield, the bassist Ron Carter, and the arrangers and bandleaders Gil Evans and Bob James.

And his influence was hardly confined to recording. From 1988 to 1990, he hosted the television show “Night Music” (originally called “Sunday Night”), which presented an eclectic mix of music; its lineups featured jazz luminaries like Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Pharoah Sanders as well as the likes of James Taylor, Leonard Cohen and Sonic Youth.

Starting in the 1980s, he also hosted a syndicated radio program, “The Jazz Show With David Sanborn.” He had recently begun producing the podcast “As We Speak,” which offered conversations with artists, including Pat Metheny and Mr. Rollins.

A onetime member of the “Saturday Night Live” band, Mr. Sanborn recorded or toured with a constellation of stars, among them Paul Simon, James Brown, Elton John, Steely Dan, Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones.

“Anyone with a record collection more than a foot wide probably owns a piece of David Sanborn’s unmistakable sound but doesn’t know it,” The Phoenix New Times, an Arizona newspaper, observed in 1991 in an article about him.

Mr. Sanborn was heard on landmark albums like the Eagles’ debut and Stevie Wonder’s “Talking Book” in 1972 and Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 smash “Born to Run.”

He had a memorable star turn on Mr. Bowie’s album “Young Americans” (1975), on which his sunny yet sultry solo opens the memorable title track . “There was no lead guitar, so I played the role of lead guitar,” he told DownBeat. “I was all over that record.”

He also joined Mr. Bowie’s tour for the album, part of a crack supporting outfit that also included Doug Rauch on bass and Greg Errico on drums. “On the ‘Young Americans’ tour,” he recalled, “Bowie would sometimes let the band play for 20 minutes before he came on.”

David William Sanborn was born on July 30, 1945, in Tampa, Fla., where his father was stationed in the Air Force. He grew up in Kirkwood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis.

His life took a fateful turn at age 3 when he contracted polio, which ravaged his left arm, right leg and lungs.

He was in an iron lung for a year, and he took up saxophone at 11 on the advice of a doctor, who thought learning a woodwind instrument would help him build respiratory strength.

The disease had lasting effects, some of them particularly challenging for a horn player. As an adult, Mr. Sanborn still suffered limited lung capacity, and his left arm was smaller than his right, with compromised dexterity on that hand.

“I don’t think of myself as a victim,” he was quoted as saying in 2005 by the Salt Lake City television station KSL. “This is my reality.”

After studying music at Northwestern University and with the saxophonist J.R. Monterose at the University of Iowa, he headed to California and joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. He was 24 when the band played before hundreds of thousands at the Woodstock festival in August 1969.

Mr. Sanborn went on to tour with Stevie Wonder in 1972 and released his first solo album, “Taking Off,” in 1975. He earned his first Grammy , for best R&B instrumental performance, for “All I Need Is You,” a track on his 1981 album, “Voyeur.”

His 2008 album, “Here & Gone,” with guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks and Joss Stone, was a tribute to Ray Charles and his arranger and saxophonist Hank Crawford, who was a major influence on Mr. Sanborn’s playing.

“That music was everything to me,” he told NPR. “It kind of combined jazz, gospel, and rhythm and blues. It wasn’t any one of those things, but it was all of them kind of mixed together. And that, to me, is kind of the essence of American music.”

He is survived by his wife, Alice Soyer Sanborn, a pianist, vocalist and composer; his son, Jonathan; two granddaughters; and his sisters, Sallie and Barb Sanborn.

Mr. Sanborn continued to tour into his 70s. With all the changes in the music business, he found, touring was a better way to make a living than recording.

“You make a fraction of what you used to make,” he said in a 2017 interview with The Tampa Bay Times. “There’s not a lot of options.”

He found life on the road increasingly taxing, but performing live remained a passion. Despite plans to cut back to about 150 gigs a year from 200, he nevertheless embarked on tour in 2017 that reached Istanbul and Nairobi.

“I still want to play,” he said, “and if you want to play for an audience, you’ve got to go where the audience is.”

Sofia Poznansky contributed reporting.

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Canadian Taylor Swift fans are flying to Europe for cheaper concert tickets

Resale seats to shows in sweden spotted for less than $100.

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Taking a trip to Europe to see Taylor Swift perform may not seem like an intuitive financial decision — but tickets to a concert in Canada are so expensive some fans are finding that's a better deal.

Bryan Kingston couldn't believe it when he snagged floor seats to an upcoming show in London, U.K., for $500 each on a resale website, when he had paid twice as much in Detroit last year.

"I found it was much cheaper," said the 40-year-old, who works in advertising in Hamilton, Ont.

"The difference in price actually paid for my flight to Europe."

He's still spending a sizeable sum. But for Kingston and other Swifties who can afford it, even with the cost of a flight, hotel and ticket, travelling for the concert may end up being better bang for their buck than seeing it in Canada.

He has friends heading to Scotland, Portugal and France, and said he couldn't pass up the opportunity to combine the concert with a vacation.

"It is honestly the best show I've ever been to in my life; otherwise, I wouldn't be making the trip."

Pop star supply and demand

Retail tickets for shows on Swift's record-setting Eras Tour in North America and Europe sold out almost instantly. Many then popped up on resale sites just as quickly. On StubHub, the cheapest seat to a Toronto concert in November right now is listed at $2,822. Yet the cost to get in the door in Stockholm this weekend is just a fraction of that price — $83.

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Pascal Courty, an economics professor at the University of Victoria, suggests much of the disparity can be explained by basic economics. The European leg of Swift's tour boasts 51 shows across 18 cities, accommodating crowds of more than 40,000 each night.

"But the demand in some of these countries is not as strong," he said. "In Europe, compared to other artists, maybe she's not No. 1." 

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Courty says in Canada, the huge fan base compared to the limited number of shows  — at just nine — contributes to the steeper ticket prices on the secondary market.

"If Swift would give a concert every night in Toronto, at some point, the price of the tickets would be very low. It might take 12 concerts, it might take 18 concerts, but there's a point where the demand is going to be exhausted."

Resale restrictions

While fans in Europe may still face markups when buying resale tickets, governments there have been taking steps to address ticketing issues. In some countries , including Ireland, Portugal and Denmark, tickets cannot be resold for more than their original price. France has some of the strongest rules , where offenders can be fined thousands of euros.

Sam Shemtob, managing director of the Face-value European Alliance for Ticketing (FEAT), says this shift has made a difference.

"It's had a really positive effect. You see far fewer listings of tickets being resold for a profit, because the law is quite straightforward."

That's not the case in Canada, where there are no national regulations limiting how much profit a consumer can make when reselling a ticket. In this year's budget, the federal government pledged to crack down on ticket reseller practices that it said unfairly drive up prices, but offered few other details or timelines.

In Quebec, companies need permission to resell tickets above face value. Individuals, however, can still resell a ticket at any price they choose.

Fans like Julia Rawleigh from Calgary, who missed out on the initial sale, have been disappointed by what they call outrageous resale ticket prices.

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"It was really frustrating when the concert tickets first dropped, and then immediately, you know, there were people selling them for thousands of dollars marked up," she said.

The 27-year-old restaurant manager decided to shake it off, instead making plans to see Taylor Swift's show in France.

"When we were able to get the Lyon tickets for $250 Canadian dollars, we were super excited. I don't even think we looked at where the seats were."

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A better way?

Laws that regulate the secondary market are difficult to enforce, according to Courty, who suggested people will always find a way to sell tickets at market value.

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U.S. singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is trying to combat the issue during her upcoming tour by making tickets non-transferable, an option offered by Ticketmaster that all artists can choose to implement during their tours.

If fans who purchase tickets in Canada or the U.S. can't attend the show, they are only permitted to resell them on Ticketmaster at the original price paid. Details for the concert state that "the tour wants to give fans, not scalpers, the best chance to buy tickets at face value."

Ticketmaster, the dominant player in the live event industry, has also come under scrutiny during Swift's tour, after fumbling online pre-sales in the U.S. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating  its parent company, Live Nation, over claims it is abusing its market power — though Ticketmaster denies it is responsible for high ticket prices.

Courty says the most effective solution is to make tickets nominative, where purchasers have their name linked directly to a ticket and then must provide matching identification, similar to the system for airline tickets.

"Then you can completely prevent ticket reselling for profits."

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Nisha Patel is a senior reporter with CBC News. She's covered business and economics for more than a decade and spends her days talking to economists, CEOs, policymakers and everyday people to make sense of complex stories. You can find her on X at @nishapatel or by email at [email protected].

Bald eagles once again nesting Toronto

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A pair of majestic bald eagles nesting in Toronto for the first time in more than a century is a hopeful sign of improved environmental conditions, say conservationists.

“This discovery is significant as it indicates that restoration efforts to improve wildlife habitat and address pollutants in the Toronto area are yielding positive results,” said Karen McDonald, senior manager of restoration and infrastructure for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) .

For 50 years, bald eagles were deemed “of special concern” under Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, but they were finally removed from the list last year . In 2022, there were an estimated 2,600 nests in the province. The nesting pair is the first in Toronto’s recorded history.

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Experts suggest several key factors have likely contributed to the return of eagles to Canada’s largest city. These include historical bans on Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT ), a pesticide notable for causing eggshell thinning, which resulted in broken eggs when birds attempted to incubate them, and a transition away from leaded gasoline , which is a major environmental contaminant.

Despite the eagles' secretive nesting behaviour, their presence did not go unnoticed. In February of this year, Steven McClellan , a birder and naturalist, saw the eagles carrying sticks and starting to build the nest.

“It's truly awe-inspiring to witness — not just the eagle nest, but this entire community comprising some of the grandest birds native to Toronto, all living side by side with one another,” said McClellan. “And having been left alone, the eagle nest has been successful so far. There are two eaglets in the nest. I believe they hatched sometime between April 5 and 10.”

The eagles' nesting location cannot be disclosed to avoid disturbances, as eagles may abandon their eggs if they feel threatened.

McClellan remains vigilant, identifying potential threats such as boat traffic near the nesting site during the crucial fledgling period. As eagles often reuse the same nest for years, ongoing efforts to minimize disturbances are crucial for their long-term conservation, he added.

“During the late spring and summer months, mooring boats will host parties, set off fireworks and create other potential disturbances to the nest,” said McClellan.

For 50 years, bald eagles were deemed “of special concern” under Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, but they were finally removed from the list last year. The nesting pair is the first in Toronto’s recorded history. ##Bald Eagles Nesting in Toronto.

Along with the City of Toronto, the TRCA will actively work to minimize disturbances around the nest, said McDonald.

“I think most people are excited that we have eagles nesting in Toronto,” said Mark Peck, member of the Toronto Ornithological Club and an ornithologist at the Royal Ontario Museum. “We should be thrilled that the local ecosystem is healthy and able to support a pair of bald eagles.”

Peck said hopefully it encourages people to care more about the local ecosystem and native species because that would be the best outcome of all.

“Bald eagles have made a remarkable recovery since the 1960s [when] pesticides and pollution which had a disastrous impact on their populations throughout much of North America,” added Peck.

According to McDonald, bald eagles have a varied diet, including fish, waterfowl, small mammals and scavenged dead animals, and exhibit opportunistic feeding behaviour. They typically lay one to three eggs annually, which have an incubation period of 34 to 36 days. Some bald eagles are residents, while others are long-distance migrants, with those in northern areas heading south for winter when water freezes.

“Toronto’s eagles may be residents as long as open water persists through winter and they can find enough food,” she said.

In theory, smaller birds and mammals would see bald eagles as a potential threat since they are an apex predator, said McDonald. However, anecdotally, staff have not observed changes in other wildlife populations in the vicinity of the nest.

“As a keystone species, bald eagles play a major role in food web interactions. As predators, they prey on other animals, helping to keep those populations fit by killing sick, weak or old individuals,” said McDonald. “As scavengers, they eat dead animals, helping to clean up our environment.

“Their decision to nest in Toronto indicates that there is a strong forage base in the city.”

The TRCA will continue monitoring the nesting eagle family while conducting other activities at the site, said McDonald. She noted the region is seeing an encouraging rebound of other important species, too.

“Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, the City of Toronto and government and community partners have been making significant investments toward improving fish and wildlife habitat on the Toronto waterfront and we are seeing the return of species like northern river otter and muskellunge.”

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