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The battle is still on to try to get tickets to Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour, with the singer performing in Toronto in November and in Vancouver in December. But some Canadians have taken matters into their own hands to celebrate "The Tortured Poets Department" artist, planning a fan experience titled "Toronto’s Version: Taylgate ’24."

Throughout all six dates of the Swift's sold out tour dates in Toronto (Nov. 14 - 16 and Nov. 21 - 23), fans can head to the city's Metro Toronto Convention Centre to take over the North Building. Set to run between 1:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. ET each day.

The idea is that fans with tickets can meet up and celebrate with other Swifties before the show, and those without tickets can still have a communal Swift celebration. Activities will include an area to make and exchange friendship bracelets, places to add a little more sparkle to their Eras Tour glam, and there will also be live DJ sets, sing-along spaces and Taylgate merchandise for purchase.

There are also plans to have a parent and guardian "waiting lounge" for anyone picking up Swift fans from the concert.

"I have two teenage daughters and they want a place to hang out with all their friends – not just the ones they’re sitting with at the show," a statement from event producer and co-founder Bram Goldstein reads. "With our venue being steps from the Rogers Centre, this event just made sense."

"We have a commitment to create the best possible experience for the artist’s fans and Torontonians; both those who did and didn’t get tickets to the big show," Joel Wolinsky, producer and co-founder of the event said in a statement.

Tickets to "Toronto’s Version: Taylgate ’24" are available for $55 at torontosversion.com for all six dates. While there haven't been any brand sponsorships announced yet, the event organizer have committed to supporting of two charities: Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Canada and Daily Bread Food Bank .

“We look forward to welcoming fans for Taylgate ’24, and we’re thrilled to be hosting this fantastic event,” Christine Tse, vice president of marketing and communications at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre said in a statement. "Special events like this play a crucial role in drawing out-of-town visitors to Toronto and generate such a positive impact on the local economy."

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Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour

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with special guest Gracie Abrams Friday, December 6, 2024 Saturday, December 7, 2024 Sunday, December 8, 2024 BC Place Vancouver, BC

SUITE INQUIRIES If you would like to inquire about a suite for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour, please email [email protected] with the following information:

• Your full name & business name (if applicable)
• Phone number
• The ideal number of people you would like to accommodate in the suite
• Preferred show date 

STADIUM CLEAR BAG POLICY To ensure a safe environment for the public and align with industry standards, BC Place has implemented a restricted bag policy as part of our integrated security plan. Visit  bcplace.com/bag-policy  to learn more.

TOUR INFORMATION It was announced on November 2, 2023 that Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has added three Vancouver dates in 2024. The additional Vancouver dates of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour, presented by Rogers, will take place at BC Place in Vancouver December 6-8, 2024.

Verified Fan Registration is now open for these additional shows in Vancouver. Fans can register HERE through Saturday, November 4th at 5 pm PT. Tickets will go on sale starting Thursday, November 9th. Fans who receive an email confirming their onsale access will be able to join the queue for this Verified Fan Onsale. Fans selected to get access to the sale will receive a unique access code and link via text message the day prior to their Verified Fan Onsale. Access to this sale, or to tickets, is not guaranteed for any registrants. Ticket availability is limited. Tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis while currently available inventory lasts. Additional information can be found HERE .

In addition, through RBC’s sponsorship of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour in Canada, and as the Official Financial Services Partner and an Official Ticket Access Partner, Avion Rewards members will have the opportunity to access an exclusive allocation of tickets. For more information on accessing the ticket purchase opportunity through the Avion Rewards registration, please visit: https://registration.ticketmaster.com/rbctstheerastour .  

The 2024 Vancouver shows will be supported by Gracie Abrams, produced by Taylor Swift Touring and promoted by Messina Touring Group.

To stay up to date on Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour go to: taylorswift.com /tour

About Gracie Abrams Since making her debut with “Mean It” in 2019, Gracie Abrams has emerged as one of the most compelling songwriters of her generation. A consummate songwriter who names Joni Mitchell as her most formative influence, she penned her first song at age 8, then went on to amass a devoted following on the strength of her emotionally intimate lyrics. Her debut project  minor  was released in summer 2020. The 7-song effort features her beloved singles “21,” “I miss you, I’m sorry,” and “Long Sleeves.” In 2021, Abrams returned with  This Is What It Feels Like , a 12-track project exploring such complex emotions as self-betrayal, insecurity, and failed attempts at connection. Soon after completing her sold-out North American headline tour for  This Is What It Feels Like , she set to work on her long-awaited debut album. Released in February, and produced by  Aaron Dessner  of  The National ,  Good Riddance  finds  Abrams  opening up about a recent period of intense transformation, bringing even more honesty and depth to her lyrical storytelling.  Praising  Good Riddance  as “one of 2023’s best debuts,”  Rolling Stone  hailed  Abrams  as “one of pop’s buzziest young artists.” Upon its release Abrams set out on a sold-out North American headline tour and is currently supporting on select dates of the blockbuster Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour.  Abrams just released a deluxe version of  Good Riddance  featuring four additional songs.

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Four long years and six new and re-recorded albums later, it’s finally happening. Taylor Swift is officially taking her full discography Lover , Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights on tour – but with no plans (as of right now) to stop in Canada.

Aptly named The Era’s Tour, this series of highly anticipated shows will kick off in Glendale, Arizona and hit 20 cities from coast to coast with more “international dates to be announced” soon – though this doesn’t confirm whether or not the north is on her list. 

Luckily, some of her recently announced cities are just over the border so here’s your city’s closest show – just in case you don’t want to risk missing it entirely.

CALGARY, EDMONTON AND VANCOUVER:   7/22 – Seattle, Washington: special guests HAIM and Gracie Abrams

TORONTO : 6/10 Detroit, Michigan: special guests Girl in Red and Owenn

MONTREAL : 05/19 and 05/20 Foxborough, Massachusetts: special guests Phoebe Bridgers and GAYLE and

Related Posts: You can enjoy a series of candlelit tribute concerts to Taylor Swift this month in Calgary People named ‘Jake’ can get a $300 travel credit thanks to Taylor Swift

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift)

While Swifties will have to wait until 2023 to ‘ shake it off ‘in stadiums around the country, tickets will be available starting November 18th, 2022 at 10 am local time so get ready and ‘stay, stay, stay’ ready.

If the chaos that took place even before the release of her most recent record has been any indication at all – these tickets are going to go FAST and you’ll need to be prepared.

As mentioned, this will be her first time back on the road since 2018 and with no insight into when her next album will be released, it could be a while until fans are able to gather again.

It’s going to be a mad dash!

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Taylor Swift leaves Canada out of international tour dates and fans are furious

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On Tuesday afternoon, Taylor Swift announced dozens of new international dates for her sold-out The Eras Tour in 2024, including stops in Japan, Australia, Singapore, and the U.K. 

However, Canadian Swifties began desperately searching for answers after the country was noticeably absent from the long list of tour dates planned for next year  — once again.  

EXCUSE ME HI I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY 🙋‍♀️ I can’t wait to see so many of you on The Eras Tour next year at these new international dates! Visit https://t.co/EYBevxhQzH for more information on your registrations, pre-sales and on-sales!! pic.twitter.com/G8zx8QUUAV — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 20, 2023

The sixth headlining concert tour by Swift  — which takes you through all of her "musical eras"  — has been met with unprecedented demand, and even crashed Ticketmaster's website immediately after presale tickets went live on Nov. 15, 2022. 

Although 2.4 million tickets were sold that day, Ticketmaster faced intense public criticism after thousands of frustrated fans were still unable to secure seats for the highly-anticipated tour. 

taylor swift hater of canada confirmed https://t.co/knH6yt2FyR — dea🐇 (@doedeerdea) June 20, 2023

During the first leg of the tour, Canadian Swifties who were desperate to see the American singer-songwriter live were forced to make road trips out to nearby cities in the U.S., and it looks like fans may have to purchase plane tickets this time around. 

Taylor swift going practically everywhere in the world except for Canada pic.twitter.com/V8tFCvl3FM — victoria 🌻 (@victoriashaz) June 20, 2023

Rumours involving Canadian dates in 2024 continue to circulate online, with many speculating that Swift may finally perform in Toronto as part of a potential extended U.S. tour. 

Taylor rn to Canada and majority of asia pic.twitter.com/CCaZZjxyeG — nicole (saw taylor swift) (@nterceira) June 20, 2023

In the meantime, fans are continuing to flood social media with "Taylor Swift vs. Canada" related jokes. 

Why does Taylor swift hate canada is it because of the blue jays — ayushi ⎕ (@d0nty0um1nd) June 20, 2023

International dates begin in Mexico City on Aug. 24, and will commence in Tokyo once again on Feb. 7, 2024. The Eras Tour will wrap up with its final date in London on Aug. 17, 2024.

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Cost, stadium size, fewer options: Possible reasons Taylor Swift has skipped Canada

Taylor Swift's Canadian fans were left heartbroken and confused this week as they tried to understand why the pop superstar seems prepared to skip their country on her Eras Tour.

Swift announced nearly 40 new dates on a tour that sees her wind through Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia over the next year. Missing from the latest round of shows are stops in Canada.

It's raised questions why the "Cruel Summer" singer-songwriter, who's in the midst of an extensive summer tour in the United States, would choose not to bring her career-spanning, three-hour show to Canada.

Neither Swift nor her management has addressed the decision, while her record label Universal Music Canada declined to comment.

Some in the music industry suggest that it's hard to pin down just one possible reason.

"You're trying to get into the mind of the person who has the largest parasocial relationship with everyone in the world," said Liam Killeen, who manages Canadian acts the Tea Party and Classified at Coalition Music.

"We just don't know what she thinks."

Here are some factors that may have affected why Canadian Swifties can't have nice things:

VENUE SIZE MATTERS:

When it comes to selling out a stadium show, Canada just can't size up to the competition. Many of Swift's U.S. concerts were booked in massive venues, including the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, which was able to hold up to 73,000 people for each of the two nights she played, while the new SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles will bring in 69,000 people per show over five nights in August. Canada's stadiums don't compete. For instance, the Rogers Centre in Toronto tops out around 55,000 people for concerts, while other stadiums are the same size or smaller, meaning Swift would pull in less revenue per performance.

CANADA IS EXPENSIVE: Combine fewer stadium tickets to sell with the weaker Canadian dollar and the allure of playing our biggest cities begins to fade for some foreign acts. One local music agency representative says unfavourable exchange rates can put extra pressure on trying to balance profits without a significant hike to ticket prices. With many concertgoers facing a rising cost of living, some artists have said they don't want to carry the burden of fans thinking they're overcharging for the experience. Swift has already faced a round of negative attention over markups for her U.S. concerts that saw some fans paying thousands of dollars for resold tickets.

NO BAD BLOOD, BUT SHE DOESN'T NEED US:

Sure, it seems a given that Swift would schedule at least one concert date in Canada, especially since she's played the country on all of her previous tours. And most pop superstars wind through at least Toronto, if not other major cities such as Vancouver and Montreal. But some industry observers suggest that with Swift playing more than 50 dates south of the border this year, it's possible her tour bookers decided Canadian fans already had ample opportunities to catch her in the United States.

Todd Jenereaux, an executive at Republic Live, which organizes the Boots & Hearts country music festival in Oro-Medonte, Ont., said many Canadians are willing to travel far and wide for their favourite musicians.

"They're quite prepared, especially in the summer, to roll it into a vacation," he said. "I'll bet you the Nashville stops had lots of Canadians at the Taylor Swift shows, because it becomes part of tourism. They book a weekend, have their concert tickets, and they do Nashville stuff the rest of the time."

WE COULD STILL GET BACK TOGETHER?:

For all the fuss around the lack of Canadian dates, it's quite possible Swift hasn't written us off. Major stadium tours sometimes wind through North America for a victory lap, as Elton John did with his retirement tour. John started in North America and came back twice more over several years. Swift's Eras Tour captures her 10 studio albums to this point and comes as she re-records and re-releases her entire back catalogue. With several more albums to go, that means there could still be plenty of blank space left on her tour schedule for the coming years to hit up at least a few provinces.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 23, 2022.

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LONDON (AP) — Thousands of ride-or-die Taylor Swift fans who missed out on her U.S. concert tour last year or didn’t want to buy exorbitantly priced tickets to see her again found an out-of-the-way solution: Fly to Europe.

The pop star is scheduled to kick off the 18-city Europe leg of her record-setting Eras Tour in Paris on Thursday, and planeloads of Swifties plan to follow Miss Americana across the pond in the coming weeks. The arena where Swift is appearing said Americans bought 20% of the tickets for her four sold-out shows. Stockholm, the tour’s next stop, expects about 10,000 concertgoers from the U.S.

A concert might sound like an odd raison d’etre for visiting a foreign country, especially when fans can watch the Eras Tour from home via the documentary now streaming on Disney+. Yet online travel company Expedia says continent-hopping by Swift’s devotees is part of a larger trend it dubbed “tour tourism” while observing a pattern that emerged during Beyoncé’s Renaissance world tour.

Some North American fans who plan to fly overseas for the Eras Tour said they justified the expense after noticing that tighter restrictions on ticket fees and resales in Europe made seeing Swift perform abroad no more costly — and potentially cheaper — than catching her closer to home.

“They said, ’Wait a minute, I can either spend $1,500 to go see my favorite artist in Miami, or I can take that $1,500 and buy a concert ticket, a round-trip plane ticket, and three nights in a hotel room,” Melanie Fish, an Expedia spokesperson and travel expert, said.

That was the experience of Jennifer Warren, 43, who lives in St. Catharines, a city in the Niagara region of Ontario. She and her 11-year-old son love Swift but had no luck scoring what she considered as decently priced tickets in the U.S. Undeterred, Warren and her husband decided to plan a European vacation around wherever she managed to get seats. It turned out to be Hamburg, Germany.

“You get out, you get to see the world, and you get to see your favorite artist or performer at the same time, so there are a lot of wins to it,” said Warren, who works as the director of research and innovation for a mutual insurance company.

The three VIP tickets she secured close to the stage — “I would call it brute-force dumb luck” — cost 600 euros ($646) each. Swift subsequently announced six November tour dates in Toronto, within driving distance of Warren’s home. “Absolute nose-bleed seats” already are going for 3,000 Canadian dollars ($2,194) on secondary resale sites like Viagogo, Warren said.

TOUR TOURISM: IS IT REALLY A THING?

Travel and entertainment analysts have spoken of a pent-up consumer demand for “experiences” over material objects since the coronavirus pandemic. Some think the willingness of music lovers to broaden their fandom horizons is part of the same mass cultural correction.

“It does seem like it’s more than a structural shift, maybe a personality transformation we all went through,” said Natalia Lechmanova, the chief Europe economist for the Mastercard Economics Institute.

As Swift hopscotches across Europe, Lechmanova expects restaurants and hotels to see the same boost that Mastercard observed within a 2.5-mile (4-kilometer) radius of concert venues in the U.S. cities she visited in 2023. The U.S. dollar’s strong value against the euro may also increase retail spending on apparel, memorabilia, beauty products and supplies for the friendship bracelets fans exchange as part of the Eras Tour experience, the economist said.

Former college roommates Lizzy Hale, 34, who lives in Los Angeles, and Mitch Goulding, 33, who lives in Austin, Texas, already had tickets to see the Eras Tour in L.A. last summer when they decided to try to get ones for Paris, London or Edinburgh, Scotland, too. They saw a Europe concert trip as a makeup for travel plans they had in May 2020 to celebrate Goulding’s birthday but had to cancel due to the pandemic.

Goulding managed to secure VIP tickets for one of Swift’s three Stockholm shows. He, Hale and two other friends scheduled a 10-day trip that also includes time in Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

“As people who enjoy traveling and enjoy music, if you can find an opportunity to combine the two, it’s really special,” Hale said.

FOR STOCKHOLM, 120,000 SWIFTIES CAN’T BE WRONG

In Stockholm, 120,000 out-of-towners from 130 countries — among them 10,000 from the U.S. — are expected to swarm Sweden’s capital this month, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Chief Economist Carl Bergqvist said. Stockholm is the only Scandinavian city on Swift’s tour, and airlines added extra flights from nearby Denmark, Finland and Norway to bring people to the May 17-19 shows, he said.

The city’s 40,000 hotel rooms are sold out even though prices skyrocketed for the tour dates, Bergqvist said. Concert visitors are expected to pump around 500 million Swedish kroner, or over $46 million, into the local economy over the course of their stays, an estimate that does not include what they paid for Swift tickets or to get to Sweden, he said.

Houston resident Caroline Matlock, 29, is making friendship bracelets and trying to learn a few words of Swedish as she prepares to see the 3 1/2-hour show in Stockholm. Also on the itinerary: visiting the Scandinavian cities of Oslo and Gothenburg.

The concert is the last night of the trip and Matlock looks forward to interacting with Swifties from other countries: “Americans tend to have a very obsessive culture, especially Taylor Swift-related, so I’m curious if the crowd will be more toned-down.”

WILL TOUR TOURISM ENDURE AFTER ERAS?

It remains to be seen if the music tourism trend has legs as long and strong as Swift’s and Beyoncé’s, and if it will carry over to Billie Eilish, Usher and other artists with world tours scheduled next year. Expedia’s Fish thinks other big-name artists in Europe this summer will prove that booking a foreign trip around a concert is catching on.

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Kat Morga, a travel consultant based in Nashville, isn’t so sure. Morga saw Swift perform in Nashville last year and helped two clients with school-aged children book European family vacations this summer that include seeing Swift in concert. But she thinks the difficulty of navigating ticket purchases through language barriers, currency conversions, international banking regulations and the risk of cancellations will limit the appeal of regular gig getaways.

“I think this is an anomaly,” Morga said. “People aren’t typically going to build their $20,000 huge family vacation only because Taylor Swift is there. She’s the one-off. She’s special.”

Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel, whose company operates Booking.com, priceline.com, agoda.com, Kayak and OpenTable, is even less enthusiastic about concert tours as a tourism instigator. The Swift Effect causes a “little blip” when the superstar goes to smaller destinations, but for the worldwide travel industry, “one star touring around does not make a difference,” he said.

AP journalists Colleen Barry in Milan, Chisato Tanaka in Stockholm, Anne D’Innocenzio in New York, David Koenig in Dallas, Thomas Adamson in Paris and Brian Melley in London contributed reporting.

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