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Vancouver Sun
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
Blue Rodeo 40th anniversary tour in Vancouver: Here's what you should know
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Canadian rock band Blue Rodeo is hitting the road to celebrate its 40-year career. The Toronto band, which started in 1984, will kick off its Blue Rodeo 'Lost Together' – The 40th Anniversary Tour this fall in Western Canada before making its way across the country for a planned 27 concert dates. The tour will reflect on the 12-time Juno Award-winning band's four decades of music. The shows will pull from Blue Rodeo's impressive catalogue of music, which includes 16 full-length studio albums, a greatest hits album, and more. Get top headlines and gossip from the world of celebrity and entertainment. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sun Spots will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. 'Success seemed real when we were entertaining people in The Horseshoe in our hometown of Toronto. That was the top of the heap for us,' Jim Cuddy reflected in a news release about the tour. 'When you look back, you realize it's just been this beautiful dream.' The band will be joined for all dates on the tour by Canadian singer-songwriter Adam Baldwin. Here are a few things to know about the upcoming concerts. The Blue Rodeo 40th Anniversary Tour kicks off Oct. 1 at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary. The tour wraps with two nights at the Massey Hall in Toronto on Jan. 24, 2026. Blue Rodeo is set to take the stage at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver on Oct. 7 and 8. Following the two dates at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, Blue Rodeo will play two additional dates in B.C. The band will head to Vancouver Island for a show at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria on Oct. 9. Then, they will head to the Okanagan for a date at Prospera Place in Kelowna on Oct. 11. See the full list of tour dates below: Tickets for the upcoming tour are available now for presale for Blue Rodeo Fan Club members on . Additional presale tickets go on sale via Ticketmaster throughout this week with general tickets sales going live on June 6 at 10 a.m. Love concerts, but can't make it to the venue? Stream live shows and events from your couch with VEEPS, a music-first streaming service now operating in Canada. Click here for an introductory offer of 30% off. Explore upcoming concerts and the extensive archive of past performances.
Winnipeg Free Press
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
‘Try' and ‘Try' again: Blue Rodeo marks 40th anniversary with 27-date Canadian tour
TORONTO – Blue Rodeo is making the most of its 40th anniversary with a coast-to-coast Canadian tour. The legendary Toronto alt-country act has announced a 27-date run that kicks off this fall and continues into early next year. The tour begins with two nights in Calgary on Oct. 1 and 2, before winding through the western provinces, with stops that include Victoria, Edmonton and Vancouver. Other cities include Winnipeg, Ottawa and Montreal, and East Coast dates in Halifax and Saint John. The band ends its tour with two nights at Massey Hall in Toronto on Jan. 23 and 24, 2026. All of the dates will include Halifax singer-songwriter Adam Baldwin. Tickets go on sale to the general public on June 6. Blue Rodeo's spot in Canadian music history has been celebrated in a number of ways over the past year. Last fall, Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy were inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in recognition of their work together on songs that include 'Try' and '5 Days in May.' Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. Before they embark on their anniversary tour, Blue Rodeo will perform at several Canada Day weekend events, as well as at their annual summertime hometown show at Toronto's Budweiser Stage on Aug. 23. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 2, 2025.
CBC
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
James Foley, director of Glengarry Glen Ross, dead at 71
Social Sharing James Foley, a journeyman director best known for Glengarry Glen Ross, has died. He was 71. He died earlier this week after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, his representative, Taylor Lomax, said Friday. In his long and varied career, Foley directed music videos for Madonna, 12 episodes of House of Cards and the two Fifty Shades of Grey sequels, but it was his 1992 adaptation of David Mamet's foulmouthed Pulitzer Prize winning play that stood above the rest. Although it wasn't a hit at the time, Glengarry Glen Ross wormed its way into the culture and grew into an oft-quoted cult favourite, especially Alec Baldwin's "always be closing" monologue, which was unique to the film version of the play. Critic Tim Grierson wrote 20 years after its release that it remains "one of the quintessential modern movies about masculinity." "While there are many fine Mamet movies, it's interesting that the best of them was this one — the one he didn't direct," Grierson said. Hal Ashby took an early interest Born on Dec. 28, 1953, in Brooklyn, Foley studied film in graduate school at the University of Southern California. Legend has it that Hal Ashby once wandered into a film school party where his short happened to be playing at the time, and he took a liking to him. Foley would later attribute his ability to make his first feature, Reckless, a 1984 romantic drama about mismatched teenagers in love starring Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Adam Baldwin, to the Ashby stamp of approval. It was also the first screenplay credited to Chris Columbus, though there were reports of creative differences. He followed it with the Sean Penn crime drama At Close Range, the Madonna and Griffin Dunne screwball comedy Who's That Girl and the neo-noir thriller After Dark, My Sweet, with Jason Patric. Critic Roger Ebert included After Dark, My Sweet in his great movies list, calling it "one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern film noir" despite having been "almost forgotten." He also directed several music videos for Madonna, including Papa Don't Preach, Live to Tell and Who's That Girl, and an episode of Twin Peaks as well as an episode of Hannibal. Foley adapted John Grisham and worked with Gene Hackman on The Chamber and made the Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg teenage love-gone-scary thriller Fear. He worked with Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz on the 2003 American crime drama Confidence and helmed the largely derided Halle Berry and Bruce Willis psychological thriller Perfect Stranger, which was released in 2007. Bored by car chases and stunts It would be a decade before his next film was released, when he was given the reins to the Fifty Shades of Grey sequels: Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. "For me, what's most challenging is stuff that doesn't involve the actors, oddly enough. In three, there's a big car chase and there's different stunts and stuff, and that stuff really bores me," he told the Associated Press at the U.K. premiere of Fifty Shades Darker. "So, when the actors aren't around, that's difficult because the actors give me so much energy and kind of engagement and a car driving by doesn't do the same thing." Foley was not an easily definable director, but that was by design. In 2017, he told the Hollywood Reporter that he had no interest in repeating himself. "I've always just followed my nose, for better or for worse, sometimes for worse," he said. "What's best and what's worst [about the industry] are almost the same to me. What's worst is you get pigeonholed, and what's best is I haven't been. It means that I'm still making movies, despite hopping all over the place."
