Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour is finally coming to an end after almost two years of friendship bracelets and glittering bodysuits.
Swift will play her final three shows on the tour, which has spanned five countries and nearly 150 performances, this weekend in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Eras Tour, which began in March 2023, has become the highest-grossing concert tour in history and has established itself as a cultural phenomenon, regularly garnering headlines and igniting a never-ending frenzy of fan conjecture and excitement.
The tour was already being credited by the Federal Reserve with benefiting the U.S. economy by promoting tourism by the summer of 2023. By the end of its first weekend in North America, her October release, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, had become the highest-grossing domestic concert film ever.
Swift won Time’s 2023 Person of the Year award thanks to the excitement around her tour and the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) last year. This year’s foreign leg of her tour took on new dimensions with the release of her most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department, in April.
Universities all around the nation have started offering Swift-themed courses to examine everything from her business tactics to her lyrics. Swiftie’s annoyance with the difficulty of buying Eras Tour tickets also served as a potent political catalyst, accelerating federal investigation of Ticketmaster’s hegemony in the ticketing market.
Numerous songs from Swift’s numerous studio albums, titled “eras,” are included in the Eras Tour set list, some of which she had never performed on tour before. The grandeur of Swift’s three-plus-hour performances will be too vividly remembered by many who were fortunate enough to purchase tickets.
Over the course of around five months, the 2023 Eras Tour traveled to 20 locations across the United States, beginning in Arizona. Swift began the first foreign leg of her tour in August 2023, stopping in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil before taking a few months off. The Eras Tour was briefly marred by tragedy last year when a 23-year-old fan passed away after her performance in Rio de Janeiro due to extremely high temperatures.
Swift resumed her tour in February of 2024, starting with Japan and then proceeding to Australia and Singapore. Swift performed in France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Poland during her extensive European tour this year. In the UK, she also performed in Wales, Scotland, and England. (This year, her performances in Vienna were canceled because of what the authorities claimed was a failed terrorist plan.)
The Eras Tour made a comeback to the US this year, performing in Florida, Louisiana, and Indiana. Swift’s upcoming three performances in Vancouver will truly signal the end of an era, following her six-night run in Toronto last month.
What fans need to know about the last shows is as follows.
When do the Vancouver shows kick off?
Swift will play three consecutive gigs at BC Place stadium over the weekend in Vancouver, marking the final stop of the Eras Tour. The show starts Friday night. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. for a showtime at 6:45 p.m. on December 6–8.
The stadium has a strong policy against overnight camping and says concertgoers cannot line up before 3:30 p.m. on event days. Visitors may enter the stadium with a larger, transparent bag or a smaller one, such as a clutch handbag.
What Canadian officials have to say to Swifties
The Canada Border Services Agency is urging tourists to go over its list of border-crossing travel tips, which includes having the right identification and being ready to declare any items they’re bringing with them, as Canada gets ready for another wave of foreign fans hoping to see Swift’s tour come to an end.
According to the organization, Swifties who are flying into Canada can also save time by filing their customs declaration ahead of time. Additionally, by reviewing the current wait times at its different border crossings, land-based travelers can make more effective plans.
According to a spokeswoman who emailed NBC News, the CBSA puts a lot of work into planning and getting ready for periods of high travel demand. Without sacrificing safety and security, the Agency keeps an eye on the number of travelers and makes every effort to reduce border wait times at ports of entry.
There’s no Tayl-gating allowed at the stadium
This time, Vancouver’s ticketless Swifties won’t be congregating outside the stadium to join in the singing. Since Swift’s performances have frequently been attended by large crowds in the stadium parking lots trying to get a look or just take in the music, fans have relished the custom wherever it was permitted throughout the Eras Tour.
However, non-ticket holders will not be allowed in the vicinity of BC Place for her last three performances. In a media briefing last week, the general manager of the venue, Chris May, stated that there is no need to go Taylgate if you do not have tickets, according to The Canadian Press.
May informed reporters that there isn’t a specific area for gathering outside. The safety of ticket holders and visitors is our top priority.
Roads surrounding the stadium will be closed from midday to midnight on show days, according to BC Place’s website, and the stadium will be gated off throughout its circumference, the organization confirmed to NBC News.
Will there be any surprises?
Throughout the Eras Tour, Swift’s last performance has been the subject of constant rumors.
As usual, fans are holding out hope for the much anticipated release of one of her two unreleased re-recorded albums: Taylor Swift’s debut, Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Version), and Reputation (Taylor’s Version). Others are hoping that Swift would return Long Live, a song that is generally believed to be dedicated to her fans, to the repertoire for the last performances or that a behind-the-scenes Eras Tour documentary will be announced.
However, Swift and her team have not confirmed any of the claims, and it is typical for fervent rumors to go unanswered. Meanwhile, there has been some online chatter among fans who are organizing their own surprise: singing Swift’s birthday on the final night of the tour, which is the Sunday before her birthday on December 13.
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