Blue Rodeo celebrates 30th anniversary of “Five Days in July” with show at Massey Hall

TORONTO, October 23, 2023  – On December 14^th, legendary alt-country rockers Blue Rodeo will return to Toronto, hitting the city’s iconic venue Massey Hall for the second time this year. With 2023 marking the 30^th anniversary of the band’s massively successful fifth studio album Five Days in July, fans can look forward to hearing songs from the six-time platinum classic record, while also enjoying some more favourites from over the years.

“Five Days in July” in its Entirety

“We have a rare opportunity to revisit Five Days In July in its entirety,” says Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy. “This being the record’s 30th birthday, we thought we would do a few special shows and play the record front to back. It’s been a blast!”

Blue Rodeo Fan Club members can access pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, October 24. Additional pre-sales will run throughout the week. The general on sale begins Friday, October 27 at 10am at www.ticketmaster.ca.

Get up to date with Blue Rodeo

For close to thirty years now, Blue Rodeo has taken the road less travelled – and succeeded far beyond anyone’s expectations. The band emerged in the early 80’s as a countrified rock band in the era of hair metal and glossy pop. Despite sticking out like a sore thumb (or maybe because of it), their single “Try” became omni-present on radio across Canada and set in motion a three decade long career of headlining every club, theatre and arena in Canada. In 1993, when grunge rock was squeezing commercial rock off the radio, they recorded their most acoustic album, Five Days In July, and scored their biggest hit selling over a half million copies of that one record alone.

Many A Mile

Now, with their 16th Warner Music Canada studio album – Many A Mile – Blue Rodeo’s successes are measured in terms that include induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (2012), receiving a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (2014) and acknowledgement that the band has steadfastly defined itself by its own terms, and in the years that ensued, sold in excess of four million records.

Reflecting back on three decades of successes and those early Blue Rodeo days, both Jim and Greg are able to fully appreciate where the band sits in the pantheon of music. “Success seemed really real when we were entertaining people at The Horseshoe. That was the top of the heap for us,” Cuddy says. “When you look back, you realize that it has just been this beautiful dream.”

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