Blue Rodeo

Blue Rodeo is returning to the Festival Theatre in Stratford, ON, on December 4 and 5.  And starting Monday October 5, at 11 am EDT, BlueRodeo.com will have tickets available for your presale purchases.  Ensure that you are logged in to your BlueRodeo.com Member account (and that your payment and delivery info is all up-to-date) first thing Monday morning because these tickets will go fast!

Hey Western New York, we haven’t forgotten about you! Tomorrow morning, October 2, at 11 am EDT, tickets for the November 19 show at the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda will be on sale through BlueRodeo.com.

Check out the Tickets page for links to all of these presales.

Blue Rodeo’s new album The Things We Left Behind is due to be released November 10, and we can now reveal the track listing for this double disc / double vinyl recording.  Read on after the jump for the full run down.

It has been announced that Blue Rodeo will take part in Whistler Live!, a free concert presented by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.  The performance is schedule for February 28, 2010, in the Whistler Village Square. You can visit the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad website for more information, and please also visit the Official Website of Whistler.  Some good advice: take the Sea to Sky Highway shuttle bus from Vancouver as this will be the best way to get into Whistler during the Olympics.

Following the release of The Things We Left Behind on November 10, Blue Rodeo will make a brief trip to the US for a series of 5 dates, including two special nights in New York City: one, an acoustic performance and the other fully electric.

For a look at the complete list of shows, please visit the Tour page now. Information on ticket sales will be added as we receive it, so check back often. Tickets for these shows will be on sale to BlueRodeo.com members Thursday, September 17, in the BlueRodeo.com Store.

Canada’s Walk of Fame unveiled our very own Blue Rodeo’s star on the walk yesterday in a Toronto ceremony. BlueRodeo.com members Bluegirl and julesheart won a chance to be there.  For the rest of us that weren’t able to be part of the action, Global Television and Slice will be airing last night’s festivities TONIGHT at 9 pm EST. It is almost like being there!

At last, the news you’ve all been waiting for: Blue Rodeo’s twelfth studio album, The Things We Left Behind will be released on November 3, 2009.

We’ll be sharing many more details in the coming weeks, so make sure you keep an on this space, and register for the BlueRodeo.com mailing list if you haven’t already.

CBC-TV has a couple of very interesting documentaries airing on Thursday nights for the next few weeks.  Each of these programs take a look back at the Canadian music scene in the 1970s and 1980s.  This Beat Goes On focuses on the ground-breaking era of great sounds, from glam and progressive rock to punk and reggae of the 1970s.  From Gordon Lightfoot and Burton Cummings to Trooper and Loverboy, by the end of the decade the Can-rock revolution had arrived.

The second documentary, Rise Up puts the spotlight on the 1980s, an era of big hair and bigger shoulder pads.  MTV and MuchMusic have arrived, giving homegrown artists the ability to take off internationally. The late 80s sees the rise of some diverse new sounds, including the alt-country of our own Blue Rodeo and Cowboy Junkies and the hip hop beats of Maestro and Michie Mee.

Follow and join in on the conversation about these documentaries right now in the BlueRodeo.com forum.   And check your local CBC-TV (and CBC Newsworld) schedules for dates and air times.

Glenn Michem’s side project, The Swallows, is touching down this Thursday, August 20, at Toronto’s Graffiti’s, located in Kensington Market. This pay-what-you-can show starts around 10, with doors opening at 9:30 pm.

On October 6, the Jim Cuddy Band will perform at the Grand Theatre in London, ON, for A Concert for the Kids, a fund raising event for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Bethany’s Hope Foundation and the George Bray Sports Association. Tickets for this very special show go onsale Monday, August 10 at 10 am EDT.

You must be a BlueRodeo.com member to take advantage of our presales, so create an account now if you don’t have one already. And for a look at the complete list of upcoming JCB and Blue Rodeo shows, check out the Tour page.

Hey Blue Rodeo fans – we did it! Canada’s Walk of Fame has just announced that one of this year’s inductees is none other than our own Blue Rodeo! Congratulations! Without all of your support and votes, this obviously could not have happened.  Give yourselves a pat on the back.

And big congrats to BlueRodeo.com members Bluegirl and julesheart for winning trips to the prestigious ceremony happening in September.  They will have the opportunity to mingle with the stars!