Bryan Adams Tour 2026

Inside Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams is a Canadian rock institution four decades into an arena-touring career that doesn't show any signs of slowing down. Born Bryan Guy Adams in Kingston, Ontario on November 5, 1959 and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia after a childhood that moved with his father's diplomatic postings, he started his first band as a teenager, sold his college savings to buy a grand piano at fifteen, and was writing songs for other artists by the time he signed his own deal with A&M Records in 1979.

The breakthrough came with Reckless in 1984 — six top-fifteen singles in the United States, five-times-diamond certification in Canada, and the kind of rock-radio dominance that turned Summer of '69, Run to You, Heaven, and Somebody into permanent fixtures of the format. The early 1990s reshaped his career a second time when (Everything I Do) I Do It for You, written for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, sat at number one on the UK singles chart for sixteen consecutive weeks — a record that still stands — and Waking Up the Neighbours sold sixteen million copies worldwide.

He's done the theme-song thing three different ways since (Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman from Don Juan DeMarco, I Finally Found Someone with Barbra Streisand, the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron soundtrack in full), released studio albums on a roughly three-year cycle through the 2000s and 2010s, built a parallel career as a fine-art and editorial photographer with two coffee-table books and a London gallery show, and stayed publicly committed to vegan and animal-welfare activism through The Bryan Adams Foundation. The current touring era — So Happy It Hurts Tour into Roll With the Punches Tour — pulls from the entire catalogue across roughly two hours of arena rock and stripped-back acoustic interludes.

This page is the landing spot for tour dates, ticket links, setlists, and city-specific show info, kept current year-round whatever leg of the calendar he's on.

About Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams CC OBC was born in Kingston, Ontario in November 1959, the son of a Canadian Army officer who later joined the Canadian foreign service, and grew up across postings in Portugal, Austria, Israel, and the United Kingdom before the family settled in North Vancouver, British Columbia in the early 1970s. He dropped out of high school at fifteen, cashed in the college savings his parents had put aside, bought a grand piano, and started gigging Vancouver clubs almost immediately.

His first real band was Sweeney Todd — he replaced original singer Nick Gilder in 1976 and recorded the album If Wishes Were Horses with them at sixteen — before pivoting back to songwriting with future collaborator Jim Vallance, the partnership that would write almost every Bryan Adams hit of the 1980s. A&M Records Canada signed him in 1979 and released his self-titled debut in 1980; You Want It You Got It followed in 1981, Cuts Like a Knife in 1983 (his first international breakthrough on the back of the title track and Straight from the Heart), and then Reckless in November 1984 — the record that ended any argument about whether he was a real rock star.

Reckless sold five-times diamond in Canada, twelve million worldwide, generated six US top-fifteen singles, and put him on the global arena circuit. Into the Fire arrived in 1987, Waking Up the Neighbours in 1991, and the run of early-1990s theme-song singles — (Everything I Do) I Do It for You for Robin Hood, All for Love with Sting and Rod Stewart for The Three Musketeers, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman for Don Juan DeMarco, and Please Forgive Me as a stand-alone single — made him one of the most ubiquitous voices on adult-contemporary radio in the world. 18 til I Die followed in 1996, On a Day Like Today in 1998, the Anthology hits collection in 2005, 11 in 2008, Tracks of My Years in 2014, Get Up in 2015 (produced by Jeff Lynne of ELO), Shine a Light in 2019, So Happy It Hurts in 2022, and Roll With the Punches in 2024.

Alongside the music he built a second career as a professional photographer — portrait work for Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and the Pirelli Calendar, plus published collections Exposed and Wounded — and has been a vocal vegan and animal-rights advocate through his foundation for decades. He holds the Order of Canada (Companion), the Order of British Columbia, multiple honorary doctorates, an Officer of the Order of Canada upgrade, and induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Canada's Walk of Fame.

Bryan Adams tour dates

Bryan Adams tours in long global cycles. The current Roll With the Punches Tour — and the So Happy It Hurts Tour run that preceded it — typically routes Europe and the United Kingdom across spring and summer in arena-and-amphitheatre venues, picks up festival headline slots through the warm months on the continent, and then comes back to North America for an autumn arena leg with selected dates in Latin America, Australia, and Asia attached to the calendar where the routing allows.

A typical night runs 110 to 130 minutes with no intermission. The opener is usually a hot-blooded rocker — Kick Ass, So Happy It Hurts, or Roll With the Punches itself — followed by an early run through Can't Stop This Thing We Started, Run to You, and Heaven on Earth.

Mid-show he pulls the full band off and runs a stripped-back acoustic segment from the front of the stage, just guitar and harmonica and the closer-than-arena sightlines that the format allows, before bringing the electric band back for the singalong final third. The full electric touring band — Mickey Curry on drums for years, Keith Scott on lead guitar since the early 1980s, Gary Breit on keys, and Solomon Walker on bass — is among the tightest in the format, and the show pace never sags through the back half of the set.

Use the live schedule above to filter the current tour leg by city and date; each event card links straight through to the venue listing with broadcast and start-time details. If a leg has just wrapped, check back soon — Bryan Adams books another routing roughly every twelve to eighteen months and rarely skips a major market across consecutive cycles.

Bryan Adams tickets

Bryan Adams tickets on tour are sold through Ticketmaster as the primary outlet, with secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, and Ticketmaster's own verified resale platform linked from each event card on this page. Arena pricing sits in a wide range: upper-bowl seats for a midweek non-major-market date can start around $45 USD, lower-bowl and floor seats typically run $110 to $260, and premium packages that bundle floor seating with exclusive merch, an early-entry photo opportunity, and a soundcheck access pass climb past $700 on the marquee markets.

Fan club presales through the official Bryan Adams site go up roughly a week before the public on-sale and are the strongest path to good floor seats on the major markets — London, Toronto, Vancouver, Berlin, Sydney, New York. Citi, American Express, and venue-specific presales fill the rest of the early-access window before the general on-sale opens to the wider public.

UK and European arena pricing skews lower than North American equivalents on the same tour; festival headline slots in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK sometimes offer the cheapest single-night entry of the entire cycle if you're willing to do general admission on a field. Dynamic pricing is now standard on Bryan Adams on-sales, so face value can swing significantly between the moment the queue opens and the moment you check out — the secondary market often drops 15 to 25 percent in the final ten days before non-major dates.

Bryan Adams setlist

A current Bryan Adams setlist is built around the hits and stays remarkably consistent night to night across a tour leg. Expect the opener to land on Kick Ass — a recent staple — followed by an early electric run through Can't Stop This Thing We Started, Somebody, and Run to You with the full band locked in tight from the first downbeat.

The middle of the show pulls in Cuts Like a Knife, Heaven, and Please Forgive Me before the acoustic segment thins the band out for It's Only Love, Straight from the Heart, and the harmonica-led acoustic reprise that he sometimes runs as a solo piece down at the front of the stage with the houselights up. The back half drops the full band back in for So Happy It Hurts, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman, the title-track Roll With the Punches off the most recent record, and the inevitable Summer of '69 singalong that the room has been waiting for since doors opened.

The closer is almost always (Everything I Do) I Do It for You — the sixteen-week-UK-number-one ballad that he plays as a stadium-arms-up megaclose, complete with the spotlight piano intro and the full final chorus carried by the crowd. For night-by-night accuracy check setlist.fm after the first show of any new leg; fan submissions usually go up within a couple of hours of the lights coming up.

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