Concerts & Events This Weekend in Edmonton
October 18 – October 18 · Find concerts, games and shows. Choose an event to explore available tickets.
Concerts & Events This Weekend in Edmonton
Plan your weekend in Edmonton
Find concerts, sports, comedy and theatre in Edmonton for October 18 – October 18. Listings use the venue’s local date and are ordered by start time. Choose an event to review available tickets on CatchMovement, then continue with your selected seller. Prices and availability may change before checkout.
Things to do in Edmonton this weekend
A standard Edmonton weekend has more options than most visitors expect, and the shape of it depends almost entirely on the season. From mid-June through the end of August the city is in festival mode, and the answer to "what's on this weekend" is usually a multi-day event with a name on it — Jazz Fest in late June, The Works Art and Design Festival running through early July, K-Days at the EXPO grounds across ten days in late July, the Street Performers Festival downtown around the same window, Heritage Festival at Hawrelak Park on the August long weekend, the Edmonton Folk Music Festival at Gallagher Park the second weekend of August, and the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival taking over Old Strathcona for the back half of August.
Pick a Friday-to-Sunday in summer and one of those is almost certainly happening. Outside festival season the rhythm is more familiar: Friday nights lean toward Rogers Place arena shows, Citadel Theatre evenings and Whyte Avenue club sets; Saturdays open with the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market in the morning and roll into the heaviest concert and comedy slate of the week; Sundays trend toward Oilers or Elks home dates depending on season, Sunday-evening jazz at the Yardbird Suite, and matinee theatre.
Add an Oilers home game and the entire downtown core fills up — bars in the ICE District book out, the LRT runs heavier, and the post-game crowd spills toward 104 Street.
What's on by month
October
October is the start of the indoor season. The Oilers regular season opens at Rogers Place, the Citadel and Winspear are in mid-run, and the Edmonton Halloween events — pumpkin festivals at Prairie Gardens, ghost tours through Old Strathcona, big costume nights on Whyte Avenue — fill out the back half of the month. CFL playoff dates may come to Commonwealth.
November
The Royal Bison Art and Craft Fair runs in mid-November in Old Strathcona, Festival of Trees lights up the EXPO Centre across the last weekend of the month, the Christmas Bureau Light the Bridge campaign begins, and Oilers home dates fill out weekends. Downtown Sparks Holiday Festival and the Candy Cane Lane lights install begin around U.S. Thanksgiving.