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Calgary Concerts

House shows, jam nights, bands, choirs and gig series

Start your own show.

A living room with twenty chairs. A Tuesday jam at the local. Four friends who need a drummer. A choir that meets in a church basement. A songwriter night once a month. Calgarians start these all the time, and anyone can. Here is how.

5
Ways to start
Free
To start yours
  1. 1
    Pick what kind

    A house show, a jam night, a band, a choir or a small gig series. Small is fine. Most start with one living room or one night a month.

  2. 2
    Name it

    Something people can say out loud and remember. Your street, your neighbourhood or your sound in the name helps people find you.

  3. 3
    Say how people join

    Where and when, what to bring and who it is for. Be specific. "First Friday, 7 pm, a backyard in Sunnyside, bring a chair" beats "monthly". For a house show, name the neighbourhood and share the address with the people who ask.

  4. 4
    Post it

    Fill in the page. A real person reads it, usually within a day, and then it goes live with its own page and a spot in the directory.

Calgarians who started theirs

Community shows, bands and choirs.

Be the first to start one

Most Calgary music starts small. A backyard, a borrowed PA, a few friends and one night. Yours could be the first page here.

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For inspiration, the shows Calgary remembers and where it plays now

What show do you remember?

An independent ledger of Calgary concert memories. The night you knew. The encore. The opener you missed. The wall keeps the answers, decade by decade.

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A line or two. Where, when, why it stuck. Anonymous if you want.

Shows filed
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Active venues
30+
MacEwan opened
1969
Saddledome ends
2027
The Database

The Calgary Concerts ledger.

The Wall

Calgary shows, remembered.

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Editor's note: rather than seed this wall with fictional entries, we want it to grow honestly. Every entry on this page is real.

Venues 101

Where Calgary heard music.

Directory

Where Calgary plays now.

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Stampede Park · Cowboys, Nashville North, BMO Centre
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Wall

The Calgary Concert Wall

The pit you survived, the artist who showed up two hours late, the small venue you can never get back. Calgary concerts, remembered.

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Every show that came through the Saddledome.

calgarysaddledome.com keeps the receipts on every concert the building held — Garth Brooks, AC/DC, Tragically Hip, every era. Filed by Calgarians who were there.

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