Ah summer is almost here, and adventures await you. Maybe it’s your first one as an adult and unless you are trapped in a doom scrolling cycle, (If you need help, I know a place you can do yoga with goats and have a chance to put that phone down) otherwise for many the feeling of new adventures on their own, discovering of who you are and what will be your place in this world is an exciting time. But summer of 2025 just don’t have the same ring yet, as oh let’s say Summer of 69.
That’s right you glorious music lover! Bryan Adams is hitting the road with his biggest tour in years with the massive “Roll With The Punches” North America 2025 tour named after his 17th studio album, which will be released in “late summer” on Adams’ own label, Bad Records. The 40-date arena event kicks off in Canada on September 11th in Kamloops, B.C., with shows in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal with stops in nearly every province except Prince Edward Island before heading south of the border to New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle and more before wrapping on November 26th in Minneapolis, MN.
Special guests Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo will open for Adams on all U.S. dates. Pre-sale for tickets begins April 29th, with additional running throughout the week.
Bryan says: “I’m so thrilled to be announcing the North American leg of the Roll With The Punches Tour. We’ll be playing all the classics, some deep cuts, and sharing some brand-new tracks from the forthcoming album.”
Adams was born in Kingston, Ont., and raised in Ottawa and Vancouver. He rose to fame in the ’80s when Adams released his eponymous debut album when he was 20 years of age. He rose to fame in North America with the 1983 top ten album Cuts Like a Knife, its title track “Straight From the Heart”, became his first US top ten hit. His 1984 album, Reckless became the first album by a Canadian to be certified diamond in Canada and made him a global star with six charting singles including “Run to You” and “Summer of ’69”.
Adams has been known for his humanitarian work, animal rights activism and photography. In 2002, Adams was invited, to photograph Queen Elizabeth II during her Golden Jubilee; one of the photographs was used as a Canadian postage stamp in 2004 and 2005. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million-100 million records and singles worldwide giving him a spot on the best-selling music artists stage, Adams is ranked 48th on the Billboard Hot 100 list of all-time top artists.
Most of Adams’s philanthropic activity is through The Bryan Adams Foundation, the foundation is mostly funded by Adams himself, which “aims to improve the quality of people’s lives around the world by providing financial grants to support specific projects that are committed to bettering the lives of other people”.
So, make sure to turn your summer of 2025 into as memorable event as the Summer of 69 because as the years go on, even when times were hard, they were the most innocent we got to be, so watch the performance, and maybe you’ll be on stage putting the ring into the summer of 2025. Or If you have no musical talent like me you’ll grow to love the Canadian Classics that that put our country on the charts.
Brian Smith
bsmith288@my.bcit.ca