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The Beaches, photographed by Lane Dorsey in Toronto in 2025.
Concerts
The Beaches Get Ready to Play Their First Hometown Arena Concert in Toronto
It’s a week full of hometown shows — Cœur de Pirate plays Montreal, while emerging star Sofia Camara plays Toronto.
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This week, The Beaches are hometown heroes, playing their largest-ever headlining show at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. The foursome are on a cross-country tour in support of their record No Hard Feelings, and it brings them to the most monumental concert of their career journey.
Plus, Montreal singer Cœur de Pirate will perform an intimate show in her hometown, while country star Dallas Smith continues her 51-date trek across Canada. Vancouver-native Mikayla Geier brings her TikTok viral hits to the west coast and pop star Sabrina Carpenter nabs two sold-out shows at Scotiabank Arena on her lone Canadian stop.
Concert of the Week
The Beaches, Scotiabank Arena, Toronto — November 6
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The Beaches are back in their hometown tonight (Nov. 6) for a very special occasion.
After capturing hearts across North America in support of their most recent record, No Hard Feelings, the Toronto rock quartet consisting of Jordan and Kylie Miller, Leandra Earl and Eliza Enman-McDaniel return for their biggest headlining show in the city.
It’s a major feat for the 2025 Billboard Canada Women of the Year, who have already topped last year’s headlining show at Budweiser Stage. This year alone, the group has continued to cultivate a diverse fanbase that reflects the members of the band — predominantly young and female, increasingly queer, but ideally anyone who can relate to the often universally relatable heartbreak experiences they sing about.
“We’ve garnered a new fan base that represents who we are,” Earl shared in the group’s Billboard Canada cover story. “We’re now seeing ourselves in the audience and they’re seeing themselves on stage.”
No Hard Feelings hit No. 38 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart after its release, and its 11 tracks have dominated the setlist of the group’s extensive tour in support of the project — including "Last Girls At the Party," which stayed at No. 1 on Billboard Canada's Modern Rock Airplay chart for 11 weeks. As they perform in major North American cities, to some of their biggest crowds, the group is taking it all in.
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In part, it’s thanks to the success of their 2023 hit “Blame Brett," but the Beaches have been building to this moment for over a decade, as they step on the stage of the almost 20,000-capacity Toronto venue.
“We’d been on the van tours. We’d lugged a million items of gear across the country and back. We’d played I don’t know how many hundreds of thousands of shows,” said Jordan. “You have to be ready for the moment when it comes. And we’re lucky that we were.”
Tickets are available here.
More Canadian Concerts of the Week
Sofia Camara, TD Music Hall, Toronto — November 6
After a string of sold-out shows in Europe, rising Canadian pop singer Sofia Camara is returning to North America to play her first-ever headlining shows, including one at Toronto's TD Music Hall. Last month, Camara released her second EP, Hard To Love, via Universal Music Canada, and already, four of the six tracks have amassed over one million streams. The EP includes her hit "Girls Like You," which has been a major success on Billboard Canada charts. The song was her debut entry on the Canadian Hot 100, this week rising to No. 56 after seven weeks — and is also force on the four pop Airplay charts.
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Tickets are available here.
Cœur de Pirate, MTELUS, Montreal — November 6
Cœur de Pirate is headed to MTELUS for a hometown show in support of her new album, Cavale. It’s a refreshing body of work that represents the singer and label owner’s current reality. “Feeling good in myself as an artist and performer means that I'm embracing the person that I am today,” the Billboard Canada Women in Music Trailblazer Award recipient told the audience. “I'm a human after all, and I'm learning, as everybody else.”
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Tickets are available here.
Dallas Smith, Dakota Dunes Casino, Saskatoon — November 6, Club Regent Event Centre, Winnipeg — November 7
In the midst of his intimate 51-date run of shows, homegrown country singer Dallas Smith is hitting Canadian cities from coast to coast. It’s the British Columbia-born artist's first-ever acoustic tour, as he performs a series of “unplugged” shows. “I really felt it necessary for me to get up close and personal, present these songs and tell the stories behind the songs [and] have the time to do that,” he shared when announcing the tour.
Tickets are available here.
Mikayla Geier, The Fox Cabaret, Vancouver — November 8
After a series of viral hits on TikTok, west coast native Mikayla Geier is playing a show in her own backyard, marking her first time on the road. “I’ve been creating the show of my dreams with lots of dancing, theatrics, shenanigans, & I can’t wait to sing these songs for you!” she shared on Instagram. Later this month, she’ll be making her debut in Toronto at The Drake Underground, as the venue enters a new era of music and culture.
Tickets are available here.
Sabrina Carpenter, Scotiabank Arena, Toronto — November 10,11
A little over a year after her last sold-out Toronto date, Sabrina Carpenter is back in the city with an encore of her Short ‘N Sweet tour — this time taking on Scotiabank Arena for two back-to-back nights. Since the release of the chart-topping pop star’s tour-named album in 2024, she put out Man’s Best Friend, an extension of her kitschy pop universe. The “Manchild” singer’s show is full of charm, with glitzy costumes, elaborate choreography and a surprise Spin the Bottle song each night — keeping the night sweeter by design.
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Tickets are available here.
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