Bon Jovi is going on tour this summer with Canadian singer Bryan Adams – but the band’s lone Canadian stop won’t include him.
Adams will sit out Bon Jovi’s July 10th show at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. (At least one additional Toronto show is likely to be announced.)
Bon Jovi has performed 20 concerts at the downtown Toronto venue since 2000 – setting a record and earning the first spot in the Scotiabank Arena Hall of Fame in 2013. The band last played there on May 12, 2018 as part of the This House Is Not for Sale Tour.
The show will be another homecoming for guitarist Phil X (aka Theofilos Xenidis), the Toronto-area native who officially replaced Richie Sambora in Bon Jovi in 2016.
The 17-city Bon Jovi tour with Adams kicks off July 10 in Tacoma, Washington and wraps up at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on July 28. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Jan. 24 at 10 a.m. and come with a CD copy of the group's 15th studio album, Bon Jovi 2020.
On social media, some fans are sharing complaints that Adams won’t be performing at the Toronto show. One person tweeted: “Why is the Canadian Toronto date without their Canadian guest, Bryan Adams? Ugh!” Another asked: “How does it make sense that the ONE Bon Jovi tour date scheduled in Canada is one of the few WITHOUT Bryan Adams? Que pasa?”
The Ontario-born rocker is also skipping Bon Jovi’s June 20th show in Las Vegas because he is scheduled to do a three-night residency at Wynn Las Vegas Resort in April.
Adams is skipping Bon Jovi's Toronto show because he will announce next week the Canadian dates for his Shine a Light 2020 Tour, which he brought to Toronto’s Budweiser Stage last July.