Winnipeg has a very nice arena called the MTS Centre. It was opened in November 2004, seats up to 16, 345 people and is very high tech. I've been there four times. Three Manitoba Moose Hockey games and once for the Professional Bull Riding show that came through.
Lately however the MTS centre has been attracting big name musicians. One of the reasons is supposed to be the excellent acoustics (they designed the arena for good acoustics), and the other is that Winnipeggers love music. A few famous musicians and bands have come from Winnipeg. Here's a short list of some famous singer/bands:
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Crash Test Dummies
The Guess Who
The Watchmen
Bif Naked
Chantal Kreviazuk
Neil Young
Back to the MTS centre, Van Morrison (brown eyed girl) just recently played and Meatloaf was there last weekend. Some more notables in the upcoming three months:
Christina Aguilera (Saturday)
Heaven and Hell (which is really Black Sabbath minus Ozzy) with Megadethon Sunday
Eric Clapton on the 28th
Next month:
IlDivo
Rod Stewart
John Mayer
Jann Arden
May:
My Chemical Romance
Daniel O'Donnel
June:
Gwen Stefani
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd)
In between those concerts there is a number of Manitoba Moose hockey games, the IIHF World Women's Hockey Championship, Figure Skating and a Motocross show.
I really have to start jumping on this as these are some shows to take advantage of.
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