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The major 2026-2027 tours stop in Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton and Moncton: Bruno Mars, Rush, Guns N’ Roses, Luke Combs and Post Malone are still on sale. The right credit card opens the presales, and your points fund the trip when an artist plays only one city.
For the full breakdown of presales by network (American Express, Visa, Mastercard, RBC), see our guide to booking the best concerts and shows using credit cards.
Here are the confirmed dates. For shows that have been on sale for months, the last tickets go through resale, where prices move every day.
Bruno Mars: five nights at Vancouver’s BC Place, October 14 to 21, 2026. See Bruno Mars tickets in Vancouver.
Guns N’ Roses: Edmonton on August 26 and Vancouver on August 29, 2026. See Guns N’ Roses tickets.
Rush: the Bell Centre on September 2 and 4, then Vancouver on December 15, 2026. See Rush tickets.
Luke Combs: Edmonton on May 29 and Vancouver on June 5, 2027. See Luke Combs tickets.
Post Malone: Moncton’s YQM Country Fest, August 27 to 29, 2026. See Post Malone tickets.
These artists have no announced Canadian date, but they are playing elsewhere. It’s a chance to turn a show into a trip, and to fund it with your points.
Metallica: 39 dates from October 2026, including the Las Vegas Sphere. See Metallica tickets.
Ed Sheeran: 21 dates, including Detroit’s Ford Field on August 29, 2026. See Ed Sheeran tickets.
Ariana Grande: four nights at London’s O2, August 27 to September 1, 2026. See Ariana Grande tickets.
Rosalía: seven dates, including Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes. See Rosalía tickets.
Diljit Dosanjh: seven dates in Europe, including Paris, Vienna and Milan. See Diljit Dosanjh tickets.
Recent examples are everywhere:
The lesson is simple: by the time the public sale opens, it’s often already too late. Your credit card’s presale access remains the most reliable way to pay face value instead of resale prices.
Drake, The Weeknd, Coldplay and Morgan Wallen rank among the most-streamed artists in Canada, but none has a date on sale as of this writing. For those tours, your card’s presale access will make the difference on announcement day: by the time a card application goes through, the tickets will be gone.
With an American Express card, the Front Of The Line program gives you access to presales for many shows on Ticketmaster, a few days before the general public. Every American Express card qualifies, including those issued by Scotiabank.
The ticket purchase itself pays off with the right card. The Scotiabank Gold American Express® Card earns 5X Scene+ points on entertainment, ticket agencies included: a $300 ticket gives you back 1,500 points, worth $15 toward a future trip. And since it charges no foreign transaction fees, you save 2.5% on every ticket bought in a foreign currency, for a show in Las Vegas, London or Mexico City.
RBC clients get the RBCxMusic program: reserved tickets on Ticketmaster and a $10 Concert Cash code for a future purchase, valid for up to 4 tickets. The step-by-step walkthrough, screenshots included, is in our guide to booking the best concerts and shows.
Some cards let you apply your points directly to the ticket purchase. With American Express Membership Rewards points, you pick the transaction in your account, the Ticketmaster or box office charge, and pay it with points, in full or in part. Scene+ points apply to any travel expense charged to the card, at 1,000 points for $10: the flight and hotel of your concert weekend, for example.
Our tutorial on using Membership Rewards points for purchases walks through it screen by screen, with the value of each redemption type.
Several of these artists play only one region: Bruno Mars and Luke Combs out West, Post Malone in the Maritimes, Ariana Grande in London. For many fans, the concert ticket comes with a flight and a night or two at a hotel.
That’s where your everyday spending takes the stage. The American Express Cobalt® Card earns 5X points on restaurants and groceries: a year of grocery runs pays for the flight to the show’s city, and the pre-concert dinner earns along the way.
For a show abroad, most cards add a 2.5% foreign transaction fee on every purchase: the ticket bought on site, the hotel, the restaurants, the official merchandise. On a $2,000 concert weekend, those fees amount to $50 lost.
The Scotiabank Passport Visa Infinite +* Card is the reference for this scenario: no foreign transaction fees, Scene+ points on every purchase and 6 airport lounge passes per year for the trip.
The Wealthsimple Visa Infinite + Card charges no foreign transaction fees and gives 2% cash back on all purchases, with no categories to track. Its $240 annual fee is waived for eligible clients, notably with $100,000 in assets at Wealthsimple or direct deposits of at least $4,000 per month.
If your shows are mostly in the United States, the Rogers Red World Elite® Mastercard plays it differently: it charges the 2.5% foreign transaction fee, but its cash back of up to 3% on eligible US dollar purchases offsets it.
To pick the card that matches your spending, check our comparison of the best credit cards in Canada.
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