Bryan Adams is set to kick off the summer of \u201926 for the World Cup.<\/p>\n
The \u201cCuts Like a Knife\u201d singer will headline a \u201ccountdown concert\u201d in Toronto to launch the tournament alongside Haitian hitmaker Wyclef Jean and Canadian-Moroccan artist Nora Fatehi.<\/p>\n
Described by FIFA as a \u201cfirst-of-its-kind live multi-city concert,\u201d the show will be synchronized with events in fellow host nations Mexico and the United States, with talent and details to be announced.<\/p>\n
The Canadian iteration, taking place at Toronto\u2019s Fort York Historical Site and The Bentway, will also feature Ontario roots artist AHI, Bangladeshi\u2013American DJ Sanjoy and French hip-hop artist Vegedream. Tickets go on sale Friday, with general admission priced at $36.<\/p>\n
The event will be held on June 10, the day before the tournament begins. The first-ever FIFA World Cup match on Canadian soil will take place on June 12 when Team Canada faces Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n
Throughout the tournament, several Canadian artists will play Toronto\u2019s free FIFA Fan Festival, including Alessia Cara, k-os and Shawn Desman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Adams is set to kick off the summer of \u201926 for the World Cup. The \u201cCuts Like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-701984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}