One of the biggest artists in the world is hosting six sold-out shows less than two hours away from Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Taylor Swift has already played three of her six shows at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, as part of her worldwide Eras Tour. The next three shows are coming up on Nov. 21, 22 and 23.
Out of the nearly 300,000 tickets sold for the Eras Tour in Toronto, some are held by lucky NOTL residents.
Leslie Hoadley
The Hoadley family from Queenston had all hands on deck when it came to securing their tickets for night one of the Eras Tour.
“Everybody in the family submitted their emails to try and get the (presale) code and it was actually my husband who ended up getting it,” Hoadley told The Lake Report.
Everyone was holding their phones in anticipation when Hoadley’s husband, Jamie, said he got some sort of code in his inbox.
“We screamed and went, ‘You have a code?’” Hoadley said.
When it came to actually getting the tickets, Hoadley came prepared with a guide in front of her outlining where she was interested in buying tickets, keeping budget in mind.
When the sale opened, she was in the Ticketmaster queue with 3,600 people ahead of her, but it went by quickly, she said.
Hoadley was able to secure three face-value tickets in the 500 section of the stadium for herself, her daughter and her best friend.
“My daughter works for the horse carriage company, so I printed the tickets off and stood outside til she drove by (holding) a sign that just said ‘We’re Going,’” Hoadley said.
And from there, Hoadley, her daughter Paige and her best friend Alyssa Griese went on to have a great concert experience last Thursday.
“We had a perfect night, it couldn’t have gone better,” she said.
Abby Duc
Sixteen-year-old Abby Duc didn’t think she would be going to the Era’s Tour until around a week before the shows were set to start.
“When the tour was officially announced we didn’t really put in our names to get tickets,” Duc told The Lake Report.
But after a summer of working and listening to Taylor Swift’s music, Duc and her friend Dylan Kroeker were determined to go.
“We entered a bunch of radio and Instagram competitions and we had no luck. We had kind of come to terms with the fact that we weren’t going to be able to go,” she said.
It wasn’t until Kroeker’s dad made a last-ditch effort for tickets while getting his hair cut that the tickets were finally secured.
“Because he was on the waitlist from before he was able to get into the queue and he made a mad dash for the tickets and — we got tickets,” Duc said.
Duc and Kroeker made it for night three in Toronto.
“It was a really good night, we had a lot of fun and it was definitely worth everything that we paid for it,” Duc said.
Mary Beccario
Mary Beccario’s teenage daughters Isabella and Luci are Taylor Swift superfans, so they got their Eras Tour tickets as soon as they could last summer.
Even with a presale code, it was a battle to get tickets, 17-year-old Isabella told The Lake Report.
“It was a process, I wouldn’t really want to do that again,” Beccario joked.
But it was all worth it for the three girls, who got to see Taylor Swift on night one of the Toronto residency.
Beccario dressed as Swift’s “Lover” era, Isabella as “Mirrorball” and 15-year-old Luci as “Fearless.”
“Both girls, Isabella and Luci, know every single word to every single song and I kind of knew that, but it was amazing for me to watch them dance and sing to every song,” Beccario said.
Seated in section 205, Isabella said you could feel the happy, loving energy throughout the entire stadium.
“There were probably two or three times during the show where she just kind of stopped and took out her ear pieces and listened to the crowd cheer for her,” Isabella said.
