Kanata’s Canadian Tire Centre will be celebrating its 30th anniversary of opening this year with a performance by Canadian musical icon Michael Bublé and two hockey games.
The weekend of festivities will kick off with a concert showcasing Bublé’s signature combination of jazz, pop and swing styles, with smooth-voiced vocals connecting new and old. Bublé typically performs a combination of original hits and covers of jazz standards and other familiar tunes.
The following day will see the Ottawa Senators take on their rival Montreal Canadiens. This is the same match-up that marked the Sens’ first game in their new home in 1996. The celebrations will close out with a game by the Senators’ AHL affiliate, the Belleville Senators, as they face off against the Utica Comets. It is the second year in a row the “B-Sens” will play in Ottawa to showcase the team’s upcoming prospects.
This concert will mark three decades and one day since the Canadian Tire Centre, then known as the Palladium, opened in 1996 with a concert by Bryan Adams. The venue has become a hub of culture and sport in the National Capital Region, playing host to the Senators and Ottawa Black Bears, as well as many of music’s biggest acts. Anniversary events like this often use banner printing and other decorations to commemorate the occasion.
The Canadian Tire Centre Anniversary events will run from January 16 to 18 at the Kanata arena.
