Massey Hall

Massey Hall is internationally famous as Canada’s most important venue for concerts and lectures The venue has been operating for 127 years; its first concert in June 1894 featured Handel’s Messiah performed by a 500-member chorus with the 70-member Grand Festival Orchestra Highlights the milestone events held at Massey Hall: from political speeches by Winston Churchill and Sir Wilfrid Laurier to boxing matches to concerts by Bob Dylan, The Police, Oscar Peterson, Pavarotti, and so many more A restoration project of the venue is set to be completed in fall 2021 Author wrote the acclaimed The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: “A rigorously researched account of one of Canada’s most storied music clubs” Globe and Mail