Rush plays Tampa tonight, November 11, as the Fifty Something Tour enters its final stretch, with the last of the Rush Fifty Something tour dates landing in Edmonton and Vancouver in December. The Toronto band’s 62-date run opened on June 7 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, the same room where the R40 Tour ended in 2015, and it closes on December 17 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
That closing geography is the story. A tour built as a celebration of more than fifty years of Rush music, played by a band formed in Toronto, finishes its North American year with four Canadian dates in six nights, after already playing four nights at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto and two at Montreal’s Bell Centre earlier in the run.
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Rush Fifty Something Tour Dates Still To Come
The remaining schedule, per the official Fifty Something Tour schedule at rush.com, runs from tonight’s Tampa show at Benchmark International Arena through Pittsburgh on November 15, Charlotte on November 20 and 22, Atlanta on November 25 and 27, and Glendale on December 1 and 3. A San Jose date at SAP Center, postponed from October 17 after drummer illness, is made up on December 6. Then the tour comes home: Edmonton at Rogers Place on December 10 and 12, and Vancouver at Rogers Arena on December 15 and 17.
Fourteen shows remained when the final stretch began on November 9, and the routing tells its own story about demand. Almost every city on this tour got two nights, and Toronto and Los Angeles got four each. The Canadian stops were not a token leg. Toronto’s four Scotiabank Arena shows ran August 7, 9, 11 and 13, and Montreal followed on September 2 and 4, six Canadian arena nights before the December return adds four more.
A New Lineup Carries The Catalogue
This tour is the first Rush arena run since 2015, and it arrives with a changed band. Geddy Lee sings and plays bass and keyboards, Alex Lifeson plays guitar, and German drummer Anika Nilles sits in the seat Neil Peart held for decades. Nilles arrived with serious credentials, including more than 60 shows as Jeff Beck’s drummer and four solo albums, and keyboardist Loren Gold, whose touring history runs through Roger Daltrey’s band, The Who and Chicago, joined the stage lineup in February.
Lee signalled the expanded lineup before the tour started:
Before we hit the stage, we also hope to add another musician or two to expand our sound a wee bit.
Each night runs two sets drawn from a catalogue of 35 songs, mixing the expected landmarks with fan favourites, and the production is the full arena build Rush shows are known for. The Los Angeles opener even carried a piece of house history, with Aimee Mann guesting on Time Stand Still, a role she repeated at the first Toronto show.
The Tour Honours Neil Peart
None of this happens without the blessing of the Peart family. Peart died of glioblastoma on January 7, 2020, and his widow Carrie Nuttall-Peart and daughter Olivia Peart have backed the tour publicly, calling his musicianship singular and Peart himself, as drummer and lyricist, irreplaceable. Lee has framed the return the same way, as the product of soul searching with Lifeson and rehearsals with Nilles that convinced them the songs could be done justice.
Canadian fans who missed the summer dates get the last word on this leg. Edmonton and Vancouver close the 2026 calendar, and the band is not done: a 2027 leg runs from January 15 to April 10 through South America, the United Kingdom and Europe, with five Sphere shows in Las Vegas following in May. Tickets for the remaining 2026 dates are sold through the official links on rush.com, and the December Canadian nights are the final chance to see this lineup at home this year.
