Garth Brooks in Calgary: Country music superstar answers your questions
CBC News | Posted: September 2, 2017 1:59 AM | Last Updated: September 2, 2017
More than 100,000 tickets have been sold for the Calgary shows
Country music superstar Garth Brooks is in Calgary performing a seven-show marathon.
More than 100,000 tickets have been sold for the Calgary shows at the Scotiabank Saddledome, part of a world tour with his wife Trisha Yearwood that began three years ago.
There are seven shows here: Sept. 1, Sept. 2, Sept. 3, Sept. 8 and Sept. 9 in the evening, and afternoon shows on Sept. 2 and Sept. 9 at 3 p.m.
The few remaining tickets can be found online here.
CBC Calgary asked Calgarians on Facebook what questions they had for Brooks and Yearwood. Here are some of the questions and their answers.
Q: How do you transcend the generations and transcend music tastes and how have you maintained that?
Brooks: I don't think it's got anything to do with the artist, I really don't. You know, it's always been my dream that if this hand comes out of the sky with this box and in the box there is the answer. If you pull it out, hopefully it says the music. That's what you hope, you hope people are coming here for the songs.
To sing along, to hopefully to leave here with more love than they came. That' s the whole goal. For people to treat people better than when they came in. When they walk out, they're family, and that's the goal of this whole tour. It's kind of a love fest, and I don't see any difference in this week or next weekend, I think it's going to be the same.
Q. As trends change, do you feel pressure to change whatever you've done?
Brooks: Try to remember, we were the bad guys, we were the guys who they said our stuff wasn't country, right? So I think whatever generation comes along, whatever's next isn't country. But, when you go out there, listen to Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House, Rodeo, Yeah, you know, Callin' Baton Rouge. That stuff's country music, and it's so much fun to play country music and country music is timeless.
How is the show structured? Are you guys together, are you intertwining music? Does one go, then the other?How does it work?
Yearwood: Yes and yes. Um, Garth opens for me (laughs). I'm actually kind of the show. … So I come out in the middle and we do some stuff together, then I do some stuff on my own. It's fun.
Do you guys ever have a hard time sharing the spotlight? I mean, you guys are both stars in your own right.
Yearwood: You know we've been friends for 27 years and we've always sung on each others' records, we've always cheered for the other, we've always, in this business, been a friend to one another. And so I feel like that's never the case. I never go out on stage and think 'Oh, it's my turn.' And ... I think he wants me to shine and I want the same for him, and singing together on stage and that energy — there's nothing like it.