Taylor Swift in Toronto: Highlights from Night 1 of the 'Eras Tour'

'Toronto, Welcome to the Eras Tour!' Taylor Swift told a roaring sold-out crowd at the Rogers Centre on Thursday night as she began the Canadian leg of her record-breaking tour.

“Toronto, Welcome to the Eras Tour!” Taylor Swift told a roaring sold-out crowd at the Rogers Centre on Thursday night as she began the Canadian leg of her record-breaking tour.

Fifty-thousand excited “Swifties” from far and wide flooded the city hours before the concert started at 6:45 p.m.

Here are some of the highlights from Night One of the tour:

Taylor Swift says the “Folklore” era “belongs in Canada.”

“The kind of place that I envisioned in my mind where Folklore took place – it’s very, like natural wilderness, beautiful forests that have been there since the beginning of time. And, this kind of feels like we’re returning the Folklore era to where it just belongs,” Swift says, earning a cheer from the crowd.

Folklore is her eighth studio album, which was released during the pandemic. It won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 2021.

Before the concert, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged the start of the Canadian leg of the “Eras Tour.”