Magnetic Hill Concert Site

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Eagles concert held at Magnetic Hill was the largest event on their tour for 2008 with over 45,000 fans in attendance

Magnetic Hill Concert Site is a live music venue in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is one of the largest music venues in Canada.

Originally built in 1984 for Pope John Paul II to hold a papal mass during his tour of Canada, the site was redesigned in the 1990s as a concert venue. The site has hosted annual or biennial summer concerts since the mid-2000s. Additional permanent infrastructure was installed following the 2005 concert headlined by The Rolling Stones. In 2011 a concert headlined by U2 saw the first use of the marketing term Magnetic Hill Music Festival.

Past Events
YearEvent NameArtistAttendance
1984 Papal Visit Pope John Paul II 75,000 [1]
1998Classic Rock Festival Lynyrd Skynyrd, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Steppenwolf, Heart, Pat Benatar 35,000 [2]
2005 A Bigger Bang The Rolling Stones 89,260 [3] [4] [5] [6]
2006Country Rocks The Hill Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson 45,000
2008 Soul2Soul II Tour Faith Hill and Tim McGraw 50,000 [7]
2008 Long Road Out of Eden Tour Eagles 45,923 [8] [9]
2009 Bon Jovi 33,000 [10]
2009 Black Ice World Tour AC/DC 70,000 [11] [12]
2011 U2 360° Tour U2 66,823 [13] [14] [15]
2012 Here And Now Tour Nickelback 25,000 [16]
2012 Wrecking Ball Tour Bruce Springsteen 30,200 [17]
2015 Rock or Bust World Tour AC/DC 50,000 [18] [19]
2019 Luke Bryan 25,000

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