Rush expand Fifty Something reunion tour into Europe and 2027

Rush are back on the road with their Fifty Something reunion tour. According to the band’s official announcement, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are playing 58 shows across North America in 2026 before taking the tour to South America and Europe in early 2027.

How Rush’s 2026 tour is unfolding

The Fifty Something tour began on June 7, 2026 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, where Rush also played their final show with Neil Peart in 2015, as detailed by several tour previews and setlist reports.

The North American leg covers Canada, the United States and Mexico, with four shows at Kia Forum in Los Angeles, four nights at Madison Square Garden in New York and four shows at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, according to a Ticketmaster tour overview and Rush’s own tour page. The band also play multiple dates at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, United Center in Chicago and Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, giving fans repeat chances in each city.

Dates, cities and the scale of the reunion

Rush’s official tour news notes that the 2026 run now spans 58 dates in 24 cities, after several extensions were added to the original 12-show plan. Rolling coverage from music outlets shows how the itinerary grew: an initial arena swing was expanded by 11 shows and then by another 17, bringing the total to around 40 dates, before further additions pushed the tally close to 60.

That growth illustrates demand compared with the band’s earlier tours. The 2015 R40 Live tour visited fewer cities and marked what was widely described at the time as a farewell run. In contrast, the 2026 tour not only revisits major arenas but adds additional nights in cities like New York, Chicago and Toronto, signalling a larger reunion footprint.

European and German dates in 2027

On February 23, 2026, Rush announced that their first tour outside North America in many years will run from January to April 2027, starting in South America and continuing into Europe, as summarized in band history profiles and tour roundups.

An official news item on Rush’s website lists the 2027 Fifty Something tour dates, including a substantial German leg. The band are scheduled to play Berlin’s Uber Arena on February 21, Munich’s Olympiahalle on February 25, LANXESS Arena in Cologne on February 28, Barclays Arena in Hamburg on March 2 and Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart on March 4. These shows sit within a wider European run that also includes Paris, Amsterdam, Basel, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki.

Germany’s role in the reunion route

The cluster of five German arena dates in 2027 makes Germany one of the most heavily represented European countries on the Fifty Something tour. Rush’s schedule gives German fans multiple options in major cities rather than a single stop, a contrast with some prior tours where the band played fewer shows in the country.

From a capacity perspective, venues like LANXESS Arena in Cologne and Munich’s Olympiahalle typically hold well over 10,000 people for concerts. That puts these shows in the same arena scale as the North American dates, underscoring that the European extension is not a downsized add-on but a full continuation of the reunion run.

How the tour ties into Rush’s catalog

Rush’s setlists on the Fifty Something tour, as reported by concert listings and fan sites, draw heavily on the band’s classic progressive rock albums from the 1970s and 1980s. Songs from albums such as 2112, Moving Pictures and Grace Under Pressure sit alongside later material, giving the shows the feel of a career-spanning retrospective.

This approach aligns with the wider activity around their catalog. In January 2026, Rush announced a Super Deluxe reissue of Grace Under Pressure with new mixes, live material from Toronto in 1984 and liner notes by Geddy Lee. Around the same period, anniversary box sets for albums like Moving Pictures and Signals continued a series of archival releases that frame the tour within a broader reassessment of their work.

Where Rush stand now

Rush are currently in the midst of their Fifty Something reunion campaign, with the next formally announced future dates being the South American and European shows from January 15, 2027 in Buenos Aires through April 10, 2027 in Helsinki.

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