Calgary Stampede 2024 Grandstand Show (Part 11) July 10, 2024 The Greatest Outdoor Show On Earth

The 2024 Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show is an outdoor entertainment extravaganza filled lights, music, dance and circus performances. An exhilarating end to a day at the Calgary Stampede.
The Grandstand Show features nightly performances by award-winning country artists, Hunter Brothers and the Young Canadians. Race through jaw-dropping stunts and spectacles and find yourself in the future. From death defying adrenaline acts like the Urias Globe of Death Daredevils and Tammy Firefly, the Human Firework and aerial artist to mind-bending displays of state-of-the-art technology including a drone light show and Boston Dynamics dancing robots called Spot, this year’s Grandstand show will be a never-before-seen sensory experience. The show will hit a crescendo with the fan-favourite fireworks finale to cap off the night. It’s a little bit glam, it’s a little bit rock and roll, and it’s all happening all ten nights of the Calgary Stampede at the Grandstand Show, July 5 - 14, 2024.
The Calgary Stampede Evening Show is a unique entertainment doubleheader that takes place nightly at 7:45 pm, during the 10-day Calgary Stampede. The evening kicks off with the Cowboys Rangeland Derby Chuckwagon Races, followed by the fan-favourite Relay Races starts and the best Indigenous Relay Racing teams take the track. Then the huge state-of-the-art stage is moved into place, in preparation for the Grandstand Show to dazzles audiences with elaborate song and dance numbers, acrobatics. The show concludes with a spectacular fireworks finale in the night sky!
When the Calgary Stampede brought in The Rockettes from New York City in 1964 as part of the grandstand show, they auditioned young local dancers to participate as the "Calgary Kidettes". The group was meant to be a one-time addition to the show, but proved popular with spectators, and returned for three subsequent years. By 1968, the Kidettes were renamed the Young Canadians of the Calgary Stampede and remained part of the nightly grandstand show, growing into a headline act by the 1970s. The Young Canadians made television and live appearances throughout North America and attracted large crowds every year at the Calgary Stampede.
The Stampede Grandstand, or GMC Stadium, is a 17,000-seat, plus 8,000 more with standing room, stadium in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It annually hosts the rodeo, the chuckwagon races and the evening grandstand show portions of the Calgary Stampede. Thoroughbred racing on the half-mile track here ended in 2008, making the annual chuckwagon races during Stampede Week the only event that now uses the track.
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