DEEP PURPLE ‘SMOKE ON THE NATION TOUR’ CANADA 2012
Tickets On Sale Saturday, December 3 at 10:00 am (local time)
*Tickets for Kingston on sale at 11:00am EST
*Tickets for Toronto on sale at 12:00pm EST
Vancouver, BC ~ Paul Mercs Concerts is pleased to present the first Canadian tour dates for rock pioneers, Deep Purple.
February 2012 will be known as ‘the heaviest winter on record’. With seventeen dates across Canada beginning in St. John’s, NL and ending in Vancouver, BC, Deep Purple are poised for a flurry of performances. Nearly four decades after forming, over 100 million albums sold worldwide and recent recipients of The Innovator Award at the 2011 Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, Deep Purple are without a doubt one of the most dynamic and influential bands in rock history.
Below is a list of Canadian tour dates for February 2012:
| Date | City | Venue |
| February 2 | St. John’s, NL | Mile One Centre |
| February 3 | Corner Brook, NL | Pepsi Centre |
| February 5 | Halifax, NS | Halifax Metro Centre |
| February 6 | Moncton, NB | The Centre |
| February 8 | Ottawa, ON | Civic Centre Theatre |
| February 9* | Kingston, ON | K-Rock Centre |
| February 11 | London, ON | RBC Theatre at the John Labatt Centre |
| February 12* | Toronto, ON | Massey Hall |
| February 13 | Hamilton, ON | Hamilton Place |
| February 15 | Winnipeg, MB | RBC Theatre at MTS Centre |
| February 16 | Regina, SK | Brandt Centre |
| February 17 | Saskatoon, SK | TCU Place |
| February 19 | Calgary, AB | Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium |
| February 21 | Edmonton, AB | Rexall Place |
| February 23 | Price George, BC | CN Centre |
| February 25 | Victoria, BC | Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre |
| February 26 | Vancouver, BC | Queen Elizabeth Theatre |