Tonight, Taylor Swift takes the stage at Rogers Centre in Toronto as the first of seven shows at the venue. The star will close out “The Eras Tour” at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver next month.

When Taylor Swift comes to town, local economies spring to life as hotels fill up, public transit heaves and traffic grinds to a halt, sometimes on streets recently renamed in her honor.

Taylor Swift is in Toronto to perform her first of six sold-out shows at the Rogers Centre tonight. The highly anticipated show gets underway at 6:45 p.m. but crowds of excited ‘Swifties’ have already been spotted roaming about the area outside the Rogers Centre in anticipation of the doors to the stadium opening at 4:30 p.m.