Thousands Gather at Calgary Stampede’s Live Music Venue

Thousands Gather at Calgary Stampede’s Live Music Venue
Visitors to Nashville North are shown at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, on July 9, 2021. The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh
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CALGARY—A bird’s-eye view of a popular live music venue on its first night at the Calgary Stampede showed hundreds of people standing close together, waiting for a swab or to hand over proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.

By night’s end Thursday, thousands had come in and out of the 18-plus party tent called Nashville North, believed to be the first major venue in Canada to enforce testing or require health care information to enter.