El Mocambo Tickets

Buy El Mocambo Tickets

See a great show in one of the most significant music houses in Toronto with El Mocambo tickets. The live music and entertainment concert hall El Mocambo has been an important part of Toronto’s popular music scene since 1948. It was the notorious site of a 1977 surprise concert performed by the Rolling Stones for then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s wife, Margaret Trudeau, who had been partying with them and had been romantically linked to Mick Jagger.

The apocryphal story behind the original building on the site is that it was first used to harbor escaped slaves and then became a live music hall in 1850. The current building was constructed in 1910 and has been the site of a dry goods store, a barbershop and multiple restaurants until the 1940s. In 1946, proprietors at the time Joseph Brown and John Lang received one of the first liquor licenses in Toronto to make it a club.

Be there for a great show in an important venue with El Mocambo tickets. The club officially debuted on March 23, 1948, with a dining hall on the main floor and Latin dance music performed on the second floor. Over the years, the hall has catered to numerous demographics and ethnicities. 

In 1960, Adam Schuy played music that drew in the Hungarian, Irish and Portuguese populations. A German dance club rented the second floor on the second floor at this time. In 1971, striptease was performed on the main floor.

The business and building became the El Mo in 1972, which featured blues and rock. Artists such as Buddy Guy, Buddy Waters, U2 and Elvis Costello all performed on stage at the El Mo in the early 1970s, and soon other international acts followed, such as Joan Jett, the Ramones, Blondie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. It has continued to be a mainstay of the Toronto music scene.