The Greater Vancouver Food Bank is getting a $2 million donation thanks to a private concert that real estate developer Ryan Beedie and wife Cindy Beedie hosted at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl Aug. 12.
Bryan Adams and Blondie were the concert’s headline acts, while Inhaler, Belinda Carlisle and Dear Rouge also performed.Ryan Beedie required all attendees to make a donation to the food bank, and he then double matched the total amount that guests donated, he told BIV. Rob Fiorvento, who is managing partner at the development company Beedie, made a large last minute donation to ensure that the total raised surpassed the $2 million threshold, Beedie said this morning.l
well as uniformed Vancouver Police Department officers.
The concert ended at 11:50 p.m., after some on social media noted that the sound of the concert could be heard in parts of the West End.
Beedie said that he was not aware of any city-mandated curfew, nor of any noise complaints.
Adams, who in 2012 played a philanthropic concert in Stanley Park at Brockton Fields with Sarah McLaughlin, at one point sounded as though he anticipated noise complaints.
“What time is it?” he asked at 11:10 p.m. “It feels like it is running a bit over, this show, tonight. It’s 11 [p.m.] Ten after 11 [p.m.] Wow. I wonder if anyone from the park board is going to come after me: ‘Oh, Bryan Adams was late tonight.’ It wasn’t me.”
When Adams and his band left the stage after what had been a 75-minute set, the drummer threw his drum sticks into the crowd, signalling that an encore was unlikely.
