I attended a concert in Meridian Hall on Sunday, January 14, 2024. A music performance in Persian by Homayoun Shajarian. While this wasn’t the first concert I attended in this venue, it was probably among the best of them. Location: Meridian Hall is on the intersection of front Street and Young Street One of the busiest areas in downtown Toronto close to the Brookfield Place, Union Station, San Lawrence area, and san, Lawrence Marquette, and all the shops and restaurants on front street. The concert was at 5:30 but wet some previous bad experiences of hitting heavy traffic in downtown Toronto we left at 3:45 and could find a parking in the parking lot under Brookfield Place at 4:30 so we had a full hour before the concert. We grabbed a coffee at Brookfield place’s Tim Hortons and chilled till 5 o’clock. Then we crossed the street to Meridian Hall, got our tickets checked, and were seated at around 5:15. despite the huge crowd, the event was sold out, there were enough staff, checking tickets, and helping people with seats, that the whole process was quick and smooth. However, by 530 people were still coming in. The band came on stage right at 5:30 and the concert got started on time which was a positive point. Another great arrangement was that the staff didn’t allow people to enter the venue while the performance was going on. However, when the first song was over, the doors were opened to let people who were late to be seated. This was not a good idea, because they were not seated by the time the second song started, and the situation was quite chaotic at the beginning of the second song, and the beginning of the third song, and the beginning of the fourth song!

Back to the venue, Meridian Hall is a wonderful venue for music concerts. The sound engineering, and the quality of the music we heard, was absolutely flawless.

Everything was perfectly designed and timed and performed. The staff were present in the venue to make sure everything is going smoothly and would ask people to turn off their flashes if they were filming or taking pictures. With the help of the staff, and the excellent design of the Meridian Hall, exiting the venue was also smooth, and we left with a wonderful memory of this great performance.