{"id":2056409,"date":"2025-09-29T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2056409"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:05:23","slug":"free-surprise-show-by-rb-artist-daniel-caesar-draws-thousands-of-fans-to-toronto-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/free-surprise-show-by-rb-artist-daniel-caesar-draws-thousands-of-fans-to-toronto-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Free surprise show by R&#038;B artist Daniel Caesar draws thousands of fans to Toronto park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thousands of people crowded into a west end park in Toronto Saturday evening for a free concert by R&amp;B artist Daniel Caesar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Caesar, who&#8217;s originally from\u00a0Scarborough, had announced the concert in an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPHfQc1kbkE\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram post earlier on Saturday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram post earlier on Saturday<\/a> with the message: &#8220;Toronto. Trinity Bellwoods. Five\u00a0o&#8217;clock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The singer-songwriter played a guitar during the impromptu show, which he performed while sitting down. Speakers broadcast the music into the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some fans climbed trees to get a better glimpse of the artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an Instagram post Wednesday, Caesar had said he was going on a tour with a new album, Son of Spergy, coming out on Oct. 24. Son of Spergy will be his fourth studio album.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Fans at Trinity Bellwoods Park 1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/YVplbekOiD92P75NnIA1wA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/cbc.ca\/3173fea7e3618f6f06b8a84ae7b3a685\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>R&amp;B artist Daniel Caesar drew thousands of fans to Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto on Saturday for a free surprise concert. (CBC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;And I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m going on tour, but it&#8217;s going to be like a surprise pop-up in cities free tour, but we&#8217;re starting in Toronto, cause that&#8217;s home,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The day after tomorrow, Toronto. Get ready,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Toronto police were aware of the concert and monitored it but the event didn&#8217;t cause any problems, said\u00a0Const.\u00a0Stephanie Miceli, a spokesperson for the Toronto Police Service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"fans at Trinity Bellwoods 2\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/N.0M.FHJoDm_2Tsgkt8XMQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/cbc.ca\/dc4b093184d0ff20b5fe5ef7ef3f84dc\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Fans filmed the popup performance on their cell phones. (CBC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Caesar talked about the inspiration for his next album\u00a0in a video on Instagram on July 18, saying the title is a nod to his father, who\u00a0worked in the Jamaican tourism industry as a singer and sang &#8220;dinner music&#8221; for foreigners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said a &#8220;friendly couple from Canada&#8221;\u00a0who heard his father sing brought him to Canada\u00a0to sing for 3ABN, a Seventh-day Adventist television and radio network. Later, his father, who became a pastor, moved here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people crowded into a west end park in Toronto Saturday evening for a free concert by R&amp;B artist Daniel Caesar. Caesar, who&#8217;s originally from\u00a0Scarborough, had announced the concert in an Instagram post earlier on Saturday with the message: &#8220;Toronto. Trinity Bellwoods. Five\u00a0o&#8217;clock.&#8221; The singer-songwriter played a guitar during the impromptu show, which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2056410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[352695,332785,382670,313218,382668,382669],"class_list":["post-2056409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-daniel-caesar","tag-free-concert","tag-free-surprise","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-police","tag-trinity-bellwoods"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Free-surprise-show-by-RB-artist-Daniel-Caesar-draws-thousands.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2056410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}