Her middle name is Lauryn, after Lauryn Hill, and her Jamaican-Guyanese mother kept the house stocked with Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Angie Stone. Olivia Dean has always known whose tradition she carries. On Friday, August 7, she brings The Art of Loving tour to Centre Bell for the first headlining arena run of her North American career.
About the Show
The tour is built around Dean’s sophomore album The Art of Loving, released September 26, 2025, and produced with Zach Nahome. A blend of neo-soul, jazz pop, bossa nova, and Motown influence, the record debuted at number one in the UK, making Dean the first British solo female artist since Adele in 2021 to simultaneously top the albums and singles charts. It currently sits at number seven on the Billboard 200.
The album’s concept drew from a Mickalene Thomas exhibition responding to bell hooks’s writing on love. Dean has been plain about what the title demands of her: “I don’t think love is just magic that happens to you, I think you’ve got to put the time in, it’s a craft.” Lead single “Man I Need” reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the highest-charting song from a UK act on Spotify’s Global Charts this year.
Dean, 26, grew up in North London, the daughter of an English father who played Al Green and Carole King around the house and a Jamaican-Guyanese mother whose record shelf ran from Erykah Badu to Jill Scott to Angie Stone to Lauryn Hill, the origin of Dean’s middle name. She attended The Brit School, the performing arts academy whose alumni include Amy Winehouse, Adele, FKA Twigs, and RAYE. At the 68th Grammy Awards in February 2026, she won Best New Artist and honored her grandmother, a Windrush-generation immigrant who left Guyana for England at 18, from the podium: “I’m a product of bravery, and I think those people deserve to be celebrated.” She also swept the 2026 BRIT Awards with four wins: Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year for “Rein Me In” (with Sam Fender), and Pop Act.
Baby Rose opens the Montreal date.
Venue & Logistics
Centre Bell is a 21,000-capacity arena in Montreal, one Dean says she has “only dreamt of playing.” For North Country fans making the trip, this stop falls between Dean’s Toronto date at Scotiabank Arena on August 4 and her Boston show at TD Garden on August 10. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets
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