Her FINAL tour with NO new music to promote??? That doesn't make ANY sense AT ALL!!! Her manager has to be fired immediately.
What about the promotion when (and IF) her new album will be released?
I REALLY don't understand her and her management anymore.

And where are the international dates for the European and latin America and Australian fans? She specifically responded to fans on her facebook that she can't wait to tour in those areas. So did she lie about that too or will they be announced later? I see she is coming to my area twice in June so we are lucky I guess.

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And where are the international dates for the European and latin America and Australian fans? She specifically responded to fans on her facebook that she can't wait to tour in those areas. So did she lie about that too or will they be announced later? I see she is coming to my area twice in June so we are lucky I guess.

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 I guess she realised that her "old music tour" can only sell out concert arenas in America and that people in other countries don't even know she still exists.

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And where are the international dates for the European and latin America and Australian fans? She specifically responded to fans on her facebook that she can't wait to tour in those areas. So did she lie about that too or will they be announced later? I see she is coming to my area twice in June so we are lucky I guess.

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 I guess she realised that her "old music tour" can only sell out concert arenas in America and that people in other countries don't even know she still exists.

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Please Melanie loll you know that is not true. Hey i think Shania has been dishonest with fans and have been upset with her before but i learned to accept this is who she is and it is her life. I just wish she would be more honest and stop always leading the fans on.  Oh and lets be honest here, tons of people know who the hell she is is all over the world so lets not use that as a reason for her not touring there. My guess is she will announce later. This announcement today was for north America.

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Who knows. All I know is a tour in Europe would definitely require promotion and she has nothing to promote. It's not as easy as it is in America. There is no Europe-wide TV-show where she can just appear and make a tour announcement like on GMA. Every country has it's own TV-shows here.

And she never promised fans concerts in their countries. She just replied she'd love to come to Brazil, Phillippines... I guess it was every country lol.

Shania Twain Announces Farewell Tour

Mar 4, 2015, 9:07 AM ET By ABC NEWS via Good Morning America

Man, she feels like a woman ready to go on a farewell tour.

Country music superstar Shania Twain announced she will be doing just that -- launching a farewell world tour -- to put a cap on her decades-long career that has seen her sell more than 75 million records worldwide and win five Grammys.

"I'm finally, after 11 years, I'm going back on tour," the "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" singer said today on "Good Morning America."

"It's the after-party tour. That's how I see it," Twain said. "It's the after-party to all of these years."

Five Things You Never Knew About Shania Twain

Twain's "Rock This Country" tour will kick off in Seattle on June 5, 2015, and take the nine-time Billboard Music Award winner to 48 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, Twain's home country.

Twain says the tour will be her last.

"This is a very, very important time on the road for me," Twain said. "I just feel like I'm ready to hang my hat up in that regard. I just really want to go out with a bang."

The "You're Still the One" singer most recently made headlines with a two-year residency at the Colosseum at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. A live CD and DVD of her full Las Vegas show was released Tuesday.

Twain described the residency as a "huge mountain to climb" and "a lot of work." She said she relied on two unlikely sources -- Lionel Richie and Gladys Knight -- for support when she was beset by vocal challenges.

"They were just so encouraging and basically told me to get over it," Twain said. "[They said] 'Get back on the microphone. You can do it.' And they were right."

"I just needed courage, is what I really needed," she said.

Not only can people expect a whole different show from what she did in Las Vegas when she hits the road for "Rock This Country," Twain said, but fans, as always, will be an integral part of the new show.

"I look to others for more strength, Twain said. "I look for the courage in others and then I find mine.

"I think that's why I love being with the fans," she said. "I love getting out into the audience. I like hearing their stories. I like talking to them during the show."

Twain's 1997 album, "Come on Over," remains the bestselling album ever by a woman and the bestselling country album of all time. The good news for any of Twain's fans disappointed that this tour will be her last is that after the tour will come a new album.

"I want it to come out when I'm 50, so it will happen," said Twain, who will mark the big 5-0 in August. "I'm on the microphone every day recording stuff.

"I want to just enjoy that party, that celebration party, and then I'll get back to the record," she said of the tour.

Tickets for the "Rock This Country" tour will go on sale to Twain's fans on Tuesday, March 10, and to the general public on Friday, March 13.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/shania-twain-announces-farewell-tour/story?id=29378517

I bet her next album is going to be very different and wouldn't fit with all of the music she has previously released. Who knows!?! Hopefully T-Bone Burnett will produce. he was in the audience in Vegas. I would love a rootsy, bluegrass/Americana album from Shania. We all know she won't make the same records she made when she was with Mutt. They had that signature Mutt Lange sound to them.

While I'm really sad this is her last tour, I'm excited to go see her again and will keep my fingers crossed for new music.

ABC News uploaded the video of the announcement on Youtube and they named it "Shania announces new world tour".

World tour???

 

Gavin DeGraw is an interesting opening act. I'm pretty excited for that. I wouldn't go to a Gavin DeGraw concert necessarily but I do enjoy him.

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The ONLY reason Shania has not released an album all these years is because of her breakup wit Mutt. He was and still is the best producer on the planet. She has still said in interviews that he is a great father to Eja - too bad they can't have a working relationship. "Today is Your Day" was embarrassing it was so bad.

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That's just your opinion and taste. I think there is tons of great music out there that wasn't produced by Mutt. I mean what great albums did Mutt produce in the past few years? I haven't heard of anything great. I think his best days are over.
And it will be interesting and refreshing to hear a Shania album with a different sound produced by a different producer.

I love Shania's version of Today is Your Day. Embarrassing is how David Foster ruined this song but I don't think she is collaborating with David Foster on the new album. At least I hope she isn't.

IDK, but Shania's life has always been marked by tragedy if we are to look at defining events such as illness, poverty and abuse. As fans we only got to participate in the happiest moment of her life as a performer, which included her marriage to a mega producer and a son that they have together. It's only natural to want that moment to last forever. Like Kevy said, it does suck that she has not been sincere with fans and that is the main bone that longtime fans have picked with her. We still think she's great and is hot in more ways than one. This is not like some performers (regardless of gender) who are past their prime and are still desperately hanging onto their fame.

In a way, this reminds of some of the nostalgia that I occasionally have for the 1980's, the East Coast and Florida of that time. The entertainers and characters that I knew did not have the kind of money that Shania does in order to throw a giant farewell party. When they went away, it was gone like a flash. All that remains are faded pictures, stories of the good old days, songs and fashions that take you back and one's memory that plays like an oldies movie.

For me, she provided a great visual and soundtrack to my angst filled adolescence. It was a nice contrast to my situation. This day and age I am in a very different place (listening to Mediterranean music, studying social sciences and feeling positive) and she doesn't resonate the same with me, even though I still think she's great and listen to her old songs from time to time.

Only Shania would put out new music AFTER her farewell tour...

It just shows that she truly is not confident enough in her ability to make new music that she feels is good enough to play live. Thus why she never released a new single for her Vegas show.

I just feel, and this has been my opinion all along, that she feels like she cannot make the same caliber music she made with Mutt and when she threw away the stuff they were working on, she threw away her career with it.

And she came across very sad in the GMA interview. Like she was forcing herself to be happy.

I feel the same way, Butters. I actually was hoping that it's a real comeback but instead we'll see the farewell and she isn't even going to promote her new materal properly. If I was in her shoes, I think I would lay myself out to prove my ex that I am something on my own. She just acknowledged in her helplessness and tries to put it as a well thought plan of how to rule her career. It's a sad sad situation. And as an European fan I'm even more diasappointed because I've never seen her live in person and will never see as I won't go to the North America to her show and she will not say goodbye to her Europen fans.

She's considering it as a FINAL tour...and then she's speaking as an "after party tour" and " then a "celebration tour" she's clearly lost with what her team wants her to say  in this "huge announcement" ... lol every word coming up from her mouth doesn't seem natural...I think this is a smart communication strategy to speak about a Final tour because people will buy tickets easily " this is now or never". Plus, it attracts a lot of attention from worldwide media right now . First step to the BIG comeback? Don't you forget that Cher launched a farewell tour in 2004 which became later the " never can say goodbye tour" . I really think she will not stop touring and has more to share as she says... unless she is about to sign a long term deal with Caesar's Palace again which will coincide with an album release ( since Celine Dion is not returning for a while ).
Whatever the options, going out on tour after a Las vegas Residency and planning to release a new album after that looks really strange to me...

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ABC News uploaded the video of the announcement on Youtube and they named it "Shania announces new world tour".

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'I'm not retiring,' Shania Twain says of farewell tour

CTVNews.ca Staff | Published Thursday, March 5, 2015 9:13AM EST

Country superstar Shania Twain says “it will be sad to say goodbye” to performing on stage when her summer farewell tour ends, but she wants her fans to know she will not stop making music.

Twain surprised fans earlier this week when she announced that her upcoming “Rock This Country” tour will be her last. The 48-city tour kicks off in June and includes stops in Vancouver, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

Twain acknowledged Thursday that the decision to stop touring was “big,” but said it was something she had been considering.

“It’s been coming for a little while,” Twain told CTV’s Canada AM. “So it’s not sudden for me.”

In fact, Twain thought that her two-year residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, which wrapped up last December, would mark her last public performances.

However, the stint “went by so fast and I wanted to make it last a little longer.

“This summer will be the perfect farewell and the perfect time for me to say goodbye to the stage,” she said.

“I’ll be sad to say goodbye, it will be an emotional time.”

The tour will be an entirely different show than what fans saw in Vegas and was captured on a new DVD released this week, she said.

The show will be “a little bit of a party” as the 49-year-old celebrates her career.

“It’s going to be a rockin’ show, a party atmosphere,” Twain said, adding that she wants to “get into the audience as much as I can.”

Meanwhile, Twain wants to reassure fans that although she is retiring from the stage, she won’t stop making music.

She is recording a new album, which will be put on hold for the tour. She will resume recording after the summer, she said.

“I’m not retiring by any means,” Twain said. “I’ve got so much to do musically.”

CLICK LINK BELOW FOR VIDEO!

http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/i-m-not-retiring-shania-twain-says-of-farewell-tour-1.2265252

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'I'm not retiring,' Shania Twain says of farewell tour

CTVNews.ca Staff | Published Thursday, March 5, 2015 9:13AM EST

Country superstar Shania Twain says “it will be sad to say goodbye” to performing on stage when her summer farewell tour ends, but she wants her fans to know she will not stop making music.

Twain surprised fans earlier this week when she announced that her upcoming “Rock This Country” tour will be her last. The 48-city tour kicks off in June and includes stops in Vancouver, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

Twain acknowledged Thursday that the decision to stop touring was “big,” but said it was something she had been considering.

“It’s been coming for a little while,” Twain told CTV’s Canada AM. “So it’s not sudden for me.”

In fact, Twain thought that her two-year residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, which wrapped up last December, would mark her last public performances.

However, the stint “went by so fast and I wanted to make it last a little longer.

“This summer will be the perfect farewell and the perfect time for me to say goodbye to the stage,” she said.

“I’ll be sad to say goodbye, it will be an emotional time.”

The tour will be an entirely different show than what fans saw in Vegas and was captured on a new DVD released this week, she said.

The show will be “a little bit of a party” as the 49-year-old celebrates her career.

“It’s going to be a rockin’ show, a party atmosphere,” Twain said, adding that she wants to “get into the audience as much as I can.”

Meanwhile, Twain wants to reassure fans that although she is retiring from the stage, she won’t stop making music.

She is recording a new album, which will be put on hold for the tour. She will resume recording after the summer, she said.

“I’m not retiring by any means,” Twain said. “I’ve got so much to do musically.”

CLICK LINK BELOW FOR VIDEO!

http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/i-m-not-retiring-shania-twain-says-of-farewell-tour-1.2265252

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Hi,

Maybe she is going to perform on Broadway and do musicals or maybe she will have her own theater in Branson. Or she may want to do acting.  She says she not retiring but will be sad to say goodbye to the stage how confusing is all this.  I think she likes to be dramatic.  How is going to continue musically and not perform anymore?  Just release albums and not perform for the fans anymore...how can she say she loves interacting with the people but doesn't want to perform anymore.  She talks in circles.  So predictable but unpredictable at the same time.  There are plenty of artists who would love to sing with her.  Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, Billy Currington...the list goes on and on...what about that route??? It just does not add up.  Did the novelty of it all wear off for her is that what she's trying to say. 

Who knows??? I don't even think she does.

Just trying to comprehend it all

Warmest regards as always,

Tonto

 

I agree Dub. This may be a way to have people get off her tail regarding her performing career. Semi-retired. I can only speculate, but maybe the Vegas era was a savvy move on her part to capitalize the last of her work with Mutt Lange before striking on her own. If I am correct, she may be politely be trying to say, "after RTC, I'm not to perform my old songs that I wrote with my dirtbag ex ever again. Every now and then I'll release new music of my own and perform it on TV. And if I feel up for it, I'll sing them at Caesars Palace." Being blunt and saying that would sound rude and make her appear overly materialistic. If that's the case, she is a very smart businesswoman.

I've been soaking in all the excitement and hustle bustle the past couple days, and I think in all reality, it's a ploy for ticket sales. You don't have to tour in order to promote an album anymore. Social media, television and radio appearances, make it so easy these days. Like I've said before, I don't think its in Shania's best interest to be on top anymore, as far as releasing singles to the radio. I think those days are behind her, thus now she can do what she wants musically speaking. I think she'll always make music in some regard, but if you recall an interview about 12 years ago, she talks about some day not performing or making albums at all. Just a thought.

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'I'm not retiring,' Shania Twain says of farewell tour

CTVNews.ca Staff | Published Thursday, March 5, 2015 9:13AM EST

Country superstar Shania Twain says “it will be sad to say goodbye” to performing on stage when her summer farewell tour ends, but she wants her fans to know she will not stop making music.

Twain surprised fans earlier this week when she announced that her upcoming “Rock This Country” tour will be her last. The 48-city tour kicks off in June and includes stops in Vancouver, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

Twain acknowledged Thursday that the decision to stop touring was “big,” but said it was something she had been considering.

“It’s been coming for a little while,” Twain told CTV’s Canada AM. “So it’s not sudden for me.”

In fact, Twain thought that her two-year residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, which wrapped up last December, would mark her last public performances.

However, the stint “went by so fast and I wanted to make it last a little longer.

“This summer will be the perfect farewell and the perfect time for me to say goodbye to the stage,” she said.

“I’ll be sad to say goodbye, it will be an emotional time.”

The tour will be an entirely different show than what fans saw in Vegas and was captured on a new DVD released this week, she said.

The show will be “a little bit of a party” as the 49-year-old celebrates her career.

“It’s going to be a rockin’ show, a party atmosphere,” Twain said, adding that she wants to “get into the audience as much as I can.”

Meanwhile, Twain wants to reassure fans that although she is retiring from the stage, she won’t stop making music.

She is recording a new album, which will be put on hold for the tour. She will resume recording after the summer, she said.

“I’m not retiring by any means,” Twain said. “I’ve got so much to do musically.”

CLICK LINK BELOW FOR VIDEO!

http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/i-m-not-retiring-shania-twain-says-of-farewell-tour-1.2265252

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Been thinking and the way she mentions that she is taking Eja with her on tour it got me to thinking that maybe she did all this for him.  He finally got old enough to understand who his parents are...I mean his mom is a superstar.  What 13 year old wouldn't want to know what it's like to be on tour and have all that attention.  I think she wanted to show him what her life was like when she was Shania.  She wanted to show him the difference between Shania and Eileen(Mom).  Every child wants to know what their parents do for a living.  Parents take their kids to work with them all the time.  I think she did this for him and now he's seen it and had that experience.  She has always said that she would always be involved in music in some fashion and she realizes that the older artists get the less appealing they are to the younger generation.  Times change and so does music.  She will still always have her fans until they get old and she will gain some new ones as the older ones bring their children up listening to her that will continue long after we and she is gone that's how fame works.  Look at Elvis.  He still has fans and makes new ones everyday thanks to the old fans and social media.  I also think that it would be difficult to continue to sing those songs she wrote with Mutt no matter what...it has to bring up hurt and memories that can't heal because you just keep picking at them everyday like a scab.  I think it could make you bitter and resent the people who are making you do it...maybe with new music she will feel better about performing later if she can write her new material and get away from what she did with Mutt.  Become her own artist without him.  I really don't know.  I've never seen her in concert before so I do want to do that at least one time.  If she decides to perform more after the tour hopefully it will be nearby and I can try and see her when that happens and I will.  I won't stop being a fan.  I won't stop loving the music...it has been a big part of my life for so long that it would be hard to separate it.  Her music has been there for me when no one else has and so I will associate it with the memories from my life just like she associates with her memories that what music is all about.  Music is emotions, feelings and expression.  Music was here when the earth was formed by God and so music is a part of man's soul.  Music is divine in itself.  Anyone who can master music is truly gifted by God.  She has that gift and it will never leave her.  What she choses to do with it is up to her.  Music is in her soul and she can't deny it, ignore it, or hide it.  Music is her destiny.  Always has been and always will be no matter what. I'll take whatever she wants to give and be happy and thankful that I have it no matter what.  Hopefully she will stay connected with fans through social media.  Hopefully she will still keep us informed on what is going on with her.  If not that's her choice as always.  If you're a long time fan of hers you should already know that consistency with her is not a trait so love her as she is because she will never change and if we are honest with ourselves would we really want her to change?

I don't think she has ever gotten over her fear of performing.  I think she is terrified and it kills her that it still terrifies her even though she loves it at the same time.  All those eyes scrutinizing and criticizing you or at least that's what you think...I mean what is the first thing people say to her when they meet her...wow you look beautiful...automatically they admit they are looking at appearance first thing...hard to handle when you know thousands of people in a room are doing that.  She still keeps doing it because she hates that it still terrifies her she wants to beat it.  Like a fighter in the ring...you know sometimes that you can't win but you have to go down swinging to prove to yourself that you are not a quitter..."I'M NO QUITTER"!!  I gave it my all.

Just my thoughts

Warmest regards as always,

Tonto

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Thanks doctor Phil lol In all seriousness there is no use over analyzing Shania. She is no more special than anyone else and has the same insecurities and even more than other people. An appreciation for the music should be as far as we go into her life.  You can't care about someone you don't know. Nobody knows the real Shania, only the Shania she wants us to see and it is different all the time.  We all need to take a step back as fans which is hard and not worry about their personal lives. Shania is doing just fine now lol and we all go through things in our life that make us what we are today. 

Interview: Shania Twain explains why her upcoming tour really will be her last

By Nick Patch, The Canadian Press | March 6, 2015

TORONTO - During her two-year residency and revitalization in the desert, Shania Twain arrived at a crossroads that's familiar to many who venture to the Las Vegas Strip: she couldn't decide whether it was time to quit.

"I thought the Las Vegas show would be my farewell moment onstage," Twain said during an interview in Toronto on Wednesday.

"I wasn't officially saying that, but that's what I was thinking in my head. I thought: 'Well, I'll finish on this high. I got through it, it's been a success, it would be a great way to say goodbye from the stage.'

"But as I got closer to the end, closer to the last show, I thought: 'Oh, it's gone by so fast.' And I still felt a lot of momentum. So that's when I decided ... on putting a travelling show together and carrying on that momentum."

But Twain's upcoming 48-date tour — her first in more than 10 years — will be, she insists, her swan-song sojourn.

The Timmins, Ont., native last toured in 2004. The years that followed found Twain adrift in much-publicized personal turmoil, sparked by the dissolution of her relationship with ex-husband and creative partner Robert (Mutt) Lange. Their split was announced in 2008 and Twain went on to marry Swiss executive Frederic Thiebaud in 2011.

The notoriously reclusive Twain could have drifted farther from the spotlight, but instead she gradually opened up — with a reality TV show, an intimate memoir and, finally, her glitzy Vegas revival.

There in the plush Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Twain took the opportunity to embellish her catalogue of smash hits with eye-catching excess, including: a flying motorcycle; two horses; a 13-piece band; and a series of eye-candy sets, including a Wild West saloon and a cozy campfire.

It's too big a production to take on the road, so Twain is starting from scratch with her celebratory new tour.

"I'm going to have family around," she vowed in her interview, as a friendly Thiebaud sat nearby and scrolled on his phone. "My husband will be there and I'll bring my son (Eja) out for a lot of it, and my sister will certainly be there.

"I guess," she added, "it's a goodbye party."

Here, she quickly clarifies.

"I'm not saying goodbye to music. I'm not retiring. I want to make a lot more records and write a lot more music," said Twain, clad all in black with one of her chunky studded heels tucked beneath her leg.

"It's not a farewell to my career — it's just a farewell to that one element of my career."

In fact, Twain is partly stepping away from the stage to shift her time toward her long-gestating new music.

"I want to be spending more time doing other things creatively," she said.

"I've missed spending time on (writing).... I'd really like to focus on new music and of course I'd like to get this record done."

She's released only one new song in recent years: 2011's "Today Is Your Day," which hit No. 14 on the Canadian chart despite a minimal promotional push.

But she has, if anything, too many new songs, and is currently whittling them down. She's finally found producers, hinting coyly: "They're a little bit unexpected."

Twain also notes she's writing "different types of melodies" now.

"It's very self-expressive," she said of her new music.

"At this point, none of it is co-written. It's all just me at this stage. So no outside influence at all and that really makes it very, very direct and very personal.

"I'm determined to get it out while I'm 50," added Twain, who has the landmark birthday in August.

"The pressure's on."

But the advantage of her forthcoming milestone is that she feels increasingly at peace.

"The older I get, the more I'm accepting of certain things," she said. "It's a weird thing, aging, but I'm just getting more settled in myself."

She allows that if she winds up regretting the finality of this tour, perhaps it could be extended.

Certainly it's clear that Twain's final tour was the culmination of much internal wrangling, so much so that she wasn't sure whether to announce publicly that this would be it.

"I'd already decided in my mind, but I didn't want to rush into making that announcement. And I thought maybe that I'd make it partway through the tour or maybe not at all," she explained.

"But I think it would be worse to not tell people, and then have that be it, and they didn't take the opportunity to see the show.

"I think about Michael Jackson. I was always a fan but I never saw him live, and now I never will. And as a fan, I know how that feels.

"So I'm serious about (this) and I just think it would be unfair not to share it."

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/interview-shania-twain-explains-why-her-upcoming-tour-100007150.html

Shania Twain says final tour will be 'a celebration''

I'm going to stick with the hits,' she says of upcoming Rock This Country trek

By Jane Stevenson, Toronto Sun | Friday, March 06, 2015 12:35 PM EST

Shania Twain dropped a bombshell this week saying she was going to wrap up her performing career with a three-month farewell jaunt in North America this summer – the so-called Rock This Country tour – including stops in nine Canadian cities.

But WHY, I asked the Timmins, Ont., country-pop superstar given she’s only 49 years old, and ‘60s-era rockers are still touring in their 70s?

“I’ve been doing this forever!” Twain replied. “And it’s hard for people to understand because I’ve only been in the public eye for a portion of my career, right? I was eight years old when I started getting up on stages. It’s a lot. So it’s not a lot for the public, but for me it’s been almost my whole life ... I’m not retiring. I’m not going anywhere. I want to make records. And I want to write music and stay involved in music but the performer in me is just winding down.”

Twain also explained she initially felt her two-year Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace from 2012-2014 – essentially her comeback since being off the stage since 2004 – would be her last as a performer.

The Still the One show has been captured on a new CD/DVD of the same name released this week and includes a fun Backstage Pass special showing everything from Twain getting a mouth orthotic to correct a jaw issue that was affecting her singing to talking with 13-year-old son Eja (“He’s a good kid,” she says).

“When I took that on, I was thinking, ‘Well, this will be my last hurrah,’” Twain said of the Vegas gig. “I never shared it. Obviously I shared it a few times with (husband) Fred (Thiebaud). But I would never had made an announcement on it.”

But then she wrapped up her Sin City stint in mid-December 2014 and felt she wasn’t ready to say goodbye as a performer.

“It was a bit weird, getting closer to the end of that, I was feeling a lot of momentum, I was just feeling I wasn’t finished. ... (I thought), ‘Maybe I should get out and do a tour and take myself and my show to the people and that will be my last hurrah.’ But psychologically I was going through the process a while ago ... So I know it’s surprising for everybody to hear for the first time but I’ve been thinking about it for a long time.”

Twain describes her Rock This Country farewell jaunt, and her first tour on this continent in 11 years, as having “a celebration vibe.”

“The tour is going to be more rock ‘n’ roll and freestyle (and) I’m going to stick with the hits because I have a new album coming out once the tour is done.”

Twain is recording every day, but wouldn’t say which producers she’s working with – “I think it’ll be unexpected” – or exactly when it might be released, but her goal is next year when she turns 50.

“The sound’s going to be slightly different than what fans are used to hearing,” she said. “Maybe more soulful ... things like Roy Orbison, Emmylou Harris ... there’s something maybe retro about the style, more old soul-folk stuff, which is really more my roots, my childhood roots so maybe that’s what’s coming out that I never really got to do so far. It’ll be more organic than probably people are used to hearing from me. Yeah, there’s The Supremes stuff in there and The Beatles, those are the influences that keep coming up.”

She also says son Eja, the product of her first marriage to producer-songwriter Robert John “Mutt” Lange, is showing signs of following in his father’s footsteps.

“He doesn’t want to perform. He’s a writer, and produces, arranges, yeah he’s very, very into it, if I’m lucky, he’ll do one of my records.”

Twain also clarifies the door isn’t completely closed on a return to Sin City at some point.

“If I did go back to Vegas, I would do it with this (Rock This Country) show,” she said. “So it’s not that I wouldn’t maybe consider going back to Vegas after my time there but Still the One, I’m never doing that show again.”

Shania Twain’s Rock This Country 2015 Canadian dates:

June 7 and 9, Vancouver, Pepsi Live! At Rogers Arena

June 11-12, Edmonton, Rexall Place

June 14, Saskatoon, SaskTel Centre

June 15, Winnipeg, MTS Centre

June 19-20, London, Ont., Budweiser Gardens

June 22, Hamilton, Ont., FirstOntario Centre

Jun 24-25, Toronto, Air Canada Centre

June 27, Ottawa, Wesley Clover Parks

June 28, Montreal, Bell Centre

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/03/06/shania-twain-says-final-tour-will-be-a-celebration

9 stages you went through when Shania Twain announced her farewell tour

by Justin Kirkland, Community Contributor | March 5, 2015 | 4:15PM

On Wednesday, in all her pop-country glory, Shania Twain sashayed onto the Good Morning America stage, announced that for the first time in 11 years she’s going on tour, then announced it would be her last. At 49 years old, Shania Twain has released six albums that have sold more than 75 million copies. “It’s the after-party tour. That’s how I see it. It’s a celebration tour for me.”

Clearly, for Shania lovers, it was an emotional roller coaster. Twain’s last three studio albums went to Diamond status in the United States, an almost unheard-of accomplishment for any recording artist. Needless to say, Twain’s accomplishments are a little more than unbelievable: I mean, who else can release the exact same song with both Billy Currington and Mark McGrath, and no one asks a single question about it? Shania Twain, that’s who.

Naturally, when an announcement of this magnitude is dropped, there are a lot of feelings to deal with. The important thing is to process them in an organized and sensible fashion that makes sense to you. We’ve worked to identify those feelings and lay them out in a manner that will help you deal with the rise and fall of Shania’s farewell tour:

1. You initially find out Shania’s going on tour.

You don’t have all the words put together yet. It was pretty unexpected for a casual Wednesday morning, but you let a little smile out, just like Shania would do herself. 

2. Immediately, she announces that it will also serve as her FAREWELL TOUR.

Wait, what? This was not discussed. This was not part of the plan. This was supposed to be the day we all partied together, whether that be a “Come On Over!” party or a “Party for Two” kind of party. If we weren’t ready for a surprise tour announcement, then we definitely weren’t ready for a farewell tour announcement.

3. You let yourself grieve.

You step to the bathroom or an alleyway or maybe just to your room and you let our your cry breaths—those choppy whisper-shouts that make you sound like you’re choking on a piece of apple. Shania can’t really be done, right? RIGHT?

4. Pull it together.

Shania wouldn’t let this rattle her, and neither will you. You have a trip to plan. You need to go to wherever Shania is, because if she’s really only performing one last time, she’d better believe that you’re going to be there.

5. The planning stage

You check to see which of the 48 cities she’ll be touring in, and of course, she chose yours. Why wouldn’t she choose yours? You and Shania are close. Like … super-close. Like, “braid each other’s hair and gab about American Idol” close. You wonder if you have the money for front-row seats, but worst-case, you’ll take out a loan or something because you know where you need to be.

6. A poser tries to empathize.

Another one of your friend hears about your excitement and lovingly, yet stupidly, offers to go along to the concert with you. What they don’t understand is that this is not a moment for amateurs. If you’re not “Shania-ready,” you’re not going to be Shania-ready by the time the concert gets here. Sorry.

7. You have your own Shania-readiness tested.

Offended, your friend calls your own Shania Twain fandom into question, and for a minute … you doubt yourself. You have been listening to a lot of Taylor Swift lately. But then you remember the last time “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” came on at your favorite country-infused bar, and how you remembered every dance move. You also remembered the stylized exclamation point in the title. You’re good.

8. You can’t find the words to describe what this farewell tour means to you.

Yes, it’s been a while since you jammed out to the entire Come On Over album, but it doesn’t change your love for Shania. Just thinking about the tour and the music and all the craziness that she’s going to have on set—it’s pretty overwhelming.

9. You Riverdance through the haters. 

So instead of putting it into words, you Riverdance your way through an inch of water, past all the haters, to your nearest Internet-accessible device, and refresh the tickets page until the presale opens on March 10. It’s going to be a pretty incredible Year of Shania. 

Shania Twain’s “Rock This Country” tour kicks off on June 5 in Seattle. Gavin DeGraw, will accompany and open for her on most dates, with the tour ending on August 23 in Fresno, California. Presale begins March 10, with the public sale following on March 13.

http://community.ew.com/2015/03/05/shania-twain-tour-9-stages/

Interview on 99.5 WYCD - Detroit's Country

Shania Twain Shares What She Loves About Detroit

March 9, 2015 6:45 AM

Shania Twain released a live CD and DVD of her Las Vegas show on Tuesday and she says that she’s ready to head out on her first tour in 11-years. And it’ll be her last. Like ever. Yup. Shania made the big announcement on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that she will be kicking of a farewell tour later this year. Right after her announcement on TV, Shania got on the line with us to tell us, yes, she’s bringing her tour to Detroit!

Dubbed the “Rock This Country” tour, the outing is something Shania couldn’t be more excited about. “It’s the after-party tour. That’s how I see it,” said Shania. “It’s the after-party to all of these years.” It’s set to kick off June 5th in Seattle and will play 48 cities throughout the U.S. and Shania’s home country of Canada.

Shania, who grew up right across the Detroit River in Windsor, shares with The Dr. Don Show with Rachael and Grunwald some of the things she loves about the Detroit area. “I love Detroit. I’ve been across many times and for me, I guess feel when it comes to the Northern cities in the US, feel like home.”

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http://wycd.cbslocal.com/2015/03/09/shania-twain-shares-what-she-loves-about-detroit/