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Shania Twain Ready to Launch “Rock This Country Tour”

May 18, 2015

Country music’s bestselling female artist, Shania Twain will be making her long awaited return to the road, which will also be her last. The diva has called it one big afterparty and plans to go out with a bang. “Rock This Country Tour” will kick off on June 5 in Seattle and on popular demand has swelled from 48 to 67 shows. The summer trek will now end in October and the superstar has promised her fans rocking concerts.

Twain will continue to make new music though and her latest album will hit the shelves soon after the tour ends. Since the Grammy Award winning singer is returning to the stage after almost 11 years, fans can’t wait to attend her live concert. Shania has asked her countless fans to expect a different kind of show as it will be rock meets country event. It’s going to have a lot of edge and punch.

According to ExciteEvents, Shania Twain tickets sales are soaring at the moment. Several shows are quite high priced and even that hasn’t stopped the country lovers from buying tickets to her last tour. Her July 28 concert in Minneapolis is the most expensive one on the calendar and has an average tickets price of $466. Twain will wrap up the tour in October and her final shows will take place in Canada. Toronto event taking place on October 11 at the Target Center is the second most expensive show on the list and on ExciteEvents its average price is stated as $442.

http://www.excite.com/events/blog/shania-twain-rock-this-country-tour/

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Website seatgeek.com has posted a rumored "RTC Tour" setlist. Here it is:

01 - You're Still The One
02 - Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
03 - That Don't Impress Me Much
04 - Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
05 - Any Man Of Mine
06 - Rock This Country!
07 - Don't Be Stupid
08 - Honey, I'm Home
09 - I'm Outta Here!
10 - From This Moment On
11 - No One Needs To Know
12 - The Woman in Me
13 - You Win My Love
14 - Come On Over
15 - Love Gets Me Every Tme
16 - God Bless The Child
17 - When
18 - I'm Holdin' On To Love
19 - I Won't Leave You Lonely
20 - Black Eyes, Blue Tears
21 - Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
22 - You've Got a Way
23 - Up!
24 - I'm Gonna Getcha Good!

I REALLY hope this won't be the real setlist. Where the HELL is Forever and For Always??? And Party for Two??? Only two songs from "Up!"??? Nah....
I Won't Leave You Lonely in and Forever and For Always OUT??? Shania, come on...

Derek Frank @derekfrankbass

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be playing bass with Shania Twain on her upcoming "Rock This Country" tour! #rockthiscountry

12:34 PM ET - 24 Apr 15

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So here are the confirmed band members so far:

Cory Churko - Guitar/Violin
Joshua Ray - Guitar
Derek Frank - Bass
Elijah Wood - Drums

Add violinist Jason Mowery from Shania's Vegas show to the list of tour band members.

Jason Mowery @jason_mowery

Sending all of my musical toys out on the road for rehearsals with @ShaniaTwain & band. Gonna be a great summer tour!

5:34 PM ET - 11 May 15

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Jason Mowery @jason_mowery

Saw a bumper sticker today that read "live music is better". Speaking of that, rehearsals with Shania start today. #RockThisCountryTour

9:33 AM ET - 19 May 15

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Looks like Shania has returned to Las Vegas to rehearse for her tour.

Strip Scribbles

By Robin Leach | May 26, 2015 | 6 p.m.

SHANIA LOVES VEGAS: Superstar Shania Twain proved her love for Las Vegas returning to our city last week to start two weeks of rehearsals for her upcoming tour, which starts June 5 in Seattle and runs until Oct. 11 in Toronto.

She took time out Sunday night to return to her old home of two years in the Colosseum at Caesars Palace to watch Mariah Carey’s final show in her current debut run.

Also visiting Mariah were actor, producer and director Lee Daniels; Boyz II Men star Wanya Morris; actress Taraji P. Henson (“Empire”); and singer-songwriter Johnny Gill. Mariah returns here for nine more shows starting July 8 and again next Feb. 2.

http://lasvegassun.com/vegasdeluxe/2015/may/26/adele-residency-las-vegas-shania-elvis-mystery-/

shaniafan28 wrote:

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I hope those aren't her outfits for her show. Those are terrible and DATED! Shania usually wears comfortable outfits for her tours. I don't see her wearing this trash!

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Looks fine to me lol. You would rather her wear baggy sports sweaters of the team's arena she is playing in? lol Now that was so cheesy to play to the home crowd like that with a sweater of team she doesn't care about. It will be good if she wears something sexy and comfortable and stop trying too hard to kiss the crowds ass. lol

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Shania Twain finishes two weeks of rehearsals in Las Vegas ahead of final tour

By Robin Leach | May 28, 2015 | 5:04 p.m.

After two weeks of rehearsals here in Las Vegas, pop and country superstar Shania Twain is about to set off on her final road tour of 67 dates starting next Friday, June 5, and ending in Toronto in October.

I’ll catch up with her in San Diego in August and cannot wait to hear the final tour’s “Rock This Country” theme.

Although Shania says it’s a last live hurrah after her successful two-year residency at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace, she also says that she has major recording plans at the ready.

Her fifth album, the first since “Up” in 2002, will be recorded this fall now that she’s close to finishing the songwriting. She has originally hoped to record it during the Strip residency.

Shania credits the Las Vegas run in her Colosseum home with helping her get over the stress-induced vocal disorder that silenced her after the ugly divorce from producer Robert “Mutt” Lange, who ran away to marry her (ex-)best friend.

She says that she never used to warm up to go onstage but now needs 90 minutes to prepare her throat. She says that she’ll sing all of her hits on tour but focus on the rock side of their production with guitar-heavy instrumentals.

“It’s going to be visually exciting and very different from what we did in Las Vegas,” she said. “People will have never heard me this way before.”

One new song will be the rock version of “Party for Two” — her hit with Billy Currington, who headlines at Boulevard Pool in the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Friday night — that she‘s never performed live.

Another will be “Rock This Country” that she only performed here partly in an acoustic set. Shania says that she might try one or two of the new, self-penned album songs while out on tour.

http://lasvegassun.com/vegasdeluxe/2015/may/28/shania-twain-finishes-two-weeks-rehearsals-lv-ahea/

What she should do is what Bryan Adams does with his song WHEN YOU'RE GONE. She should make it fun for the crowd and call somebody up each night to sing that song with her. Of course they have to know the song and not make a fool of themselves. lol

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11:22 PM ET - 30 May 15

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New Promo Pic! (different pose)

Shania Twain could share new music during PPL Center stop in Allentown

By Matt Smith | For lehighvalleylive.com | June 01, 2015 at 7:40 AM

Shania Twain kicks off her first North American tour in 11 years on Friday, and she brings with her a catalog of music that has gone on to sell more than 75 million albums.

That includes "Come On Over," released in 1997, which spawned six singles to reach the U.S. Billboard top 40 singles charts as it became the best-selling album released by a female artist.

It's quite an impressive musical legacy the 49-year-old singer has made for herself. But with her return to the large arenas on what she is calling her final tour, it will surely bring with it a demand for something new to fill the gap left since her last studio release, 2002's "Up!"

With a new album in the works, the Lehigh Valley might be among one of the few stops to hear some of that material during the Rock This Country tour when the final leg swings through Oct. 2 at the PPL Center in Allentown.

"I'm dying to do it," Twain said during a conference call with reporters. "If the album progresses quickly enough and the timing works out, then I might very well just put one or two songs in closer to the end of the tour. It would bum me out to not do some of those songs live."

The focus on writing and recording music is strong within the singer as she seems intent to put the touring life behind her once she takes this last opportunity to reunite with her fans.

"I miss making records, Twain says. "I haven't made enough records in my life and in my career. I've done a lot more live performing than I have recording."

Twain had hoped to have an album of new music completed before the start of the tour. But with the planning of tours and albums needing to happen far in advance, things didn't come together the way she had hoped.

"The timing of the tour was decided on not leaving too much of a gap from when my residency finished in December," Twain says. "At the same time, I was hoping that my album would be further along by the time I finished my residency. It was just one of those things where the timing didn't work out very well."

What this means is that Twain will be recording her new album while on tour.

"I'll have a very portable set-up and I just sing and record my vocals," Twain says. "It's how I do my demos and you can be electronically connected with your producer wherever they are. And the producers will come out to me as well while I'm touring and we'll just poke away at it like that. There's just various ways to do this now that is pretty efficient, very effective."

It will take efficiency to juggle the next five months of touring with recording what sounds like a large amount of material that's been gathering in the 13 years since the release of her last album. According to Twain, she has been writing music ever since.

"I never stopped writing, so I have been writing all the time," Twain says. "It's a creative outlet that I would do whether I was touring or not, or recording or not. Why I didn't record anything is primarily because my voice just wasn't there. I wasn't sure I was ever going to sing again. So I was writing music but I didn't know what to do with it."

The uncertainty in her voice references her battle with vocal dysphonia, which is not a singing condition but an impairment in the ability to produce voice sounds using the vocal organs.

Twain's voice has recovered through years of therapy and was put to the test during a two-year residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. That gig wrapped up in December.

There are still many unknowns as to what Shania Twain will produce musically as she approaches songwriting and recording on her own for the first time. Her last three albums were all headed by producer and ex-husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange -- and all went on to sell 10 million units in the United States.

"I'm leaning towards wanting the music to sound more organic than my previous stuff," Twain says. "Less slick maybe in that sense -- a really live feel to things and with a contemporary edge to everything."

One thing for sure, there will be a more personal touch to her new album whenever it comes out.

"I think there are going to be a lot of unexpected elements to the music for sure because I am writing it all myself," Twain says. "Lyrically, I'm still doing the self-reflection and writing in that vein. I'm just different now and I've lived a lot of different things since then, so the stories and the themes will be obviously different and will reflect how I've evolved.

"It's a very personalized songwriting and therapeutic process for me. I'm pouring my heart out in the music."

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/music/index.ssf/2015/06/shania_twain_could_share_new_m.html

Audio snippet of Shania talking about her tour.

Shania Twain Is Ready To Hit The Road

June 1, 2015

Shania Twain is ready to hit the road for her "Rock This Country" Tour, plus Garth Brooks cancels weekend shows in Florida.

LISTEN - http://thebull1077.podbean.com/e/shania-twain-is-ready-to-hit-the-road

Q&A: Canadian singer Wes Mack thrilled to open for Shania Twain on last tour

By Nick Patch, The Canadian Press | June 3, 2015 at 6:01 AM

TORONTO - For Wes Mack, the realization that he was opening for Shania Twain seemed to strike in stages.

One morning, the Calgary-raised country singer awoke to an increasingly urgent series of texts from his agent: he would accompany Twain on a portion of her final arena tour, beginning Friday in Seattle and whisking through nine Canadian cities, wrapping June 28 in Montreal.

The first revelation was seeing the tour poster with his name on it. Next was seeing that same poster in billboard form.

Finally, he was in the crowd at an Eric Church gig in his adopted home of Vancouver, and Mack realized he was less than two months from performing on the same Rogers Arena stage.

"In the back of my head, I don't even really still buy it," said a cheerful Mack in a recent telephone interview.

"It won't really hit home until I walk into the building — because it does still seem very far-fetched.

"She's a calibre of artist where she could probably call 99 per cent of the artists in the world and ask if they would want to open for her and she'd get a yes.

"It's fairly inconceivable that they've chosen me."

Mack's entertaining career began in acting, with recurring roles on CBC's "Heartland" and the U.S. hit "Smallville" (in both cases he was billed as Wesley MacInnes).

Since shifting his attention to music he's scored two Top 10s on the Canadian country chart in "Duet" and "Before You Drive Me Crazy," both of which are included on his self-titled EP that came out this week.

CP: You direct your own videos. What's the challenge of that?

Mack: In my ideal world I'm not directing and being the artist at the same time.

The main challenge for me is when I've directed, I've also produced, written, edited and, in some cases, colour-corrected. Me being a bit of a control freak and refusing to delegate things, somewhat to my own detriment — I've been happy with the results, but it's dominated my time and energy.

CP: You moved from Calgary to Vancouver at age 18. Is Vancouver hospitable to country music?

Mack: It's an interesting difference. Vancouver has collided with so many of its suburbs ... and I find a lot of those outlying areas are far more into country than central Vancouver.

I've been pleasantly surprised, though. I wouldn't have assumed Vancouver had a huge amount of country music, but I remember opening for Florida Georgia Line here and I've never played to a louder crowd — it was a Friday night in downtown Vancouver.

CP: Do you plan to juggle acting and music?

Mack: Ultimately I got into music before I got into acting. It wouldn't seem that way because I probably enjoyed more success as an actor early on, but I've been playing in a band since I was 13 years old, started playing guitar when I was like 11, started playing drums at five. I didn't get into acting until I was 20 or something like that.

I've very much enjoyed the career I've had as an actor, and I certainly hope at some point in the future to return to that, but ultimately right now I'm a musician and I'm doing what I want to be doing.

I simply don't have time (to do both). From a scheduling perspective, it's a bit of a nightmare.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/q-canadian-singer-wes-mack-thrilled-open-shania-110009222.html

Shania Twain at Rogers Arena - Vancouver

by Staff on June 3rd, 2015 at 9:58 AM

It says something about Shania Twain’s status in the music world that even though she hasn’t released an album of all-new material since 2002, the pride of Timmins, Ontario, is still headlining arena shows.

Twain is a bona fide pop icon—the best-selling female artist in the history of country music and a major influence on everyone from Lady Antebellum to Taylor Swift. In fact, Swift probably owes her entire career to Twain, whose chart success in the ’90s practically obliterated the line separating country from pop. Unsurprisingly, Swift has cited the “Come on Over” singer as “the reason I wanted to do this in the first place”.

Given that endorsement, you can expect to see a whole new generation of fans in attendance when Twain plays Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Sunday and Tuesday (June 7 and 9). Here’s hoping, though, that certain older fans opt to stay home, namely the loogans who ruined Mike Usinger’s night at the former GM Place back in 1998 by screeching things like “Show us your ass” and “I wanna see your pie, Shania” every time there was a quiet moment.

http://www.straight.com/music/464186/shania-twain-rogers-arena

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WOW! I can't believe we kick off the #RockThisCountry Tour TOMORROW!!!!!!!

10:51 AM ET - 4 Jun 15

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New promo pic!

 

I'd like her to do Don't! live, too.

Shania Twain Launches Farewell Tour Tonight: "It'll Be a Kickin' Show"

ABC News Radio | June 5, 2015

Shania Twain spent several years headlining in Las Vegas with her show Shania: Still the One, but starting tonight in Seattle, she's bringing her music directly to the fans with her Rock This Country tour.  It's her first major trek in 11 years, but she says it'll also be her last. "It's my sort of personal way to say goodbye," Shania tells ABC Radio.

Shania says that the Rock This Country tour -- named after a track on her 1997 album, Come On Over -- will be very different from her show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.  "It’s really gonna be a kickin’, more of a rockier edge show," she tells ABC Radio. "A rock energy, just a lot of bells and whistles and more of a party atmosphere, really."

"You know, the show in Las Vegas was more glamorous, more theatrical," she adds. "I had horses on stage, for example, [a] flying motorcycle, a lot of things. I just took advantage of the environment, whereas on a touring, traveling stage, it just has to be a different type of production. But I still want it to be as 'wow.'"

Shania says one of the things that made her want to hit the road one more time was her desire to reach more fans than she could just staying in one place, which is what she was doing in Vegas.

"I love the fans. I love being with the fans in the audience. I love connecting with them," she explains. "And, you know, taking a show to them is the only real way to get to a lot of the people that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to see."

"It's my sort of personal way to say goodbye from the stage, by taking the show on the road to them," she adds. 

But Shania isn't retiring -- she's working on her first new album since 2002's Up!. She tells USA Today that she's written plenty of new songs -- enough for two albums -- and plans to record her vocals on the road, since she'll be singing every day anyway and her voice will be all warmed up.  Her goal, she says, is to at least have a new single out by the time she turns 50, on August 28.

Here are Shania's tour dates; her opening acts include Wes Mack and Gavin DeGraw:

6/5 -- Seattle, WA, KeyArena at Seattle Center
6/7 -- Vancouver, BC, Pepsi Live! At Rogers Arena
6/9 -- Vancouver, BC, Pepsi Live! At Rogers Arena
6/11 -- Edmonton, AB, Rexall Place
6/12 -- Edmonton, AB, Rexall Place
6/14 -- Saskatoon, SK,  SaskTel Centre
6/15 -- Winnipeg, MB, MTS Centre
6/19 -- London, ON, Budweiser Gardens
6/20 -- London, ON, Budweiser Gardens
6/22 -- Hamilton, ON, FirstOntario Centre
6/24 -- Toronto, ON, Air Canada Centre
6/25 -- Toronto, ON, Air Canada Centre
6/27 -- Ottawa, ON, Wesley Clover Parks
6/28 -- Montreal, QC, Bell Centre
6/30 -- New York, NY,  Madison Square Garden
7/1 -- Long Island, NY,  Nassau Coliseum
7/3 -- Uncasville, CT,  Mohegan Sun Arena
7/7 -- Newark, NJ, Prudential Center
7/8 -- Boston, MA, TD, Garden
7/10 -- Pittsburgh, PA, CONSOL Energy Center
7/11 -- Grand Rapids, MI, Van Andel Arena
7/13 -- Indianapolis, IN, Bankers Life Fieldhouse
7/15 -- Jacksonville, FL, Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
7/16 -- Miami, FL, AmericanAirlines Arena
7/18 -- Greenville, SC, Bon Secours Wellness Arena
7/19 -- Charlotte, NC, Time Warner Cable Arena
7/21 -- Washington, DC, Verizon Center
7/22 -- Philadelphia, PA, Wells Fargo Center
7/25 -- Auburn Hills, MI, Palace of Auburn Hills
7/26 -- Moline, IL, iWireless Center
7/28 -- Minneapolis, MN, Target Center
7/29 -- Rosemont, IL, Allstate Arena
7/31 -- Nashville, TN, Bridgestone Arena
8/1 -- Atlanta, GA, Philips Arena
8/3 -- Louisville, KY, KFC Yum! Center
8/4 -- St. Louis, MO, Scottrade Center
8/6 -- Des Moines, IA, Wells Fargo Arena
8/7 -- Kansas City, MO, Sprint Center
8/9 -- Austin, TX, Frank Erwin Center
8/10 -- Dallas, TX, American Airlines Center
8/12 -- Oklahoma City, OK, Chesapeake Energy Arena
8/14 -- Denver, CO, Pepsi Center
8/15 -- Salt Lake City, UT, EnergySolutions Arena
8/17 -- San Jose, CA, SAP Center at San Jose
8/19 -- Anaheim, CA, Honda Center
8/20 -- Los Angeles, CA, STAPLES Center
8/22 -- San Diego, CA, Valley View Casino Center
8/23 -- Fresno, CA, Save Mart Center

Fall Leg:

9/12 -- Spokane, WA, Spokane Arena
9/13 -- Portland, OR, Moda Center
9/15 -- Boise, ID, Taco Bell Arena
9/17 - 9/18 -- Calgary, AB, (CAN), Scotiabank Saddledome
9/20 -- Winnipeg, MB (CAN), MTS Centre
9/21 -- Fargo, ND, Fargodome
9/23 -- Sioux Falls, SD, Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
9/24 -- Lincoln, NE, Pinnacle Bank Arena
9/26 -- Minneapolis, MN, Target Center
9/27 -- Madison, WI, Kohl Center
9/29 -- Peoria, IL, Peoria Civic Center
9/30 -- Columbus, OH, Nationwide Arena
10/2 -- Allentown, PA, PPL Center
10/3 -- Buffalo, NY, First Niagara Center
10/6 -- Manchester, NH, Verizon Wireless Arena
10/7 -- Albany, NY, Times Union Center
10/9 -- Quebec City, QC (CAN), Videotron Centre
10/11 -- Toronto, ON (CAN), Air Canada Centre

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2015/6/5/shania-twain-launches-farewell-tour-tonight-itll-be-a-kickin.html

Tanya wrote:

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I'd like her to do Don't! live, too.

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 i have a feeling we'll hear "don't!"

i've had the pleasure of meeting shania, and in that time i made sure to ask something i always wanted to know and that's: which non-singles are her favorites? she told me "waiter!" "jealous" and "don't!" 

i guess she forgot "don't!" was a single. but the fact that it was a single, is moderately known, is something fresh compared to vegas, plus her promise to not leave out the ballads, AND it being a personal favorite leads me to think it'll be included on the setlist. for what it's worth, i also think "waiter!" would fit the show and be cool to hear live.

I don't think we'll hear "Jealous", "Waiter" and "Don't".
She said she'll stick with the hits and these songs hadn't been hits, not even singles except "Don't!", but it barely hit the charts... Even Shania doesn't remember it was a single. :D