Twain to mount tour of U.S. and Canada
Canadian country-pop star Shania Twain will hit the concert trail in 2018 with her first tour in three years, in support of her forthcoming album, “Now.” The album, due Sept. 29, is her first new collection in 15 years, since 2002’s “Up!” The tour is scheduled to open May 3 in Tacoma, Wash., and includes stops in 42 cities in the U.S. and Canada.
General ticket sales for most dates begin Thursday, with a presale for American Express cardholders beginning Tuesday.
Twain will perform at the opening night ceremony for the 2017 U.S. Tennis Open in Flushing, N.Y., on Aug. 28. The event will be televised on ESPN2, and Twain plans to include some of her biggest hits.
On Wednesday night she introduced “Swingin’ With My Eyes Closed,” her latest single from “Now,” on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.”
Of the new album, the first since her highly publicized divorce from Robert John “Mutt” Lange, who also was her producer and songwriting collaborator during most of her 1990s heyday, she said this year: “I was not going to collaborate with anybody for this one. This needed to be an independent experience.
“I hadn’t written by myself for a long time. I was married for 14 years to my collaborator, and I really just needed to do that again. I needed to go back and do that by myself and have an uninterrupted flow of creativity that was insular, to see what I was made of, to see what I have there.”