Halos & Horns Tour

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Halos & Horns Tour
Dolly performing at Irving Plaza for the Halos & Horns Tour.
Tour by Dolly Parton
Start date May 17, 2002
End date December 14, 2002
Legs 2
Shows 18 in United States
7 in Europe
25 in total
Dolly Parton tour chronology
 ? Halos & Horns Tour
(2002)		 Hello I'm Dolly Tour
(2004)

The Halos & Horns Tour in 2002 was Dolly Parton's first major concert trek in 10 years. It promoted the release of her album Halos & Horns. The tour started in North America, moved to the British Isles, before returning to North America once again.

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[edit] History

In the early 1990s Dolly Parton had stopped the grueling tour schedule that she'd worked for most of her career; she was tired of it and did not see it fit to keep a band on payroll. She continued to do casino shows in Atlantic City and Las Vegas and she also performed (usually) yearly themed concerts at her Dollywood theme park.

With the resurgence of sorts of her career in 1999 with the release of the album The Grass Is Blue, Parton toyed with the idea of mounting a tour to promote the album. Scheduling conflicts with the many talented, and booked, musicians who played on the album prohibited the tour and the subsequent one which would have promoted the 2001 album Little Sparrow. Parton did do some promotional concerts for the albums. She also appeared at the famed Merlefest festival at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina on April 28, 2001 and performed a setlist that comprised songs from the two albums as well as her greatest hits.

It was announced at Dollywood's opening weekend in April, 2002 that Dolly would release a new album, Halos & Horns, and would launch her first tour in a decade.

The tour was promoted and produced by House of Blues. The venues were mainly club settings and seated somewhere between 1,000 and 2,500. Subsequently, every date on the tour sold out. Most reviews praised Parton and her recent bluegrass/folk releases.

[edit] The show

Parton stated in interviews to promote the album and tour that the shows she would be performing would be very simple. There was no glitz or lights or video monitors that she had employed with her earlier tours in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Most of the songs that made up the set list were of the country/bluegrass/folk vein, though Parton did include her biggest pop hits in an a cappella medley. "9 to 5" was treated to a very stripped down, bluegrass treatment, garnering mixed reviews from fans.

[edit] Tour dates

[edit] North America leg

Date City, State Venue
May 17 2002 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Hyatt Regency
July 10 2002 New York City, New York, USA Irving Plaza
July 15 2002 Washington, D.C., USA 9:30 Club
July 21 2002 Nashville, Tennessee, USA Ryman Auditorium
July 25 2002 Atlanta, Georgia, USA Earthlink Live
July 29 2002 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA House of Blues
August 3 2002 Dallas, Texas, USA Grenada Theatre
August 7 2002 Los Angeles, California, USA House of Blues
August 10 2002 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA House of Blues
August 13 2002 Denver, Colorado, USA Paramount Theater
August 17 2002 Chicago, Illinois, USA House of Blues
August 21 2002 Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Lowell Auditorium
August 28 2002 St. Louis, Missouri, USA The Pageant
August 31 2002 Kansas City, Missouri, USA Uptown Theatre
September 4 2002 Sioux City, South Dakota, USA Washington Pavilion
December 13 & 14 2002 Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA Dollywood Celebrity Theatre

[edit] British Isles leg

Date City, Country Venue
November 15 2002 Manchester, England, UK Bridgewater Hall
November 18 & 19 2002 London, England, UK Hammersmith Apollo
November 23 2002 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Waterfront Hall
November 26 & 27 2002 Glasgow, Scotland, UK Clyde Auditorium
November 29 2002 Dublin, Republic of Ireland The Point

[edit] Set list

The set list for the shows was comprised mostly of songs from Parton's previous three Sugar Hill releases. It remained essentially the same, though song orders were rearranged as the tour wore on and Parton added songs here and there.

The main setlist was,

  1. Orange Blossom Special
  2. Train Train
  3. The Grass Is Blue
  4. Mountain Angel
  5. Shine
  6. Little Sparrow
  7. Rocky Top
  8. My Tennessee Mountain Home
  9. Coat of Many Colors
  10. Smoky Mountain Memories
  11. Applejack
  12. Marry Me
  13. Halos & Horns
  14. I'm Gone
  15. Dagger Through the Heart
  16. If
  17. 9 to 5
  18. Jolene
  19. A cappella-medley (Islands in the Stream, Here You Come Again, Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That, Two Doors Down)
  20. After the Goldrush
  21. I Will Always Love You

Songs that were performed at some shows, but not all,

  1. Color Me America
  2. Calm on the Water
  3. Try
  4. Down from Dover
  5. Silly Song Medley (I Don't Wanna Throw Rice, He's a Go Getter, I'll Oilwells Love You)
  6. Stairway to Heaven

[edit] References

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