The Waking Up Laughing Tour

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Waking Up Laughing Tour
Tour by Martina McBride
Locations North America
Supporting album Waking Up Laughing
Start date April 12, 2007
End date October 18, 2008 (TBA)
Legs 3
Shows 116
Martina McBride tour chronology
Timeless Tour
(2006)		 Waking Up Laughing Tour
(2007/2008)		 TBA
(2009)

The Waking Up Laughing Tour is a headlining concert tour by country music singer Martina McBride. On the 2007 leg of the tour, McBride was joined by special guest Rodney Atkins and Little Big Town. On the 2008 leg of the tour, McBride will be joined by special guests Jack Ingram and Lady Antebellum.

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[edit] Tour History

[edit] 2007 Leg

The tour was officially announced on January 18, 2007 by Billboard.com and McBride's official website. The tour is in support of McBride's ninth studio album Waking Up Laughing, which was released the week before the tour's opening.[1]

“As exciting as it is to create a new album, there's nothing quite as thrilling as getting the immediate feedback from a live crowd,” says McBride. “I'm especially happy about being joined by Little Big Town and Rodney Atkins. We put a lot of thought into which artists to include on this tour and I really feel like this show is going to be a treat for my fans from beginning to end. I can't wait to get out there on the road!”[2]

The main opening acts for the tour were Little Big Town who stayed with the through August 5 and Rodney Atkins who was with the tour until June 21. Diamond Rio and The Warren Brothers also joined Martina for select dates.

McBride's Waking Up Laughing Tour ranked #49 on Pollstar's Mid-Year Top 100 Tours with a gross of $6.7 million. She was also the top female country touring act of 2007.

On August 24, 2007 it was announced that a special concert would be held at the i wireless Center in Moline, Illinois to be taped for a TV special. It was the first time McBride has recorded a live concert, and the first time the former Mark of the Quad-Cities had hosted a live taping. Martina performed Saturday, Sept. 29, after several days of closed rehearsals.[3]One thousand fans were allowed to attend the September 28 dress rehearsal.

The concert television special aired in March 2008 on the PBS network. A live CD/DVD of the special, Martina McBride: Live In Concert will be released in April 2008.

McBride's 2007 Tour was premiered in front of over 250,000 fans in 52 cities while receiving rave reviews.

[edit] 2008 Leg

The 2008 leg of the tour was announced on October 31, 2007 with 11 initial dates being announced, with more to follow. Joining McBride on the 2008 leg of the tour is Jack Ingram and newcomers Lady Antebellum.[4]. The previous year's opening act Little Big Town will also join Martina for four shows in Canada. A long awaited Canadian tour will begin on March 17 in Calgary and will include stops in Edmonton, Vancouver, Saskatoon, London, Ottawa, Hamilton and Winnipeg.[5]

[edit] Tour Dates

The Waking Up Laughing Tour 2007
Date City Venue
April 12 Kansas City, Missouri Kemper Arena
April 13 Rosemont, Illinois Rosemont Theatre
April 15 Rosemont, Illinois Rosemont Theatre
April 20 Uncasville, Connecticut Mohegan Sun Arena
April 21 Lowell, Massachusetts Tsongas Arena
April 22 Albany, New York Times Union Center
April 27 Saginaw, Michigan Dow Event Center
April 28 Rochester, New York Blue Cross Arena
April 29 Toledo, Ohio Seagate Center
May 4 Birmingham, Alabama BJCC
May 5 Duluth, Georgia Gwinnett Center
May 6 Pensacola, Florida Pensacola Civic Center
May 11 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Petersen Events Center
May 12 Columbia, Maryland Merriweather Post Pavilion
May 18 New York, New York Radio City Music Hall
May 25 Colorado Springs, Colorado World Arena
May 26 Loveland, Colorado Budweiser Events Center
May 27 Valley Center, Kansas Kansas Coliseum
May 31 Richmond, Virginia Richmond Coliseum
June 1 Winston-Salem, North Carolina Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum
June 2 North Charleston, South Carolina North Charleston Coliseum
June 3 Asheville, North Carolina Asheville Civic Center
June 7 Cape Girardeau, Missouri Show Me Center
June 8 Jackson, Mississippi Mississippi Coliseum
June 9 Nashville Tennessee LP Field @ CMA Music Fest
June 15 Sioux City, Iowa Gateway Arena
June 16 Burlington, Iowa Steamboat Days
June 17 Dayton, Ohio Nutter Center
June 21 Cedar Falls, Iowa McLeod Center
June 22 Fort Wayne, Indiana Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
June 23 Erie, Pennsylvania Erie Events Center
June 24 Springfield, Massachusetts MassMutual Center
June 28 Charleston, West Virginia Charleston Civic Center
June 29 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Wachovia Arena
June 30 Hershey, Pennsylvania GIANT Center
July 1 Manchester, New Hampshire Verizon Wireless Arena
July 12 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Ford Center
July 13 Grand Prairie, Texas Nokia Theatre
July 14 Austin, Texas Frank Erwin Center
July 15 Bossier City, Louisiana CenturyTel Center
July 19 Louisville, Kentucky Freedom Hall
July 21 Hinckley, Minnesota Grand Casino Hinckley Amphitheater
July 22 Grand Forks, North Dakota Alerus Center
July 26 Glendale, Arizona Jobing.com Arena
July 27 Las Vegas, Nevada Mandalay Bay Events Center
July 28 Pacific Amphitheatre Costa Mesa, California
July 29 Lake Tahoe, Nevada Harvey's Lake Tahoe Outdoor Amphitheater
August 1 Oakland, California Oracle Arena
August 3 Portland, Oregon Rose Garden
August 4 Everett, Washington Everett Events Center
August 5 Nampa, Idaho Idaho Center
August 7 Kennewick, Washington Toyota Center
August 17 Springfield, Illinois Illinois State Fair
September 7 Harris, Michigan Chipin Island Casino
September 8 Harris, Michigan Chipin Island Casino
September 20 Niagara Falls, Ontario Avalon Ballroom Theatre
September 21 Niagara Falls, Ontario Avalon Ballroom Theatre
September 28 Moline, Illinois i wireless Center (Dress Rehearsal for TV taping)
September 29 Moline, Illinois i wireless Center (TV Special taping)
September 30 La Crosse, Wisconsin La Crosse Center
November 10 Washington D.C. DAR Constitution Hall
December 2 Friant, California Table Mountain Casino
The Waking Up Laughing Tour 2008
Date City Venue
January 18 Evansville, Indiana Roberts Stadium
January 19 Cincinnati, Ohio US Bank Arena
January 20 Grand Rapids, Michigan Van Andel Arena
January 25 Green Bay, Wisconsin Resch Center
January 26 Minneapolis, Minnesota Target Center
January 27 Ames, Iowa Hilton Coliseum
February 1 Columbus, Ohio Nationwide Arena
February 2 Cleveland, Ohio Wolstein Center
February 22 Champaign, Illinois Assembly Hall
February 23 Council Bluffs, Iowa Mid-America Center
February 24 Columbia, Missouri Hearnes Center
February 29 Reading, Pennsylvania Sovereign Center
March 1 Atlantic City, New Jersey Circus Maximus Theater @ Caesars
March 2 Syracuse, New York War Memorial at Oncenter
March 17 Calgary, Alberta Pengrowth Saddledome
March 19 Edmonton, Alberta Rexall Place
March 20 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Credit Union Centre
March 21 Winnipeg, Manitoba MTS Centre
March 28 Hamilton, Ontario Copps Coliseum
March 29 Ottawa, Ontario Scotiabank Place
March 30 London, Ontario John Labatt Centre
April 5 Hot Springs, Arkansas Summit Arena
April 6 Columbia, Missouri Mizzou Arena
April 18 Estero, Florida Germain Arena
April 19 Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
April 20 Huntsville, Alabama Von Braun Center
July 11 Clarkston, Michigan DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 12 Buffalo, New York Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
July 13 Gilford, New Hampshire U.S. Cellular Pavilion
July 17 Selma, Texas Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Selma
July 18 Dallas, Texas SuperPages.com Center
July 19 The Woodlands, Texas Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 24 Harrington, Delaware Delaware State Fair
July 25 Wantagh, New York Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
July 31 Missoula, Montana Dahlberg Arena
August 1 Salt Lake City, Utah USANA Amphitheatre
August 2 Englewood, Colorado Coors Amphitheatre
August 8 Concord, California Sleep Train Pavilion
August 9 Marysville, California Sleep Train Amphitheatre
August 10 Kelseyville, California Konocti Harbor Resort
August 15 Phoenix, Arizona Cricket Wireless Pavilion
August 16 Chula Vista, California Coors Amphitheatre (Chula Vista, California)
August 17 Irvine, California Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Irvine)
August 28 Birmingham, Alabama Verizon Wireless Music Center - Birmingham
August 29 St. Louis, Missouri Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre St. Louis
August 30 Tinley Park, Illinois First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
September 19 Hartford, Connecticut New England Dodge Music Center
September 20 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Susquehanna Arts
September 21 Bethel, New York Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
September 26 Burgettstown, Pennsylvania Post-Gazette Pavilion
September 27 Bristow, Virginia Nissan Pavilion
October 3 Charlotte, North Carolina Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
October 4 Raleigh, North Carolina Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
October 5 Virginia Beach, Virginia Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
October 10 Tampa, Florida Ford Amphitheatre (Tampa)
October 11 West Palm Beach, Florida Cruzan Amphitheatre
October 18 Red Wing, Minnesota Treasure Island Resort and Casino

[edit] The Show

Reviews for Martina McBride's 2007 tour were stellar. During the first leg of the tour, Rodney Atkins was the first on to take the stage, followed by Little Big Town and then Martina. Martina opens the show with her latest hit single "Anyway" and performs from anywhere between 75-90 minutes, usually perform 18-20 songs. Martina sings some of her best known hits like "Independence Day", "Wild Angels" and "Concrete Angel" as well as new songs like "How I Feel" and "Tryin' To Find A Reason", the latter of which she duets with her brother Marty Schiff on.

The stage is a large one and the background is made up of many video screens. Martina's outfit is simple, low-rise pants, sparkling shirt and big high heels.

Rodney Atkins stayed with the tour through June and Little Big Town through August. Beginning in September 2007 the show had an "evening with" setup until January 2008 when the second leg officially began.

So far, the second leg of the show is not much different from the first except for some basic song order changes and Martina has been wearing different outfits every night.

[edit] 2007 Set Lists

[edit] Rodney Atkins

A typical Atkins set list:

  1. "These Are My People"
  2. "In the Middle"
  3. "Watching You"
  4. "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)"

[edit] Little Big Town

  1. "Good as Gone"
  2. "Bones"
  3. "A Little More You"
  4. "Bring It on Home"
  5. "Stay"
  6. "Wounded"
  7. "Looking For A Reason"
  8. "Go Your Own Way"
  9. "Boondocks"
  • Other songs included "I'm With The Band."

[edit] Martina McBride

On the main leg of the tour, the most often used set list on the tour was the one below.

  1. "Anyway"
  2. "When God Fearin' Women Get The Blues"
  3. "Wild Angels"
  4. "Cry Cry ('Til The Sun Shines)"
  5. "Tryin' To Find A Reason"
  6. "My Baby Loves Me"
  7. "How I Feel"
  8. "Happy Girl"
  9. "Rose Garden""
  10. "You Ain't Woman Enough"
  11. "Help Me Make It Through The Night"
  12. "If I Had Your Name"
  13. "Where Would You Be"
  14. "Concrete Angel"
  15. "Love's The Only House/Blessed"
  16. "This One's for the Girls"
  17. "A Broken Wing"
  18. "Independence Day"
    Encore
  19. "Don't Stop Believin'"
  20. "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"

Shows have had moderate variations in the set lists, especially in the show's mid-section and in the encores. On occasion Martina will sing "Whatever You Say" instead of "Where Would You Be." The songs "I Love You," "Thanks A Lot," "I Can't Stop Loving You," "Heartaches By The Number," "How Far" and "I'll Still Be Me" had early appearances. In more recent shows "House Of A Thousand Dreams" has been in the set list. The song "For These Times" was played during the start of the tour but then was cut and did not return until more recent shows as the song is the most recent single from McBride's Waking Up Laughing album. Martina has also thrown in "Over The Rainbow", "In My Daughter's Eyes," "Son of a Preacher Man", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Stand By Your Man" at different shows.

[edit] 2008 Set Lists

[edit] Martina McBride

  1. "Anyway"
  2. "When God Fearin' Women Get The Blues"
  3. "Wild Angels"
  4. "My Baby Loves Me"
  5. "For These Times"
  6. "How I Feel"
  7. "Happy Girl"
  8. "Rose Garden""
  9. "You Ain't Woman Enough"
  10. "In My Daughter's Eyes"
  11. "If I Had Your Name"
  12. "Where Would You Be"
  13. "Concrete Angel"
  14. "Love's The Only House/Blessed"
  15. "This One's for the Girls"
  16. "A Broken Wing"
  17. "Independence Day"
    Encore
  18. "Don't Stop Believin'"
  19. "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"


"Help Me Make It Through The Night" made an appearance early on in the second leg but it was soon replaced with "In My Daughter's Eyes." "Tryin' To Find A Reason" was cut from the set list shortly after the second leg of the tour began. Other songs played at various shows have been "Everybody Does," "I'll Still Be Me," "Today I Started Loving You Again," "Danny's Song," "I Love You" and "Whatever You Say."

[edit] Concert Reviews

2008 REVIEWS