Storm World Tour

Storm World Tour (or simply Storm Tour) was the first world tour by Finnish singer Tarja Turunen to support her second studio album, My Winter Storm, released on November 19, 2007, by Universal Music; it was Tarja's first world tour since her dismissal from Nightwish in 2005, playing for the first time in several countries like Luxembourg, Serbia, Israel, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Belarus.^[1]

The tour was divided in seven legs between 2007 and 2009, with ten warm up concerts in Europe between November and December.^[2] In 2008, she played in South America and finished the year again in Europe; in 2009, Tarja played in North America, with dates in the United States and Canada, and then she hosted new concerts in South America, debuting in Venezuela.^[3]

During the last leg, Tarja played for the first time in Turkey and Croatia, and finished the tour in London, England, on October 19, 2009, after 95 concerts.^[1]

Setlist

Recordings

Tarja live in Sofia, Bulgaria, on October 28, 2008.

On December 8, 2007, Tarja hosted a big concert in Kuusankoski, Finland; the show was professionally recorded and later in 2008 she released the full concert for download online, without any commercial intention, according to Tarja, it was only a "gift for her fans".

She played the following setlist:

1. Boy And The Ghost
2. Lost Northern Star
3. Passion & The Opera
4. My Little Phoenix
5. Sing For Me
6. Damned And Divine
7. Ciarán's Well
8. Our Great Divide
9. The Phantom Of The Opera
10. Oasis
11. Walking In The Air
12. You Would Have Loved This
13. Poison
14. I Walk Alone
15. Calling Grace^[4]

Opening Acts

• Interitus, Czech band (Czech Republic on May 11, 2008)
• Martin Kesici, German singer (Poland on May 12, 2008)
• The Dogma, Italian band (Germany on May 14, 2008)
• Passionworks, Finnish band (Europe between May 17 and June 3, 2008)
• Urn, American band, and The Eternal, Australian band (United States between April 29 and May 4, 2009)
• Furnaze, britanic band, and Kings of Modesty, Finnish band (Europe between September 20 and October 16, 2009)
• Apparition, britanic band (London on October 19, 2009)

Tour dates

^[1]

Support band

• Tarja Turunen - Vocal and Piano
• Maria Imoniemi - Keyboards (2007–2009)
• Doug Wimbish - Bass (2007–2009)
• Alex Scholpp - Guitar (2007–2009)
• Mike Terrana - Drums (2007–2009)
• Max Lilja - Cello (2007–2009)
• Toni Turunen - Backing vocal (2007–2008)
• Kiko Loureiro - Guitar (2008–2009)
• Oliver Holzwarth - Bass (2008–2009)
• Markus Hohti - Cello (2007)
• Christian Kretschmar - Keyboards (2009)

References

External links

• Tarja's Official Website