The Dixie Chicks will tour for only the second time in a decade next year when they play a series of dates in Europe.
The trio, formed in 1989, were one of the hottest acts in country with their albums Wide Open Spaces (1998), Fly (1999) and Home (2002) but a statement made by singer Natalie Maines at a London date in 2003 set the group’s conservative audience fleeing. There response album, Taking the Long Way (2006), became another major hit, going two-times platinum, and won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
In 2007, the band went on hiatus so each of the members could spend time with family. Marty Maguire and Natalie Robison released new music as the Court Yard Hounds and reunited with Maines in 2010 to tour with the Eagles along with a number of Canadian dates in 2013 but this will be the first full blown tour in ten years.
The Dixie Chicks’ website announced the tour:
Superstars, renegades, innovators, heroes, villains, and moms – for over a decade, the Dixie Chicks have grown from a band into a phenomenon, with over 30 million albums sold, Dixie Chicks are the biggest female band of all time in the U.S.
The Dixie Chicks have announced that they will be returning to Europe to tour in 2016. Starting in Amsterdam, the tour will then head to the UK and Ireland to play arenas in Birmingham, Manchester, London, Glasgow and will culminate in Dublin.
The first announced dates (all 2016):
04/20 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Heineken Music Hall
04/29 – Birmingham, U.K. – Barclaycard Arena
04/30 – Manchester, U.K. – Manchester Arena
05/01 – London, U.K. – 02 Arena
05/03 – Glasgow, Scotland – The SSE Hydro
05/04 – Dublin, Ireland – Dublin 3 Arena
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