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2025 Canadian and U.S. Summer tour - Live In Concert

Tommy · Guru

Tommy wrote:
"Come On Over" residency band members
Brent Barcus - Music director/Band leader/Guitar/Bass
Chandra Meibalane - Violin/Fiddle
Lindsay Ell - Guitar
Hamilton Evans - Harp
Tif (Teddy) Lamson - Drums
Leo Lam - Violin & Backing vocals
Paul Michael Clark - Backing vocals
Confirmed (so far) "Live In Concert" Summer tour band members
Brent Barcus - Music director/Band leader/Guitar/Bass/Backing vocals
Lindsay Ell - Guitar/Backing vocals
Tif (Teddy) Lamson - Drums
We know Paul and Hamilton are gone.
Looking at his Instagram, it doesn't look like Leo will be in the band.
Chandra had a baby in April so I doubt she'll be going on the road.
It looks like Brent will also be the lead backing vocalist.

Update: After talking with another fan, it looks like it will in fact only be a 3-member band (Brent, Lindsay and Tif). That's crazy! That means a lot, if not all, of the music will be pre-recorded and piped in. I bet some of Shania's vocals will be pre-recorded too.

matteotempo · Guru

When music was the heart of the show. Those were good times.
Now it's all about making money, money, money. It's so sad!

Tommy · Guru

Shania Twain @shaniatwain

The countdown to my summer shows is ON - 48 HOURS!! My boots are shined and my outfits are Shania’d ✨ I’m excited for your energy, your outfits, your signs, your singalongs (warm up those vocal chords)… See you out there! shaniatwain.com/tour

PICS - https://www.instagram.com/p/DLiDlksNgG0/

12:45 PM ET - 30 Jun 25

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LifesAboutToGetGood2000 · Senior Member

Tommy wrote:
Update: After talking with another fan, it looks like it will in fact only be a 3-member band (Brent, Lindsay and Tif). That's crazy! That means a lot, if not all, of the music will be pre-recorded and piped in. I bet some of Shania's vocals will be pre-recorded too.

Given this news and the fact that rehearsals were only a few days, I suspect that it will probably be the same setlist, visuals, and choreography as the Come on Over Vegas shows. I wonder if she’ll be doing the full show live like she did for Come on Over or if the whole thing will be playback. If she is going to lipsync, I hope it’s all newer tracks and not the previous tracks that date back to the first Vegas residency in 2012 that she used for some songs through the QoM tour.

schnetzka · Senior Member

She's been doing more and more live singing these past two or so years even with all the changes of her band so I choose to remain positive and hope she'll continue doing that.

shaniafan28 · Veteran Member

So many tickets left for sale. I’m worried 😟

Tommy · Guru

Shania Twain @shaniatwain

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I’m so happy to be back in my beautiful home country for a summer of shows! Not only because you guys always show up with the biggest energy and the most love, but also because of the incredible work @theshaniatwainfoundation is doing while we’re on the road! We’re partnering with @secondharvestca to help rescue and redistribute nearly 400,000 meals across the country, donating $25,000 to the West Prince Caring Cupboard in PEI, and helping reduce food waste from the @calgarystampede and @cavendishbeachmusic - This tour is all about connection, celebration and giving back. Happy Canada Day!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLlKzMnNuzx/

5:46 PM ET - 1 Jul 25

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Tommy · Guru

Shania Twain set to perform at Washington-Grizzly Stadium

By Phil Howard | NBC Montana | July 1, 2025

MISSOULA, Mont. — Country-pop star Shania Twain is coming to Missoula’s Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Wednesday as part of her Queen Of Me tour.

Twain is a five-time Grammy winner, who’s known for her hit songs “Any Man of Mine” and “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!”

Twain will be accompanied by country musicians Kip Moore and Lindsay Ell.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the performance starts at 7 p.m.

Tickets are selling fast, but are still available, here.

Click Link Below For Video Report.

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/shania-twain-set-to-perform-at-washington-grizzly-stadium

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Let's go girls: What to know before Shania Twain takes the stage in Missoula

From this moment on, thousands are expected to head to the University of Montana campus Wednesday night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HFG55UPmXI

Related article
https://www.kpax.com/lets-go-girls-what-you-need-to-know-before-shania-twain-takes-the-stage-at-washington-grizzly-stadium

Tommy · Guru

Tonight Shania embarks on her one-month "Live In Concert" Summer tour. The 17-date tour begins in Missoula, Montana and will come to an end August 2 in Davie/Hollywood, Florida with stops in Canada in between.

Check my message board's picture forum later tonight for some pictures, videos and hopefully the setlist from Shania's first concert in Missoula!
https://shania.activeboard.com/t72024902/live-in-concert-2025-summer-tour-pics-videos/

***Remember, the concert starts at 7:00pm MT which is 9:00pm ET. So by the time Kip Moore and Lindsay Ell (opening acts) play their gigs, Shania won't hit the stage until 8:30pm MT / 10:30pm ET or later.

Tommy · Guru

Still the One: Shania Twain arrives in Calgary while in midst of a career reinvention

Twain returns to Calgary this week as both the Stampede Parade marshal on July 4 and headline act at the Saddledome the following night

By Eric Volmers | Calgary Herald | July 2, 2025

In Andrea Warner’s essay Shania Twain: Bad Feelings, Bare Midriffs and Breaking Ground, the music critic writes about the strong feelings she had about Twain when she was a teenage music buff and budding feminist.

Strong and strongly negative.

“As a teenager, I couldn’t stand Twain,” Warner writes in her book of essays, We Outta Know: How Celine, Shania, Alanis and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music.

“I vehemently objected to her brand of coy, sexy country-pop that I felt pushed women’s equality back ten or fifteen years. I wrote her off as a construct of male fantasy: A girl who could ride a horse while showing off a perfectly sculpted bare midriff by day and slip into some sort of cleavage-baring c0cktail dress at night, the emphasis always on her sex appeal first, relatability second, and talent third.

Warner updated her book in 2024, but it first came out in 2015. That was 22 years after Twain first “hit the country music industry like a grenade” and became one of the most successful musicians in the cosmos.

It was more than enough time for Warner to realize she had been wrong about Twain.

Now an associate producer with CBC Music, her updated essay on Twain celebrates the artist as a feminist force whose wild success gave value to women, female artists and forever changed the industry. She also offers a detailed appraisal of Twain’s music and suggests that even her earliest work had merit, showcasing her significant chops as a songwriter.

“As a teenager, I had embarrassingly negative feelings,” says Warner, in an interview from her home in Vancouver. “I was . . . coming into my own understanding of feminism and I had this idea that I couldn’t love Alanis Morissette and Sarah McLachlan and also have any space at all and good feelings or goodwill towards Shania Twain and Celine Dion.

“It’s super embarrassing now, in hindsight, but it came from an honest place when I was a teenager. It was very difficult for me to wrap my brain around the songs she was singing and the things that I was taking lyrically from her music, which seemed to me to be all about love, all about getting a man. All of these different things that I thought were antithetical to me as a very young 16-year-old feminist.”

It doesn’t take long into the essay for Warner to admit she was off base. She now sees Twain as an artist who used “skillful manipulation of the surface to push her subversive, secret agenda — an agenda that would change country music, for a little while at least, and give rise to a new generation of women writing their own material.”

It shows that despite the outward positivity of her music, superfluous use of exclamation marks in her song titles and those cheerfully sexy and elaborate videos, Twain could be a surprisingly divisive figure during her rise to fame.

Warner, of course, was not alone in being suspicious or dismissive of Twain, who returns to Calgary this week as both the Stampede Parade marshal on July 4 and headline act at the Saddledome the following night.

In the early 1990s, it wasn’t just fledgling feminists who were cynical about Twain’s bigger-than-Jesus rise to stardom. In the 2022 Netflix documentary Shania Twain: Not Just A Girl, the singer and her supporters talk about some of the misconceptions about the star.

Her relationship with producer Robert John (Mutt) Lange, who Twain was married to from 1993 to 2010, was certainly one of them. Lange co-wrote and produced Twain’s sophomore album, 1995’s The Woman in Me, and its 1997 followup, Come on Over.

Those records turned her into a global phenomenon. The latter became the best-selling country music album of all time, the best-selling studio album by a female artist and the best-selling album of the 1990s.

But Twain was always dogged by the sexist assumptions that Lange was her Svengali, a relationship where “he was the brains and she was the voice and body,” Warner writes.

That assumption persisted throughout those heady years of superstardom, even as the groundbreaking accomplishments continued.

Her 2002 fourth album, Up!, became her third consecutive album to be diamond-certified, meaning it sold more than 10 million units. She is the only female artist to achieve this feat. She won Grammys, sold out stadiums around the world and became one of the biggest ever country-pop crossover successes, paving the way for Taylor Swift and the Chicks, among others.

Yet there was still this idea that she was a puppet, an artist who was constructed by the industry and guided by men like Lange.

“Talentless sex strumpet? Pin-up pop wannabe? Was she saving country or condemning it? Was she a role model or the poster girl for entrenched patriarchy?” Warner writes.

She points to Twain’s song Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” from Come on Over as a key turning point, even if not everyone recognized it as such at the time. Warner calls it a “huge f–k you to the critics and haters” that had Twain playing with “gendered expectations and stereotypes of femininity.”

“Twain was a strong woman with a lot of agency who was frequently asserting that agency in public, but because she is also beautiful and seemingly enjoyed showing off her body, she wasn’t perceived as a feminist threat, even if what she was doing was, in fact, deeply feminist, including exercising her prerogative to look and sound any way she wanted,” Warner writes.

Devon Cole inspired by Shania

For Calgary singer-songwriter Devon Cole, Twain’s feminist bona fides were never in question.

On Saturday, the pop singer will be Twain’s opening act at the Saddledome, the same venue where Cole saw her musical hero perform seven years ago.

Growing up in Calgary, Cole remembers obsessively listening to Twain’s records on her “little CD-ROM” and singing into a hairbrush in front of the mirror to That Don’t Impress Me Much.

“She was so meaningful to me and is so meaningful to me because I think she was the first pop artist I heard who was saying what she wanted, how she wanted,” Cole says.

“She is really a strong woman. You can tell in her songs. She is very up front and a feminist — clearly a feminist. I loved her when I was seven or eight.”

Like Twain, Cole has the ability to write feminist anthems that often sound deceptively breezy on the surface. She first gained traction on social media as a TikTok star after releasing W.I.T.C.H. (Woman in Total Control of Herself). Her most recent EP, 2024’s Two Shades Blonder, included songs such as Sugar Daddy and Play House that turn gender expectations on their head with sly wordplay.

“She has one (song) that says ‘If you wanna touch her, ask’, and it’s a play on ‘If you want to touch her ass,’ obviously.” Cole says. “So that’s a blatant example of a very feminist song. But even That Don’t Impress Me Much and Man! I Feel Like A Woman!, I’m Gonna Getcha Good, it’s all from the perspective of this woman who knows what she wants and is going to stop at nothing to be that way.

“I was obsessed with it. I loved it and it was really meaningful for me as a young woman to step into that persona.”

Twain’s drive for success and self-determination may have sprung from a severely troubled childhood growing up in Timmins, Ont. The first 50 or so pages of her 2011 autobiography, From This Moment On, cover a harrowing litany of horrors: poverty, domestic violence, sexual abuse, her mother’s depression.

She recounts being sent to school with no lunch and sleeping in winter clothes because the family couldn’t afford to heat the house. In one grimly symbolic segment, a seven-year-old Shania decides to pull up the dirty carpet in the family’s new basement apartment only to find the floor covered with squirming maggots

Meanwhile, much of Twain’s post-fame trials have been dutifully covered by the tabloids. That includes her very public divorce from Lange, her battle with Lyme disease, which led to her temporary inability to sing, and a lengthy retreat from the spotlight.

Twain released the album Now in 2017, her first studio album since 2002’s Up!

Since 2012, she’s had three Las Vegas residencies. She took on a dramatic recurring role opposite Don Johnson in the ABC series Doctor Odyssey and is currently a judge on Canada’s Got Talent. In 2023, she released her most recent album, Queen of Me.

Warner said the past decade or so has seen Twain reinvent herself while asserting her place in music history and stressing that it was her, not Lange or industry power brokers, that steered her career. The Netflix documentary is a case in point.

“The bio doc allowed her to set the record straight about things that people hadn’t really known before,” said Warner. “The fact that she was editing her music videos, the fact that she was the architect of all those iconic outfits.

“Obviously there is a team there, but she is having a central role in everything. I think that had largely been missing. She hadn’t taken necessarily public ownership of that information before, for who knows what reason.

“Now she is here telling her own story. I think with her last record, Queen of Me, she really believed in that title and showed up on that album in a way that told us that she feels good about who she is right now. That’s hard to do for any of us, let alone someone who has been extremely famous in the public eye.

“Just because you are beautiful and talented doesn’t always mean you feel good about yourself. It’s really wonderful to see her come into her own.”

Shania Twain’s hockey-inspired outfits, ball gown and 1998 halter top among artifacts at National Music Centre

When Shania Twain leads the the Stampede Parade as this year’s celebrity marshal Friday morning, she will pass by the National Music Centre.

Maybe she will drop in. Jesse Moffatt, NMC’s director of collections and exhibitions, doesn’t believe Twain has ever set foot in the centre, but she is well-represented within its walls, and rightly so.

Twain was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2011, but has not yet been inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. The National Music Centre is the physical home of both institutions.

“If you think of Canada’s biggest stars, Shania is definitely one of the top ones,” says Moffat. “I think by last count, hasn’t she sold 100 million albums? To put that in perspective, Nickelback is huge and I think they are at 60 million.

“It’s pretty impressive in what she has been able to accomplish.”

Among its hundreds of artifacts, the National Music Centre has both the Toronto Maple Leaf and Ottawa Senator-inspired outfits that Twain wore when hosting the 2003 Juno awards in Ottawa.

The centre also has a signed halter top that Twain wore during her first stadium tour in 1998.

The custom-made ball gown she sported at the 2018 Canadian Country Music Association Awards in Hamilton, Ont., is currently on display in the centre’s Idols and Icons exhibit.

“For someone who grew up in the 1990s, when she came on the scene she just exploded,” Moffat says. “I think she redefined what country music could be.

“That crossover of genres opened up an entirely new global fanbase. I think she made space for the Taylor Swifts of the world.”

Shania Twain performs at the Saddledome on July 5.

https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/still-the-one-shania-twain-arrives-in-calgary-while-in-midst-of-a-career-reinvention

Tommy · Guru

LifesAboutToGetGood2000 wrote:
Tommy wrote:
Update: After talking with another fan, it looks like it will in fact only be a 3-member band (Brent, Lindsay and Tif). That's crazy! That means a lot, if not all, of the music will be pre-recorded and piped in. I bet some of Shania's vocals will be pre-recorded too.
Given this news and the fact that rehearsals were only a few days, I suspect that it will probably be the same setlist, visuals, and choreography as the Come on Over Vegas shows. I wonder if she’ll be doing the full show live like she did for Come on Over or if the whole thing will be playback. If she is going to lipsync, I hope it’s all newer tracks and not the previous tracks that date back to the first Vegas residency in 2012 that she used for some songs through the QoM tour.

It looks like Kendal Carson is a new band member. She plays the fiddle.

https://www.instagram.com/kendelcarson

Tommy · Guru

SETLIST

- Rock This Country!
- Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)
- You Win My Love
- Waking Up Dreaming
- Up!
- I'm Gonna Getcha Good!
- You're Still The One
- No One Needs To Know
- Come On Over
- Any Man Of Mine
- Giddy Up!
- I Ain't No Quitter
- Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under
- Honey, I'm Home
- From This Moment On
- That Don't Impress Me Much
- Party For Two - w/Lindsay Ell
- (If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here!
- Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

Tommy · Guru

Shania Twain donates to Moose Jaw Food Bank

CTV Morning Live Saskatchewan: We learn the impact of Shania Twain's donation to the Moose Jaw Food Bank ahead of her show on July 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7BPp25Obb4

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Shania Twain feeds the need on PEI

Shania Twain donates $25k to the West Prince Caring Cupboard on Prince Edward Island.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd6k3eLtB-0

Melissa · Senior Member

Shania Twain looked amazing and the place looked sold out. She really doesn't need to release new music people go for the hits. There aren't very many female country singers who can sell out like her and she's 60 still drawing in the crowds.

Koko Twain · Senior Member

Melissa wrote:
Shania Twain looked amazing and the place looked sold out. She really doesn't need to release new music people go for the hits. There aren't very many female country singers who can sell out like her and she's 60 still drawing in the crowds.

She's not sixty! Yet... She doesn't need to release new music, but we do.