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Halos & Horns Tour

{{Short description|2002 concert tour by Dolly Parton}}

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{{Infobox concert

| concert_tour_name = Halos & Horns Tour

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|artist = Dolly Parton

|start_date = July 10, 2002

|end_date = December 14, 2002

|number_of_legs = 2

|number_of_shows = 18 in North America
7 in Europe
25 in total

|last_tour = Eagle When She Flies Tour
(1991-92)

|this_tour = Halos & Horns Tour
(2002)

|next_tour = Hello, I'm Dolly Tour
(2004)

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The Halos & Horns Tour in 2002 was Dolly Parton's first major concert tour in 10 years and was to promote the release of her album Halos & Horns (2002). The tour started in the United States, moved to Ireland and England, before returning to the U.S. to finish.

Background

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

With the resurgence of sorts of her career with the release of the album The Grass Is Blue (1999), 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 album Little Sparrow (2001). Parton did do some promotional concerts for the albums. She also appeared at the MerleFest at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on April 28, 2001, and performed a set list that comprised songs from the two albums as well as her greatest hits.

During Dollywood's opening weekend in April 2002, it was announced that Parton 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.

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 in the country/bluegrass/folk vein, although Parton did include her biggest pop hits in an a cappella medley. "9 to 5" was treated to a very stripped down, bluegrass treatment.

Set list

The following set list is representative of the December 12 and 13 shows at the Celebrity Theatre at Dollywood. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.

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  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 and Horns"
  14. "I'm Gone"
  15. "Dagger Through the Heart"
  16. "If"
  17. "After the Gold Rush"
  18. "9 to 5"
  19. "Jolene"
  20. Acapella Medley: "Islands in the Stream" / "Here You Come Again" / "Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That" / "Two Doors Down"
  21. "We Irish"
  22. Stairway to Heaven"
  23. "I Will Always Love You"

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Notes

  • "Color Me America", "Calm on the Water", "Try", "Down from Dover", "I Don't Wanna Throw Rice", "He's a Go Getter", and "I'll Oilwells Love You" were performed on select dates.

Tour dates

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|colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|North America

July 10, 2002

|New York City

|rowspan="15"|United States

|Irving Plaza

July 15, 2002

|Washington, D.C.

|9:30 Club

July 20, 2002

|rowspan="2"|Nashville

|Grand Ole Opry House

July 21, 2002

|Ryman Auditorium

July 25, 2002

|Atlanta

|Earthlink Live

July 29, 2002

|New Orleans

|House of Blues

August 3, 2002

|Dallas

|Granada Theater

August 7, 2002

|West Hollywood

|rowspan="2"|House of Blues

August 10, 2002

|Las Vegas

August 13, 2002

|Denver

|Paramount Theatre

August 17, 2002

|Chicago

|House of Blues

August 21, 2002

|Lowell

|Lowell Memorial Auditorium

August 28, 2002

|St. Louis

|The Pageant Concert NightClub

August 31, 2002

|Kansas City

|Uptown Theater

September 4, 2002

|Sioux Falls

|Husby Performing Arts Center

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|colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Europe

November 12, 2002

|Manchester

|rowspan="3"|England

|Bridgewater Hall

November 18, 2002

|rowspan="2"|London

|rowspan="2"|Carling Apollo Hammersmith

November 19, 2002
November 23, 2002

|Belfast

|Northern Ireland

|Waterfront Hall

November 26, 2002

|rowspan="2"|Glasgow

|rowspan="2"|Scotland

|rowspan="2"|Clyde Auditorium

November 27, 2002
November 29, 2002

|Dublin

|Ireland

|Point Theatre

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|colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|North America

December 12, 2002

|rowspan="2"|Pigeon Forge

|rowspan="2"|United States

|rowspan="2"|Celebrity Theater

December 13, 2002

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20171102121450/http://www.dollypartonmusic.net/ Parton's Official Website]

References

  • [http://www.dollymania.net/hnhpress.html Dollymania page on tour press release]
  • [http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0229,sotc,36575,22.html Village Voice review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511143805/http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0229,sotc,36575,22.html |date=2008-05-11 }}

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