The Up! Tour was the second headlining concert tour by Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain in support of her fourth studio album Up! (2002). It began on September 25, 2003, in Hamilton, Ontario and finished on July 10, 2004, in Sunrise, Florida. The show reached North America and Europe. According to Billboard magazine, the tour grossed $87 million from 96 reported shows between 2003 and 2004.[1]

Up! Tour
Tour by Shania Twain
Promotional poster for the tour
Associated albumUp!
Start dateSeptember 25, 2003
End dateJuly 10, 2004
Legs3
No. of shows
  • 28 in Europe
  • 85 in North America
  • 113 in total
Box office$87 million (96 shows)[1]
Shania Twain concert chronology

Set list

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Tour dates

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Twain performing during the first North American leg in 2003
Date City Country Venue Opening act(s) Tickets sold / available Revenue
North America Leg 1[2]
September 25, 2003 Hamilton Canada Copps Coliseum Emerson Drive 18,573 / 18,573 $1,238,668
September 27, 2003 Ottawa Corel Centre
September 29, 2003 Pittsburgh United States Mellon Arena James Otto 12,950 / 13,210 $841,755
September 30, 2003 Buffalo HSBC Arena 15,353 / 19,968 $948,735
October 2, 2003 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre Emerson Drive 38,000 / 38,000 $2,467,799
October 3, 2003
October 4, 2003 Grand Rapids United States Van Andel Arena James Otto 12,569 / 12,569 $807,770
October 7, 2003 Boston FleetCenter 17,352 / 17,352 $1,175,490
October 8, 2003 East Rutherford Continental Airlines Arena 17,393 / 19,003 $1,024,590
October 10, 2003 Philadelphia Wachovia Center 19,526 / 19,526 $1,282,240
October 11, 2003 Albany Pepsi Arena 15,554 / 15,554 $1,055,175
October 12, 2003 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 14,682 / 17,751 $830,905
October 14, 2003 New York City Madison Square Garden 15,706 / 19,018 $871,760
October 15, 2003 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena
October 17, 2003 Washington, D.C. MCI Center 16,672 / 16,969 $1,129,301
October 18, 2003 Cleveland Gund Arena 18,120 / 20,641 $1,048,235
October 21, 2003 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse 16,406 / 18,042 $671,750
October 22, 2003 Chicago United Center 14,567 / 16,951 $1,034,380
October 24, 2003 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 40,320 / 40,320 $2,441,740
October 25, 2003
October 27, 2003 Madison Kohl Center 15,940 / 16,712 $946,922
October 28, 2003 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 20,554 / 20,554 $1,200,330
October 29, 2003 Milwaukee BMO Harris Bradley Center 14,839 / 18,397 $776,408
November 21, 2003 Houston Toyota Center 16,335 / 17,198 $640,830
November 22, 2003 San Antonio SBC Center 11,316 / 17,617 $726,244
November 23, 2003 Dallas American Airlines Center 15,988 / 16,816 $807,780
November 25, 2003 Oklahoma City Ford Center 12,068 / 16,000 $729,100
November 28, 2003 St. Louis Savvis Center 18,101 / 21,209 $789,775
November 29, 2003 Kansas City Kemper Arena 16,141 / 18,574 $724,091
December 1, 2003 Denver Pepsi Center 16,928 / 16,928 $996,205
December 2, 2003 Salt Lake City Delta Center
December 4, 2003 Calgary Canada Pengrowth Saddledome Emerson Drive 16,869 / 16,869 $1,204,909
December 5, 2003 Edmonton Rexall Place 16,375 / 16,375 $1,139,349
December 7, 2003 Vancouver Pacific Coliseum 33,396 / 33,396 $2,350,228
December 8, 2003
December 11, 2003 Portland United States Rose Garden James Otto 14,091 / 16,697 $882,455
December 13, 2003 Sacramento ARCO Arena 16,519 / 16,519 $1,172,328
December 14, 2003 San Jose HP Pavilion 16,199 / 16,199 $1,111,660
December 16, 2003 Anaheim Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim 15,279 / 15,279 $948,985
December 17, 2003 San Diego Cox Arena 10,267 / 11,471 $686,840
December 19, 2003 Phoenix America West Arena 15,736 / 15,736 $1,120,175
December 20, 2003 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center
Europe
February 11, 2004 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy Bjorn Again
February 13, 2004 Sheffield England Hallam FM Arena
February 14, 2004 Newcastle Telewest Arena
February 16, 2004 London Wembley Arena
February 17, 2004
February 19, 2004 Belfast Northern Ireland Odyssey Arena
February 20, 2004
February 22, 2004 Glasgow Scotland SEC Centre Hall 4
February 23, 2004 Birmingham England National Exhibition Centre
February 26, 2004 Manchester Manchester Evening News Arena 18,300 / 18,300
February 28, 2004 Hamburg Germany Color Line Arena
March 1, 2004 Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
March 2, 2004 Munich Olympiahalle
March 4, 2004 Rotterdam Netherlands Sportpaleis van Ahoy
March 5, 2004
March 7, 2004 Birmingham England National Exhibition Centre
March 8, 2004 Sheffield Hallam FM Arena
March 10, 2004 Glasgow Scotland Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
March 11, 2004 Newcastle England Telewest Arena
March 14, 2004 Stockholm Sweden Stockholm Globe Arena
March 16, 2004 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Arena
March 18, 2004 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum
March 20, 2004 Berlin Germany Max-Schmeling-Halle
March 22, 2004 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle
March 23, 2004 Munich Germany Olympiahalle
March 25, 2004 Frankfurt Festhalle
March 26, 2004
March 29, 2004 Cologne Kölnarena
March 30, 2004 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis
North America Leg 2[3]
April 19, 2004 Pensacola United States Pensacola Civic Center Emerson Drive
April 23, 2004 Atlanta Philips Arena 15,779 / 17,992 $954,666
April 24, 2004 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena 12,247 / 12,950 $746,515
April 27, 2004 North Charleston North Charleston Coliseum
April 28, 2004 Columbia Colonial Center
April 30, 2004 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum 10,000 / 23,000
May 1, 2004 Raleigh RBC Center
May 4, 2004 Richmond Richmond Coliseum 10,813 / 10,813 $672,460
May 5, 2004 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena
May 6, 2004 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 18,092 / 18,092 $1,219,545
May 8, 2004 Quebec City Colisée Pepsi 12,287 / 13,000 $833,338
May 10, 2004 London John Labatt Centre 10,269 / 10,269 $781,589
May 11, 2004
May 13, 2004 Charleston United States Charleston Civic Center 9,209 / 12,855 $508,055
May 14, 2004 Fort Wayne Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
May 16, 2004 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena 12,450 / 12,450 $822,580
May 19, 2004 Louisville Freedom Hall 16,246 / 18,120 $659,760
May 21, 2004 Columbus Value City Arena 17,359 / 17,359 $875,410
May 22, 2004 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena 16,220 / 17,838 $819,950
May 24, 2004 Moline The MARK of the Quad Cities 11,016 / 11,016 $782,215
May 25, 2004 Omaha Qwest Center Omaha 16,208 / 16,208 $1,110,670
June 3, 2004 Green Bay Resch Center 10,019 / 10,019 $776,255
June 4, 2004 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 16,277 / 16,277 $1,199,355
June 5, 2004 Fargo Fargodome 13,791 / 17,500 $861,575
June 8, 2004 Winnipeg Canada Winnipeg Arena 15,028 / 15,028 $1,031,442
June 9, 2004 Saskatoon Saskatchewan Place 22,868 / 22,868 $1,580,249
June 11, 2004
June 12, 2004 Edmonton Rexall Place 12,159 / 12,159 $825,270
June 14, 2004 Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome 14,268 / 14,268 $977,606
June 17, 2004 Vancouver Pacific Coliseum 12,203 / 12,203 $820,047
June 18, 2004 Seattle United States KeyArena 13,946 / 13,946 $920,535
June 19, 2004 Spokane Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena 11,755 / 11,755 $803,655
June 22, 2004 Fresno Save Mart Center 15,024 / 15,024 $1,080,544
June 23, 2004 Los Angeles Staples Center 16,547 / 17,515 $905,928
June 26, 2004 Lubbock United Spirit Arena
June 29, 2004 New Orleans New Orleans Arena 14,423 / 15,800 $908,080
June 30, 2004 Birmingham BJCC Arena
July 2, 2004 Greenville BI-LO Center 14,178 / 15,000 $523,055
July 6, 2004 Orlando TD Waterhouse Centre
July 7, 2004 Jacksonville Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
July 9, 2004 Tampa St. Pete Times Forum 21,004 / 21,004
July 10, 2004 Sunrise Office Depot Center

Personnel

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  • Shania Twain – lead vocals
  • Brent Barcus – guitar
  • J. D. Blair – drums
  • Roddy Chong – fiddle, guitar, mandolin, percussion
  • Cory Churko – guitar, fiddle
  • Allison Cornell – fiddle, keyboards, mandolin
  • Andy Cichon – bass guitar
  • Hardy Hemphill – keyboards, percussion, harmonica, accordion
  • Marc Muller – pedal steel guitar
  • Randall Waller – guitar

Broadcasts and recordings

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Before the tour commenced, Twain performed a series of free concerts in the United States and a paid concert in the United Kingdom. The official DVD for the Up! Tour was filmed on July 27, 2003, at Grant Park in Chicago. The performance was shown on NBC and CBC in August 2003, with the DVD released in November 2003. The performances of "She's Not Just a Pretty Face" and "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing" were later used as music videos to promote the aforementioned singles. Up! Live in Chicago was certified platinum by the RIAA for shipments of over 500,000 copies in the United States. It was also certified platinum in Australia for shipments of 15,000 copies.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Bob Allen (July 17, 2015). "Shania Twain's Farewell Tour Launches With Sell-Out Shows". Billboard. (Prometheus Global Media). Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  2. ^ Jeckell, Barry A. (August 18, 2003). "Twain To Take 'Up!' On The Road". Billboard. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
    - Zahlaway, Jon (November 5, 2003). "Shania Twain expands tour plans, readies live DVD". Live Daily. Archived from the original on November 23, 2008. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
  3. ^ Evans, Rob (November 26, 2003). "Shania Twain unveils plans for spring arena dates". Live Daily. Archived from the original on August 30, 2005. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
    - Zahlaway, Jon (April 15, 2004). "Shania Twain to launch new round of North American dates". Live Daily. Archived from the original on October 15, 2008. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
  4. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2004 DVD". ARIA. Australian Recording Industry Association Ltd. Retrieved January 4, 2009.