Messina extends tour
After a two-year run, including a six-date New England homecoming, Messina will wrap up the tour this summer and fall with stops all across the U.S. and Canada. "The Heads Carolina, Tails California tour has been amazing. The crowds, the energy," she said. "I'm so looking forward to bringing the fun and excitement to folks this fall."
Tour dates are:
July 19 - Goddard, Kan. - Dam Jam Music Festival
July 20 - San Antonio, Texas - Freeman Coliseum
Aug. 1 - Regina, Sask. - Conexus Arts Centre
Aug. 2 - Camrose, Alta. - Big Valley Jamboree 2024
Aug. 4 - Sioux Falls, S.D. - Sioux Empire Fair
Aug. 8 - Lovington, N.M. - Lea County Fairgrounds
Aug. 16 - Centre Hall, Pa. - Centre County Grange Fair
Aug. 17 - Winston-Salem, N.C. - Winston Salem Fairgrounds Arena
Aug. 23 - Chisholm, Minn. - The Minnesota Discovery Center
Aug. 24 - Mason, Wis. - Concert In The Corn
Sept. 6 - Albuquerque, N.M. - New Mexico State Fair
Sept. 7 - Scottsdale, Ariz. - Talking Stick Resort Ballroom
Sept. 27 - Dallas, Texas - State Fair of Texas
Sept. 28 - Tulsa, Okla. - Skyline Event Center
Oct. 10 - Ridgefield, Wash. - Ilani Cowlitz Ballroom
Oct. 11 - Redding, Calif. - Redding Civic Auditorium
Oct. 12 - Toppenish, Wash. - Legends Casino Hotel
Oct. 25 - Oxford, Ala. - Oxford Performing Arts Center
Oct. 26 - West Chester, Ohio - Lori's Roadhouse
Oct. 27 - Jackson, Mich.
More news for Jo Dee Messina
- 07/07/23: Messina wants "Just To Be Loved"
- 03/10/23: Bush, Messina release discs
- 09/07/17: Messina discloses she has cancer
- 01/20/15: Messina sings at hockey all star game
- 01/16/14: Messina announces "Me"
- 08/20/13: For Messina, the winner is...
- 06/21/13: Messina successfully kick starts new CD
- 05/24/13: Messina kickstarts new CD
CD reviews for Jo Dee Messina
Jo Dee Messina wears her defiance on her sleeve. She leaves no doubt what she has in mind on her new disc from the title (don't think of that as being egotistical) to the instrumentation where the first instruments you hear is the banjo to Messina's proclamation:
"I've paid my dues, gotten bent and bruised/I've walked a 1,000 miles in these shoes/I'm here and I'm well/I've felt the fire; I've been through hell/I'm a little out of breath/But baby ...
If at first you don't succeed, your record company will punish you. That's what Jo Dee Messina learned in the past five years. What was one new album has now been converted into a trilogy of EPs to be released over the course of 2010 and grouped loosely by topic. This breaks the deadlock of Messina's wish to offer up all the new music she's been making against the business requirement of a monster hit. Messina's had a lot of those (nine number ones), so maybe it wasn't wholly unfair. ...
Despite the phallic guitar fondling on the enclosed poster, Jo Dee Messina's latest targets mainstream country's chief demographic - women. The 12-song set sports the usual Bryon Gallimore - Tim McGraw bag of tricks - '70s rock guitars and heavy pop chorus augmented with smatterings of hard fiddle, twangy Dobro and banjo. Yet, Messina's brassy humor, positive attitude and full-throated passion triumphs over the formulaic production chops.
Messina's sassy asides transform "My Give a Damn's Busted" ...
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