(Feb
14, 2023) The 13-time GRAMMY® award-winning, multi-platinum selling global superstars,
The Chicks (formerly known as The Dixie Chicks) have announced their
return to the global stage with The Chicks 2023 World Tour.
Produced
by Live Nation, with stops throughout the UK and Europe before returning to
North America.
The
Chicks are proud to announce, GRAMMY award-winning country music sensation, Maren
Morris is set as support on The Chicks 2023 World Tour for headline dates
in Europe & The UK.
“This
last year on the road has been a whirlwind for us, but it’s time to bring the
party to the UK and Europe,” The Chicks said of the dates. “We can’t wait to
see everyone and play for all our fans across the pond – it’s been a long time
coming, and we can’t wait to get back!”
The
run of shows will be The Chicks’ first dates in the UK for seven years and
support will come from Maren Morris. General tickets went on sale for all
Europe & UK dates on Friday, 17 February at 10am local.
The Chicks
are Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Strayer.
Superstars, renegades, innovators, heroes, villains, and moms, they have grown
from a band into a cultural phenomenon.
Since the release of their debut album,
WIDE OPEN SPACES in 1998, The Chicks’ music has stirred emotions in fans
around the world, making them one of the biggest and most influential bands of
our time. Earning universal recognition as the biggest-selling U.S. female band
of all time, The Chicks have sold more than 30.5 million albums and are
among an elite group of acts to achieve multiple “diamond” selling (ten million
copies) releases. Counting 13 GRAMMY Awards, six Billboard Music Awards,
four American Music Awards, and numerous Country Music Association Awards among
many other accolades, their last record-breaking studio album, TAKING THE
LONG WAY (2006), won five GRAMMY Awards including “Album of the Year,”
“Record of the Year,” and “Song of the Year.”
Their on-stage reputation has catapulted them
to sell over $100 million worth of concert tickets, while outspoken songs like
“Goodbye, Earl” and “Not Ready To Make Nice” make
it clear that this power trio plays by their own rules. In November 2016, The
Chicks performed “Daddy Lessons” alongside Beyoncé at the 50th Anniversary of
the Country Music Association Awards and released a studio version of the track
to digital outlets the following day.
In 2019,
The Chicks returned to the airwaves as a feature on Taylor Swift’s “Soon You’ll
Get Better,” one of the leading tracks off Swift’s seventh studio album, LOVER.
After 14
years, The Chicks’ fifth studio album GASLIGHTER, dropped July 17, 2020. It was met with
widespread critical acclaim., the album received a weighted average score of 82/100
based on 21 reviews. On the all-genre US Billboard 200, Gaslighter debuted at No.3
with 84,000 album-equivalent units (Including 71,000 album sales), becoming the
band's fifth top 5 album and first in the streaming era.
The times finally
caught up with country trio meeting their moment in the current activist
climate. The incendiary opening title track was a trademark Chicks kiss-off
that could as easily be addressing a jealous ex as the current US president.
“March March” was inspired by a political rally that all three Chicks attended
with their families, but its timely video draws a natural parallel between the
song’s broad self-empowerment message and this year’s Black Lives Matter
protests. The rest of the album maintains the personal-is-political bent, with
universal messages of hope and self-help addressed autobiographically to the
band member’s children (“Young Man”, “Julianna Calm Down”), their ex-husbands
(“Tights on My Boat”, “Hope It’s Something Good”) and even themselves (“For
Her”).
“We were always thinking and writing about that stuff,” Emily Strayer told
Apple Music, “but the news kind of caught up to what we were already talking
about—whether it was the #MeToo movement or what's happening right now with
Black Lives Matter. So it was coincidental in a way, but I think those things
are cyclical. They might be the newest news stories, but they’ve always been
here.”
In
June 2020 the then know Grammy-winning country group The Dixie Chicks
dropped the word Dixie from their name, to go with The Chicks.
The
band’s social media accounts and website were changed to refer
to the new name for the band. The band also recognized that the name was
already in use by a band in New Zealand.
“A
sincere and heartfelt thank you goes out to ‘The Chicks’ of NZ for their
gracious gesture in allowing us to share their name. We are honored to co-exist
together in the world with these exceptionally talented sisters,” the band said
in a statement. The
Chicks World Tour 2023 is the upcoming seventh headlining concert tour from
American country music trio The Chicks. It is scheduled to begin on June 20,
2023, Oslo, Norway and finish on September 18, 2023, in Toronto, Canada. The
tour follows their first ever Las Vegas residency, The Chicks: Six Nights in
Vegas. What
might you expect? The
Chicks Setlist (Where: Zilker Park, Austin, TX, USA| When: Oct 2022) Sin
Wagon/ Gaslighter */ Texas Man 8/ Julianna Calm Down */ The Long Way Around/ My
Best Friend’s Weddings */ Sleep at Night */ Ready to Run/ Travelin' Soldier
(Bruce Robison cover)/ Wide
Open Spaces/ Tights on My Boat */ Lubbock or Leave It/ Cowboy Take Me Away */
Long Time Gone/ Landslide (Fleetwood Mac cover)/ Truth #2 (Patty Griffin
cover)/ March March */ For Her */ Everybody Loves You */ Not Ready to Make
Nice/ Goodbye Earl *
From the album GASLIGHTER
