The Tour
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With the excitement of the new single, two new albums and such an  unheard-of special bonus, there's more where that comes from, via Reba McEntire and Brooks and  Dunn's second co-headlining concert tour.
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Although specific details of this year's tour won't be
announced until early summer, one can only bet the
results will be breathtaking. Featuring what promises to
be a spectacular state-of-the-art stage production, both
Brooks ? Dunn and Reba assure us of that.
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"The production itself and the new stage and
everything is all new," explains Ronnie. "We always
try to make it fresh and new. Some of the new songs,
we don't know just yet how they will work, but we'll
come out and do some together (with Reba). And
we're going to end up doing the new single together,
obviously."
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"Sure, we'll be singing this song together as much as
possible," Reba adds. "I think it's a great song. It's a
career song! It's a song that I've been waiting on all my
life, and to get to sing it with superstars is just the icing
on the cake."
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Their enormously successful 1997 co-headlining tour
has been called the highest-grossing country tour in
history. More than 800,000 fans turned out for the
shows, which grossed more than $33 million. The tour
featured 80 tons of equipment, 18 tractor trailers, 10
buses and an 88-person crew (plus an extra 100 crew
members hired in each market).
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in concert
The double-dynamic tour is slated to carry through the
early part of 1999, and will feature the talented
Terri Clark and David Kersh as opening acts. Once
again, Reba and Brooks and Dunn will alternate in the
headlining spot each night. With rare artistic flexibility,
these three superstars last year proved that all ego
games and star trips could be easily set aside as they
merged their massive touring organizations and took
turns being each other's opening act. A simple flip of
the coin seemed to be the best solution and will
possibly be the deciding ticket again this year. The coin
flip between the two acts determined who would open
in what city.
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"After a month or so," jokes Ronnie, who like Kix, has
become good friends with Reba and her
husband/manager Narvel Blackstock, "the only
argument we had was over who'd go on last. We both
wanted to be the opening act!"
While last year's Reba/Brooks ? Dunn tour, which
covered a whopping 85 cities, showcased the artists in
a unique in-the-round stage setting, this year's
summer-to-winter music-fest promises even more bells
and whistles than ever.
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"I think the fun thing for the fans who come out and
see the show is that they're going to get a bunch of big
stuff," explains Kix, " a lot of bells and whistles and
lights, camera and action. And that's fun for us, too.
We try to lean on the music, hopefully, foremost, but
there will be a big show and it won't be the same one
they saw last year."
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Here's where you can catch this hot ticket this summer:

     July 15 - Jacksonville, Florida
     July 16 - Orlando, Florida
     July 17 - Miami, Florida
     July 18 - Tampa, Florida
     July 24 - Pensacola, Florida
     July 25 - New Orleans, Louisiana
     July 26 - Lafayette, Louisiana
     July 30 - Evansville, Indiana
     August 1 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
     August 6 - Portland, Maine
     August 7 - Boston, Massachusetts
     August 8 - Baltimore, Maryland
     August 14 - Dayton, Ohio
     August 15 - Detroit, Michigan
     August 16 - Ft. Wayne, Indiana
     August 27 - Omaha, Nebraska
     August 28 - Kansas City, Kansas
     August 29 - St. Louis, Missouri
      October  3 - Memphis, TN

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