Halos & Horns Tour
# Halos & Horns Tour

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.

* "Orange Blossom Special"
* "Train Train"
* "The Grass Is Blue"
* "Mountain Angel"
* "Shine"
* "Little Sparrow"
* "Rocky Top"
* "My Tennessee Mountain Home"
* "Coat of Many Colors"
* "Smoky Mountain Memories"
* "Applejack"
* "Marry Me"
* "Halos and Horns"
* "I'm Gone"
* "Dagger Through the Heart"
* "If"
* "After the Gold Rush"
* "9 to 5"
* "Jolene"
* Acapella Medley: "Islands in the Stream" / "Here You Come Again" / "Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That" / "Two Doors Down"
* "We Irish"
* Stairway to Heaven"
* "I Will Always Love You"

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

| Date | City | Country | Venue |
| - | - | - | - |
| North America ||||
| July 10, 2002 | New York City | United States | Irving Plaza |
| July 15, 2002 | Washington, D.C. | United States | 9:30 Club |
| July 20, 2002 | Nashville | United States | Grand Ole Opry House |
| July 21, 2002 | Nashville | United States | Ryman Auditorium |
| July 25, 2002 | Atlanta | United States | Earthlink Live |
| July 29, 2002 | New Orleans | United States | House of Blues |
| August 3, 2002 | Dallas | United States | Granada Theater |
| August 7, 2002 | West Hollywood | United States | House of Blues |
| August 10, 2002 | Las Vegas | United States | House of Blues |
| August 13, 2002 | Denver | United States | Paramount Theatre |
| August 17, 2002 | Chicago | United States | House of Blues |
| August 21, 2002 | Lowell | United States | Lowell Memorial Auditorium |
| August 28, 2002 | St. Louis | United States | The Pageant Concert NightClub |
| August 31, 2002 | Kansas City | United States | Uptown Theater |
| September 4, 2002 | Sioux Falls | United States | Husby Performing Arts Center |
| Europe ||||
| November 12, 2002 | Manchester | England | Bridgewater Hall |
| November 18, 2002 | London | England | Carling Apollo Hammersmith |
| November 19, 2002 | London | England | Carling Apollo Hammersmith |
| November 23, 2002 | Belfast | Northern Ireland | Waterfront Hall |
| November 26, 2002 | Glasgow | Scotland | Clyde Auditorium |
| November 27, 2002 | Glasgow | Scotland | Clyde Auditorium |
| November 29, 2002 | Dublin | Ireland | Point Theatre |
| North America ||||
| December 12, 2002 | Pigeon Forge | United States | Celebrity Theater |
| December 13, 2002 | Pigeon Forge | United States | Celebrity Theater |
