BIG tour in Canada announced!

From Heart-music.com: 2011 marks the 35th anniversary of Heart’s debut record Dreamboat Annie. Heart’s groundbreaking album was recorded in Vancouver, B.C., where they lived at the time, and was first released in Canada.

Today, Heart announces that they are coming home to Canada in 2011, with their first coast-to-coast Canadian tour in three decades. With a 20-concert run starting on January 28 in St John’s, NL and ending in their Canadian hometown of Vancouver, BC on February 26, Heart at last fulfills a long held desire to play for their Canadian fans in every region of the country on one tour. As Ann and Nancy put it themselves: “Heart had its musical genesis in Vancouver and as artists Canada has always been our spiritual home. Canadians love to rock and we are happy to be bringing Heart as it is now back to Canada. It’s like Heart is coming home.”

On August 31, 2010, Heart released Red Velvet Car, their first new studio album in six years. Produced by Vancouver-based Grammy winning producer Ben Mink, Red Velvet Car entered the Billboard 200 best-selling album charts at #10, becoming the seventh Top 10 album of the group’s career. Released on Eagle Rock Records in Canada and on Sony Legacy in the United States, the critically acclaimed new album reached #1 in sales on Amazon.com on Sunday, September 4.

The critical response to Red Velvet Car has been universally ecstatic. “The barracudas are back and at the top of their game,” wrote Rolling Stone (September 2, 2010) while USA Today (August 25, 2010) called the album “Intimate, intense and anchored by Ann’s powerhouse vocals and Nancy’s aggressive acoustic guitar….” The New York Times (August 4, 2010) found Red Velvet Car “aggressive, delicate and enduring” while the Los Angeles Times noted that “Thirty-four years after the band’s debut, Heart’s dreamboat sails on.”

Over the course of their remarkable career, Heart has sold over 30 million albums and had 22 Top 40 hits. In America, their current AC single “Hey You” has been in the Top 30 for three months, while their classic rock single, “WTF” hovers near Top 10.

Over the past decade, Heart songs have achieved ubiquity in pop culture in films (Shrek 3, The Dilemma), television (American Idol, Glee, Dancing with the Stars), commercials (Honda, Swiffer), and videogames (Rock Band, Guitar Hero), as well as in performances by other top artists (Eminem, Fergie, Gretchen Wilson, et al).

They were 2008 recipients of VH! Rock Honors, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northwest Grammy Foundation and received ASCAP’S award for Excellence in Songwriting in 2009.

Heart is coming home, Coast to Coast in Canada, in February 2011.

The dates:

01.28.2011
St. John’s, NL, Canada
Mile One Centre

01.29.2011
Corner Brook, NL, Canada
Pepsi Centre

02.01.2011
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
Charlottetown Civic Centre

02.02.2011
Moncton, NB, Canada
Moncton Coliseum Complex

02.03.2011
Halifax, NS, Canada
Halifax Metro Centre

02.05.2011
Montreal, QC, Canada
Place des Arts

02.07.2011
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Civic Centre Theatre

02.08.2011
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
The Centre in the Square

02.09.2011
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Hamilton Place

02.11.2011
Toronto, ON, Canada
Massey Hall

02.12.2011
Kingston, ON, Canada
K-Rock Centre

02.14.2011
Sudbury, ON, Canada
Sudbury Arena

02.17.2011
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
MTS Center

02.18.2011
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
TCU Place

02.19.2011
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

02.21.2011
Grand Prarie, AB, Canada
Crystal Center

02.22.2011
Calgary, AB, Canada
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

02.24.2011
Prince George, BC, Canada
CN Centre

02.25.2011
Kamloops, BC, Canada
Interior Savings Centre

02.26.2011
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Queen Elizabeth Centre