Canada's Shania Twain returns to club roots with Horseshoe show in Toronto

The show was announced Tuesday on the club's Instagram account and tickets sold out Wednesday

Shania Twain is going back to her very early roots playing small clubs with a last-minute show at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern where she’ll play on Friday night for 400 or so lucky fans. Tickets were announced by the legendary Queen Street West club on Tuesday via their Instagram account and sold out on Wednesday. “Just Announced: Little Miss Twain live at the Horseshoe Tavern on July 17,” said the post, accompanied by a graphic-fused photo of a much younger version of Twain with shorter hair, simple clothes including a vest and pants, and an oversized acoustic guitar.

“Tickets for this very special event are on sale tomorrow at 12pm. Ticket limit: 2 per customer. Tickets are non-transferrable.”

The country-crossover queen – raised in Timmins, Ont. – began singing in bars as young as eight years old. Now she is celebrating her seventh studio album, Little Miss Twain, coming out July 24, with some club shows having previously played the 200-capacity Shacklewell Arms in Dalston, England. The overseas date was ahead of her opening for all 12 of Harry Styles’ shows at Wembley Stadium in London between June 12 and July 4.

Twain also headed to Ireland for a one‐night headlining performance at Thomond Park Stadium in Limerick. Shania Twain going back to Canadian roots on new LP 'Little Miss Twain' Shania Twain embraces confidence at 60 despite backlash over racy Wembley outfits Outfits as Styles opening act in London sparked backlash Styles’ landmark Together, Together stadium residency saw Twain given the gears in some quarters for her lingerie baring ensembles. The 60-year-old singer was decked out in three striking Dolce & Gabbana looks but it was an undergarment-revealing sheer black lace mini dress with thigh-high hosiery that got some people talking.

“Nice Granny undies,” one person wrote on X, while others said it wasn’t appropriate at her age. “Sometimes....ya gotta realize, we’re all getting old” another commenter wrote, via the Globe . Little Miss Twain, meanwhile, has been called the five‐time Grammy winner and biggest‐selling female country‐pop artist of all time’s “most honest version of Twain to date.”

Billed as a return to her roots, the album has been preceded by the bluesy-infused lead single Dirty Rosie, out now. In the early 1990s, Twain left a job singing at the Deerhurst Resort in Ontario for Nashville and had years of uber-success with ex-husband-producer-songwriter Robert John “Mutt” Lange, who worked on three of her blockbuster, multi-platinum albums – the Woman in Me (1995), Come On Over (1997) and Up! (2002). After a mid-2000s extended break due to a Lyme disease battle that nearly ended her career – as well as her split from Lange – the 12-time Juno winner returned to the spotlight with multiple Vegas residencies and a Netflix documentary.

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