Dixie chicks scrounge north for fans

June 10th, 2006, Boston Herald...

Despite news reports claiming this is the case, yesterday the Dixie Chicks emphatically denied their summer tour is already a failure.

In an online message “to our fans,” the Chicks declared: “Any reports being made about the cancellation of our upcoming Accidents and Accusations tour are completely false.”

Yesterday, June 14th, 2006, WorldNetDaily...

After poor ticket sales in at least 12 cities, the politically provocative Dixie Chicks have put their U.S. tour on hold and added more dates in Canada.

Although concert promoters say the shows have not been canceled yet, the slow sales likely will lead to stops being dropped or rescheduled in cities such as Houston, Memphis and St. Louis, the Tennessean newspaper reported.

Some arenas have sold only about 5,000 tickets in contrast to 2003, when the venues mostly were sold out within a few hours. The pop-country group has sold a little more than half of the 14,000 tickets available for a planned Oct. 3 concert in Nashville. When the Chicks played in the city in 2003, tickets were sold out in the first week, the paper said.

In response, the group has added more dates in Canada, including two in Toronto. Tickets in northern U.S. cities such as Chicago and Philadelphia are selling better than in southern and Midwest markets.

Apparently, Bush is not the only thing the Chicks are deluded about.

Posted by Danny Carlton at June 15, 2006 6:39 AM