BY MELISSA RUGGIERI
If you’ve been wondering what’s happened to the Dixie Chicks, the answer is – they’re going back on tour.
The trio of Natalie Maines, Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison will return for a 40-city tour this summer, their first since their short “Long Time Gone” run in 2013 and their first performance in Georgia since 2006. The band’s new “DCX MMXVI World Tour” launches June 1 in Ohio and visits Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in Alpharetta on Aug. 14.
Tickets for the show, priced at $29.50-$149.50, are on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 21 through all Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000. Citi cardmembers will have early access beginning at 10 a.m. Nov. 18.
The band famously ostracized themselves from a segment of their fan base after Maines made a disparaging comment about President George W. Bush in 2003 during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Years of controversy, an armload of Grammys and a hiatus colored the rest of the decade and the Dixie Chicks returned in 2010 to open some dates on the Eagles’ summer tour.
More than 10 million copies of the trio’s “Wide Open Spaces” and “Fly” have been sold, achieving rare “diamond” status from the Recording Industry Association of America and hits including “Goodbye, Earl,” “Not Ready to Make Nice” and a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” topped the charts in the 2000s. Their last album, “Taking the Long Way,” arrived in 2006.
Here are the dates for the DCX MMXVI World Tour:
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