Shania Twain is playing the Horseshoe Tavern tonight
That does impress us much
For one-night-only, Canadian treasure Shania Twain—a Grammy-winning country-pop star who usually performs before tens of thousands—will play the Horseshoe Tavern, a 500-person capacity venue on Queen West.
While the Horseshoe has its own lore, it’s tiny in comparison to Twain’s usual concert locations, which recently included London’s Wembley Stadium, where she occupied a special guest slot opening for Harry Styles.
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Twain told the Canadian Press she wanted to make this stop in Toronto for sentimental reasons.
“I never made it to the Horseshoe. I was never big enough or known enough to sing in there,” she said this week. “I remember the bands I was in, we would’ve dreamt to play the Horseshoe Tavern. Now I’m playing there.”
The intimate show is in support of her upcoming album, Little Miss Twain, on which the Timmins native reminisces about playing local bars in small towns when she first started out.
“I’m in this really important moment of my life and of my career and of my songwriting where I’m reflecting on Little Miss Twain, and that’s the person that existed before I had a record contract, and before I went off into the big world of performing on big stages globally,” she told CP.
Tickets sold out immediately after going on-sale.
“I’m coming back to a small bar with my own songwriting and my own stories,” Twain said. “This is what makes it so powerful, such a powerful full circle and very rewarding.”
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
