Incognito Tour

Tour by Celine Dion
Promotional poster for the tour
Location	Canada
Associated album	Incognito
Start date	11 January 1988 (1988-01-11)
End date	11 July 1989 (1989-07-11)
No. of shows	84
Celine Dion concert chronology
Céline Dion en concert (1985) Incognito tournée (1988–1989) Unison Tour (1990–1991)

Incognito Tour was the second concert tour by the Canadian singer Celine Dion, who embarked on it to support her eighth studio album, Incognito (1987). The tour began on 11 January 1988 in Rouyn-Noranda, Canada, and concluded on 11 July 1989, in Quebec City, Canada. It encompassed over 80 shows and visited 27 cities in the province of Quebec and Ontario in Canada.

History

Dion toured Quebec only. The Incognito tournée started on 11 January 1988 at the Theatre du Cuivre, Rouyn-Noranda. Dion gave 7 concerts in the northern region of Quebec and 2 in Laval. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Dion gave a series of 42 consecutive shows at the Saint-Denis Theatre in Montreal. She performed there for a month starting on 10 February 1988, and later between 12–17 April 1988, 14–19 June 1988, 21–24 September 1988 and 14–18 December 1988.

Dion performed mainly tracks from Incognito, but also a medley of songs from the musical Starmania, "Ton visage" ( Jean-Pierre Ferland's cover) and she did imitations of Michael Jackson, Mireille Mathieu, Ginette Reno and Diane Dufresne. During that tour she lost her voice for the first time. ^[4]

On 2 May 1989, a year after winning the Eurovision Song Contest with " Ne partez pas sans moi," Dion gave her first concert in Switzerland. She performed in Theatre de Baulieu in Lausanne. ^[5]

In reference to this tour Dion has said "The memories that first come to mind when I think of the Incognito tour are filled with fits of laughter. From the beginning, in Abitibi, just like the preceding tour, we all knew that we had a good product. And an audience that had been conquered in advance."

Set list

This set list was taken from the official Incognito Tour brochure. It does not represent all shows throughout the tour.

1. " Délivre-moi"
2. " Incognito"
3. " That's What Friends Are For"
4. " On traverse un miroir"
5. " Somewhere"
6. " The Way We Were"
7. " Summertime"
8. Number of imitations
9. " I'm So Excited"
10. " Lolita (trop jeune pour aimer)"
11. " D'abord, c'est quoi l'amour"
12. " Mes blues passent pu dans port"
13. " Ton visage"
14. " Quand on arrive en ville"
15. " Les uns contre les autres"
16. " Le monde est stone"
17. " Ce soir on danse à Naziland"
18. " Le blues du businessman"

Notes

• During the number of imitations segment, Dion imitated various artists, including Michael Jackson in " Bad", Mireille Mathieu in "Santa Maria de la mer", Ginette Reno in "Je ne suis qu'une chanson" and Diane Dufresne in "Les hauts et les bas d'une hôtesse de l'air".
• During the concert in Quebec City on 11 July 1989, Dion also performed " Comme un cœur froid", " L'amour est un oiseau rebelle", "Love by Another Name" and " Ne partez pas sans moi". ^[6]

Tour dates

Personnel

Adapted from the credits from the Incognito Tour brochure.

• Celine Dion – lead vocals

Band

• Claude "Mégo" Lemay – musical direction, arrangements
• Marc Alie – drums
• Martin Daviault – saxophone
• Pierre Gauthier – guitar
• Breen LeBoeuf – bass
• Paul Morin – keyboards
• Ghislaine Dion – backing vocals

Production

• Jean Bissonnette – stage direction
• Michel Robidas – costume design
• Michel Murphy – lightnight design
• Jean-Pierre Plante – parody texts
• Pierre Huet – parody texts
• Suzanne Gingue – stage management
• Mario Petit – lighting engineer and artistic direction
• Denis Savage – concert hall sound system technician
• Daniel Baron – stage sound system technician
• Rachel Tremblay – wigs
• Georges Couture – costumes
• René Angélil – manager and impresario

References