{{Short description|1988–1989 concert tour by Celine Dion}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox concert | concert_tour_name = Incognito Tour | image = Incognito Tour poster.jpg | image_size = 220px | border = yes | caption = Promotional poster for the tour | artist = Celine Dion | album = ''Incognito'' | location = Canada | start_date = {{Start date|1988|1|11|df=yes}} | end_date = {{End date|1989|7|11|df=yes}} | number_of_shows = 84 | last_tour = Céline Dion en concert<br />(1985) | this_tour = '''Incognito Tour'''<br />(1988–1989) | next_tour = Unison Tour<br />(1990–1991) }}
The '''Incognito Tour''' was the third concert tour by Canadian singer Celine Dion, launched to promote 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. It included more than 80 performances across 27 cities in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
== History == The tour initially focused on venues across Quebec, opening on 11 January 1988 at the Théâtre du Cuivre in Rouyn-Noranda. Dion performed several shows in northern Quebec and in Laval.<ref>{{cite web |title=Where Céline Has Performed |url=http://www.celinedion.com/celinedion/english/whatsgoinon_tour.cgi?page=11&display=100 |website=Celine Dion Official Website |publisher=Celine Dion |access-date=17 December 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121216062101/http://www.celinedion.com/celinedion/english/whatsgoinon_tour.cgi?page=11&display=100 |archive-date=16 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=First Stirrings |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQUtOH64meYC&pg=RA1-PA223 |publisher=ECW Press |year=2001 |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=René Angelil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ne77B9wpgGEC&pg=PA226 |publisher=ECW Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-55022-552-5 |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref> Dion also gave 42 consecutive shows at the Théâtre Saint-Denis in Montreal across several periods in 1988: 10 February–10 March, 12–17 April, 14–19 June, 21–24 September, and 14–18 December.
Her set included songs from ''Incognito'', a medley from the musical ''Starmania'', a cover of "Ton visage" by Jean-Pierre Ferland, and a segment in which she imitated artists such as Michael Jackson, Mireille Mathieu, Ginette Reno, and Diane Dufresne. During the tour, Dion experienced her first significant vocal strain.<ref>{{cite book |last=Glatzer |first=Jenna |title=Céline Dion: For Keeps |url=https://archive.org/details/celinedionforkee0000glat |publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing |year=2005 |isbn=0-7407-5559-5 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
On 2 May 1989, one year after winning the Eurovision Song Contest with "Ne partez pas sans moi", Dion gave a special concert at the Théâtre de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland, held outside the regular tour schedule.<ref>{{cite web |title=Concert Celine Dion |url=http://www.letempsarchives.ch/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LETEMPSEN&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=JDG/1989/04/12&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ad02004&PageLabel=20 |website=Le Temps Archives |access-date=17 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707000920/http://www.letempsarchives.ch/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_LETEMPSEN&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=JDG%2F1989%2F04%2F12&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ad02004&PageLabel=20 |archive-date=7 July 2011}}</ref>
== Set list == The following set list is taken from the official tour brochure and does not represent all concerts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Céline Dion's 1988 Concert History |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/celine-dion--2?year=1988 |website=Concert Archives |access-date=11 March 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Céline Dion's 1989 Concert History |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/celine-dion--2?year=1989 |website=Concert Archives |access-date=11 March 2026}}</ref>
# "Délivre-moi" # "Incognito" # "That's What Friends Are For" # "On traverse un miroir" # "Somewhere" # "The Way We Were" # "Summertime" # Imitations segment # "I'm So Excited" # "Lolita (trop jeune pour aimer)" # "D'abord, c'est quoi l'amour" # "Mes blues passent pu dans port" # "Ton visage" # "Quand on arrive en ville" # "Les uns contre les autres" # "Le monde est stone" # "Ce soir on danse à Naziland" # "Le blues du businessman"
=== Notes === * During the imitations segment, Dion portrayed several artists, including Michael Jackson ("Bad"), Mireille Mathieu ("Santa Maria de la mer"), Ginette Reno ("Je ne suis qu'une chanson"), and Diane Dufresne ("Les hauts et les bas d'une hôtesse de l'air"). * At the 11 July 1989 concert in Quebec City, Dion also performed "Comme un cœur froid", "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle", "Love by Another Name", and "Ne partez pas sans moi".<ref>{{cite web |title=Celine Dion – Incognito En Spectacle (1989) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZb97PrVKD0 |website=YouTube |date=21 July 2020 |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref>
== Tour dates == {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |+List of 1988 shows<ref name="shows1">{{cite web |title=Arts Calendar page 4 |url=http://news.nnyln.net/massena-observer/massena-observer-1988-july-december/massena-observer-1988-july-december%20-%200250.pdf |website=The New York Observer |date=16 August 1988 |publisher=Jared Kushner |access-date=13 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726164312/http://news.nnyln.net/massena-observer/massena-observer-1988-july-december/massena-observer-1988-july-december%20-%200250.pdf |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="shows2">{{cite book |last=Beauregard |first=Sylvain |title=Passion Celine Dion: The Book |publisher=Trafford Publishing |year=2002 |isbn=1-55369-212-8}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:12em;"| Date (1988) ! scope="col" style="width:10em;"| City ! scope="col" style="width:10em;"| Country ! scope="col" style="width:17em;"| Venue |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 11 January | rowspan="3"| Rouyn-Noranda | rowspan="75"| Canada | rowspan="3"| Théâtre du Cuivre |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 12 January |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 13 January |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 20 January | rowspan="4"| Quebec City | rowspan="4"| Palais Montcalm |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 21 January |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 22 January |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 23 January |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 9 February | rowspan="9"| Montreal | rowspan="9"| Théâtre Saint-Denis |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 10 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 11 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 12 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 13 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 14 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 18 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 19 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 20 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 25 February | rowspan="4"| Quebec City | rowspan="4"| Palais Montcalm |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 26 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 27 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 28 February |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 12 April | rowspan="6"| Montreal | rowspan="6"| Théâtre Saint-Denis |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 13 April |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 14 April |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 15 April |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 16 April |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 17 April |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 24 May | Longueuil | Cégep Édouard-Montpetit |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 25 May | rowspan="4"| Quebec City | rowspan="4"| Palais Montcalm |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 26 May |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 27 May |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 28 May |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 1 June | rowspan="2"| Ottawa | rowspan="2"| National Arts Centre |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 2 June |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 3 June | Maniwaki | |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 14 June | rowspan="6"| Montreal | rowspan="6"| Théâtre Saint-Denis |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 15 June |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 16 June |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 17 June |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 18 June |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 19 June |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 4 August | Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts | Sainte-Agathe en Feux Festival |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 9 August | Matane | Centre Sportif de Matane |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 17 August | Ottawa | National Arts Centre |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 21 September | rowspan="4"| Montreal | rowspan="4"| Théâtre Saint-Denis |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 22 September |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 23 September |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 24 September |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 4 October | rowspan="3"| Sherbrooke | rowspan="3"| Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 5 October |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 6 October |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 12 October | rowspan="5"| Quebec City | rowspan="5"| Palais Montcalm |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 13 October |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 14 October |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 15 October |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 16 October |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 26 October | rowspan="4"| Montreal | rowspan="4"| Théâtre Saint-Denis |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 27 October |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 28 October |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 29 October |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 13 November | Sainte-Foy | Cégep Salle Albert-Rousseau |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 23 November | rowspan="6"| Chicoutimi | rowspan="6"| Auditorium Dufour |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 24 November |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 25 November |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 26 November |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 27 November |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 29 November |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 8 December | rowspan="4"| Quebec City | rowspan="4"| Palais Montcalm |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 9 December |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 10 December |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 11 December |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 14 December | rowspan="5"| Montreal | rowspan="5"| Théâtre Saint-Denis |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 15 December |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 16 December |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 17 December |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 18 December |}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |+List of 1989 shows<ref name="shows1" /><ref name="shows2" /> ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"| Date (1989) ! scope="col" style="width:10em;"| City ! scope="col" style="width:10em;"| Country ! scope="col" style="width:17em;"| Venue |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 20 January | rowspan="3"| Quebec City | rowspan="8"| Canada | rowspan="3"| Palais Montcalm |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 21 January |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 22 January |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 3 February | Sherbrooke | Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 30 May | rowspan="2"| Montreal | rowspan="2"| Théâtre Saint-Denis |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 31 May |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 24 June | Toronto | Harbourfront |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 11 July | Quebec City | Place d'Youville |}
== Personnel == Adapted from the credits in the official 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 === * René Angélil – management * Jean Bissonnette – stage direction * Michel Robidas – costume design * Michel Murphy – lighting design * Jean-Pierre Plante – parody texts * Pierre Huet – parody texts * Suzanne Gingue – stage management * Mario Petit – lighting engineer, artistic direction * Denis Savage – concert hall sound technician * Daniel Baron – stage sound technician * Rachel Tremblay – wigs * Georges Couture – costumes
== References == {{reflist}}
{{Celine Dion}}
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