Incognito Tour

Incognito Tour

Tour by Celine Dion
Promotional poster for the tour
Location	North America, Europe
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

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 provinces of Quebec and Ontario in Canada.A special date was held in Lausanne, Switzerland during the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 week.

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.

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.

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.

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".

Tour dates

List of 1988 shows

Date (1988)	City	Country	Venue
11 January	Rouyn-Noranda	Canada	Théâtre du Cuivre
12 January
13 January
20 January	Quebec City		Palais Montcalm
21 January
22 January
23 January
9 February	Montreal		Théâtre Saint-Denis
10 February
11 February
12 February
13 February
14 February
18 February
19 February
20 February
25 February	Quebec City		Palais Montcalm
26 February
27 February
28 February
12 April	Montreal		Théâtre Saint-Denis
13 April
14 April
15 April
16 April
17 April
24 May	Longueuil		Cégep Édouard-Montpetit
25 May	Quebec City		Palais Montcalm
26 May
27 May
28 May
1 June	Ottawa		National Arts Centre
2 June
3 June	Maniwaki
14 June	Montreal		Théâtre Saint-Denis
15 June
16 June
17 June
18 June
19 June
	Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts
4 August
9 August	Matane		Centre Sportif de Matane
17 August	Ottawa		National Arts Centre
21 September	Montreal		Theatre Saint-Denis
22 September
23 September
24 September
4 October	Sherbrooke		Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke
5 October
6 October
12 October	Quebec City		Palais Montcalm
13 October
14 October
15 October
16 October
26 October	Montreal		Theatre Saint-Denis
27 October
28 October
29 October
13 November	Sainte-Foy		Cégep Salle Albert Rousseau
23 November	Chicoutimi		Auditorium Dufour
24 November
25 November
26 November
27 November
29 November
8 December	Quebec City	Palais Montcalm
9 December
10 December
11 December
14 December	Montreal	Theatre Saint-Denis
15 December
16 December
17 December
18 December

List of 1989 shows

Date (1988)	City	Country	Venue
20 January	Quebec City	Canada	Palais Montcalm
21 January
22 January
3 February	Sherbrooke		Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke
2 May	Lausanne	Switzerland	Théâtre de Beaulieu
30 May	Montreal	Canada	Theatre Saint-Denis
31 May
24 June	Toronto		Harbourfront
11 July	Quebec City		Place d'Youville

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