Toby Keith Sets First Euro Dates

Toby Keith photo courtesy of Show Dog Nashville.

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June 24, 2009 — In the aftermath of his recent return from a USO tour in the Middle East, Toby Keith plans to head back overseas in November for his first public tour of Europe.

The schedule kicks off with a Nov. 9 date in Glasgow, Scotland, as he winds his way through the United Kingdom and Ireland before moving on to five dates in Scandinavia, closing with a Nov. 22 show in Bergen, Norway. That would give him four days to make it back to the U.S. in time to celebrate the very-American Thanksgiving holiday.

Toby becomes just the latest in a string of artists who’ve taken their show overseas this year. Sugarland, Tracy Byrd and Pam Tillis have found their way to Europe, while Alan Jackson is set to tour Scandinavia in August. Dierks Bentley, Deana Carter, Joe Nichols, Taylor Swift and Brooks & Dunn have all played Australia thus far.

Back in the U.S.S.A., Toby and Trace Adkins are in the middle of America’s Toughest Tour, though it’s been left up to the imagination to decide whether Toby or Trace is the toughest of the two.

"My toughness has been documented — I've got the scars and surgeries to prove it!" Trace told Dial-Global. "We come from that same cut of cloth, you know. We both came out of the oil field, that whole mentality — to both of our detriments at times. But I don't know. I wouldn't want to find out which one of us was the toughest, and I hope he don't either!"

The tour is concentrated in Florida this coming weekend with dates in Tampa, West Palm Beach and Jacksonville.

Dates for Toby’s Euro trek include:

• Nov. 9 Glasgow, Scotland
• Nov. 10 London, England
• Nov. 12 Dublin, Ireland
• Nov. 13 Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Nov. 15 Copenhagen, Denmark
• Nov. 16 Stockholm, Sweden
• Nov. 18 Helsinki, Finland
• Nov. 21 Oslo, Norway
• Nov. 22 Bergen, Norway