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Wynonna Judd, on Her Own

Last spring, the country superstar lost her mother and longtime singing partner, Naomi Judd, to suicide. At 58, she finally hopes to become the musician she’s wanted to be for 50 years.

The Judds announced a reunion tour shortly before Naomi Judd’s death by suicide in 2022. Wynonna has carried on, performing the Final Tour with a cast of guests. Credit... Thea Traff for The New York Times

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• Jan. 31, 2023

NASHVILLE — Wynonna Judd was almost late for her date to sing with Joni Mitchell.

It was July 2022, and the country star had rented a yacht off the Rhode Island coast while she rehearsed for her idol’s first public performance since a 2015 brain aneurysm. That Sunday afternoon, the captain struggled to find a dock, forcing Wynonna to race to the Newport Folk Festival. She arrived a minute before showtime, squeezed into a spot toward the rear of the onstage throng and sighed with relief. Maybe people wouldn’t know she was there.

A dozen songs into the secret set, Mitchell began to purr “ Both Sides Now ,” the tune Wynonna — who with her mother, Naomi, made up one of Nashville’s most indelible duos — had sung during her debut performance, at eighth-grade graduation. Cameras caught her over Mitchell’s right shoulder, often sobbing as she occasionally harmonized. Honest and unmitigated, the footage went viral. Everyone knew Wynonna was there.

“It flipped me like a pancake, man, everything coming out. I was such a beautiful little mess,” she said on a recent Saturday afternoon in an enormous Nashville rehearsal hall, red hair cascading over a silver cross resting against her stomach. She paused to apply another stratum of lip gloss. “I was thinking about my mom, how much she loved my voice. And I was so freaking mad at her for leaving me. I realized I was an orphan.”

Less than three months earlier, a mediator who has worked with the entire Judd family for more than a decade commanded Wynonna to race to her mother’s house across the 1,000-acre farm they shared outside Nashville. Her younger sister, the actress and activist Ashley Judd, was already there. Wynonna arrived nine minutes later to find paramedics ready to rush her mother and lifelong singing partner into an ambulance. Naomi had struggled for decades with severe depression and panic attacks. She died that morning, her death ruled a suicide, the day before the Judds were to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

“We were still at the hospital,” Cactus Moser, Wynonna’s husband, manager and drummer, remembered later in the same dressing room. “Her exact words were, ‘I’m walking my mother into the Hall of Fame tomorrow. We’re not going to bail.’ She is an oak.”

The tearful ceremony was Wynonna’s first step in moving toward her own future. Since the Judds disbanded three decades ago, her relationship with her mother had been fraught at best, an exercise in boundaries. A fence split their spread in half. Family dinners observed firm time limits. Meetings about music were led by managers. “I can compartmentalize real easy,” she said, curling her lips.

Last week, Wynonna began what may prove the pivotal phase of putting the past to rest: the second leg of the Final Tour, a sweeping survey of the Judds’ bygone country supremacy, performed over 15 dates across the United States with a cast of guests that includes Tanya Tucker , Brandi Carlile and Kelsea Ballerini . When it is over, she believes the rest of her career can begin. Now a 58-year-old grandmother newly confronting an empty nest, one of country music’s most venerated singers is electrified by the idea of making records that turn away from what Naomi long called “Judd music.”

“It’s made me even more determined to be myself,” Wynonna said of her mother’s death in a second interview on her tour bus, flanked by photos of herself with Mitchell. “It’s given me a louder voice. I want to do stuff that makes people say, ‘What are you doing?’”

With a new record deal through the independent label Anti-, Wynonna hopes to mine the rock, folk and soul she wanted to sing before Naomi suggested a family band, when Wynonna was still a teenager. Already, she has released new music with an indie-rock descendant, Waxahatchee , and had even started a band a few years ago with the elliptical singer-songwriter Cass McCombs .

“We’ve both lived our lives as people have expected us, but she’s just getting started,” said Bobby Weir of the Grateful Dead, speaking by phone from Mexico, where Wynonna had just joined Dead & Company for a surprise performance. “I can’t wait to see who she takes with her, who she leaves wondering.”

FOR MUCH OF the ’80s, the Judds were country music’s sweethearts next door, the mother-daughter duo mistaken for sisters. The Judds’ preternatural Kentucky harmonies politely rebuffed the “Urban Cowboy” craze sparked by the 1980 film, and country’s increasing slickness. Wynonna and Naomi sang about grandpa and the good ol’ days, and then held each other in love or heartache. Naomi was the playful one, charming crowds as she sang backup; Wynonna, more stoic, was the generational singer out front.

“I don’t think there’s anybody in the business — any business, whether it’s country or rock or pop, anything — that has a greater voice than Wynonna,” Dolly Parton, a longtime mentor who thinks of her as a daughter, said in an interview. “With all the passion she has, all the stuff she feels, she was able to get that voice out there.”

The Judds’ life was “a wonderful duet,” Naomi wrote in her autobiography, “the two of us against a frightening and unknown world.” But for Wynonna, the songs were more idyllic than their circumstances. Naomi was a single mother, pinballing between California and Kentucky, Texas and Tennessee for opportunity or inspiration. By the time Wynonna was 8, she felt the burden of raising Ashley was, in part, hers. Her mother never told her that she and her sister had different fathers.

“We didn’t have the sit-down, Norman Rockwell family,” she said. “I always wanted that. I was never really allowed to be a kid.”

That applied to music, too. Wynonna loved Joni Mitchell and Bessie Smith but longed to be Linda Ronstadt or Bonnie Raitt. She wanted to build a sizzling rock band, not be in a country duo with her mother. Bouncing between short-term jobs and nursing school, Naomi had other ideas, not only to safeguard her firstborn but also to try a novel family business.

“On some level, she knew that this kid could sing,” Wynonna said, winking. “She had dreams and plans, and I had dreams and plans. They were very different. But I was so codependent, and I wanted to sing.”

Indeed, in only six years, Wynonna’s supple vocals led the Judds to country’s biggest stages. Their meteoric rise was interrupted in October 1990, when Naomi announced her sudden retirement as hepatitis C ravaged her health. Wynonna wanted to quit, too. “It’s like being in the middle of a divorce,” said Wynonna, who has endured two of them. “How can you possibly think about dating?”

But as Wynonna built a solo career, Naomi found other ways to impose. Wynonna believes her mother once hired a private investigator to learn if Wynonna’s boyfriend was gay. Naomi resented that Wynonna toured while she stayed at home. It got worse after 2009, when Wynonna partnered with Moser. Comparing her voice to some garage-bound Ferrari that had “only ever gone to fourth gear,” he encouraged her to try new songs and fresh settings of Judds standbys.

“Mom was not a big fan of me and Cactus, because she desperately wanted to be on the road,” Wynonna admitted. “There’s a piece of me that feels like I left her at the party.”

In 2019, an unexpected invitation arrived. The Nashville promoter Leslie Cohea saw Wynonna perform at a Tennessee festival, as Naomi watched from backstage. Cohea began hatching a plan for a final Judds hurrah: a full tour, taking the hits to arenas one last time.

At a preliminary meeting in a Nashville board room, mother and daughter sat at opposite ends of a conference table and offered redlines. At Naomi’s request, the songs would be true to original form, recalled Jason Owen, the founder of Sandbox Entertainment, who built the tour alongside Cohea; at Wynonna’s request, the outfits would not be fastidiously coordinated.

When Naomi started in on wardrobe plans, Wynonna gagged. “She said, ‘I’m fine. That’s just the sound of my mother’s uterus strangling my throat,’” Owen remembered in an interview. “They were playing off each other, but it was real.”

Sandbox shaped a comprehensive plan to relaunch the Judds, hinging on a taped outdoor performance of one of their final hits, “Love Can Build a Bridge,” for the CMT Music Awards in April 2022. They announced 10 tour dates that night, quickly selling most of the tickets.

The performance, however, wobbled. For the first time in Judds history, the ever-punctual Naomi was late, flustered by the unseasonably cold weather and an edit made to shorten her anthem for television. “She went from being at home, putting on makeup, to being in a multimillion-dollar production,” Wynonna said. “She wasn’t prepared.”

Wynonna is not big on regret. She doesn’t think she could have saved her mom. “Once you make that choice, you’re determined to carry it out,” she said flatly. “There’s only so much guilt to carry around.” Still, she wondered if they should have debriefed more, unpacking the anxiety of working together again.

“I missed that, because I was gone,” she said, referring to a tour of her own. Two weeks later, so was Naomi.

LATE IN THE afternoon on the first day of the Final Tour’s last leg (at least for now), Wynonna shuffled up the stage steps in a hockey arena in Hershey, Pa. “Oh, hi !” she said to a small crowd in the arena’s front two rows, stretching that last word like molasses.

More than two dozen devotees had paid extra for deluxe treatment, arriving three hours before showtime to watch a snippet of soundcheck and pose for a snapshot. After the band raced through “Have Mercy,” an early Judds hit about a hopeless cad, Wynonna grabbed a stack of scrap paper. Each fan had scribbled a question, and she started with the easy ones.

How many pets do you have? (Forty-eight, including 26 cats.) Who was your biggest influence? (Her Mamaw, or paternal grandmother.) And then, inevitably, came the queries about carrying on without Naomi. Her mother loved everybody, she said, and taught her gratitude for the life they’d built, even when it seemed impossible.

“She was a good person — to everybody else,” Wynonna said. She paused, as if realizing how harsh that sounded. “I did her hair, so she was strict with me.”

Perched above her behind the drums, Moser interceded with a mischievous grin, asking if she was ready to play. “What are you talking about?” she shot back. “I was born ready.”

In the weeks after Naomi’s death, Wynonna wasn’t sure if she was ready for this tour, to say goodbye to the Judds without her mother. She canceled a run with her own band and wondered if continuing was crass. “There was no way I was going to sing these songs without her,” she explained. “I had to seek counsel, because I was in a shutdown. Even Jesus had disciples.”

The feedback from a retinue that included Moser, her sister and even her farm manager was nearly unanimous: Play. Parton demanded as much in front of a crowd at a private memorial service, telling Wynonna she needed those shows. “I told her that Naomi had her journey, and she had hers. None of that was her fault,” Parton remembered. “I told her to get her ass out there on the road. It’s time for her to go on and do the great things she’s capable of doing, a new start.”

Singers including Carlile and Ashley McBryde, both ’80s babies reared on “Judd music,” volunteered to join her and sing Naomi’s parts. The first 11 shows last fall were more celebration than elegy.

“I would have been desperately sad if not,” Wynonna said, anxiously rubbing her hands together. “You can’t fake this. It’s not a time to put on your big-girl panties and just deal with it. This music is my foundational life journey.”

These concerts without Naomi are the culmination of an extended and unsteady process of stepping from their famous duo’s shadows, personally and professionally. Though Wynonna’s solo career was full of left turns into slinky R&B, vaulting pop and collaborations with the likes of Jeff Beck, that work was heard within the context of what she had accomplished with her mother, or might still. That is finally over.

“Almost instantly, there was less weight, less pressure,” Moser said, chatting in a Hershey sports bar. “Naomi believed I was trying to tunnel under the Judds legacy and let her fall through the cracks.”

An encyclopedic rock fan who scoffs at Nashville mores, Moser speculates about future collaborations with cerebral producers like Daniel Lanois or Blake Mills. He and Wynonna are eight songs into an album that will most likely include work with Weir, Carlile and Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam. It feels so real and vulnerable, Wynonna said, it makes her uncomfortable. “It’s the most intimate I’ve ever been,” she noted of a song called “Broken and Blessed.” “And that’s because of my mother.”

And two years ago, after her biological father died, she finally met her brother, Michael, when she called him without warning on his birthday. They talked for five hours the first time they met. “We couldn’t get over how much we looked alike,” she gushed. “They’re all so normal.”

She never told Naomi about her new family. She beamed, though, when she mentioned someday introducing him to Ashley, whom she repeatedly called “honey bunny.” Their relationship has become closer, Wynonna explained, the result of having and respecting boundaries. “We’re in such good places now,” she said. “It’s going to be OK.”

MORE THAN 20 minutes before Wynonna was due onstage in Hershey for the opening night’s 24-song set, she stood still in a backstage hallway, bare feet on the concrete floor. She talked to her son, Elijah, and asked for more hair spray. Her black velvet outfit was covered in a constellation of gold glitter, and her wavy hair was a ripple of burnished reds. She clutched an enormous white guitar, so new it gleamed even beneath wan fluorescent lights.

For the better part of a year, Moser schemed with Gibson to make a replica of the big, white guitar Wynonna bought soon after the Judds broke up. After a quarter-century of concerts, the original was as yellow as fresh butter, the wood beneath its strings ground down from countless strums. That guitar had signaled a new phase of her life, just like this one. She kept both hands around it, as if protecting a puppy. “It feels good,” she said slowly, closing her eyes to reveal more glitter.

Just then, she stopped her tour manager, Tanner Brandell, and asked how much time she had left. “I was coming to tell you that you have the trigger,” he said. “Tell me when.” Without hesitation, she said “Now” and began sauntering toward the stage, moving deliberately, as if the world could always wait for Wynonna.

She climbed the stairs and strummed a chord as the white guitar caught the spotlight for the first time. She belted out one line from an old Judds favorite, her voice every bit as mighty as it was when they cut the song in 1983: “Had a dream about you, baby.” She let the line echo back, and grinned.

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Wynonna Judd Extends the Judds’ Final Tour into 2023

By Jon Freeman

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Wynonna Judd has added new dates to “ The Judds : The Final Tour,” her celebration of her mother Naomi Judd, who died in May, and the music they made together as a duo. Ashley McBryde , Brandi Carlile , Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town , and Martina McBride , along with special guests yet to be announced, will appear at select shows.

“The Judds: The Final Tour” has three more dates left in 2022, including an Oct. 29 show at Lexington, Kentucky’s Rupp Arena in the Judds’ home state. One day earlier, the tour will visit Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

“The decision to add 15 more shows was a no-brainer for me,” Judd said in a statement. “The fans have been such a gift during my time of grieving and honoring my mother in song. What an amazing season this is. I look so forward to continuing the celebration of the music that has changed my life forever.”

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The Judds Final Tour Dates: Oct. 27 — Biloxi, MS @ Mississippi Coast Coliseum Oct. 28 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena Oct. 29 — Lexington, Kentucky @ Rupp Arena Jan. 26  —  Hershey, PA @ Giant Center                    Jan. 28 —  Bridgeport, CT  @ Total Mortgage Arena                   Jan. 29 —  Worcester, MA @ DCU Center                                     Feb. 2 —  Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center                                     Feb. 3. — Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Center                             Feb. 4 — St. Louis, MO @ Chaifetz Arena                                 Feb. 9 — Omaha, NE @ CHI Health Center Omaha             Feb. 10 — Moline, IL @ Vibrant Arena at The Mark          Feb. 11 — Dayton, OH @ WSU Nutter Center                         Feb. 16 — Greenville, SC @ Bon Secours Wellness Arena         Feb. 17 — Fairfax, VA @ EagleBank Arena                              Feb. 18 — Charleston Coliseum @  Charleston, WV Feb. 23 — Savannah, GA @ Enmarket Arena                               Feb. 24 —Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena  Feb. 25 — Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood     

This story was updated 10/24 with Judd’s new tour dates.

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Country Music Icon Wynonna Judd Announces Dates For Back To Wy Tour

The Back To Wy Tour Will Feature Songs From Wynonna’s First Two Solo Albums Performed In-Order

Tickets available starting tuesday, august 22 with wynonna fan club presale.

One of Country music’s most legendary voices and truly iconic performers, Wynonna , has announced her upcoming theatre tour, Back To Wy . The tour, produced by Live Nation , will feature the songs off Wynonna’s first two solo albums – Wynonna (1992) and Tell Me Why (1993), performed track by track, front to back, followed by a finale of her other hits along with The Judds classics. The 15-city tour kicks off on Tuesday, October 26 at Murat Theatre at Old National Centre in Indianapolis, IN making stops across the U.S. in San Antonio, Dallas, Louisville and more before wrapping up in Knoxville at Tennessee Theatre on Friday, December 1.

With vast critical acclaim including high endorsement as “the voice of her generation” by Rolling Stone, Wynonna , selling over five-million units, became the highest-selling debut album by a female artist at the time.  Wynonna earned 3 consecutive #1 hits with “She Is His Only Need,” “I Saw The Light,” and “No One Else On Earth.”  A musical force like none other before her, Wynonna followed her wildly successful debut with the multi-platinum disc, Tell Me Why , which produced several hit singles including “Tell Me Why,” “Is It Over Yet,” “Rock Bottom,” and “Girls With Guitars.”

“Getting to share this tour with the fans who have been with me for 40 years, means the world to me. Deep diving into my first two solo albums, “Wynonna” and “Tell Me Why,” track by track, will be a trip down memory lane. As I sit and listen to these two records, I’m flooded with the memories that surrounded that time in my life. The fans held me up and supported me through that season of change in 1992, and I now see “herstory” repeating itself. This music healed me then and is healing me now. The circle of life continues…”

-Wynonna Judd

(Photo Credit: Jim Wright)

Back To Wy Tour Dates :

October 26, 2023                          Indianapolis, IN                                         Murat Theatre at Old National Centre

October 27, 2023                         Ames, IA                                                       Stephens Auditorium

October 28, 2023                          Prior Lake, MN                                           Mystic Lake Casino*

November 2, 2023                        Rosemont, IL                                              Rosemont Theatre

November 3, 2023                        Bowler, WI                                                   North Star Mohican Casino*

November 4, 2023                        Peoria, IL                                                     Peoria Civic Center Theater

November 9, 2023                        San Antonio, TX                                         Tobin Center for the Performing Arts*

November 11, 2023                      Oklahoma City, OK                                    The Criterion

November 12, 2023                      Austin, TX                                                    ACL Live at Moody Theatre

November 17, 2023                      Birmingham, AL                                         Alabama Theatre

November 18, 2023                      Bossier City, LA                                          Margaritaville Casino*

November 19, 2023                      Dallas, TX                                                     Majestic Theatre

November 25, 2023                      Louisville, KY                                               Palace Theatre

November 30, 2023                      Durham, NC                                                Durham Performing Arts Center

December 1, 2023                       Knoxville, TN                                                 Tennessee Theatre

*Not A Live Nation Date

Fan Club pre-sale tickets for the Back To Wy Tour will be available on August 22 nd and general on-sale is available starting August 25 th on Wynonna.com

The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include premium tickets, commemorative laminate & concert ticket, and specially designed Wynonna cocktail set. For more information, visit vipnation.com !

About Wynonna :

With the release of her 1992 self-titled solo debut, Wynonna emerged as a singular force in American music. Beyond the five Grammy Awards, the multi-platinum albums and sold-out tours, the country/soul vocalist built on the Appalachian traditionalism that defined The Judds to create a world where Top 5 dance/club hits were as possible as being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Having practically grown up as America’s favorite musical daughter, Wynonna matured into a woman who embraced how life is filled with peaks and valleys, great thrills, and heavy disappointment. Those realities informed her 5-times platinum Wynonna and nearing 3-times platinum Tell Me Why , the albums that gave voice to every human being emerging into their own adulthood with joy in their heart.

Beyond the groundbreaking music she and her mother created as The Judds, Wynonna has grown into her once-in-a-generation vocal prowess with an ease that made people clamor to her. “No One Else On Earth,” “Tell Me Why,” “She Is His Only Need,” “Girls With Guitars,” and “I Saw The Light” set the next chapter in motion of for the girl from Ashland, Kentucky who became a global superstar.

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Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com .

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Wynonna judd announces additional back to wy tour dates.

Posted by Buddy Iahn | May 13, 2024

The second leg kicks off this fall in Kansas

Wynonna Judd is thrilled to announce the expansion of her highly anticipated Back to Wy Tour with over a dozen additional dates scheduled for this September, in response to fan enthusiasm and demand.

Produced by Live Nation, the tour features Wynonna performing the timeless melodies from her acclaimed debut solo albums, Wynonna (1992) and Tell Me Why (1993), presented in a track-by-track journey from start to finish. The show also features an intimate acoustic set, treating audiences to a broken-down performance of her chart-topping hits alongside beloved classics from The Judds.

“The fans have turned the Back To Wy Tour into something far greater than I ever imagined!” Wyonna shares. “This tour isn’t JUST about the songs; it’s about our shared experiences, the memories we create together in each city, each venue, each moment. It’s about returning to the roots of where it all began for me as a solo artist and celebrating the nostalgic feeling of what we were doing when these 2 albums entered our lives… whether that was 1992 or 2022.

I can’t wait to see your smiling faces, to feel your energy, and to create new memories surrounding these songs that will last us the rest of our lives! Thank you for being the heartbeat of this tour, for allowing us a second chance to connect with you over these 2 albums, and for making every moment on stage feel like coming home…Back To Wy.”

Tickets for the newly announced dates will be available starting with a Wynonna Judd Fan Club Presale beginning Tuesday, May 14th. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale beginning Friday, May 17th at 10 am local time via Ticketmaster .

Fans can also purchase VIP Packages, which may include premium tickets, commemorative laminate & concert ticket, and a specially designed Wynonna cocktail set.

Wynonna Back to Wy 2024 Tour Dates:

Sept 6 – Hutchinson, KS @ Kansas State Fair Sept 7 – Tulsa, OK @ River Spirit Casino Sept 8 – Lubbock, TX @ Helen DeVitt Jones Theater at The Buddy Holly Hall Sept 11 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Pikes Peak Center Sept 13 – Casper, WY @ Ford Wyoming Center Sept 14 – Billings, MT @ Alberta Bair Theater for the Performing Arts Sept 18 – Boise, ID @ Morrison Center for the Performing Arts Sept 20 – Woodinville, WA @ Chateau Ste Michelle Winery Sept 21 – Airway Heights, WA @ BECU Live at Northern Quest Sept 24 – Idaho Falls, ID @ Hero Arena at the Mountain America Center Sept 25 – Sandy, UT @ Sandy Amphitheater Sept 27 – Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery Sept 28 – Wheatland, CA @ Hard Rock Live Sacramento Sept 29 – Porterville, CA @ Eagle Mountain Casino Oct 2 – El Cajon, CA @ The Magnolia Oct 4 – Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Oct 5 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre

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Wynonna Judd announces her Back to Wy tour. Here’s everything you need to know

Wynonna Judd is returning to the stage to take a trip down memory lane.

The 59-year-old announced on Instagram that she'll be hitting the road this fall for a tour revisiting her first two albums, "Wynonna" and "Tell Me Why."

Judd shared a video on Instagram Aug. 21 sifting through some old music memorabilia, including old outfits and CDs, and revealing that she was calling the new tour "the Back to Wy Tour."

"Getting to share this tour with the fans who have been with me for 40 years, means the world to me," she wrote in her caption, adding that fans in attendance will take a deep dive into her repertoire.

She continued, "As I sit and listen to these two records, I’m flooded with the memories that surrounded that time in my life."

Here's what to know about the upcoming performances.

When and where is Wynonna Judd on tour?

The "Tell Me Why" singer will hit the ground running on Oct. 26, opening her tour in Indianapolis, Indiana. She'll round out the 15-show run with a performance in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Dec. 1.

Along the way, she'll travel to cities in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky and North Carolina.

Here's the full list of Judd's tour dates and locations.

How can you score tickets to Wynonna Judd's tour?

Presale tickets for the Wynation Fan Club will start Tuesday, Aug. 22, at 10 a.m. — she didn't specify a time zone — and then will go on sale to the general public on Friday, Aug. 25.

What albums and tracks will she cover while on tour?

Judd says she's "going back to the very beginning of her solo career," focusing on "two words...NUH-STALGIA."

In her Instagram post, the singer said the performances will run through her first two solo albums, "Wynonna," which was released in 1992, as well as 1993's "Tell Me Why."

"This means we get to play the hits, the deep cuts, and everything in between," she said.

Becca Wood is a news and trending reporter for TODAY Digital based in New York City. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter.

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Wynonna Judd Is Extending The Judds: The Final Tour

"The decision to add 15 more shows was a no-brainer for me," she said in a statement.

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Wynonna Judd has added 15 additional shows to The Judds: The Final Tour, allowing the tour to continue into 2023.

Initially, the tour had been slated as a Judds farewell tour with Wynonna and her mother, Naomi Judd, prior to Naomi’s death on April 30 at age 76, just one day prior to The Judds’ induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Wynonna later revealed she would continue with the tour dates in honor of her late mother’s life and legacy, and welcomed a rotating roster of female artists to join her, including Martina McBride , Ashley McBryde , Kelsea Ballerini , Brandi Carlile , Trisha Yearwood , and Little Big Town .

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She added, “The decision to add 15 more shows was a no-brainer for me. The fans have been such a gift during my time of grieving and honoring my mother in song. What an amazing season this is. I look so forward to continuing the celebration of the music that has changed my life forever. In my 39 years of performing, these shows have truly been some of my absolute favorite experiences ever and I look forward to making new memories with the fans and guest artists in 2023.”

The Judds: The Final Tour, will visit Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Friday (Oct. 28).

See the full list of 2023 tour dates below. Presale tickets became available at 10 a.m. local time on Monday, Oct. 24. General public tickets will be on sale on Friday, Oct. 28, at 10 a.m. local time.

The Judds: The Final Tour Dates :

• Jan. 26, 2023 – Hershey, Pa. – GIANT Center                                                    
• Jan. 28, 2023 – Bridgeport, Conn. – Total Mortgage Arena                  
• Jan. 29, 2023 – Worcester, Mass. – DCU Center                                            
• Feb. 2, 2023 – Tulsa, Okla. -BOK Center                                    
• Feb. 3, 2023 – Kansas City, Mo. – T-Mobile Center                            
• Feb. 4, 2023 – St. Louis, Mo. – Chaifetz Arena                                
• Feb. 9, 2023 – Omaha, Neb. – CHI Health Center Omaha            
• Feb. 10, 2023 – Moline, Ill. – Vibrant Arena at THE MARK         
• Feb. 11, 2023 – Dayton, Ohio – WSU Nutter Center                        
• Feb. 16, 2023 – Greenville, S.C. – Bon Secours Wellness Arena        
• Feb. 17, 2023 – Fairfax, Va. – EagleBank Arena                             
• Feb. 18, 2023 – Charleston, W. Va. – Charleston Coliseum                      
• Feb. 23, 2023 – Savannah, Ga. – Enmarket Arena                              
• Feb. 24, 2023 – Tampa, Fla. – Amalie Arena                                   
• Feb. 25, 2023 – Hollywood, Fla. Hard Rock Live at Seminole/Hard Rock Hollywood     

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Wynonna Judd will follow through with the previously announced upcoming tour she had planned with her late mother Naomi Judd, and will welcome a series of big-name guest stars to participate including Brandi Carlile, Faith Hill, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Ashley McBryde and Trisha Yearwood.

“I am humbled, once again, by the loyalty of the fans who have been with us for 38+ years, who continue to show up for me when I need them the most,” Wynonna said in a statement. “I am grateful that we will continue to honor The Judds legacy, together.”

Naomi Judd died on April 30 .

“I am so happy that in this time of grief for us all, Wynonna has agreed to move forward with this tour as my sweet wife Naomi would have wanted her to do,” said Naomi’s longtime husband Larry Strickland.

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The 11-date arena tour will launch on September 30 in Grand Rapids, MI and run through October, wrapping up on Oct. 29 with a newly announced performance in Lexington, Kentucky, the Judd’s home state.

See the full tour itinerary below.

“What a full-circle moment it will be to end the tour in Kentucky where it all began,” Wynonna said.

Martina McBride will kick off select nights with a full set of her own hits before Wynonna takes the stage to sing some of her own hits as well as songs by The Judds. A selection of guest artists – Carlile, Hill, Little Big Town, McBride, McBryde, Yearwood and others to be announced – will join Wynonna each night.

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Friday, October 21 — Durant, OK, Choctaw Grand Theater

Saturday, October 22 — Ft. Worth, TX, Dickies Arena

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No one will be punished for picking their own viewing order, but CMT’s Margaret Comeaux, one of the executive producers of the concert film, suggests starting with the doc and saving the live show for dessert. “I think that’s probably the preferred order,” Comeaux says, “because I think the story that the doc is telling of the whole year leads us to the final story we’re telling in the concert special, with the culmination in Murfreesboro.” That’s the Tennessee city where Judd and all the guest stars who appeared along last fall’s tour routing converged for a show that was meant to more or less recreate the Judds’ famous original farewell concert back in 1991, shot on the same stage.

Both projects will prove enticing not just to fans of the Judds but to followers of the performers who are seen joining Wynonna as co-frontwomen: Brandi Carlile , Kelsea Ballerini, Martina McBride, Ashley McBryde, Faith Hill and Little Big Town. (Make that co-frontwomen and -frontmen in the case of the latter co-ed vocal quartet.)

Says Jason Owen , the head of Nashville media powerhouse Sandbox Entertainment and an exec producer on both projects: “I’m being honest when I say I could not have done this tour without her. I mean, she was a confidante. She and I talked through a lot as we were talking through songs and making sure everyone was healthy and happy. And her energy is just infectious. From the very beginning, she felt very strongly that Wynonna should do the tour, and she was very vocal about that with all of us. And we all started building this idea of the tour with a guest (each night) off of Brandi, and that’s how it started. But throughout the process, she was there. It was very important for me that she be the first guest — and it was very important to me — because I knew that she cared so much about the music and cared so much about Wynonna. Not that all of them did not, because they did, but she was like a beacon, and wanted to make sure everything was really right and perfect for Wy, mostly musically.”

Even before Naomi died and plans changed in the biggest possible way, there had always been a plan to film a documentary about what had been booked as the Judds’ second farewell tour. Owens’ Sandbox had hooked up with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine — specifically Sara Rea, who runs the unscripted division — at about the time the Judds appeared on the 2022 CMT Music Awards to sing “Love Will Build a Bridge” and promote the coming reunion tour.

After Naomi died, virtually everything that had been planned went on — including the filming projects — albeit always with a check-in to Wynonna and her team to make sure they were on board, and with obvious constant acknowledgements of the void at the center of things, or at a half-center. Unforgettably, Wynonna showed up to accept the duo’s Country Music Hall of Fame medallion at a ceremony just two days after the death. At a musical memorial televised by CMT from the Ryman Auditorium, Wynonna announced the tour would go on, with Carlile — a key duet partner at the eulogistic event — seen in the third row literally leaning forward in her seat with enthusiasm for the idea.

Probably the most talked-about scene comes mid-tour, when deepening anxiety about staging issues leads Wynonna to get on an emergency Zoom call with her therapist to deal with the real underlying issues. She says that every time she drives by her mother’s house, which is often, she flashes back to the day she was called over, and the traumatic imagery of being in the room with her dying mom. Her biggest regret, she says feistily, is that she didn’t punch the cop who held her back from kissing her mother before she passed, and that it was only after Naomi was declared dead that she was able to kiss her on the forehead.

“That was a hard day of filming,” says Patty Ivins Specht, the director of the “Between Hell and Hallelujah” doc. “It was a fascinating day, because that (therapy session) was not scheduled. She woke up that day and sincerely needed to have a session with David Kessler for her grief therapy because she was just feeling it so deeply. First of all, the entire crew is crying on some level, because it’s very emotional to listen to somebody relive their worst day of their life. And then it was another moment where she went into that very personal trauma of replaying the driving over (to the house), every time. She’s like, ‘I just can’t stop that loop in my brain.’ Sometimes when you’re making a movie like this, it is such a trust fall, and Wy just trusted that we were gonna capture the process and was free with how she felt, and I think everyone in the room filming it feels that responsibility when someone trusts you with their vulnerability.

“I look at that scene and she’s a woman who’s legitimately in a painful hour in time and she’s asking for help. And she’s kind of trying to ignore that these cameras are here. But watching somebody model processing their grief is also really empowering, because in our society, we don’t talk about death. You do the funeral, you move along, and then you still live with that grief for years. And so I think in a powerful way, her modeling how she’s processing this grief is really one of the gifts of this film.”

The anxiety for Judd comes about in a somewhat symbolic way, at first, starting with the very practical matter of the artist having difficulty with the opening gambit of the tour. She would be snuck out each night in a rolling equipment cabinet to start each concert on a “B stage,” apart from the band or any guests back on the main stage — and, in some kind of deeply Freudian way, separated from the union with her mother that the main stage represents. It doesn’t help that Judd is described by others as being more claustrophobic than anyone else they know even on an elevator.

As for capturing Wynonna’s first visit to her mother’s home after the tragedy, says Ivins Specht, “It illustrates this thing that happens with Wynonna, where I think she has this kind of unspoken contract with her fans that she just gives it up. Because even when she said yes to us, that we could go with her that day, I mean, we weren’t so sure she’d say yes, but no, she was all for it. … The sensitive thing is, leading with your intuition a little bit in those times, but really our job is to always ask. That actually is our job, to ask — in humility and kindness — to ask the uncomfortable questions all the time. There’s so much give and take, and she gives so much. There’s a moment (in the film) where she goes, ‘OK, I think I did it.’ Like, ‘That’s all I can do today.’ But she generally tries to say yes, and then she’ll find a boundary at some point.”

One reason Owen bonded so well with Carlile is that he, too, was a Judds megafan since childhood. He will allow that a VHS tape of the 1991 Judds farewell special was one of his most prized, if not worn-out, possessions. (Naomi Judd said that she was retiring at the time, after their run of ’80s smashes, because of her hepatitis-C diagnosis, although she participated in short or one-off reunions over the following three decades.) That farewell show had been filmed at Middle Tennessee State University, and it was Owen’s idea to recreate the show back at that original site — though it was not the original plan.

“I remember Margaret and I having a phone conversation as we were trying to plan this concert special,” Owen recalls, “and the original plan was that we were going to do it in Lexington, Kentucky,” where the last show was to take place on the original fall 2022 tour routing. “Kentucky made sense because they were obviously from Kentucky, and that was where we were going to wrap the tour. We had blocked off seating for it, we had done camera holds, we did everything. Long story short, Wynonna wanted to continue the tour and continue to do another run of dates,” which would extend the actual finale to months down the line. “And then, with Margaret and I brainstorming on the phone, I said, ‘What if we do it there, at MTSU?’ Within eight hours, we had that.. … At the college, there was tons of faculty and people that worked there for a long period of time that were all there when they shot that special, believe it or not. And when we pitched them on this idea, they went through every hoop imaginable to make sure it happened.

It wasn’t just Carlile among the guests who was able to have an emotional impact on Judd. Comeaux remembers a spontaneous moment in rehearsal, captured in the doc, when Faith Hill began serenading Judd on stage with an a cappella version of “You Are Not Alone,” with the band eventually joining in. The documentary crew was on the opposite side of the venue, filming an interview with Tim McGraw, but they had made contingency plans to leave one camera near the star at all times, and a producer was able to pick it up and capture the moment. “Wy, at the beginning of every show, is very much in a zone of ‘I want to service all the fans who are coming,’ and as anyone is, you’re in game mode — you’ve gotta see the vision of the end. And so when Faith begins this beautiful rendition, I mean, everybody on stage had a lump in their throat, and Wynonna pulls out a funny and says, ‘Don’t you ever do that again.’ But it’s a beautiful moment in the movie.”

But it’s hard to overstate Carlile’s impact, even on the tour dates that came after her initial appearance at the first ones. Says Ivins Specht, “At the kickoff concert, it was one day of load-in, a little bit of rehearsal that late afternoon into the evening, and then the next day was another rehearsal, and then the first show was that Friday night. So it’s Thursday, 4 or 5 o’clock, and it’s a big freaking day — stressful, everything’s getting built, and things aren’t coming together as quickly as possible, as with every production you ever work on.” Owen concurs, “That first weekend of shows was very stressful. Things go wrong. We have to change things; I’m yelling at some lighting guy. It’s tough.”

And then, says the director, “I can tell you, the moment Team Brandi rolled in, Wy was like, ‘OK, I’m gonna be good.’ Like, ‘I have Brandi on stage. She’s as invested in this being a success for me, as an individual woman, as she is for all the fans who love the Judds so much.’ And I think the planning of Brandi being first is kind of an unspoken tribute to why this is such a success. It transcended being about all the anxiety around what Wynonna was about to do, and it went back to the place of celebration and joy, and Brandi helped Wy access that peace in herself. That’s what I witnessed.” Adds Owen, “She helped me too, honestly, because I was very emotional through it, because I cared so much and it was such a rollercoaster of a year. Again, I really would say wholeheartedly, I could not have done this without her.”

“I have a petition to get her to the Greek” in Los Angeles, says Comeaux. “I want to see Wynonna at the Greek.”

Maybe that will happen eventually, but not under this banner. “There’s nothing (further) scheduled for that,” Owen says. “I think that that was the end of the Judds tour. Unfortunately for all of us.”

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Wynonna Judd Announces Summer & Fall 2024 U.S. Tour Dates

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Country music icon, Wynonna Judd , is thrilled to announce the expansion of her highly anticipated Back to Wy Tour with over a dozen additional dates scheduled for this September including a stop in Casper, WY on September 13th , in response to fan enthusiasm and demand.

Produced by Live Nation, the tour features Wynonna performing the timeless melodies from her acclaimed debut solo albums, Wynonna (1992) and Tell Me Why (1993), presented in a track-by-track journey from start to finish. The show also features an intimate acoustic set, treating audiences to a broken down performance of her chart-topping hits alongside beloved classics from The Judds.

Wynonna exclaimed, " The fans have turned the Back To Wy Tour into something far greater than I ever imagined! This tour isn't JUST about the songs; it's about our shared experiences, the memories we create together in each city, each venue, each moment. It's about returning to the roots of where it all began for me as a solo artist and celebrating the nostalgic feeling of what we were doing when these 2 albums entered our lives… whether that was 1992 or 2022.

I can’t wait to see your smiling faces, to feel your energy, and to create new memories surrounding these songs that will last us the rest of our lives! Thank you for being the heartbeat of this tour, for allowing us a second chance to connect with you over these 2 albums, and for making every moment on stage feel like coming home...Back To Wy .”

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TICKETS : Tickets will be available starting with a Wynonna Judd Fan Club Presale beginning Tuesday, May 14. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, May 17 at 10 AM local time at Ticketmaster.com or  Wynonna.com .

VIP : Fans can also purchase VIP Packages, which may include premium tickets, commemorative laminate & concert ticket, and a specially designed Wynonna cocktail set. For more information, visit vipnation.com .

About Wynonna

With the release of her 1992 self-titled solo debut, Wynonna emerged as a singular force in American music. Beyond the five Grammy Awards, the multi-platinum albums and sold-out tours, the country/soul vocalist built on the Appalachian traditionalism that defined The Judds to create a world where Top 5 dance/club hits were as possible as being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Having practically grown up as America’s favorite musical daughter, Wynonna matured into a woman who embraced how life is filled with peaks and valleys, great thrills, and heavy disappointment. Those realities informed her 5-times platinum Wynonna and nearing 3-times platinum Tell Me Why, the albums that gave voice to every human being emerging into their own adulthood with joy in their heart.

Beyond the groundbreaking music she and her mother created as The Judds, Wynonna has grown into her once-in-a-generation vocal prowess with an ease that made people clamor to her. “No One Else On Earth,” “Tell Me Why,” “She Is His Only Need,” “Girls With Guitars,” and “I Saw The Light” set the next chapter in motion for the girl from Ashland, Kentucky who became a global superstar.

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Wynonna Judd Announces ‘Back To Wy’ Tour, Where She’ll Play All The Songs From Her First Two Albums

Wynonna Judd is hitting the road to sing some of her very first hits.

She just announced her Back to Wy tour, which will feature Wynonna singing all of the songs from her debut album Wynonna (1992) and sophomore record Tell Me Why (1993) track by track, front to back.

The finale will include some of her other biggest hits and The Judd’s classics, and it sounds like it’s going to be a really cool show and with a neat concept that I’ve never really heard of another artist doing quite like this before.

She will cover 15 cities across the country, starting in October at the Murat Theatre at Old National Centre in Indianapolis, Indiana, eventually wrapping up in Knoxville at the Tennessee Theatre on December 1st.

Wynonna says she can’t wait to feel all of the nostalgia with fans through shining a spotlight on the music that helped her start her career, adding that the music healed her back then and is “healing me now”:

“Two words…NUH-STALGIA. I am thrilled to FINALLY announce that I’ll be hitting the road this fall, with the BACK TO WY Tour!!!!

We’re going to travel back to the 90’s, celebrating my start as a solo artist and performing my first TWO albums, ‘Wynonna’ and ‘Tell Me Why,’ top to bottom, back to back, in their entirety! This means we get to play the hits, the deep cuts, and everything in between.

Getting to share this tour with the fans who have been with me for 40 years, means the world to me. Deep diving into my first two solo albums, track by track, will be such a trip down memory lane. As I sit and listen to these two records, I’m flooded with the memories that surrounded that time in my life.

The fans held me up and supported me through a season of change in 1992, and I now see ‘herstory’ repeating itself. This music healed me then, and is healing me now. The circle of life continues…”

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Wynonna was the highest-selling debut album by a female artist at the time, earning her three consecutive #1 hits with “She Is His Only Need,” “I Saw The Light,” and “No One Else On Earth.”

Tell Me Why produced several hit singles as well, including “Tell Me Why,” “Is It Over Yet,” “Rock Bottom,” and “Girls With Guitars.”

And if you want to go on this little trip down memory lane with Wy, you can check out all of the tour dates below.

Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10AM local time.

Back To Wy tour dates:

October 26, 2023 Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre at Old National Centre October 27, 2023 Ames, IA – Stephens Auditorium October 28, 2023 Prior Lake, MN – Mystic Lake Casino* November 2, 2023 Rosemont, IL – Rosemont Theatre November 3, 2023 Bowler, WI – North Star Mohican Casino* November 4, 2023 Peoria, IL – Peoria Civic Center Theater November 9, 2023 San Antonio, TX – Tobin Center for the Performing Arts* November 11, 2023 Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion November 12, 2023 Austin, TX – ACL Live at Moody Theatre November 17, 2023 Birmingham, AL – Alabama Theatre November 18, 2023 Bossier City, LA – Margaritaville Casino* November 19, 2023 Dallas, TX – Majestic Theatre November 25, 2023 Louisville, KY – Palace Theatre November 30, 2023 Durham, NC – Durham Performing Arts Center December 1, 2023 Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre

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Wynonna Judd has announced the 2024 "Back to Wy Tour." Here, she arrives at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 2, 2023, at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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Country music icon Wynonna Judd is headed out on tour.

During the “Back to Wy Tour,” she will perform her first two solo albums, “Wynonna,” and “Tell Me Why,” in their entirety.

On social media, Judd said, “The fans have turned the ‘Back To Wy Tour’ into something far greater than I ever imagined! This tour isn’t JUST about the songs; it’s about our shared experiences, the memories we create together in each city, each venue, each moment.

“It’s about returning to the roots of where it all began for me as a solo artist and celebrating the nostalgic feeling of what we were doing when these 2 albums entered our lives … whether that was 1992 or 2022.

“I can’t wait to see your smiling faces, to feel your energy, and to create new memories surrounding these songs that will last us the rest of our lives! Thank you for being the heartbeat of this tour, for allowing us a second chance to connect with you over these 2 albums, and for making every moment on stage feel like coming home ... Back To Wy.”

Fan club presales start on Tuesday, May 14. General ticket sales start at 10 a.m. Friday, May 17, on Ticketmaster.

The tour includes these stops:

June 1 - Lexington, Kentucky

July 11 - Monte Vista, Colorado

Aug. 2 - Elkhorn, Wisconsin

Aug. 10 - Galva, Illinois

Aug. 22 - Palmer, Alaska

Aug. 24 - Albany, Oregon

Sept. 6 - Hutchinson, Kansas

Sept. 7 - Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sept. 8 - Lubbock, Texas

Sept. 11 - Colorado Springs, Colorado

Sept. 13 - Casper, Wyoming

Sept. 14 - Billings, Montana

Sept. 18 - Boise, Idaho

Sept. 20 - Woodinville, Washington

Sept. 21 - Airway Heights, Washington

Sept. 24 - Idaho Falls, Idaho

Sept. 25 - Sandy, Utah

Sept. 27 - Saratoga, California

Sept. 28 - Wheatland, California

Sept. 29 - Porterville, California

Oct. 2 - El Cajon, California

Oct. 4 - Los Angeles, California

Oct. 5 - Phoenix, Arizona

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Wynonna Judd announces second leg of ‘Back to WY’ tour coming to Mountain America Center Sept. 24

Kelsey Salsbery, Mountain America Center

The following is a news release from the Mountain America Center.

Idaho Falls, ID – Country music icon, Wynonna Judd, is thrilled to announce the expansion of her highly anticipated “Back to Wy Tour” with over a dozen additional dates scheduled for this September, including a stop in Idaho Falls at Hero Arena inside the Mountain America Center on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Tickets went on sale to the public on Friday, May 17 on Ticketmaster.com .

Produced by Live Nation, the tour features Wynonna performing the timeless melodies from her acclaimed debut solo albums, Wynonna (1992) and Tell Me Why (1993), presented in a track-by-track journey from start to finish. The show also features an intimate acoustic set, treating audiences to a broken down performance of her chart-topping hits alongside beloved classics from The Judds.

Wynonna exclaimed, “The fans have turned the Back To Wy Tour into something far greater than I ever imagined! This tour isn’t JUST about the songs; it’s about our shared experiences, the memories we create together in each city, each venue, each moment. It’s about returning to the roots of where it all began for me as a solo artist and celebrating the nostalgic feeling of what we were doing when these two albums entered our lives… whether that was 1992 or 2022.”

“I can’t wait to see your smiling faces, to feel your energy, and to create new memories surrounding these songs that will last us the rest of our lives! Thank you for being the heartbeat of this tour, for allowing us a second chance to connect with you over these two albums, and for making every moment on stage feel like coming home…Back To Wy.”

VIP : Fans can also purchase VIP Packages, which may include premium tickets, commemorative laminate & concert ticket, and a specially designed Wynonna cocktail set. For more information, visit vipnation.com .

About Wynonna Judd

With the release of her 1992 self-titled solo debut, Wynonna emerged as a singular force in American music. Beyond the five Grammy Awards, the multi-platinum albums and sold-out tours, the country/soul vocalist built on the Appalachian traditionalism that defined The Judds to create a world where Top 5 dance/club hits were as possible as being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Having practically grown up as America’s favorite musical daughter, Wynonna matured into a woman who embraced how life is filled with peaks and valleys, great thrills, and heavy disappointment. Those realities informed her 5-times platinum Wynonna and nearing 3-times platinum Tell Me Why, the albums that gave voice to every human being emerging into their own adulthood with joy in their heart.

Beyond the groundbreaking music she and her mother created as The Judds, Wynonna has grown into her once-in-a- generation vocal prowess with an ease that made people clamor to her. “No One Else On Earth,” “Tell Me Why,” “She Is His Only Need,” “Girls With Guitars,” and “I Saw The Light” set the next chapter in motion for the girl from Ashland, Kentucky who became a global superstar.

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Tickets are available directly through her site, as well as on popular re-sale sites.

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On May 14, Wynonna took to Instagram to announce the pre-sale of her West Coast leg of the Back to Wy Tour, which first stopped at East Coast venues last fall.

“I still remember the feeling of going out on my own for my first solo tour,” Wynonna captioned the tour poster on her grid. “In a way, it feels like HERstory repeating itself. This time around, I feel less pressure and like I can lean into the joy that we create together each night onstage. I’m so excited for a second chance to celebrate these 2 albums that are so important to me. (And to you!) West Coast... it’s your turn!!!!! 🫶🏼🥹”

By the looks of Wynonna’s comments section, her fans can hardly contain their excitement for the tour. “It’s so great to see you still singing beautiful! You are the best, you and your music make so many people happy. Thank you for all the love you give to us,” one fan wrote. “Woot I got tix for Hardrock in CA!!!! I’m so glad you scheduled out our way. I’ve been really wanting to attend this show,” another fan commented. “THANK YOU for giving us westies a turn! I am beyond excited,” someone else exclaimed.

Of course, to partake in the fun, you’ll need to snag a ticket. Currently, tickets to the Back to Wy Tour—which highlights Wynonna’s debut and sophomore albums—can be purchased directly through her site , which will lead you to several partner sale sights, including AXS , Ticketmaster , Live Nation , and more. Just be sure to act fast! Many dates are selling fast.

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Wynonna Judd – Back to Wy Tour

09.14.24 - 8:00pm

TICKETS: $56.50-$372.50 (VIP) + non-refundable fees

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Five-time Grammy-winning country/soul vocalist Wynonna Judd will be at the Alberta Bair Theater in Billings as part of her Back To Wy Tour.

About Wynonna Judd

With the release of her 1992 self-titled solo debut, Wynonna emerged as a singular force in American music. Beyond the five Grammy Awards, the multi-platinum albums and sold-out tours, the country/soul vocalist built on the Appalachian traditionalism that defined The Judds to create a world where Top 5 dance/club hits were as possible as being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Having practically grown up as America’s favorite musical daughter, Wynonna matured into a woman who embraced how life is filled with peaks and valleys, great thrills, and heavy disappointment. Those realities informed her 5-times platinum Wynonna and nearing 3-times platinum Tell Me Why, the albums that gave voice to every human being emerging into their own adulthood with joy in their heart.

Beyond the groundbreaking music she and her mother created as The Judds, Wynonna has grown into her once-in-a-generation vocal prowess with an ease that made people clamor to her. “No One Else On Earth,” “Tell Me Why,” “She Is His Only Need,” “Girls With Guitars,” and “I Saw The Light” set the next chapter in motion of for the girl from Ashland, Kentucky who became a global superstar.

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• One premium reserved ticket in the first 3 rows to see Wynonna live!*
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Wynonna Judd ‘caring for' grandchild after daughter's arrest despite her health woes

Wynonna Judd is caring for her two-year-old granddaughter Kaliyah Chanel after her daughter Grace Kelley was arrested in April for indecent exposure.

The country icon , 60, opened up about her family drama in an interview with Us Weekly and discussed raising Kaliyah with her husband, Cactus Moser.

While talking about how she unwinds after a show, the singer - who has been concerning fans with her health recently - said that her routine looks different now that she's looking after her granddaughter.

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"Well, I'm raising Kaliyah, so it's different than it was," she said.

"Sometimes I go out and I walk in the woods and just stand there and cry and laugh and cuss and pray. That refills me with what I need to go back out there and give again."

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Wynonna also talks to Kaliyah about her mom, the late country legend Naomi Judd, who died in April of 2022 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The singer added that she feels Naomi's presence the most when she's performing or spending time with her granddaughter.

"When I'm on stage. And when I'm with Kaliyah," she said. "She carries a picture of Mama around and a picture of her and her mom. I talk to her about them and say, 'They love you very much.'"

Kaliyah seems to already want to follow in her family's footsteps as she likes to sing with her grandma.

"We've started singing together," Wynonna said.

"My favorite thing in life is to sit on the porch with her and eat ice cream. She's in the rocking chair and she [says,] 'Noni, where are you going? Noni, what are you doing?'

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"Being with her in those moments [is] where I realized no amount of money can ever make you this happy. I thought it would, but it doesn't," she continued.

"Lying in the bed with her before bedtime and her putting her nose against mine and me singing to her, and she's starting to sing back... [it's] heaven on earth."

It's unclear how long Kaliyah has been living with Wynonna or how long she'll stay

Kelley was arrested on April 5 after removing her clothes in public.

She was arrested by Alabama police after allegedly exposing her breasts and lower body in front of a busy highway.

The mother was booked for "indecent exposure and obstructing governmental operations," per police reports.

Kelley reportedly refused to cooperate with the police once they arrived at the scene.

The arrest wasn't her first run-in with the law either, as she formerly faced several drug-related charges and was previously arrested on May 1, 2023.

Meanwhile, Wynonna has been concerning some fans with her health.

During her recent performance on American Idol , many fans thought there was something strange about the country star.

While singing Coal Miner's Daughter, with Loretta Lynn's granddaughter, Emmy Russell , fans thought the country star's face looked off.

Fans swarmed social media to address the Idol appearance , saying she "looked frozen" and "hardly moved."

She addressed the backlash about her appearance on Idol in between two performances, though, denying any health issues despite concerns.

She posted on her social media: "I got out there and I was so nervous that I just held on for dear life. And that's the bottom line."

Wynonna assured fans that she would be heading on tour shortly and that "all is well."

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Wynonna Judd Opens up About How She Continues To Talk to Her Late Mother Naomi Judd

by Chris Piner June 19, 2024, 10:36 am

During the 1980s, Naomi Judd decided to form the duo The Judds with her daughter Wynonna Judd . With a love for country music in their hearts, the duo went on to captivate the genre as they received numerous awards, including several Grammys. Releasing six studio albums, the last, Love Can Build a Bridge , hit shelves back in the 1990s. But that didn’t stop the group from continuing to grow their fanbase over the years. Sadly, the day before being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2022, Naomi took her life. With the years passing, Wynonna recently discussed how she continues to talk to her mother. 

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While still grieving over the loss of her mother, Wynonna revealed how being on stage helps her get close to the star. When asked if she still speaks to Naomi, the singer told US Weekly , “I do. On stage, I look up a lot because I see angels. Now I do it with Mom. I’m like, ‘What the hell are you doing? Where are you and why are you not here? And why are we not singing together again?'”

Besides carrying her memory alongside her, Wynonna shared how her granddaughter Kaliyah also remembers Naomi. “She carries a picture of Mama around and a picture of her and her mom. I talk to her about them and say, ‘They love you very much.'”

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Although the death of Naomi continues to weigh heavy on Wynonna, she insisted on being “in a really good place.” “I’ve worked on forgiveness and my anger and frustration with suicide. (At a fan club party) last night, everyone had on Judds T-shirts from the ’80s and ’90s. I thought, I have a choice: I can either be better or bitter. My grief comes and goes. I see it as a gift in terms of the healing part.”

Learning to deal with the pain, Wynonna seemed to find peace and love alongside her sister, Ashley Judd.  “We’re both believers so we have such a strong connection now. There’s no drama there, and if there is, it doesn’t last as long as it used to. We’re older now and we realize we have only so much time left.”

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