Stately Home Tour

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Stately Home Tour
Tour by Elton John
Start date27 May 2000
End date30 July 2000
Legs1
No. of shows32 in total
Elton John concert chronology

The Stately Home Tour was a 2000 concert tour by Elton John. After completing the Medusa Tour, Elton decided to tour some of the stately homes of Europe, mainly covering England and Germany. The tour started on 27 May 2000 in Bedfordshire and ended on 30 July 2000 in Edinburgh, Scotland. [1]

Contents

The tour continued in the same way as the previous two tours Medusa Tour and An Evening with Elton John in the respect that they were all solo performances. [2] [3]

Tour dates

Date [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] CityCountryVenue
Europe
27 May 2000 Bedfordshire England Woburn Abbey
29 May 2000
3 June 2000 Derbyshire Chatsworth House
4 June 2000
6 June 2000 Hampshire Broadlands
7 June 2000
11 June 2000 Berkshire Highclere Castle
13 June 2000 Lincolnshire Burghley House
14 June 2000
17 June 2000LoebenAustriaHauptplatz
18 June 2000 Bregenz Seebuhne
20 June 2000 Brescia Italy Stadio Mario Rigamonti
23 June 2000 Kassel Germany Schloss Wilhelmshöhe
24 June 2000 Hamburg Derbypark
27 June 2000 Cologne Kölnarena
28 June 2000 Coburg Schlossplatz
30 June 2000 Leipzig Volkerschlachtdenkmal
1 July 2000 Stuttgart Schlossplatz
4 July 2000 Mannheim Schloss Ehrenhof
5 July 2000 Koblenz Schlosshof
7 July 2000 Kunzelsau Schlosspark
8 July 2000 Munich Konigsplatz
9 July 2000LondonEngland Hyde Park
13 July 2000 Liverpool King's Dock
15 July 2000 Chelmsford Hylands Park
16 July 2000
19 July 2000 Port Talbot Wales Margam Country Park
22 July 2000 Northamptonshire England Castle Ashby
23 July 2000
27 July 2000LondonHyde Park
29 July 2000 County Durham Raby Castle
30 July 2000 Edinburgh Scotland Edinburgh Castle

Setlists

Standard Setlist
  1. Your Song
  2. The Greatest Discovery
  3. Border Song
  4. Daniel
  5. Harmony
  6. Honky Cat
  7. Rocket Man
  8. Tiny Dancer
  9. Philadelphia Freedom
  10. Nikita
  11. Sacrifice
  12. Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
  13. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
  14. Ticking
  15. Carla/Etude
  16. Tonight
  17. Burn Down the Mission
  18. The One
  19. Blue Eyes
  20. Empty Garden
  21. Take Me to the Pilot
  22. Crocodile Rock
  23. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  24. Circle of Life
  25. Bennie and the Jets
  26. Candle in the Wind

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