Spoiler alert: If you’re planning to see Shania Twain at Daily’s Place in downtown Jacksonville on Wednesday, you probably should stop reading now.
For those who packed Daily’s Place on Tuesday to see Twain’s first Jacksonville appearance in a decade, well, you already know you had a good time.
Twain’s Tuesday night show leaned heavily on her “The Woman in Me,” “Come on Over” and “Up!” albums, which makes sense, since the albums released from 1995-2002 sold tens of millions of copies and made Twain the best-selling female country artist ever. She sprinkled in a few songs from 2023’s “Queen of Me,” but the show was about delivering the hits, and she ignored her first album and 2017’s “Now” entirely.
At the only other stop on Twain’s brief summer tour where she’s played two nights, she performed pretty much the same setlist twice in a row. That’s good news for fans going to her Wednesday night show, since it means they’ll likely get the same treatment as Tuesday’s fans.
Twain’s four-piece band (which, curiously, did not include a bass player) drove the songs hard all night, planting titanic guitar riffs through the country/pop setlist, particularly on “Up!” and “I’m Gonna Getcha Good.” “Honey, I’m Home” got a nice bluegrass intro, with guitar, fiddle and banjo.
Twain is coming off a long Las Vegas casino residency, so the show is very tight and well-rehearsed, maybe a little too much. To add a little spontaneity, she interacts with the audience. At Tuesday’s show, she called up a couple holding a “We Named Our Baby Shania” sign and learned that they decided to get married after the man bought the woman a ticket to see Shania in Vegas. The story was so improbable that it had to be real.
Twain, who turns 60 in a month, looked and sounded great, even if she was singing in a lower register than she did in her heyday. She threw karate kicks, stalked the stage in platform sandals and shook her long mane like a headbanger during guitar solos. She played a little bit of guitar during an acoustic set and showed off her voice a few times, especially during “You’re Still the One” and at the start of “(If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here.” The show had no back-up dancers or elaborate props and, other than a cowboy hat that appeared mid-set, Twain wore the same outfit for the whole show, nearly unheard of for a country diva.
Shania Twain performs at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
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The heatwave that has gripped Northeast Florida this week took a short break for the show, and a light breeze kept the atmosphere inside the amphitheater comfortable. That allowed fans to dig out their boots, fringed tops and blinking cowboy hats for a girls’ night out.
Twenty-six years after she headlined a show on the other side of the wall at what was then called Alltel Stadium, Twain brought the sound of the late ’90s back and had the crowd dancing all night. “Any Man of Mine” is a kick-up-your-heels song if ever there was one, and the echoes from “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” (one of five songs she played with exclamation points in the title) will probably still be ringing through the rafters when the crowd files in for Wednesday night’s show.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Shania Twain thrills Jacksonville crowd in first of two concerts