Olivia Newton-John sets up fall, summer concerts

Australian singer Olivia Newton-John will take a short, late-summer swing through the West, and will then tackle a more ambitious US tour schedule in the fall as she continues to back last year's "Stronger Than Before."

Newton-John has penciled in about a half-dozen August shows, all of which are set in California and Nevada. She then returns to the road in mid-October to tackle shows throughout the Midwest and Northeast. Details are shown below.

A 14-year breast-cancer survivor, Newton-John released "Stronger Than Before" exclusively through Hallmark. The company donates two dollars from each sale of the album to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, according to a press release.

While recording the album, which houses 10 new tracks, Newton-John collaborated with Patti LaBelle, Diahann Carroll, Beth Neilson Chapman, Amy Holland and Amy Sky.

Best known for her string of '70s- and '80s-era hits--such as "I Honestly Love You," "Have You Never Been Mellow" and "Physical"--as well as her role in the movie version (and soundtrack) of the musical "Grease," Newton-John's commercial popularity in the US has waned over the years; "Stronger Than Before" marks her first new set of original material released in the US since 1998's "Back with a Heart."

In her homeland, however, Newton-John's recording career continues to flourish. In 2004, she released in Australia a new set titled "Indigo: Women of Song," which followed 2003's "2."