LAS VEGAS (December 11, 2009)--Garth Brooks' retirement ends when he sings his first note Friday night at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas.

It’s the first of a handful of weekends that he'll be performing each year for as many as five years.

The weekends are selected based on his three daughters' school and sports schedules.

Brooks says these acoustic shows will be different each night.

Sometimes he'll have guest performers with him, including his wife, Trisha Yearwood and sometimes it will be all Garth and no one else.

By the time these five years are up, his kids will have moved on and he says he might resume touring.