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Concerts [ 2008 ]
"THE WOMAN IN ME" CBS SPECIAL
On January 12, 2008 Celine Dion taped a new CBS Special to be broadcasted on February 15, 2008 on CBS channel. The TV Special, entitled "The Wonam In Me" took place in Los Angeles, USA at the Wiltern Theater. During the show Celine Dion performed the songs "Taking Chances", "River Deep Mountain High", "The Power Of Love", "The Prayer" in duet with Josh Groban, "Eyes On Me" in duet with Will I Am (from "Black Eyes Peace"), a medley with the songs "It’s all Coming Back To Me Now", Because You Loved me" and "To Love You More". Then she performed the Beattles famous song "Something" in duet Joe Walsh, then was performed "Alone", "That’s Just The Woman In Me" and finally "My Heart Will Go On".
"LES ENFOIRÉS" CONCERT
On January 27, 2008 Celine Dion arrived to Strasbourg, France to join other artists on a special concert "Les Enfoirés". The concert took place at the "Zénith" in Starsbourg, France at 20:00 hs, and Celine Dion performed the song "Ville de lumière" with the others enfoirés, "Argent trop cher" with the other enfoirés as Jenyfer, "J’adore" with the other enfoirés as McSolar and a medley with the songs "I Wanna Know What love Is", and the famous "Like a prayer", with David Hallyday, Alizee, Laam, and Catherine Lara. And at the end Celine Dion took part to play Pompom Girl at the time of a match of foot Hommes/Femmes. And she also participated in a small sketch of Pierre Pallade.
JOHANNESBURG CONCERT
On February 14, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Coca Cola Dome in Johannesburg, South Africa, with capacity to 18,000 people. This was the first perfomance concert of the tour "Taking Chances World Tour" and also was a charity benefit. The show artarted with a video introduction with the song "I Drove All Night", then Celine came out to the scene and performed "I Got the Music in Me", "Taking Chances", "The Power of Love", "It’s All Coming Back to Me Now", "Because You Loved Me", "To Love You More", "Eyes on Me", "All by Myself", "I’m Alive", "Shadow of Love", "Alone", "Pour que tu m’aimes encore" and "Think Twice". Then, the background singers performed the song "Respect" and "Lady Marmalade". After that Celine performed "It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World", "Love Can Move Mountains" in duet with the Soweto Gospel Choir, "River Deep, Mountain High" and finally "My Heart Will Go On".
PRETORIA CONCERT
On February 16, 2008 Celine Dion performed in the city of Pretoria, South Africa. This concert was the second concert of the tour "Taking Chances World Tour" and took part at the Loftus Versfeld Stadiumand and included about five songs not performed at the charity banquet in the Coca Cola Dome in Johannesburg. On the first part of this concert (black and silver outfit) Celine performed the songs "I’ve Got The Music In Me", "The Power Of Love" and "Taking Chances". On the second part (white blouse and red slacks) was performed "New Mego’s Flamenco" (an instrumental song by Mego Lemay), and Celine sang "It’s All coming Back To Me Now", "Because you Loved Me", To Love You More", "Eyes On Me" and "All By Myself". During the third part of the concert (glittering outfit) Celine performed "I’m Alive", "Shadow Of Love", "Fade Away", "I’m your Angel" in duet with Barney Valsaint, "Alone", "Pour Que Tu M’aimes Encore" and "Think Twice". For the forth part (black outfit) was performed a "Queen" medley with the songs "We Will Rock you" ( sang by band and back up vocalists), and Celine sang "The Show Must Go On". On the fifth part of the concert (short white outfit with black hat) was performed "Soul Man", "Lady Marmalade" and "Respect" by the band and backing vocalists, and Celine sang "It’s a Man’s World", "That’s Just the Woman In Me", "Love Can Move Mountains" and "River Deep Mountain High". For the finale (long yellow outfit) Celine performed "My Heart Will Go On".
SECOND CONCERT IN PRETORIA
On February 17, 2008 Celine Dion peformed in the second concert in Pretoria, South Africa and the third concert of the tour "Taking Chances World Tour". "Le Journal de Montréal" attended this second concert and it says that there have been few changes about the costumes chosen by Annie Horth and changes about the order of some songs. They added one more song from Celine’s album "Taking Chance", the song "Can’t Fight the Feeling". The whole concept, even the presence of dancers, has been reorganized.
CONCERT IN DURBAN
On February 20, 2008 Celine Dion performed in Durban, South Africa at the Kings Park Stadium, with capacity of 52,000 people, as part of her tour "Taking Chances World Tour". On this concert Celine performed the song "Can’t Fight the Feelin" wich was not performed on before concerts of this tour, and the Queen hit "We Will Rock You" wich was performed on before concert but by band and background vocalists.
CONCERT IN CAPE TOWN
On February 23, 2008 Celine Dion performed in Cape Town, South Africa, at the Vergelegen Estate. This concert also was part of the tour "Taking Chances World Tour". On this concert Celine performed the regular songs of the tour but she also performed the song "I drove all night" (used before in the video introduction only), and she not performed the song "Fade away", and for "My heart will go on" she weared another costumes.
CONCERT IN PORT ELIZABETH
On February 27, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the EPRU Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. This concert was part of the tour "Taking hances World Tour". About 15000 cheering fans were on their feet at the stadium that night. Dion spoke about the “nice breeze” that welcomed her to the city, saying it was lovely and that her family would like to return one day.
CONCERT IN DUBAI
On March 5, 2008 Celine Dion performed before more than 12,000 fans at the Four Seasons Golf Club in Dubai, Unated Arab Emirates. This concert was the first-ever Middle East performance of Celine and also was part of the tour "Taking Chances World Tour". Celine performed few songs from her album "Taking Chances" among some of her big hits and other songs.
CONCERT IN TOKIO
On March 8, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Tokio Dome" in Tokio, Japan. This concert also was part of the tour "Taking Chances World Tour". On this concert Celine performed the songs from the set list of the tour, but she also talked to the audience and sang a little bit of a cute japanese song and performed the song "A world to believe in" in duet with singer Yuna Ito.
CONCERT IN OSAKA
On March 11 and 12, 2008 Celine Dion performed at te "Osaka Dome" in Osaka, Japan. These two concerts were part of the tour "Taking Chances World Tour". On these concerts Celine performed the songs from the set list of the tour, and for the song ""A world to believe in", performed in duet with Yuna Ito, Yuna presented Celine with a special birthday chocoate cake, on the concert of March 12, 2008, and 30,000 fans started to sing the Happy birthday song.
CONCERT IN MACAU
On Saturday, 15th March 2008 at 8:30pm, Celine Dion performed on the "Venetian Arena" in Macau, China. This concert was part of the tour "Taking Chances World Tour" and Celine performed the songs from the set list of the tour.
CONCERT IN SEOUL
On March 19, 2008 Celine Dion performed on the "Olympic Gymnasium" in Seoul, South Korea. This concert was part of the tour "Taking Chances World Tour" and Celine performed the songs from the set list of the tour. But she als performed the songs "My love" and "A new day has come", two songs performed by the first time on this tour.
CONCERT IN BRISBANE
On March 31, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Australia. This concert also was part of "Taking Chances World Tour".
CONCERT IN MELBOURNE
On April 2, 2008 Celne Dion performed in Melbourne, Australia. This concert also was part of "Taking Chances World Tour". Celine Dion fans had waited 10 years for the superstar to return to Australian stages. So, an extra 24-hour wait after Dion postponed her Rod Laver Arena show with serious voice issues was a minor inconvenience. Dion hit the stage that night minus the surgical mask that’s been her constant companion in her quest to avoid germs while holed up in her Australian hotel rooms. "If you have to get sick, let it be in Australia," Dion said. That million-dollar voice of hers appeared match fit as she hit her trademark glass-shattering high note in All By Myself. Her fans had their patience rewarded with a long set that mixed her anthems (It’s All Coming Back To Me Now, Because You Loved Me and, of course, the finale, My Heart Will Go On) with new songs, including Eyes on Me, penned by Delta Goodrem.
CONCERT IN SYDNEY
On Aprl 5, 2008 Celine Dion performed in Sydney, Australia, at the Acer Arena. This concert also was part of "Taking Chances World Tour".
CONCERT IN SHANGHAI
On April 11, 2008 Celine Dion performed in Shanghai, China, at the Shanghai Stadium. This concert also was part of "Taking Chances World Tour". Céline has presented to her enthusiastic Chinese fans an absolutely spectacular mega show accompanied by a visual feast of color, fashion, dance and surprises. One of the surprises of the evening included that Céline has thanked her fans properly in the national language for coming and greeted them quite fond. However, it was on that evening relatively cold, which led to that Céline has abandoned on costume change and was wearing only one outfit all evening long.
CONCERT IN KUALA LUMPUR
On April 13, 2008 Celine Dion performed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at Stadium Merdeka. This concert also was part of "Taking Chances World Tour". Celine performed 22 songs, almost non-stop, as over 10,000 fans at Stadium Merdeka followed her every move, and tune. The show kicked off at 8.50pm with vignettes of Dion’s many music videos shown on two large screen placed at the sides of the stage. The singer got things going with the fast-paced I Drove All Night, followed by one of her smash hits, Power of Love. Dion then extended her apologies to Malaysians for postponing the show, which had initially been scheduled for April 8, saying that she had fallen ill while performing in Australia.“Thank you for being understanding and for giving me another chance to perform here tonight,” said Celine, as the audience cheered her on.
CONCERT IN MANCHESTER
On May 2, 2008 and also on May 3, 2008 Celine Dion was performing at the "Manchester Evening News Arena" in Manchester, Unated Kindom. These concerts were the first after Celine last concert on past April 30, 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Of course thes concerts were part of the "Taking Chances World Tour", but for these new concerts in Europe were few changes, a new choreography, fabulous special effects and new clothes (as the fabolous sexy pink dress) and the scenary was on the center of the Arena. Celine performed the regular songs set list of the tour.
CONCERT IN LONDON
On May 6, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "O2 Arena" in London, England in front of about 20,000 people. This concert was part of the "Taking Chances World Tour" and Celine performed the songs of the tour setlist. According to statements of all fans the live thereby were and even the critical British press was stimmlich Céline in an extraordinarily good condition and offered a show of the superlative there.
CONCERT IN LONDON
On May 8, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "O2 Arena" in London, England in front of about 20,000 people again. This concert was the second concert in London of the "Taking Chances World Tour" and Celine performed the songs of the tour setlist.
CONCERT IN BIRINGHAM
On May 10, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "National Indoor Arena" in Birmingham, UK in front of about 13,000 people. This concert was the second concert in London of the "Taking Chances World Tour" and Celine performed the songs of the tour setlist.
CONCERT IN ANTWERP
On May 13, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Sportpaleis Merksem" in Antwerp, Belgium. This concert was part of "Taking Cchances World Tour" but this one was also the first francophone show of the tour. The tour songs set list changed. Celine performed as new songs for this tour "J’irais Ou Tu Iras", "Destin", "Et s’il n’en restait qu’une", "Ziggy", "Tous l’or Des hommes", "S’il Suffisait D’aimer", "Dans Un Autre Monde", "On ne Change Pas" and "Pour Que Tu M’aimes Encore".
CONCERT IN ANTWERP
On May 14, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Sportpaleis Merksem" in Antwerp, Belgium again. This concert was part of "Taking Chances World Tour" and the second of this tour in Belgium. Both the fans and the Belgian press were itself united that Celine delivered a show of the superlative with skirt, Pop and very much feeling. The show was substantially shorter than the first concert in Antwerp, Belgium. Some changes were brought to the spectacle, apparament, two songs removed compared to the day before ("On Ne Change Pas" and "Tout L’Or des Hommes"), and the order of the songs interpreted was slightly altered.
CONCERT IN ANTWERP
On May 16, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Sportpaleis Merksem" in Antwerp, Belgium once again. This concert was part of "Taking Chances World Tour", the third and the last in Anwerp.
CONCERT IN PARIS
On May 19, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy", in France in front of about 17,000 people. This concert was the first show of 6 shows in Paris with "Taking Chances World Tour". It did not have alterations in the list of songs in relation to last the 2 concerts in Antwerp, Belgium. The criticisms to this concert were that there were no songs from the album "1 Fille & 4 Types" and just only one from "D´Elles". Jean-Pierre Raffarin (the ancier first minsitre of Quebec) was on the show.
CONCERT IN PARIS
On May 20, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy", in France in front of about 17,000 people. This concert was the second show of 6 shows in Paris with "Taking Chances World Tour".
CONCERT IN PARIS
On May 21, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy", in France in front of about 17,000 people. This concert was the third show of 6 shows in Paris with "Taking Chances World Tour".
CONCERT IN PARIS
On May 24, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy", in France in front of about 17,000 people once again. This concert was the forth show of 6 shows in Paris with "Taking Chances World Tour".
CONCERT IN PARIS
On May 27, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy", in France in front of about 17,000 people once again. This concert was the last show of 6 shows in Paris with "Taking Chances World Tour". Luc Plamondon, Cindy Sanders Mylène Farmer, Christophe Willem y Michel Drucker among others were at this concert.
CONCERT IN DUBLIN
On May 30, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the “Croke Park” in Dublin, Ireland in front of about 64,000 people. This concert was part of “Taking Chances World Tour”. This concert has the special guest of Il Divo, but the group did not sang with Celine. Il Divo performed during one hour right, and then started Celine. Celine performed the regular tracklisting of the tour and the song “Shadow Of Love” (not performed on every concert). The stage was on a side of the arena, as the concerts in Asia and Africa, not on the center as the rest of shows in Europe on May, 2008. This concert was very criticized by the fans, who waited for changes in the songs and of course songs in duet with Il Divo. Around 150 gardai policed the concert with another 400 stewards on duty.
CONCERT IN AMSTERDAM
On June 2, 2008 Celin Dion performed at the "Amsterdam Arena" in Amsterdam, Netherlands in front of about 51,000 people. This concert was part of “Taking Chances World Tour” and Celine performed the regular set list of the tour among "Fade Away" and "The Prayer" in duet with Andrea Bocelli via satellite. The introduction was different indeed, for this concert it was used world tour footage instead of career highlight. The stage was in the middle of the Arena again and had a couple of big screens surrounding the stage. The show was projected on those screens, so everybody could have a good view of Celine. In the middle of the stage were four screens that formed a block. Images were projected on those screens that gave the show extra flair. A very effective way to create extra dimension to the songs. Celine’s last time in the Netherlands was nine years ago and the public was really happy that she was present again.
CONCERT IN COPENHAGEN
On June 5, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the "Parken Stadium" in Copenhagen, Denmark in front of about 34,000 people. This concert was part of "Taking Chances World Tour".
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