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CONCERT IN VAL-D´OR
On March 30, 1985 Celine Dion performed at the Le Carrefour College in Val-d´Or, a northern city in Quebec, Canada. This concert was part of her first real own concert tour, a quebecer tour with more than 35 shows in Quebec, Canada. On this day, Celine celebrated her her 17th birthday. During the show, Celine received a birthday cake from a little girl named Dominique Nadon, who also was celebrating her own birthday. Celine remebered this concert and the tour saying "I celebrated my seventeenth birthday on the stage of a liberal-arts school in Val d´Or, in Abitibi in Quebec. We were right in the middle of a tour, the first really big tour of my life, which had already sent us from one end of Quebec to the other, throughout eastern and northern Ontario, and into New Brunswick. There seemed to be no end to it. We didn´t want it to end, we were so in a groove, so excited. Our show got larger every day and the tour was extended, adding one city after another. We caused a stir before we arrived and after we left. We were sold out everywhere" (from an extract of the book "My Story, My Dream").
CONCERT IN JONQUIÈRE
On April 25, 1985 Celine Dion performed in front of about 900 people at the stage of the Salle François-Brassard, at the CÉGEP (Collège d´enseignement général et professionnel) in Jonquière, a borough of the city of Saguenay in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. This concert was part of her first real own concert tour, a quebecer tour with more than 35 shows in Quebec, Canada. On the next day, Celine performed at the CÉGEP of Jonquière again.
CONCERT IN MONTREAL
On May 31, 1985 Celine Dion performed at the Place Des Arts in Montreal, Canada (the Montreal´s most prestigioushall). This concert was part of her first real own concert tour, a quebecer tour with more than 35 shows in Quebec, Canada. Celine performed "Ouverture (la première fois)", "Mon ami m´a quittée", an Homage to Félix Leclerc wich included the songs "Bozo", "Le p´tit bonheur", "Moi, mes souliers", "Attends-moi ti-gras" and "Le train du nord". Then, Paul Baillargeon joined Celine on stage to performed with her the famous Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes song, "Up where we belong". Celine also performed "Tellement j´ai d´amour pour toi", "D´amour ou d´amitié", the famous Judy Garland´s song "Over the Rainbow" and another Homage, this time to Michel Legrand, wich included the songs: "Quand on s´aime" in duet with Paul Baillargeon, "Brule pas tes doights", "La valse du lilas", "Quand ca balance" and "Les moulins de mon cœur". Celine also covered live the songs as "Carmen" and "What a feeling". After perform "Une colombe" and "Les chemins de ma maison", Celine ended the concert with an special end: "Finale (la première fois)". The critics loved Celine. They compared her to the world´s greatest singers. She had a way of touching people, the press proclaimed. She reminded the music journalists of Edith Piaf and the great female jazz voices. One critic wrote, "She ought to get rid of that Pollyana side of her personality. She doesn´t need it to succeed. The audience is already eating out of her hand". Supported by eight musicians and two backup singers led by Paul Baillargeon, Celine set out on this tour that turned out to be much more successful than expected. Extra perfomances were added, and instead of twenty-four shows she soon reached the forty-second that May, 1985. Celine continued performing at the Place des Arts on June 1 and 2, 1985. The concert of May 31, 1985, was released as an album on December 2, 1985 under the name "Celine Dion En Concert". It was Celine´s first live album.
CONCERT IN MONTREAL
On June 2, 1985 Celine Dion performed at the Place Des Arts in Montreal, Canada (the Montreal´s most prestigioushall). This was the last concert of her first real own concert tour, a quebecer tour with more than 35 shows in Quebec, Canada. Celine remembered this show saying "The tour had ended beautifully with three shows in the main auditorium at the Place Des Arts before a captivated public and thrilled critics. But my heart was aching, broken. I was in love with a man I couldn´t love, who didn´t want me to love him, who didn't want to love me. Even worse, he didn´t want to see or believe that I was really in love with him, despite all the proofs I´d given him" (in reference to her manager Rene Angelil).
LES 9 HEURES TELETHON
In 1985 Celine Dion was invited to join Quebecois actor, comedian and singer Jean Lapointe at Les 9 Heures, the first telethon organized to to help raise money to the Maison Jean Lapointe, founded by Jean Lapointe in order to help alcoholics. The show took place in Montreal, Canada, it was hosted by Jean Lapointe and aired on TQS channel (Télévision Quatre-Saisons) in Quebec, Canada. Celine performed "Les fleurs malade" in duet with Jean Lapointe.
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