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CONCERT IN MONTE CARLO
On July 11, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club and Casino in Monte Carlo, Monaco with the "Taking Chances Tour". This was the first of two sold-out shows in the beautiful "Salle des Etoiles", at the Sporting Club with this tour. Unlike other concerts of this tour, Celine performed in a very intimate venue and even the tracklisting was shorter than ever.
CONCERT IN MONTE CARLO
On July 12, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club and Casino in Monte Carlo, Monaco with the "Taking Chances Tour". This was the final performance of two sold-out shows in the beautiful "Salle des Etoiles", at the Sporting Club. These concerts were a part of the "Monte-Carlo Sporting Summer Festival". Monaco was, in fact, a première for Celine, who has sold millions of records but has never given any concerts in the Principality. The concert started at 8.30 p.m. and the tickets cost was 500€ per person, the most expensive concert of the tour. It was a very personal performance for those who had managed to get tickets. Celine sang to a packed Sporting Club of about 850 people, that included her wonderful mother "Maman Dion", aged 81 from Quebec, her seven year old son, and her husband Rene Angelil. Celine and her band delivered an excellent performance with songs such as the theme to the Titanic movie "My heart will go on", then "I drove all night", "It´s a mans world", and "River deep mountain high". She later changed the beat and sang tributes to the band Queen with "We will rock you" and "The show must go on", with the assembled audience rocking along with her to the music. For this concert, it wasn´t used the center stage specially designed for the tour. Celine performed in a very intimate venue, with a beautiful stage with different lights on the floor, rounded by people having dinner (eating and drinking). This concert was also the last of the European leg of the tour.
CONCERT IN BOSTON
On August 12, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, USA with the "Taking Chances Tour" in front of more than 20,000 people. This was the first concert of the North American leg of the tour. Although in the songs set list or costumes nothing has changed. Fans were enthusiastic about Celine´s absolutely fantastic show sensation. Gordie Brown did the opening act. The, Celine made her appearance at 9:00 hs. p.m. It was used the center stage specially designed for this tour, wich also was used on the rest of the concerts in North America. They have the cube in the center of the stage with LED´s on each side showing clips from the European leg of the tour and then ended with the word "Boston". Security was really chill with cameras. They even took down the "ropes" that kept people back from stage to the floor. Before the concert starting a message was placed on the screens to inform that the concert of that night would go to be recorded for future transmission and DVD. Celine definitely works the round very well, paying equal attention to each side of the stage. At the beginning, Celine was having sound problems. She couldn´t hear the ear monitors and she motioned to her sound guy twice to turn it up. "I drove all night", "The power of love", "Taking chances", "It´s all coming back to me now", "Because you love me", "To love you more", "Eyes on me", "All by myself", "I´m alive" (a remix version), "Shadow of love", "Fade away", "Alone", "My love", "The prayer" in duet with Andrea Bocelli (who appeared on a pre-recorded video), "Pour que tu m´aimes encore", the Queen medley with "We will rock you" and "The show must go on", "It´s a man´s man´s man´s world", "Love can move mountains", "River deep mountain high" and "My heart will go on". On August 13, 2008 Celine performed at the TD Banknorth Garden again. On April 29, 2010 was released "Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert", a live album/home video wich contains this concert on DVD.
CONCERT IN MONTREAL
On August 15, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada with the "Taking Chances Tour" in front of more than 15,000 people. This was the first of a six consecutive concerts in Montreal with this tour. This first show has been the longest on this tour for the number of songs performed. Véronic DiCaire did the opening act. Celine performed "I drove all night", "J´irai où tu iras" in duet with Marc Langis, "The power of love", "Destin", "Taking chances", "S´il n´en restait qu´une", "Eyes on me", "Ziggy", "L´amour existe encore", "Dans un autre monde", "All by myself", "I´m alive" (a remix version), "Shadow of love", "Je sais pas", "Alone", "My love", "S´il suffisait d´aimer", "The prayer" in duet with Andrea Bocelli (who appeared on a pre-recorded video), the Queen medley with "We will rock you" and "The show must go on", "It´s a man´s man´s man´s world", "Love can move mountains", "River deep, mountain high", "My heart will go on" and "Pour que tu m´aimes encore". Celine had 5 costume changes, she used the sparkly pink, skintight minidress, silvery sparkly long tank top type shirt with some black pants and boots, sparkly white almost a "go-go" style dress with a giant flower necklace, shiny gold cocktail dress and the long black dress. Celine continued performing at the Bell Centre on August 16, 19, 20, 23 and 25, 2008. Then, after two concerts in Toronto, Celine returned to the Bell Centre on August 31 and September 1, 2008.
CONCERT IN QUEBEC
On August 22, 2008 Quebec was celebrating its 400th anniversary on the famous Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Canada. This glamorous event was crowned with the unique concert event "Céline Sur Les Plaines". Celine performed live for the first time in her career in front of about 200,000 people. She rocked the cradle of French Quebec, shaking the Plains of Abraham with resounding music and illuminating the night sky with a brilliant light show. Celine was visibly moved and happy to be back in the provincial capital among her Quebec "family" after a nine-year absence. "Happy Birthday, Quebec! Are you ready?" she shouted before swinging into the first song of the evening to get the concert marking Quebec City´s 400th birthday off to a rocking start. From the outset, Celine noted that the French-speaking Quebecois nation was born "here, where we are, 400 years ago". She said although the show was free, she wanted to make it unforgettable. She kicked off the show 20 minutes late with one of her French-language hits, but didn´t waste any time once she hit the stage, marching around and pumping the air with her fist as she sang. Celine did a total of 30 songs, all in French, that ranged from solos to duets to trios with her guests and spanned rock, pop, blues, several "power" ballads and lots of traditional Quebec songs. The free show was part of year-long birthday celebrations being held to mark the 400th anniversary of the provincial capital. The crowd for the show was estimated at around 250,000 and nothing was left to chance for people to get a good look. Seven giant screens were placed around the site and six others were erected on Quebec City´s south shore near Levis. The show started with an Intro-video with footages from the "Taking Chances Tour". Then, Celine performed "Dans un autre monde", "Destin", "On ne change pas", "Sous le vent" in duet with Garou. After that, Garou performed "Seul" and Marc Dupre performed "Si pour te plaire". Celine and Dupre performed in duet "Tout près du bonheur". Nanette Workman performed "Show" and then she started to sing the famous "Lady marmelade" with Celine, and after that they performed together "J´irai où tu iras". Celine also performed "Tue-moi" in duet with Dan Bigras and he performed in solo "O Fortuna". The song "Les 3 p´tits cochons" was performed by Dan Bigras and Mes Aïeux and "Ton père est un croche" was performed by Mes Aïeux in solo as "Le déni de l´évidence". Celine performed "Dégénération" in duet with Mes Aïeux. Then, Celine performed "La bastringue", a medley of songs, with her family (brothers and sisters). "La ballade de Jean Batailleur" was performed by Zachary Richard and in duet with Celine they performed "Promesse cassée" and "L´arbre est dans les feuilles". In duet with Eric Lapointe, Celine performed "L´amour existe encore", and Eric Lapointe performed in solo "Toucher" and "Mon ange". "Chasse-galerie" was performed by Garou, Eric Lapointe and Claude Dubois. Celine performed "Si dieux existe" in duet with Claude Dubois and he performed in solo "Febbe de reve". Celine also performed "Et s´il n´en restait qu´une", "S´il suffisait d´aimer", "Pour que tu m´aimes encore" and "Une chance qu´on s´a" in duet with Jean-Pierre Ferland. The show ended with a very fabolous finale with Celine singing with Jean-Pierre Ferland the song "Une peu plus haut", then Celine ended the show singing only with Ginette Reno the same song. This concert was released on DVD on November 11, 2008 with the name "Céline Sur Les Plaines".
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