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Shania Twain concert in Charlottetown has people booking early

CBC News | Aug 05, 2014 7:12 AM AT

The Hotel Association of P.E.I. says the tourism season is showing signs of having a strong finish, with many hotels already booked for the Labour Day weekend.

A Shania Twain concert in Charlottetown Aug. 30 appears to have many people making their plans early for that weekend. The association says that most places are already sold out for the weekend not just in Charlottetown, but across the Island.

"The last week of August, the first week of September, there always is a little bit of a dip. This year brought it strong right through, after Old Home Week and pretty well now into the Labour Day weekend," said association president Kevin Murphy.

"[It's] a very nice cap on a season that so far has been very strong."

Murphy said there are reports that many campgrounds are booked as well.

The association represents about 1,500 of the approximately 2,200 rooms across the Island.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/hotels-booked-for-labour-day-weekend-1.2727579

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Traffic delays likely for Shania Twain concert

Published on August 26, 2014

The City of Charlottetown is reminding motorists this Saturday’s Shania Twain concert will result in traffic delays near the concert site.

The city expects a large volume of pedestrians and vehicle traffic will be in the area.

The Twain concert will take place on the Charlottetown Event grounds. Grafton and Water streets will remain open in both directions for vehicle traffic until the concert ends.

Edward Street will be closed between Kent and Grafton streets on the day of the event.

At approximately 10:30 p.m., as the concert ends, there will be a brief stoppage of traffic on Grafton and Water streets to allow pedestrians and vehicles to safely clear the area.

More information on pedestrian traffic flow, available parking, taxi pooling areas, safety tips for downtown residents and event goers, and much more is available on the Charlottetown Police Services website at: http://charlottetownpolice.com/fest2014

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-08-26/article-3848242/Traffic-delays-likely-for-Shania-Twain-concert/1

Amazing how much money goes into an event like this. I wonder how much of it Shania has to front. I hope a lot so the tax payers are not burdened by it. And I feel this about any singer.

Corey Hart proud of his Canadian roots

By Sally Cole | August 28, 2014

Pop superstar Corey Hart feels strongly about his Canadian roots.

“Wherever I travel in the world, every time journalists call me an American, I always correct them. I’ve always been very proud to be a Canadian,” says the pop superstar, known best for 1980s chart-topping hits like I Wear My Sunglasses At Night, Never Surrender and Love Hurts.

So, when he received a call from Canadian icon Shania Twain asking whether he would like to open her Founders Week concert at the Charlottetown Event Grounds on Saturday, Aug. 30, as part of the P.E.I. 2014 festivities, he was thrilled.

“It was sheer unexpected excitement. And I wanted to be a part of it, so I didn’t hesitate,” says Hart, who had several reasons for wanting the gig.

“It’s the first time I’ve ever played on P.E.I. soil. It’s also been a long time since I performed in the Atlantic provinces,” says Hart, adding his last gig in the region was in 1988 at the Aitken Centre in Fredericton.

He also feels strongly about the historical event that the concert celebrates.

“Historically, the Charlottetown Conference was instrumental in setting up the birth of the country, with the Quebec Conference following afterward,” says Hart, who grew up in Montreal and feels it’s important to let people know that he’s a Canadian and a Quebecer.

“I believe that our country is strengthened in the diversity of each province. I’m a federalist and I believe in the unity of the country.”

Hart plans to unify the audience with a performance like no other.

“Outdoor concerts are always fun for me. I will play as many hits as I can in the show,” Hart said during a telephone interview this week from Nassau, in the Bahamas, where he and his wife, Julie Masse, are raising their four children.

Recognized as one of Canada’s most successful singer-songwriters, Hart sold over 16 million records worldwide and collected nine consecutive U.S. Billboard Top 40 hits in the ’80s.

He also scored an impressive 30 top 40 hits in his native Canada, including 12 Top 10s during his career.

Besides hits, his concert will include songs from his latest album, Ten Thousand Horses, as well as “some surprises.”

“There is one song that I might be playing,” says Hart, referring to That’s All Right Mamma, a rhythm and blues number that, in an inspirational moment, he sang to his mother, Mina, when he brought her up on stage during his June 3 concert in Montreal, a few days short of her 90th birthday.

Sadly, she died two weeks ago.

“Her passing was unexpected and very hard,” says Hart, adding the heartfelt tribute is one part of the show that will be filled with high-energy songs.

“I know the audiences in Atlantic Canada are warm and boisterous so I’m looking forward to giving them everything I can.”

Hart is also excited about sharing the stage with Twain on Saturday.

“She is a classy artist and I’m very honoured.”

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-08-28/article-3850589/Corey-Hart-proud-of-his-Canadian-roots/1

Looks like Shania brought Las Vegas to Charottetown.

Shania Twain concert expected to bring big boost to Charlottetown

CTV News Atlantic | August 28, 2014 7:04PM ADT

With thousands of tickets sold and nice weather in the forecast, Shania Twain fans say Saturday’s concert in Charlottetown can’t come soon enough.

“You still hear her songs on the radio all the time and I'm pretty sure everyone will be signing ‘Party for Two’ and it'll be one big party,” says fan Teagan Pringle.

Canada’s queen of country music has already sold 22,000 tickets for her concert in Charlottetown and the grandstand is sold out.

Organizers say up to 28,000 people can pack into the Charlottetown Events Grounds and with warm, sunny weather expected, they hope to sell even more tickets on Saturday.

The executive director of Charlottetown's Chamber of Commerce says she can't remember a summer that has seen a bigger boost to business than this one.

P.E.I. has been celebrating the 150-year milestone of the Charlottetown Conference and with the tall ships in town this weekend, in addition to the Shania Twain concert, the province will see millions of dollars in spinoffs.

“The hotels are doing extremely well. The restaurants will be busy. People will be out shopping and visiting our attractions and hopefully our other cultural institutions,” says Kathy Hambly of the Chamber of Commerce.

P.E.I. has hosted several large outdoor concerts this summer and island residents say they are happy to play host.

“It’s awesome for the island to have some big entertainers come to the island and bring in some money,” says Shania Twain fan Chastity Smith.

Concert organizers say it takes 150 people to build the stage and 75 to build the stands.

“I actually had trucks drive from Las Vegas,” says concert promoter Ken Craig. “They packed it all up from Las Vegas and she brought it to P.E.I.”

The concert will be Twain’s first performance in Atlantic Canada in 15 years and the first time she has ever performed in Prince Edward Island.

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/shania-twain-concert-expected-to-bring-big-boost-to-charlottetown-1.1981646

Shania Twain fan's dream coming true

By Doug Gallant | August 29, 2014

When Shania Twain takes the stage in Charlottetown Saturday night, the applause will be deafening.

And no one will be applauding the country music superstar harder than 34-year-old Shallen Jackson of Halifax.

Jackson, who has Down Syndrome, has been over the moon since Easter when she received a home-made card from her parents, Jerry and Donna, informing her she was going to see her idol in Charlottetown in August.

Jackson, who’s been listening to Twain since she was a teenager, reacted exactly the way her parents expected she would when she got the news.

“She freaked out,” Jerry Jackson said Tuesday from his cottage in Nova Scotia.

“She just screamed. She took that little homemade card to her work, to her group home, to her friends’ homes. She’s shown that invitation to hundreds of people.”

Jerry expects Shallen will be riveted to the stage Saturday night.

“And while Shallen is watching Shania, my wife and I will be watching Shallen.”

The story behind this story is worth reading.

In February of this year, Jerry and Donna Jackson were in Las Vegas and took in Shania Twain’s Still The One show at Caesar’s Palace.

On the flight home, Jerry said his only regret about the trip was that Shallen had not been there to see Shania because her show was incredible.

He made a commitment that if Shania Twain ever came to the northeastern seaboard of Canada or the United States that Shallen would get to see her idol perform. Less than a month later, Twain’s Charlottetown show was announced.

“We couldn’t believe it.”

Efforts to secure tickets began almost immediately, and with the help of Guardian publisher Don Brander, an old friend, and TC Media director of sales, Heather Tedford, he was able to secure the much sought after grandstand tickets.

Jackson said he didn’t tell his daughter right away but waited until Easter morning.

“We used part of the brochure from Las Vegas to make our card. The card say Happy Easter Shallen, your mom and dad have purchased tickets for you to see Shania in Charlottetown.”

It’s a great story but it doesn’t end there.

Once they had tickets, they knew they had to act fast to find accommodations or they’d have to drive back to Halifax after the show.

But all the hotels were filled.

A short time later, Jackson was in Moncton on business and stayed at the Rodd Moncton Hotel. While there, Jackson told them of his efforts to get a room. Staff checked with their properties on P.E.I. but there was nothing.

“He said no, every hotel is booked, I said ‘look, you’ve got a chance to be a hero here. It would help make a dream come true if you could find us a room.’ He spoke to his boss and a week later I got a call from the Atlantic regional manager and he said they’d set aside a room for us at Brudenell. We’re very very grateful. Our daughter’s dream is coming true.”

Jackson said the only thing that would make this experience even better for his daughter would be for her to actually meet Twain.

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-08-29/article-3851915/Shania-Twain-fans-dream-coming-true/1

The stage.

View of the stage from the farthest vantage point in the grandstand seating area. Section G Row 35 Seat 10.

Shania Twain on P.E.I. with promise of spectacular show

By Doug Gallant | August 29, 2014

Shania Twain is in the house, or at least on Prince Edward Island.

Twain arrived on a private jet Friday evening at the Charlottetown Airport.

Her production manager, John ‘Bugzee’ Hougdahl, says fans are in for a show of a lifetime tonight on the Charlottetown waterfront.

He said the country music superstar has pulled out all the stops for this show. Twain is traveling to Charlottetown with 11 musicians, three singers and six dancers from her Las Vegas show.

She’s essentially bringing the whole cast of that show.

Originally the plan was just to bring the musicians and some of the lighting she used in Las Vegas but Twain had a change of heart early on.

“She decided that her fans deserved the whole show, with all the dancers and the whole video show from Caesar’s Palace.”

Hougdahl said the video screens they’re using here, for example, have the same aspect ratio as the screens at Caesar’s Palace.

To mount a show this large requires a very large stage area so they’ve taken a massive touring stage, one previously used by Bon Jovi, and made it even larger.

“The stage is a pre-existing architectural structure that’s been used at various festivals and shows across Canada and the U.S.,” Hougdahl said. “The difference is we’ve made this stage 15 feet wider, giving Shania a larger performance area to work with.”

Hougdahl, who’s worked for some of the biggest names in the music business, including Michael Jackson and Bon Jovi, said the Charlottetown show will have a number of similarities to Twain’s Las Vegas show, but there will most certainly be some surprises.

“The ‘startle factor’, the thing that make an audience go oooohhhh’, expect to see a lot of that.” He wouldn’t elaborate further because he didn’t want to spoil it for her fans.

But he would say there are things they are able to do in Charlottetown they are not able to do in Las Vegas because in Las Vegas they are working with a fixed set in a fixed space.

“The Las Vegas show is not a touring show. We’re in Las Vegas for two years, sharing a stage with Rod Stewart and Elton John. The show is designed to fit in a very unique theatre and because of the parameters you build a show to fit. There are pieces of that show that are just too large to travel. Here we can do other things.”

Does the Charlottetown site work for a show like this.

Hougdahl believes it will.

And he should know. He was one of the people who originally came to Charlottetown to view the site and gave it the thumbs up for the show.

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-08-29/article-3853161/Shania-Twain-on-P.E.I.-with-promise-of-spectacular-show/1

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An eight hour wait is nothing for a true Shania Twain fan

By Brian McInnis | August 30, 2014

Shania Twain was doing her sound check on the stage close to 500 feet from the main gate and the singer was barely visible on the massive stage, but her fans had their faces pressed up against the wire mesh trying to catch a glimpse of her while they reveled in the music.

Three or four young women began to do a country line dance while other fans clapped to the music. Twain was not due to take the stage for hours, but no one seemed to mind the long wait.

Her performance tonight is the first time she has had her show in Atlantic Canada in 15 years and the first time for Prince Edward Island so waiting eight hours for the show to begin is nothing for true Shania Twain fans.

Two of those fans are Shawn Lucas and his girlfriend Karin Pickard who came from Newfoundland to take in the show. They are long time fans and “just cannot believe she is in P.E.I and so close we can come to the concert.”

Jessica Amyoony is from Dartmouth, N.S. made the journey to see the concert.

“I came all the way over especially for Shania Twain…I have been a fan ever since I was a kid and this is a dream come true.”

If Amyoony had a chance to speak with Twain she would tell her what an inspiration she has been to her and that she “has an amazing voice.”

“Her voice is an experience and she takes you somewhere where only music can take you.”

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-08-30/article-3853987/An-eight-hour-wait-is-nothing-for-a-true-Shania-Twain-fan/1

Shania Twain on P.E.I. concert: 'I just feel at home here'

CBC News | August 31, 2014

More than 22,000 people packed into the event grounds in Charlottetown last night to see one of the world's biggest country music stars.

Shania Twain, who performs regularly in Las Vegas, left the big city to take part in the 2014 Celebrations on P.E.I.

From the moment she took the stage the energy was high.

A sea of fans captivated by a show many won’t soon forget.

Twain says she won't either.

“I mean I hope everybody was happy but they sounded so happy and everyone was really excited and I just think we were all in it together and had a great time,” she said.

This is the first time Twain has performed on the Island but says she visited as a teenager.

Hannah Reardon came from Nova Scotia to celebrate her 12th birthday.

"It's awesome being here on my birthday,” she said.

Twain also had a birthday this week and says she was happy to celebrate it on Canadian soil.

"Well I just feel at home here and I relate so much to the people and the culture,” she said.

Twain wrapped her visit to the Island with fireworks over the harbour.

Twain is the world’s best-selling female country artist of all time with more than 75 million albums sold.

She has multi-platinum album sales in 32 countries, has the eighth-biggest selling album of all time in the U.S. and 18 top 10 songs, eight of which reached #1.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/shania-twain-on-p-e-i-concert-i-just-feel-at-home-here-1.2751801

Shania Twain rocks crowd at P.E.I. Founders Week Concert

CTV News | August 31, 2014

Canadian country music superstar Shania Twain rocked a crowd of more than 22,000 in Charlottetown Saturday night with a high-energy performance at the P.E.I. Founders Week Concert.

It was Twain's first time performing in Prince Edward Island, and fans of the Ontario native could barely contain their excitement.

"We got our tickets back in March. We were the first ones. We slept out in the car overnight to get our tickets," Mary and Kristina McCormick said.

Twain performed with her regular band, which backs her in Las Vegas where she regularly performs.

The five-time Grammy Award winning singer dazzled the crowd with a diverse set, which saw her dancing in her trademark black cat suit and included a segment where she sang her hit single "You're Still the One" on a white horse.

After the concert Twain marvelled at how everything seemed to come together perfectly during the show.

"The weather was gorgeous, and the wind was just blowing in the right way… it couldn't have been better. It was wonderful," she told CTV Atlantic.

Twain later shared photos of the rehearsals on her Facebook page.

P.E.I. singer Trinity Bradshaw was one of the performers who opened for Twain. She said she'd never forget the experience.

"I'm going to be telling this story to my grandkids," Bradshaw said. "I'm never going to forget this moment for the rest of my life. This is truly a dream come true."

The concert kicked off Founders Week, which celebrates the 150th anniversary of the historic 1864 Charlottetown Conference, which led to Confederation.

The week runs until Sept. 7, and includes a parade of ships, historical re-enactments, as well as musical and dance performances.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/shania-twain-rocks-crowd-at-p-e-i-founders-week-concert-1.1984980

Shania Twain Rocks PEI With Vegas Show

Shania Twain pulled out all the stops with her famous voice and sexy moves plus the lights and video of a top Las Vegas show on a cold PEI night

By Stephen Pate | August 31, 2014

The night was cold but the music was hot country in Charlottetown for the Labor Day Weekend with International star Shania Twain headlining the concert of the year.

Known for her powerful voice, good looks, dressy and sexy style, Shania Twain put on a show that we will never forget.

There were more than 22,000 Shania Twain fans packed into the Charlottetown Event Grounds, a venue sadly in need of a real name, for a walk down memory with the Canadian singer who made it big by rocking country.

Starting from the end of “Gonna Get You”, almost the last hit song for Shania back to “Rock This Country”, Shania Twain put on a show that no one will forget.

Backed by six dancers, eleven musicians and three backup singers from the Las Vegas show that has run two years at Caesars Palace, Shania Twain sang and danced her way back into the hearts of the fans she almost abandoned after a long hiatus in her career.

From the first song, there was an instant rush of affection almost adoration for Shania Twain who captured fans with her enormous beauty, powerful singing, and cross between country music and rock and roll.

Today fans are used to heavy rock in country music but Shania was one of the first to crossover under the guiding hand of heavy metal producer Mutt Lange her manager, producer and now former husband.

Despite the gasps in Nashville, Mutt Lange produced one country hit after another with a sexy pop and rock style starting with the Grammy winning and best-selling country album “The Woman in Me.”

Last night Shania Twain updated the hits from that album with an even hotter style with sizzling percussion, electric guitars and fiddles. In “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” we got heel and toe country dancing right off CMT. “Any Man of Mine” was liberated woman’s love song and the kettle drums in “(If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!.”

The arrangements with the big drum kit sound from one drummer was distinctively her style from the 90′s. The sound system was capable of a high level of percussion dynamics without being deafening.

Shania Twain is a beautiful and sensual woman and her fans were treated to frequent and extravagant costume changes from the opening skin-tight bejeweled suit, through leopard skin flowing pant suit, the short-short black dress in her Robert Palmer send-up “Feels Like A Woman” to the elegant flowing white formal gown in “From this Moment On” and”You’re Still the One.” She would peel off layers from each costume set to create even more gorgeous outfits.

Each song blew the audience away with the dancing, singing and music. The video show behind the stage was second to none with animation, videos and sometimes an eye-popping combination of animation and live video from the show. It was very impressive. The videos also gave her a chance to change costume without a dead spot in the concert.

During “Honey, I’m Home” Shania Twain walked down into a fenced off area of the audience to touch and thrill her fans. You just wanted to be there with them.

Shania Twain has the professional stage poise of a top performer but we also got to see her down-home style during a campfire sing-along with a few members of the audience who could only be described as real people. Two men from Halifax, NS wore homemade Shania sleeveless t-shirts. When she tried to elicit a “true-love-from-age-12″ story from one couple, they told her it was they’re second marriage at which she had to laugh and admit her own. Another man blurted out he was living common law with his wife. Hey it’s country.

With one last song, which I think was “Rock This Country” the stage went dark. Shania Twain and her entourage left in black Escalade SUV’s.

I say think because I was so cold there are no notes from the concert, except my warm memories and some fuzzy pictures from the wheelchair zone.

After breakfast I will update the pictures from the concert.

I’ll have to get out my video of "Shania Twain – The Platinum Collection" to watch one this afternoon.

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Shania Twain fan's dream coming true

By Doug Gallant | August 29, 2014

When Shania Twain takes the stage in Charlottetown Saturday night, the applause will be deafening.

And no one will be applauding the country music superstar harder than 34-year-old Shallen Jackson of Halifax.

Jackson, who has Down Syndrome, has been over the moon since Easter when she received a home-made card from her parents, Jerry and Donna, informing her she was going to see her idol in Charlottetown in August.

Jackson, who’s been listening to Twain since she was a teenager, reacted exactly the way her parents expected she would when she got the news.

“She freaked out,” Jerry Jackson said Tuesday from his cottage in Nova Scotia.

“She just screamed. She took that little homemade card to her work, to her group home, to her friends’ homes. She’s shown that invitation to hundreds of people.”

Jerry expects Shallen will be riveted to the stage Saturday night.

“And while Shallen is watching Shania, my wife and I will be watching Shallen.”

The story behind this story is worth reading.

In February of this year, Jerry and Donna Jackson were in Las Vegas and took in Shania Twain’s Still The One show at Caesar’s Palace.

On the flight home, Jerry said his only regret about the trip was that Shallen had not been there to see Shania because her show was incredible.

He made a commitment that if Shania Twain ever came to the northeastern seaboard of Canada or the United States that Shallen would get to see her idol perform. Less than a month later, Twain’s Charlottetown show was announced.

“We couldn’t believe it.”

Efforts to secure tickets began almost immediately, and with the help of Guardian publisher Don Brander, an old friend, and TC Media director of sales, Heather Tedford, he was able to secure the much sought after grandstand tickets.

Jackson said he didn’t tell his daughter right away but waited until Easter morning.

“We used part of the brochure from Las Vegas to make our card. The card say Happy Easter Shallen, your mom and dad have purchased tickets for you to see Shania in Charlottetown.”

It’s a great story but it doesn’t end there.

Once they had tickets, they knew they had to act fast to find accommodations or they’d have to drive back to Halifax after the show.

But all the hotels were filled.

A short time later, Jackson was in Moncton on business and stayed at the Rodd Moncton Hotel. While there, Jackson told them of his efforts to get a room. Staff checked with their properties on P.E.I. but there was nothing.

“He said no, every hotel is booked, I said ‘look, you’ve got a chance to be a hero here. It would help make a dream come true if you could find us a room.’ He spoke to his boss and a week later I got a call from the Atlantic regional manager and he said they’d set aside a room for us at Brudenell. We’re very very grateful. Our daughter’s dream is coming true.”

Jackson said the only thing that would make this experience even better for his daughter would be for her to actually meet Twain.

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-08-29/article-3851915/Shania-Twain-fans-dream-coming-true/1

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Video news report of Shallen meeting Shania at the Shania Kids Can after-party.

Shania Twain helps make long-time fan's dream come true

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=429033&binId=1.1145463&playlistPageNum=1

Shania Twain gives fans show of a lifetime on Charlottetown waterfront

Staff ~ The Guardian | September 2, 2014

CHARLOTTETOWN - There are concerts and then there are concerts.

And then there’s Shania.

What Shania Twain gave her 23,000 fans in Charlottetown Saturday night was for many of them the concert of a lifetime.

She was exciting, she was engaging, she was funny and she was incredibly entertaining.

And she was right there in front of you.

“I can’t believe she’s here, I can’t believe I’m here with Shania Twain, this is an amazing night,” said Jim Evaniuk, of Oshawa.  “We traveled all the way from Ontario for this show. I bought her first record, her last record and every record in between, and there she is, singing for me. Well not just for me, but it feels that away.”

The country music superstar pulled out all the stops for her Charlottetown audience, some of whom began lining up to get into the Charlottetown Event Grounds several hours before the gates opened in hopes of snaring a spot close to the stage.

If you went to Saturday's show in hopes of hearing Twain’s greatest hits you did not leave disappointed.

While she didn’t play every hit in her catalogue she played a lot of them, starting right out of the gate with I’m Gonna Getcha Good.

There were stellar versions of Any Man Of Mine, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under, UP!, No One Needs To Know, I’m Outta Here, That Don’t Impress Me Much and The Woman In Me, just  to name just a few.

But the one that really nailed it for many in her audience was Man! I Feel Like A Woman, which she saved for almost the end of the show.

I suspect everybody who came through the gate had that one song they just had to hear to make the night complete.

For Denise Levesque of Bathurst it was From This Moment.

‘I so wanted to hear that song because it was played at our wedding,” Levesque said. “When Shania sang it I cried. It was beautiful, I think even my husband got teary.”

Personally I could have gone home happy after hearing Still The One.

Twain’s show was the total package, with 11 musicians, three back-up singers and six dancers, plus the high-end video package from her Las Vegas show and an elaborate lighting design.

It was as close to Twain’s Las Vegas show as you could get without actually being there, save of course for the fact there was no roof, no walls, no   indoor plumbing and I don’t think Caesar’s Palace sells poutine.

One man in the audience who’d seen Twain’s show in Las Vegas said the only thing missing was live horses.

But it truly was a spectacular event.

And despite the fact you were sharing the experience with more than 20,000 other people it had a very personal feel at times, particularly when Twain spoke of her childhood in Timmons and of the role her parents and her stepfather played in exposing her to the classic country songs of artists like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson.

She also spoke of the role they subsequently played in pushing her to share her musical talents, although both of them died in a tragic automobile accident before Twain’s career off.

Twain paid tribute to her mother in song, performing an a capella version of The Hollies’ Carrie-Anne, which had been a favourite of her mother’s around the time her sister was born. That sister, Carrie Ann, joined her on   that number.

Twain waxed poetic from the stage about how much she enjoyed being back in Canada and how much she loved being in Charlottetown to help celebrate 2014.

“Charlottetown is beautiful,” Twain said. “It’s so tidy and the people are so friendly.”

She spoke of the magnificent view of Charlottetown she had from her suite at the Holman Grand.

Twain took many in her audience by surprise when she revealed this wasn’t her first show in Charlottetown, that she’d actually played a show in a city bar with a rock band when she was still in her teens.

Saturday night’s audience was well primed by the time Twain took to the stage thanks to solid opening sets by Summerside native Trinity Bradshaw, a rising country star, and Canadian pop/rock star Corey Hart.

Bradshaw opened the show with a great ripping version of Stompin’ Tom's Bud The Spud before settling into a set of originals that included a number of new songs.

She really hit the mark with her current single Never Drinkin’ Again.

Bradshaw was dynamic, she was into it and her enthusiasm for what the day held was infectious.

Corey Hart also took a run at Bud The Spud during his set before trotting out hits like It Ain’t Enough and Boy In The Box.

He closed with two of his biggest chart toppers, Sunglasses At Night, which elicited huge cheers from the crowd and Never Surrender.

Not averse to covering other artists Hart played a great cover of Rod Stewart’s Maggie May, the first record he ever bought, and Jim Croce’s You Don’t Mess Around With Jim.

Hart was very much on his game, sounding as good Saturday night as he did in his prime in the early 80s.

The concert wrapped at 10:30 but that was not the end of the day for Twain, who returned to the Holman Grand for a meet and greet with people who have supported her charity, Shania Kids Can.

Shania Kids Can is a program designed to help underprivileged kids at primary school level who are having personal problems at home.

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/section/2014-08-30/article-3854072/Shania-Twain-gives-fans-show-of-a-lifetime-on-Charlottetown-waterfront/1

Cyn18 wrote:

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WOW-just WOW... Shania put on one hell of a show, it was absolutely phenomenal! I seen her 15 years ago,and the concert she put on in Charlottetown this weekend was just amazing, it was even better then last time, it was so worth the wait (just wish it wasn't so long in between), i do have pictures I just haven't had a chance to go through them yet....I'm speechless-still... I went with 4 others who had never seen her live before, and they were absolutely blown away!

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Glad you had a great time. Looked like a fun concert! 

Event grounds silences critics for Ms. Twain

Site passes test with glowing praise; additional mega-concerts a certainty

Opinion/Editorial | September 4, 2014

The first major test of the new Charlottetown Event Grounds passed the grade with glowing praise. An estimated 23,000 fans — plus another 1,000 or so invited guests — turned out to see Canadian country mega-star Shania Twain, Summerside’s Trinity Bradshaw and Montreal’s Corey Hart perform. There were no reports of drunken rowdiness, multi-arrests, muddy pits and massive lineups that plagued the Aerosmith concert in 2007, when just over 30,000 fans faced sloppy weather and a vastly overmatched infrastructure system at the CDP.

Saturday night’s country concert, the biggest event in the city since P.E.I.’s version of Woodstock, featured an energized crowd, good weather and much better facilities. Ms. Twain delivered a tour de force performance with her full Las Vegas production. Everyone went home happy by 10:30 p.m. — Ms. Twain, fans, police, city officials, restaurant and hotel/motel owners. Traffic was busy but with the bridge and bypass right there, exiting the city went smoothly, if not a little slowly. Especially happy was promoter Andre Hudon, who had high praise for the event grounds.

Mr. Hudon said the site was almost flawless. He might have gotten a little carried away as long lineups for refreshments and washrooms were an issue, anyone under 5’8’’ had trouble seeing over the heads in front, and the stage could certainly have been a little higher for better sightlines. A slight grading would have been an obvious construction priority when building the site, much like the location in Cavendish for the early July country hoedown.

The Twain concert will be remembered as the highlight of our 2014 Charlottetown Conference celebrations but it faced a lot of competition for the entertainment dollar on the weekend with the tall ships in town, national, Atlantic and provincial baseball and softball tournaments were being staged across the province, and the Celebration Zone was busy on the waterfront.

The crowd could have been slightly bigger but many off-Island fans stayed home because they couldn’t find a hotel room. The MV Confederation ferry was out of service at Wood Islands, causing huge headaches for Northumberland Ferries Ltd. and travellers.

The promoter says he wouldn’t hesitate about bringing more major concerts — such as reunion tours featuring Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin — to Charlottetown.

That sounds fine but it’s time to give taxpayers a break. The province shelled out $350,000 to help bring Aerosmith here and another $250,000 through P.E.I. 2014 Inc. to lure Ms. Twain from her Vegas eyrie.

The right act at the right time will draw a big crowd, and since Charlottetown motels and hotels, stores and restaurants are going to benefit, it’s time they help out with some of the financial costs.

Granted, a crowd that size means a lot of taxes remitted back to government coffers but a little more financial co-operation is certainly in order here.

Speaking of co-operation, the promoter got that in spades from the City of Charlottetown, Eastlink Centre and the Charlottetown Area Development Corporation. It’s what made everything happen like clockwork and all parties deserve a pat on the back. A happy Ms. Twain is a huge tourism boost for this province.

Large numbers of city residents sat outside to enjoy the show for free Saturday night. Front lawns and street fronts were bristling with fans.

There might have been 24,000 inside the event grounds but thousands more enjoyed the show at no charge.

Residents as far away as Jewell’s Country Market at the York Road intersection were tweeting that it was like being inside the events grounds itself.

Those gusty southwest winds, which Ms. Twain herself glowingly commented on, were certainly blowing the right direction for many city and area residents.

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Opinion/Editorials/2014-09-04/article-3857795/Event-grounds-silences-critics-for-Ms.-Twain/1