Celine Dion

Celine Dion initially scheduled her Indianapolis concert on November 9th. Back then, I couldn't make it since I wanted to watch this with Pei Ying, and she was still in Ann Arbor. However, due to a "timely" throat infection, Celine Dion was forced to reschedule the concert. It was postponed to December 21st, an excellent time because firstly, Pei Ying would be at Indy at that time and secondly, the fact that the concert fell on the 21st made it a conveniently perfect anniversary gift :)

It was a super cold day (temperature was around -25 degree celcius after wind chill). The concert was supposed to start at 8, but some joker (literally, stand-up comedian) took the stage instead of the real main character. He did a great job entertaining the audience, and did very good impersonations of celebrities like Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Jim Carrey, Michael Jackson, George Bush and more. Too bad I don't remember (to be exact, didn't catch) his name.

Celine Dion probably figured that the Indianapolis fans didn't mind waiting for another hour after having waited for a month for this concert. She showed up at 9pm, but promptly made all the waiting worthwhile. Clad in a mini-dress, she brought out the first song of the night, I Drove All Night. She would go on and performed classic hits like Taking Chances, The Power of Love, Because You Loved Me, To Love You More, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, All By Myself, The Prayer, and Fade Away. Of course, how would a Celine Dion concert be complete without My Heart Will Go On? We had to wait until the second encore performance for that song.

Overall, the concert was great. The stage-work was fantastic, with lots of moving parts and lights displays (erm I guess I don't know how else to describe it) Most importantly, her voice was just superb. It is usual in the Asian world that singers, especially those Taiwanese ones (ok being opinionated and based on my limited observance), perform notably worse from their recordings, and sometimes have to resort to "caused-by-being-overwhelmed-crying" to cover up their bad-karaoke-like singing. If they sing exactly like the recording, it is only because they are lip-syncing. But Celine Dion's performance was just professional. Her command of voice was perfect, and her performance moving. I was thrilled to have seen this best selling female artist of all time live.

I have been You-Tubing her All By Myself since, and it is my new favorite song now.

A few pictures:

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The comedian taking the stage

 

Drum roll...

Finally!!

Standing on the piano..

That's the best my 6X optical zoom can do...

Celine Dion and violinist (To Love You More, Py's favorite)

Wonder Woman cape??

My Heart Will Go On (flutist playing Titanic theme)

Just realized I've posted a tonne of pictures...well forgive me for being excited about my first concert :)