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[Modesta]

Miha, on 11 October 2013 - 11:57 AM, said:

p.s.
pssst don't forget to make some bootlegs

My wish as well

[celine4evauk]

This could be good for album promotion in the US. Hope it'll be broadcast on tv - or (what i'd prefer) it'll be released on dvd. Don't care what she wears, if it's an hour long or two hours, duets or no duets, only new album tracks or a mixture - AS LONG AS IT'S VOCALLY LIVE. I've never minded certain notes being lipped (we all know which ones!), but i really hate the tv specials that aren't live. The best bits for me is when she's talking/answering questions etc. But i want to hear her sing - she is a singer after all!!!!!!
I've not got high hopes for this "announcement" but, let's say, middle hopes!

Good luck to everyone in the US who's entering. Hope there's a similar thing for the UK in the future - as we're not included in the Europe shows this year.

[Miha]

Still I don't get it what kind of problem you have to have it to postpone the anouncement one day later...stupid me hah

[CELINE MARIE]

Miha, on 11 October 2013 - 12:19 PM, said:

Still I don't get it what kind of problem you have to have it to postpone the anouncement one day later...stupid me hah

more dramatic

[comingback]

WOW, the stage looks great. The US-fans are so lucky. I am so exited about the setlist.

[Shamrock_1982]

Bravo for the new approach and so happy for u.s fans on the east coast... But the announcement was in bad taste and handled/promoted totally wrong by sony u.s/canada as it gave the impression of something huge and global for all fans to enjoy. To make up for it they could always stream 1 or 2 performances live for fans globally ( if they dont have technical issues ofcourse...) lame!

I do think that when shes in london that she should do the same thing at the roundhouse in camden as its getting so popular and huge artists have recently done intimate gigs there, most recently jt! It would be great that if she is going to italy or spain for promo that she did the same for fans... Fingers crossed!!!

Edited by Shamrock29, 11 October 2013 - 12:47 PM.

[stone]

OMG! One of my best friend's works at the ballroom!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH I will be the mole for this event for you guys! ^__^

[BLM]

It seems that this show might be invitation only....not sure based on these comments.  Again, I could be wrong.
http://www.marketwat...nk=MW_news_stmp

"Pandora Presents is a free concert series designed to connect fans with artists they love in a live, intimate setting. To date, the series has taken place in a variety of cities across the country. Pandora has the unique ability to determine the artist for each city by analyzing the musical preferences of local listeners, such as stations they have created and songs they have thumbed-up. Invitations to the events are then extended to a group of Pandora listeners who have demonstrated an affinity for the identified artist and in some cases, similar artists as well, for an added element of music discovery.

U.S. fans of Celine Dion who do not receive an invitation from Pandora can also visit CelineDion.com to enter for a chance to attend the special performance. Five winners of this sweepstakes will be chosen to receive a two-night trip to New York City and a pair of tickets to the concert."

[BLM]

http://www.usatoday....rmance/2967017/

Looking more and more like "invite" only AND must live in the tri-state area of New York. Sad to see Pandora narrowing the fan selection process based on such a small demographic area

"The free Pandora-sponsored show in New York City will celebrate her new album, 'Loved Me Back to Life.'

If you're 21 or older, live in the tri-state area, have added a Celine Dion station on Pandora and consider yourself a passionate fan of the Canadian singer — you may be in luck.

Internet radio Pandora is bringing Dion to New York City's Edison Ballroom on Oct. 29 for a special show in its Pandora Presents series. The concert, in anticipation of Dion's upcoming album, Loved Me Back to Life, is free.

The catch? You need to meet the qualifications above in order for Pandora to consider handing you an invitation."

Edited by Bubba, 11 October 2013 - 01:44 PM.

[celinish98]

chocolatechip15, on 11 October 2013 - 11:16 AM, said:

I'm sorry that so many fans are disappointed, but I live in NY, so i think this is AMAZING! Also, my guess is that this will be televised so we'll all be able to see it - and this is just the type of show people have been asking for for ages - small and intimate.

I emailed Edison Ballroom to see if tix will be available for purchase, but haven't heard back yet.

Btw, I do think this is the first real concert - outside of the Taking Chances tour - that Celine has done in the US outside of Vegas since she started there in '03, so it doesn't really seem unfair to me. Vegas is the complete opposite side of the country (over 5 hr plane ride) from NY so it's not like everyone here can see her whenever they want.

Could you please tell us if you get any information about tickets.. I have a question.. for the fans who are underage and lives in nyc will they get the chance to see the show live? cause i'm one of them and i'm dying to see her live and this seems like the closest chance i have.

[c4n4d4]

celinish98, on 11 October 2013 - 02:11 PM, said:

Could you please tell us if you get any information about tickets.. I have a question.. for the fans who are underage and lives in nyc will they get the chance to see the show live? cause i'm one of them and i'm dying to see her live and this seems like the closest chance i have.

If you read the rules regarding the sweepstakes and the articles about it you have to be 21 to be in attendance. Which sucks considering I am a few months shy of being 21.

[LukeD]

I'm tired of her team. Why the hell did they think that a small, local concert should be presented as a big announcement, especially when their basic posts are directed to a global fan base? How hard would it be to simply say ''US fans, prepare for something big. More details soon.''? I'm sure my 10 years old cousin could do it if I asked him to write a post on FB informing people about a US concert. No need to mention that this move will not be significant for the promotion of the album or even her career. I can hardly call it big. Just a great experience for some US fans with no impact whatsoever. As it happened with ''Une Seul Fois'' which was a good show with no impact for the album it promoted. Anyway, I don't see why anyone outside US should care about this ''intimate concert''. I'm not even looking forward to a DVD release from this night because her DVD releases usually suck as they are edited to the point of sounding lifeless. One more thing is that I fail to understand how a technical issue yesterday prevented them from announcing this upcoming concert. It makes no sense. They simply used a lame excuse, cause they could never come up with something either smart or honest. Because they suck. I'm just going to wait for the final product to come, I'm done expecting big things from these morons.

Edited by LukeD, 11 October 2013 - 03:23 PM.

[Kyle_Jared]

Sony really does suck...all the money she made them and the launch of this album after the colossal success of Sans Attendre....is pure pathetic.

[MrTim212]

This is definitely an interesting concept - I think the venue/vibe of the show will be really cool and more hip in line with the album's overall feel.

My issue with this is the criteria by which you get tickets. 5 people will win a pair of tickets from celinedion.com. Lame. Based on the press release the rest will be: "passionate fans that have added a Celine Dion station on Pandora, are located in the New York Tri-State Area and are age 21 and over." I get the fact that there has to be a bit of a constraint on the location and age (since it's a club and there will be alcohol sold), however, to say that the "passionate fans" are the ones who added a Celine station on Pandora is a bit ridiculous. I know a lot of people have stopped using Pandora and have switched to Spotify and I for one do not rely on Pandora for my Céline fix when I have thousands of tracks in my iTunes. There should be other ways to get tickets - even if it's just an additional "lottery" through celinedion.com (other than the 5 "grand prize" winners), "premium tickets" you can purchase with a meet & greet attached (this would also allow people who wanted to travel from other states/countries to get tickets), etc.

Hopefully, more will come out on this in the next few days.

I guess for now, the only thing to do is to create a Celine station on Pandora and hope for the best...

Edited by MrTim212, 11 October 2013 - 03:39 PM.

[Your_Su_Phu]

MrTim212, on 11 October 2013 - 03:38 PM, said:

This is definitely an interesting concept - I think the venue/vibe of the show will be really cool and more hip in line with the album's overall feel.

My issue with this is the criteria by which you get tickets. 5 people will win a pair of tickets from celinedion.com. Lame. Based on the press release the rest will be: "passionate fans that have added a Celine Dion station on Pandora, are located in the New York Tri-State Area and are age 21 and over." I get the fact that there has to be a bit of a constraint on the location and age (since it's a club and there will be alcohol sold), however, to say that the "passionate fans" are the ones who added a Celine station on Pandora is a bit ridiculous. I know a lot of people have stopped using Pandora and have switched to Spotify and I for one do not rely on Pandora for my Céline fix when I have thousands of tracks in my iTunes. There should be other ways to get tickets - even if it's just an additional "lottery" through celinedion.com (other than the 5 "grand prize" winners), "premium tickets" you can purchase with a meet & greet attached (this would also allow people who wanted to travel from other states/countries to get tickets), etc.

Hopefully, more will come out on this in the next few days.

I guess for now, the only thing to do is to create a Celine station on Pandora and hope for the best...

Do we know about other artists who have worked with Pandora for these intimate shows?  We might get more of a feel on how it's going to work if we look at past concerts..
At first I mistakenly thought it was decided on a whim by Celine since the topic has been brought up in recent interviews, but it turns out it's a partnership with Pandora so it must have been in the works for awhile

Edited by Your_Su_Phu, 11 October 2013 - 03:45 PM.

[nuts2you]

its pretty sad that I cant even enter, cause I"m from Md, no wonder I did get anything from Pandora radio about this

[Taking Chances]

We need a proper video of this afterwards for everyone too see. Maybe everyone can't be there, but everyone should be able to see it.

Though, this is good news, it's not huge news. Huge news would be announcing a World Tour again. But I am happy for whoever gets to go and enjoy this. I just hope everyone else will some time later too.

[Loup_garou]

Seems that the show will be streamed live on Pandora, so that's it for a TV special

http://www.allaccess...ra-for-free-nyc

[smw]

Just for clarity-- we can't just buy tickets for this?

[Your_Su_Phu]

Loup_garou, on 11 October 2013 - 03:51 PM, said:

Seems that the show will be streamed live on Pandora, so that's it for a TV special

http://www.allaccess...ra-for-free-nyc

OMFG!!!!!!

Edited by Your_Su_Phu, 11 October 2013 - 03:58 PM.

[DionFanAlways]

smw, on 11 October 2013 - 03:56 PM, said:

Just for clarity-- we can't just buy tickets for this?

I think only by invite!!!
I don't use Pandora any more.... wouldn't matter anyway.

[chocolatechip15]

Bubba, on 11 October 2013 - 12:53 PM, said:

It seems that this show might be invitation only....not sure based on these comments.  Again, I could be wrong.
http://www.marketwat...nk=MW_news_stmp

"Pandora Presents is a free concert series designed to connect fans with artists they love in a live, intimate setting. To date, the series has taken place in a variety of cities across the country. Pandora has the unique ability to determine the artist for each city by analyzing the musical preferences of local listeners, such as stations they have created and songs they have thumbed-up. Invitations to the events are then extended to a group of Pandora listeners who have demonstrated an affinity for the identified artist and in some cases, similar artists as well, for an added element of music discovery.

U.S. fans of Celine Dion who do not receive an invitation from Pandora can also visit CelineDion.com to enter for a chance to attend the special performance. Five winners of this sweepstakes will be chosen to receive a two-night trip to New York City and a pair of tickets to the concert."

I know this announcement was handled poorly, and i know a lot of people are upset and disappointed, but I'm sort of freaking out here, because I am over 21, live in the Tri-State area, and have a Pandora station called "Celine Dion radio," where I give "thumbs-up" to Celine songs all the time (except that just the other day I gave a "thumbs down" to the Live in Las Vegas MHWGO version cause I wanted them to stop playing songs from that album -- i NEVER would have done that if i knew about this concert!). But my station was named after Celine, Celine was my very first "seed" on the station when I started it 2.5 years ago, and I"ve thumbed-up 15 Celine songs (i just counted! they mostly play the singles, so that's a lot!)

I think I might have a shot at a Pandora invite . .anyone know how many they're giving out or when it's going to be announced?  Totally hyperventilating about something I didn't even know existed 24 hours ago!!!!

But I do wish more of the fans in other locations had a fair shot at this, too . . hopefully she'll do more of this type of concert in other cities soon!

Edited by chocolatechip15, 11 October 2013 - 04:10 PM.

[chocolatechip15]

UGH - i just realized the THE Celine Dion station, not "a' Celine Dion station. I just happened to name my  station "Celine Dion Radio."  Argh -- what is THE Celine dion station and how do you add it??? I never cared before about the ins and outs of Pandora -- now this is driving me crazy!!!

[Your_Su_Phu]

chocolatechip15, on 11 October 2013 - 04:06 PM, said:

(except that just the other day I gave a "thumbs down" to the Live in Las Vegas MHWGO version cause I wanted them to stop playing songs from that album -

You have good taste

[infiniti]

entered one at 9 a.m. then figured it said starting 1 p.m. ET, then entered another one after 1 p.m. ET. no multiple...anyways, what are the odds?!!! not very exciting news...   sounds like even to get a ticket to that event will cost a fortune and is only targeted for folks who can afford that, I already spent $800 once to fly to vegas for less than a day to see Celine, cannot do this time I am afraid!   unless, I am one of the 5 lucky "dogs"!!!

[québecflower]

Loup_garou, on 11 October 2013 - 03:51 PM, said:

Seems that the show will be streamed live on Pandora, so that's it for a TV special

http://www.allaccess...ra-for-free-nyc

we may have a chance to see this

[Your_Su_Phu]

infiniti, on 11 October 2013 - 04:43 PM, said:

entered one at 9 a.m. then figured it said starting 1 p.m. ET, then entered another one after 1 p.m. ET. no multiple...anyways, what are the odds?!!! not very exciting news...   sounds like even to get a ticket to that event will cost a fortune and is only targeted for folks who can afford that, I already spent $800 once to fly to vegas for less than a day to see Celine, cannot do this time I am afraid!   unless, I am one of the 5 lucky "dogs"!!!

Wait what?!? You're scaring me.  I didn't see anything about "submitting after 1 pm ET" on the page when I submitted.  I just submitted early this morning when I saw the form become available! Can someone clarify

Edited by Your_Su_Phu, 11 October 2013 - 04:48 PM.

[québecflower]

chocolatechip15, on 11 October 2013 - 04:06 PM, said:

I know this announcement was handled poorly, and i know a lot of people are upset and disappointed, but I'm sort of freaking out here, because I am over 21, live in the Tri-State area, and have a Pandora station called "Celine Dion radio," where I give "thumbs-up" to Celine songs all the time (except that just the other day I gave a "thumbs down" to the Live in Las Vegas MHWGO version cause I wanted them to stop playing songs from that album -- i NEVER would have done that if i knew about this concert!). But my station was named after Celine, Celine was my very first "seed" on the station when I started it 2.5 years ago, and I"ve thumbed-up 15 Celine songs (i just counted! they mostly play the singles, so that's a lot!)

I think I might have a shot at a Pandora invite . .anyone know how many they're giving out or when it's going to be announced?  Totally hyperventilating about something I didn't even know existed 24 hours ago!!!!

But I do wish more of the fans in other locations had a fair shot at this, too . . hopefully she'll do more of this type of concert in other cities soon!

i wish you the best  

[infiniti]

Your_Su_Phu, on 11 October 2013 - 04:45 PM, said:

Wait what?!? You're scaring me.  I didn't see anything about "submitting after 1 pm ET" on the page when I submitted.  I just submitted early this morning when I saw it! Can someone clarify

Official rules via celinedion.com says:
2. How to Enter. The Sweepstakes will begin on October 11, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. ET and will end on October 18, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. ET (“Sweepstakes Period”). To enter the Sweepstakes, visit: http://www.myplaydir...com/celine-dion during the Sweepstakes Period and preorder the physical or digital Celine Dion Loved Me Back to Life album and, if eligible, you will automatically be entered to win." ......... I am not sure if this is when you go to Pandora or applies also when you enter via celinedion.com...I don't know! and I have already pre-ordered my cd via celinedion.com. Anyways, again what are the odds of winning?!

Edited by infiniti, 11 October 2013 - 04:49 PM.

[Your_Su_Phu]

infiniti, on 11 October 2013 - 04:47 PM, said:

Official rules via celinedion.com says:
2. How to Enter. The Sweepstakes will begin on October 11, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. ET and


will end on October 18, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. ET (“Sweepstakes Period”). To enter the

Sweepstakes, visit: http://www.myplaydir...com/celine-dion during the Sweepstakes

Period and preorder the physical or digital Celine Dion Loved Me Back to Life album and,


if eligible, you will automatically be entered to win.

I'm confused now because I submitted mine earlier than that, and still got an email confirmation...
I feel like resubmitting it now would just get counted as a duplicate considering the confirmation.  But then this might cause trouble for me down the road

Who am I kidding?  I'm not going to win anyway