Celine at Tobago Jazz Festival???

[Mozzy88]

'Elton, Celine for next Jazz Festival'

 

Look out for British Pop singer Elton John, Canadian Celine Dion and American Prince at Tobago's second jazz festival next year.

 

Tobago House of Assembly Tourism Secretary Neil Wilson said yesterday that these artistes were to be contracted to perform while some of the performers in last weekend's show would also be included in the cast for next year.

 

However, the eighth wonder of the world, Stevie Wonder, the star of last weekend's show, although he would be present would be an invited guest and may even be the show's patron, Wilson said.

 

Taking all things into consideration, Wilson said the First Tobago Gourmet Jazz Festival was an "excellent show" when one considered that it achieved a number of objectives the THA had fixed.

 

He said the positives for staging the festival at the Plymouth Recreation Ground included the involvement of the villagers of Plymouth, the generation of visitor arrivals, a permanently fenced recreation ground, paved roads, a park for 60 vehicles to serve future sporting and cultural events, the showcasing of local artistes on an international stage, employment generation for craft and food stalls, shuttle services and the creation of a cleaning company.

 

Wilson said he had not seen so many people in Tobago in his lifetime and the fact that over 30,000 people attended the show was an indication of the level of success of the visitor arrival objective. He said every hotel, guesthouse and villa was fully occupied while a number of visitors were able to find accommodation in private homes.

 

Wilson however admitted to a number of glitches, which he promised would not recur next year.

 

He explained that the traffic arrangements fell down on Sunday because the police changed them and implemented their own, but "we have to take blame for it. They didn't tell us."

 

He said visitors had problems in getting to and from Tobago on the airbridge, but BWIA was able to put on nine charter flights to ease the situation and these were immediately taken up.

 

Wilson said there were also complaints about the length of time taken between acts and admitted that in some cases it was over done. He said gate control was not particularly efficient and there was some measure of scalping. He also said he suspected that the Assembly's plan to provide free tickets to cultural groups backfired. He said this was one area that the organisers would be looking at very closely next time around.

 

He said there were also complaints that it was a jazz festival and should have had a greater jazz input.

 

He said he had also received complaints about the pricing but pointed out that a similar show in the USA would cost twice as much. He said a tiered system for admission would be considered for the next show to provide different packages.

 

"These are small things we have learnt. It is a learning process and we have to look at the complaints and shortcomings seriously," Wilson said.

 

He said the artistes that were left out of the show would have cost large sums of money for travel, accommodation and other expenses for their group and in any event would not have made much difference to the programme.

 

He disclosed that the next festival would be held in April at the start of the "dead period" for visitor arrivals.

 

He said the involvement of CL Financial in the imitative had made a tremendous difference and that the group's involvement over the next five year was likely to be 100 per cent sponsorship so that the State would not have to put out anything. "We would work with CL Financial to make the event a success," he added.

 

Source: http://www.trinidadexpress.com

[raluca]

that's so cool! i hope celine will sing some jazz cause i love how she sings jazz!

[nano]

wooow...I wanna go there

[Clari]

Wooo jazz!

[Bellamy]

it's just maybe they'll invite Celine. everything is not sure now. I don't want to get excited too early.

[Mozinha]

I've read about this and it seems too good to be true. I hardly see this happening.

[Scout]

It's just a rumor!!!

[Koolan]

I won't get my hopes up yet

[VinnyT.]

Tobago jazz Festival : encore des stars

Après Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Patti La Belle, Sean Diddy Combs, les organisateurs du Jazz Festival de Plymouth annoncent déjà la présence de deux poids lourds pour l’édition 2007 : Céline Dion et George Benson. Cette troisième édition aura sans doute lieu au mois d’avril.

Céline will be the headliner of the third edition of Tobago Jazz Festival in april 2007.

 

siur, how many orgasms for this news?

[CSCfan]

If it's true, then it will be fantastic!!

 

But uhm, I don't want to spoil the fun, but.... just because she's performing at a 'Jazz Festival', it doesn't mean that she will perform Jazz songs or anything....

 

Look at the Montreux Jazz Festival for example, only a small minority of the performers, perform Jazz music and the same for the Tobago Jazz Festival..

[Céline's Blues]

Vinny, we have known about it for almost a YEAR already!

 

To be honest IO thought it'd be a rumour but this is just another PROOF she will release a jazz thing as her next album (Enlgish or French).

 

Buuuuut anyway I don't believe it 100%. But jazz will come sooner or later.

Edited May 19, 2006 at 05:47 PM by siur

[VinnyT.]

Vinny, we have known about it for almost a YEAR already!                 

 

To be honest IO thought it'd be a rumour but this is just another PROOF she will release a jazz thing as her next album (Enlgish or French).        

 

Buuuuut anyway I don't believe it 100%. But jazz will come sooner or later.      

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Yes, I upped this topic. But the rumor said festival 2006, now they confirmed it for 2007.

[Céline's Blues]

So I was right all the way that a jazz album was planned for 2006 but has been pushed back cuzz me wanted it to be puuuuuurrrrfect?

[CSCfan]

Jazz Festival ≠ jazz music

[Céline's Blues]

Jazz Festival ≠ jazz music

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Céline Dion = WASTED TALENT without at least TEN jazz albums

[Bruno Portugal]

Tobago jazz Festival : encore des stars

Après Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Patti La Belle, Sean Diddy Combs, les organisateurs du Jazz Festival de Plymouth annoncent déjà la présence de deux poids lourds pour l’édition 2007 : Céline Dion et George Benson. Cette troisième édition aura sans doute lieu au mois d’avril.

Céline will be the headliner of the third edition of Tobago Jazz Festival in april 2007.

 

siur, how many orgasms for this news?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Great, great, great news.

 

Celine singing jazz... it's just perfect...

[sayyed]

cool.... but so far away!

[CSCfan]

Jazz Festival ≠ jazz music

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Céline Dion = WASTED TALENT with at least TEN jazz albums

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That's better..

[René 2]

Is Plymouth an american city or a british one?

[VinnyT.]

Is Plymouth an american city or a british one? 

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it's a carrabean island

[celine_sender]

i wanna be there but i can`t

[catwomanrrr]

How I see it, the current Celine cannot stretch different octaves doing vocal acrobats the same way that she could over a decade ago. But now, since her voice is of a more mature woman who has sung a gazillion songs, jazz can give her dynamics with her lower notes. With Jazz, she can still do vocal acrobats, while playing with her voice without having to belt out high notes and carry out long notes.

[Krys]

 

i agree with you Joy

Edited May 20, 2006 at 04:10 AM by lamourpourCeline

[mirage]

where did u find tha news!? i looked on the website of the festival but cannot find it...

[Annabelle]

maybe it's not just a rumour after all - hope not.they were great at HEART show 2geter!

[Ronny83]

where did u find tha news!? i looked on the website of the festival but cannot find it...

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It's from a carabbean newspaper. It sounds official.

[ZoraSourit]

That's great! Thank you for the info

[traceline]

Hope to listen listen in jazz

[Paulinha Dion]

[Celine's Wife]

Hm, we'll see.....