Yesterday (January 27th) Celine performed at the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival. She gave a full concert with this below setlist:

1. I Drove All Night
2. Where Does My Heart Beat Now
3. Because You Loved Me
4. It’s All Coming Back To Me Now
5. The Power Of Love
6. Beauty And The Beast (In duet with Barnev Valsaint)
7. (If You Can’t Sing It) You’ll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)
8.The Reason
9. James Bond Medley
10.At Seventeen
11. Pour Que Tu M’aimes Encore
12. Treat Her Like a Lady
13. I’’m Alive
14. All By Myself
15. Love Can Move Mountains
16. River Deep Mountain High
17. My Heart Will Go On

To the gallery have been added some photos from this event, enjoy!

Celine Dion is sharing her thoughts on fellow music superstar Madonna performing in next week’s Super Bowl halftime show, and disclosed why she herself won’t be up on that stage.

Celine tells The Trend on Zappos Couture,

“I’m not going to be performing at the Super Bowl because I’m pretty booked, I’m in Las Vegas right now at Caesars Palace doing a lot of shows so I won’t be at the Super Bowl.”

“But I love Madonna and know her well,” she continued. “I know she’ll do just fine, she doesn’t need any luck. She’s going to do her thing, she’s going to do what she does best, she’s going to give us something for us to remember. She’s going to be great, just fine.”

Celine also opened up about how she’s balancing life with twin one-year-olds Eddie and Nelson, and her Las Vegas show.

“My schedule is hard because I sing at night and I want to be with my babies during the day and I have twins and they are not sleeping good,” the working mom shared.

“They are in my room and they wake up five-six times a night. Two babies, so that mean 10 to 12 times a night. I can’t let them cry,” she says, breaking into Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry. “I can’t let them cry so I wake up, and [say], ‘It’s okay.’ [They] want to be with mommy and mommy wants to be with them, and then the next day, sometimes it’s hard, for me too.”

Celine was interviewed in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where she performed at the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival with the support of the Jamaica Tourist Board.

Celine Dion arrived in Jamaica yesterday afternoon for her highly anticipated performance at the Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival at the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium in Trelawny.

Dion’s Gulfstream G450 touched down at the private jet terminal at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay after 3:00 pm. She had travelled directly to Jamaica from her home in West Palm Beach, Florida.

And some photos from the rehearsals, which took place right after her arriving in Jamaica.

Caesars Palace headliner Celine Dion hosted the grand-opening ceremony of the Octavius Tower in conjunction with Chinese New Year on Sunday night at Caesars Palace, officially ringing in the Year of the Dragon. During the private ceremony, Dion participated in the customary lion dance, bringing good fortune to Caesars’ sixth hotel tower and wishing happiness and prosperity for the New Year.

“I am pleased to celebrate the opening of the luxurious Octavius Tower at Caesars Palace and am very honored to welcome the Year of the Dragon,” Dion said in a news release. “As this is a very special time when millions of people around the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year, I would like to send my very best wishes to all for a healthy and Happy New Year.”

The grand-opening celebration kicked off with a lion dance as Dion painted the eyes of the lion to awaken it, presenting it with a red envelope, a gift to symbolize prosperity. Accompanied by drums, lion dancers paraded in the tower to ward off evil spirits, welcoming a New Year of wealth and prosperity.

You can see >> HERE << the video of this opening night.

I’ve added scans from the latest issue of the magazine La Semaine, enjoy! Credit goes to c’line-rc, thank you!

Celine Dion enlisted the help of her fellow Caesars Entertainment headliners in a $6 million bid for her children’s sickle-cell-research benefit concert “Play Without Pain” on Sunday night to jump start close-to-the-cure clinical trials.

Husband and manager Rene Angelil and Celine welcomed 150 of the well-heeled donors and the amazing doctors of Children’s Hospital Boston backstage at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace for a meet-and-greet and photo session. The couple then donated the entire proceeds of her special 4,200-seat performance to the fundraiser.

“As a mother, I was incredibly moved by the stories that were shared with me regarding the impact this disease has on children. This benefit is a way in which I can get involved to positively touch these children’s lives,” Celine said. “Your compassion and kindness could be the tipping point in helping researchers eradicate the disease and bring relief to millions across the globe. The funds we raise will allow these children to grow up pain free and lead longer, more productive lives. Our prayer is they grow up to play without pain.”

Celine Dion has recorded two songs of her first studio album in four-and-a-half years and hopes to release it in May.

Her husband/manager Rene Angelil, in weekend interviews with Vegas Confidential, said she is scheduled to resume her recording Jan. 31 in Florida and will likely put the finishing touches on the album at the Palms Recording Studios.

One of the songs will be a cover of Janis Ian ‘s “At 17,” which Dion sings in her show at Caesars Palace .

She started recording in November.

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