Shania Twain's Concert Report

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Country maven, Shania Twain, is ending here Las Vegas residency very soon. From the stage at the

show I saw she noted that there were only ten dates left.

In the next breath, she noted that she was ready to hit the road – so if you missed her show, Still the

One at Ceasars Palace, you might be seeing here in you town in the future.

The show was/is chock-a-block full of her hits. It sounds very much like a Shania review. This point

was accented by a montage of clips and stills from her many videos that played out on the curtained

backdrop of the stage, while Shania belted out a hit in the midst of gyrating dancers.

The band was very well rehearsed to the point where I thought that they all might be simple actors and

Shania was singing
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I noted that the violinists were holding their bows in a manner that denoted

classical training and one of the electric violins developed a problem and was switched out mid song.

Her voice, always her forte, is still good and there were no vocal slip ups except for two instances – and

both were not the result of any vocal impediment. The first happened after the opening number where

she commented that the audience looked great and then immediately, and bizarrely asked the audience,

“Do I look good?” She acknowledged the weirdness of this remark instantly. The other happened

on one of her several forays into the audience where an over eager fan sang along with Shania. Here

enthusiasm and vocal strength were unfortunately not matched with vocal quality.

Near the end of the show, with the stage decorated in a f aux Northern Ontario woods setting complete

with a fire pit, She pulled members of the Audience out. One guy proposed to his girlfriend on stage.

Another explained how here music helped her through divorce, were among the drama that was

brought to the stage. The Shania Twain retrospective was turning into The Oprah show.

To be honest, I am quite ambivalent about Shania, and although I have heard most of the songs on

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