Celine Dion has cancelled a concert in her native Canada because the performer feels bullied by the press and local residents. The singer of the famous ‘My Heart Will Go On’ had been due to play in the city of Halifax on August 23 next year. However, the performer’s husband as well as manager Rene Angelil says the show has been scrapped after critics of the star made her feel unwelcome

The holiday season is coming, and what can be better than celebrating it with an upbeat concert. The Rhythms of Christmas annual show features a lot of holiday music that has got a great beat. The annual Concert will be held on December 8 in the Mannoni Performing Arts Center Auditorium at the University of Southern Mississippi. The Southern Miss Steel Band, Samba Band, and Percussion Ensemble will perform at the popular concert that blends traditional Christmas music with a touch of Caribbean flavors and jazz.

Rihanna is a hot Carribean singer, who topped a number of charts all over the world. She released 3 albums: “Music of the Sun”, “A Girl Like Me”, “Good Girl Gone Bad”. She has taken by storm both American and European music charts. Her first album was awarded a gold certification from the RIAA and two platinum certifications. Her singles like “SOS”, “Unfaithful”, “Umbrella” was the # 1 song in American, European and U.K music charts. “Umbrella” was the #1 song in the UK for 10 weeks in succession. It has become the longest running #1 song by a female singer since 1992. Rihanna’s “Good Girls Gone Bad” album has been awarded a platinum certification by the United World Albums Chart.

Gorgeous Nelly Furtado, a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist has won the Album of the Year for her album Loose at MTV’s European Music Awards! The Album includes a good number of notable songs, including “Say it Right”, “All Good Things”, “God’s Hands”, “Afraid”, “Glow” and some others. Single “Say it Right” has gained world recognition and has been rated in Top 10 of numerous music rankings. In fact, Nelly’s prominent win caps off an incredible year for Loose, including a Teen Choice Award, Grammy nomination, MTV VMA nomination, a sweep at the Juno Awards, and a Billboard Music Award! The concerts of this multi-platinum and award-winning singer are always a great show which is not to be missed.

JLo has recently announced that she wants perform together with the Spice Girls during their forthcoming world tour. It is very interesting, why so? The reason is Jennifer Lopez is good friends with Posh Spice Victoria Beckham and wants to join them on their reunion gigs, which is scheduled to be held in in Los Angeles later this year. According to JLo’s words, she would love take part on their tour and share the same stage with the marvelous Spice Girls. JLo never denied that Posh was always her favourite even before they were friends.

Celine Dion, the Quebec-born chanteuse, will give her Halifax performance on August 23, 2008, and this is going to be a fabulous event for the city. After having performed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for 5 years, Celine finds special pleasure in performing in Halifax, especially that this brand new show falls between indoor concerts in Montreal and Toronto during a string of dates in Canada. Avid concertgoers and simply Dion’s fans should know that Halifax will be the only Atlantic Canadian stop on Dion’s tour. At the performance in Halifax, Dion will play metro as part of a world tour promoting her new English album Taking Chances.

By the way, on Monday, Celine received the Legend Award at the World Music Awards. The award honours under the title “a top recording artist in recognition of their global success and outstanding contribution to the music industry”, has ever been received by few, including Elton John and Ray Charles

U2 will have the only one scheduled performance in America this year, and that will be accompanied by the Chemical Brothers (staring Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons). You will probably not be surprised to find out that U2 have already sold over 720,000 copies of their famous album All That You Can’t Leave Behind and what is more they will perform the songs presented in this album at the My VH1 Music Awards, which will take place in Los Angeles, on Thursday, November, 30. The Chems, in their turn, will release a new edition of their Music: Response EP and will pop up this event by performing a DJ set at the Centro-Fly club in New York on December 2.

One of the most popular female pop-singers in the States, Britney Spears has recently released her first album after the 4-year break. The album under the title “Blackout” with the single “Gimme More”, which Britney presented at MTV Music Awards 2007 was accepted with applause among her numerous fans all over the world. I guess, it has become her second most successful single since the release of “Baby One More Time”. In fact, it has been estimated that her latest album could rack up more than 330,000 in week-one sales – and this is amazing. We can ask ourselves a question, why this singer is so popular with his/her new album without any special promotion campaign, and another one just fails… Well, Britney does have something behind, some special zest, which her each and every album so appreciated. Let’s hope that Britney will recover from all her present difficulties, and will continue to rejoice us with her great songs that will follow.