Shania Twain rings in her birthday with dazzling performance at the US Open
By Meaghan Wray
Shania Twain served up a winning performance on her 52nd birthday at the US Open on Monday (Aug. 28) The country maven stunned the audience with a medley of old and new songs at the UST Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York. She appeared on stage in a daring black dress with flared arms and curls in her hair.
The star took to Twitter to voice her excitement about the performance, gushing, “It’s @usopen day, I can’t wait to perform. What a way to spend my birthday!” The post was accompanied by a gorgeous photo of Shania standing in front of the court, with lights shining down behind her.
It's @usopen day, I can't wait to perform. What a way to spend my birthday! Tune into ESPN 2 from 7:15pm for the opening ceremony! pic.twitter.com/7TCpgGi1Pl
— Shania Twain (@ShaniaTwain) August 28, 2017
Shania has been all over the headlines lately, with news of her upcoming Grey Cup halftime performance in November and the announcement of her highly-anticipated North American tour next year. The SHANIA NOW tour kicks off on May 3 in Tacoma, Washington, and will see the singer make stops in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Hamilton, Ottawa, London and Quebec City. Tickets to see the Canadian country queen are on sale now.
NORTH AMERICAN NOW TOUR!
— Shania Twain (@ShaniaTwain) August 17, 2017
Pre-order the #ShaniaNOW tour bundle at https://t.co/SZ6q5j3y6A to access pre-sale tickets from 10am Tue Aug 22nd. pic.twitter.com/sUAFftMZEZ
The mother of one also spoke recently about collaborating with fellow Canadian superstar Celine Dion. “Hell yes!” she exclaimed to The Cut(https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/shania-twain-health-wellness-working-out.html) when asked if she’d like to sing with the Montreal native. She added: “I’d love to do that. I actually use her [Celine] as my warm-up music a lot of the time. She’s got such a high range. ‘Drove All Night’ is my favourite one to do my vocal warm-ups to, because it has the higher harmony, which is really hard.”
![At the Forum, Charles delivered <a href=https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-world-holocaust-forum-yad-vashem-jerusalem>a moving and powerful speech</a> in which he said humanity "must never cease to be appalled, nor moved by the testimony of those who lived through [the Holocaust]." He also recognized his grandmother's work and Israel's recognition of it in his remarks, and said calling out hatred is always important.
<p>"All too often, language is used which turns disagreement into dehumanization," he said. "Words are used as badges of shame to mark others as enemies, to brand those who are different as somehow deviant. All too often, virtue seems to be sought through verbal violence. All too often, real violence ensues, and acts of unspeakable cruelty are still perpetrated around the world against people for reasons of their religion, their race or their beliefs.
<p>"Knowing, as we do, the darkness to which such behaviour leads, we must be vigilant in discerning these ever-changing threats; we must be fearless in confronting falsehoods and resolute in resisting words and acts of violence. And we must never rest in seeking to create mutual understanding and respect. We must tend the earth of our societies so that the seeds of division cannot take root and grow. And we must never forget that every human being is be-tselem Elokim - 'in the image of God' - and even a single human life is ke-olam malei - 'like an entire universe.'"
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