Young Voices Concert Tour 2013

Connie Talbot will be performing in the UK as a celebrity guest star in the Young Voices concert tour 2013 later this month. The dates are listed below.

This is the second year in a row that Connie has featured as a guest in this series.

Connie has just returned from her amazing 3 week tour of south east Asia, promoting her new album Beautiful World, so she will have a couple of weeks rest before she starts into this UK tour.

Young Voices, now in its 16th year, provides a unique opportunity for thousands of children to participate in a large arena concert.
You can find more details about the Young Voices initiative here http://www.youngvoices.co.uk/
Being present at a Young Voices concert is an unforgettable experience - and it's loud! (If you don't believe us, scroll down now to watch the video below.)

Most of the tickets are sold to parents and friends of the children in the choirs, but usually there are a few tickets left over for sale to the public. Check with the individual venues for availability.

YOUNG VOICES CONCERT DATES 2013

14th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

15th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

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16th January 2013 – Manchester Arena

17th January 2013 – Manchester Arena

18th January 2013 – Manchester Arena

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21st January 2013 – Sheffield Motorpoint Arena

22nd January 2013 – Sheffield Motorpoint Arena

23rd January 2013 – Sheffield Motorpoint Arena

24th January 2013 – Sheffield Motorpoint Arena

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28th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

29th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

30th January 2013 – The O2 Arena London

Young Voices make their own professionally produced DVDs of the events for sale, so naturally they discourage people from recording the concerts. This means that a lot of the videos of YV on YouTube are rather shaky and distant, using hand-held phones etc.

However, last year a member of Connie's team, Daniel Smart, was allowed to film one of Connie's performances using a tripod-held HD camera at the LG Arena, Birmingham, England. Connie Talbot sings "Run" by Snow Patrol, a song that means a lot to her, and which she performed with the backing of thousands of young singers.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

We like this clip. It shows Connie appearing on a TV show in Jakarta, Indonesia. It's really nice to see all those happy, smiling faces, and everybody having fun.
Connie sings her own song BEAUTIFUL WORLD, from her new album of the same name, and also the traditional song TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR.

Happy New Year to everyone around the world. :)

Many New Friends

In the past few days, there have been lots of people from Indonesia, coming to read this Connie Talbot Official blog, and also Connie's Facebook page and Twitter. Connie's management would like to welcome all these new friends, and to thank you for your support for Connie.

Indonesia is a great country, and very beautiful, and Connie has really enjoyed her first visit there. She has made many new friends. We hope it won't be long before she can visit again, and maybe next time she will be able to stay longer.

Connie has felt a lot of positive emotion at the warm welcome she has received in all the countries she has visited in south east Asia during the Beautiful World tour in the past two weeks - Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia. Everyone has been very friendly and kind in every place she has visited.

Once again, on Connie's behalf, thank you all for your kindness and support.

#ConnieFriends forever :)

Connie Talbot Arrives in Hong Kong

Connie has now arrived in Hong Kong for the first stage of her mini tour of South East Asia to promote her new album, Beautiful World. One of the first things she did was to tweet a photo of the view across the harbour from her hotel room.

Today, Connie will be settling in and getting some rest. Then she will be starting rehearsals for her first performance of the tour, at Windsor House, which is a 17-storey shopping and entertainment complex in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong. That will take place at 3pm on Saturday, December 15th.

Then it's off to the Philippines for 3 performances in different locations in Manila on the 16th and 17th. A busy schedule.

Hope she will be able to find some spare time to go shopping!

Beautiful World Demo Video

Every single one of Connie's friends/fans is currently talking about her new album for Asia, "Beautiful World" and, as we've seen, it's starting to have some chart success already in its target area of South East Asia.

So we thought you would all like to see again the little video that started it all, so to speak. When the song, "Beautiful World", was first released as a stand alone single on iTunes, Connie made a demo video of the song with her own piano accompaniment. She also announced the release date of the single. The video was released on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPNfGtWau6M

Now that a year has gone by, that little video is approaching one million views!

Wouldn't it be nice if it hit one million before Christmas? Please click through to watch the video on YouTube, and Like, Comment, Subscribe, and Share with all your friends.

BEAUTIFUL WORLD ASIA TOUR 2012

Here's a reminder of the dates, times, and places of Connie's Beautiful World Asia Tour later this month.

This information also appeared on Connie's Facebook page last week.





CONNIE TALBOT – BEAUTIFUL WORLD ASIA TOUR 2012

HONG KONG
Dec 15, 3PM at Windsor House, Causeway Bay
http://www.windsorhouse.hk/promotion-details.php?article_id=75

PHILIPPINES
Dec 16, 4PM at Lucky Chinatown, Manila
Dec 16, 7PM at The Piazza at Venice, McKinley, Manila
Dec 17, 7PM at Eastwood Mall, Manila

TAIWAN
Dec 21, 7:30PM at Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Taipei
http://www.avex.com.tw/connie/ 

 

HONG KONG
Dec 27, 3PM and 7PM at The Music Zone, KITEC, Kowloon Bay
http://www.hkticketing.com/


For more information on the tour please visit:
http://evoconcert.com/

Connie's "Imagine" Hits Singles Charts in Taiwan

From Connie's Team:

We just received news that Connie's single "Imagine" entered the Taiwan Western Chart (published on Dec 8th) at # 10 - below Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Robbie Williams, 1D, Alicia Keys etc

Thanks to Geoff for this information :)

http://www.hitoradio.com/newweb/chart_1_2.php

Have a nice day everyone :)

Update: PS: Since we published this, we were told that Connie's "Beautiful World" album has also entered the Taiwan Western Album chart, at #7, sharing that place with the new album "Unapologetic" by Rihanna.

Thanks to Peter for this information :) 

http://www.g-music.com.tw/GMusicBillboard2.aspx

BEAUTIFUL WORLD on Amazon in USA

Here's some good news for everyone in the USA. If you want to get the MP3 download of Connie's BEAUTIFUL WORLD album, you don't have to wait all that time till December 30th to get it from iTunes. (Actually, it's probably November 30th, but anyway, it's still not available as we write this.)

The good news is that the album is available right now from Amazon's MP3 department.
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-World/dp/B00AELP4PG

Enjoy!

All the best from Connie's team.

New Album on iTunes

The record company EvoSound has confirmed that Connie's new album, BEAUTIFUL WORLD, is now available as a download from iTunes in Europe, South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

iTunes customers in the USA and Canada will have to wait a little bit longer...

Meanwhile, you can order it from Evo88.com for free shipping to any country in the world from Hong Kong. Don't forget that all purchasers of the CD version will receive a free exclusive bonus MP3 track.

From Connie's team :)

Beautiful World Arrived Today

Hi everyone, this is Simon. You may remember me - I'm one of the people on Connie's team.

I just received Connie's BEAUTIFUL WORLD album in the mail. Today is the 27th, and it was only released on the 26th, so it seems to have taken only one day to travel all the way from Evo88 in Hong Kong to reach me in England!

Evo88 say they can ship for free to any country worldwide. So if you live in the USA or Europe, you should be able to get the CD from them, just as I did. Just go to the Evo88 website - it's very easy, and you can use PayPal if you want to.

It will be on iTunes soon of course, but it's nice to also have the CD with the case and photos. And there's a book of lyrics with lots of pictures that comes with the CD.

If you can't decide between the CD or iTunes download, then why not be like me - go for both of them!

Best wishes,

Simon

Connie Talbot's Beautiful World

The record company, Evolution, has announced the release date of Connie's new "Asian album". The album is called BEAUTIFUL WORLD and it will be released in South East Asia on November 26. We understand that anyone residing outside that area will be able to purchase the album online, or as an MP3 download.

Connie has chosen the songs for the album very carefully, to be appropriate for her age, and to contain several songs by her favorite artists, such as Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Michael Jackson and others. She has also included some classic songs, and also one of her own songs, Beautiful World, in a completely new arrangement.

Some Words About the Beautiful World Contest

Here’s some words about the Beautiful World contest. 

First of all, when they told me how many people had entered, I had to do a quick double-take. I just couldn’t believe it. The response was absolutely incredible. 73 videos !! It took over five hours to watch them all! 

The thing that struck me most of all was the immense enthusiasm and dedication of every single one of the contestants. It was a very tough job for Connie to choose the winner, but she made her choice at last. Many congratulations to Viktoria! And also, loads of thanks to Connie for being the judge! 

Every entry to the contest was amazing in its own special way, and everyone brought their own individual interpretation to the song.  In fact, you are all amazing people. Connie is very lucky (and she herself knows it) to have such extraordinary people as her fans – not only the people who entered the contest, but all Connie’s fans. 

That’s why Connie likes to think of you all as, "not just fans, but friends." 

Some people have asked if we are planning to have any more contests. The answer is yes, as soon as we’ve got ourselves a bit more organized around here. We have some very cool ideas, and we’ll let you know about them when we’re ready. 

In the meantime, I’m interested to know if any of you out there has any ideas for contests you’d like to see. If you do, then the best way to reply to me is to leave a comment on this blog post, or you could send a message to Connie’s YouTube inbox. Either way, I’ll be sure to see it. I can’t guarantee we’ll be able to use all of your ideas, but we’d love to see them anyway. So get your thinking caps on!

Posted by Simon

Viktoria Won The Contest!

Congratulations to Viktoria for winning the Beautiful World cover contest! ♥