Between 1981 and 1984, Céline Dion

Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

 toured Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 to promote her albums and to help establish herself as a stage artist. However, her first real own concert tour

Concert

A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...

, was organised in 1985.

History

Between 1981 and 1982, she toured Québec's mall and shopping centres. In 1982, she sang in front of her first large audience (about 9000 people) at the Forum de Montréal (for a charity organised by Quebecair).

In 1983, she sang for the first time in France at the MIDEM. In May, she sang with Montréal's symphonic orchestra for a charity event at Montréal's Place des Arts. During the summer, she was hired to sing live during sports events (lac Saint-Jean and 45 000 people at lac des Dauphins). She also sang at various festivals. Dion reached Rimouski and Chicoutimi, among other cities.

In 1984, she gave concerts at Montréal and Québec's Vieux-Ports. On July 28-29, Dion sang at the Vieux Ports de Quebec in front of 40,000 people. That year, she also sang at Montréal's Olympic stadium in front of the Pope. In October, she did her first tour in France as opening act for Patrick Sebastien. Later, between November 6 - December 9, 1984, Dion was also the opening act for him at the Paris Olympia

Paris Olympia

The Olympia is a music hall in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Located at No. 28, Boulevard des Capucines, its closest métro/RER stations are Madeleine, Opéra, Havre – Caumartin and Auber....

. At that time, she earned "only" 3500 French Francs per show.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
North America
July 28, 1984	Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	Vieux Ports
July 29, 1984
Europe
October 25, 1984	Moulins Moulins Moulins or Moulin may refer to:-People:*Jean-François-Auguste Moulin, politician in the French Revolution*Jean Moulin, member of the French Resistance during World War II*Pierre Du Moulin, Huguenot minister and author in France...	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
October 26, 1984	Mâcon Mâcon Mâcon is a small city in central France. It is prefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department, in the region of Bourgogne, and the capital of the Mâconnais district. Mâcon is home to over 35,000 residents, called Mâconnais.-Geography:...
October 27, 1984	Annecy Annecy Annecy is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy , 35 kilometres south of Geneva.-Administration:...
October 29, 1984	Angers Angers Angers is the main city in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France about south-west of Paris. Angers is located in the French region known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, and its inhabitants are called Angevins....
October 30, 1984	Chartres Chartres Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is located southwest of Paris.-Geography:Chartres is built on the left bank of the Eure River, on a hill crowned by its famous cathedral, the spires of which are a landmark in the surrounding country...
October 31, 1984	Corbeil Corbeil, Marne Corbeil is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.-See also:*Communes of the Marne department*Corbeil...
November 6, 1984	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...		Paris Olympia Paris Olympia The Olympia is a music hall in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Located at No. 28, Boulevard des Capucines, its closest métro/RER stations are Madeleine, Opéra, Havre – Caumartin and Auber....
December 9, 1984

Broadcasts and recordings

A TV special Les chemins de ma maison was shown in 1984. We see Céline Dion during a promotional tour across the province of Québec. It included performances of "Mon ami m'a quittée

Mon Ami M'a Quittee

"Mon ami m'a quittée" is the first single from Céline Dion's album Les chemins de ma maison. It was released in September 1983 in Quebec, Canada, and later in France and Belgium....

," "Toi sur ta montagne," "Vivre et donner" and "D'amour ou d'amitié

D'amour Ou D'amitie

"D'amour ou d'amitié" is the second single from Céline Dion's album Tellement j'ai d'amour.... It was released in April 1983 in Quebec, Canada...

". There is also another TV Special named Sur Le Chemins De Ma Maison in which we can see performances for "Le Chemins De Ma Maison", "Mamy Blue", "Ne Me Plaignez Pas", "Du Soleil Au Coeur" and "Et Puis Un Jour".