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Ok, all you Heart Mongers out there! This is your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Heart LIVE in concert on Tuesday, February 1st at the Charlottetown Civic Centre!
Rock sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson (pictured above) are celebrating the 35th anniversary of Heart’s debut record Dreamboat Annie (which was recorded in Vancouver, BC – go Canada!) with their first coast-to-coast Canadian tour in three decades. From the stage to television to video games, Heart has solidified their place in pop culture with unforgettable Top 40 hits such as ‘Barracuda’, ‘These Dreams’ and ‘What About Love?’ With the 2010 release of their much-anticipated 13th studio album Red Velvet Car, the hits just keep on coming with chart climbers like ‘Hey You’ and ‘WTF’.
And now, the Wilson sisters will be rockin’ the Charlottetown Civic Centre this February and you could be in the crowd rockin’ out with Heart!
To enter, email Gtalk@transcontinental.ca with your name, daytime contact telephone number and a short explanation on what makes you Heart’s biggest fan!
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Contest closes Friday, January 28th at 5:00pm so enter NOW before it’s too late! One entry per person, please. Two ways to enter.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Heart Comes Home ~ Canada Tour 2011
VANCOUVER, BC – 2011 marks the 35th anniversary of Heart’s debut record Dreamboat Annie. Heart’s groundbreaking album was recorded in Vancouver, B.C., where they lived at the time, and was first released in Canada.
Today, Heart announces that they are coming home to Canada in 2011, with their first coast-to-coast Canadian tour in three decades. With a 20-concert run starting on January 28 in St John’s, NL and ending in their Canadian hometown of Vancouver, BC on February 26, Heart at last fulfills a long held desire to play for their Canadian fans in every region of the country on one tour. As Ann and Nancy put it themselves: “Heart had its musical genesis in Vancouver and as artists Canada has always been our spiritual home. Canadians love to rock and we are happy to be bringing Heart as it is now back to Canada. It's like Heart is coming home.”
On August 31, 2010, Heart released Red Velvet Car, their first new studio album in six years. Produced by Vancouver-based Grammy winning producer Ben Mink, Red Velvet Car entered the Billboard 200 best-selling album charts at #10, becoming the seventh Top 10 album of the group's career. Released on Eagle Rock Records in Canada and on Sony Legacy in the United States, the critically acclaimed new album reached #1 in sales on Amazon.com on Sunday, September 4.
The critical response to Red Velvet Car has been universally ecstatic. "The barracudas are back and at the top of their game," wrote Rolling Stone (September 2, 2010) while USA Today (August 25, 2010) called the album "Intimate, intense and anchored by Ann’s powerhouse vocals and Nancy’s aggressive acoustic guitar...." The New York Times (August 4, 2010) found Red Velvet Car "aggressive, delicate and enduring" while the Los Angeles Times noted that "Thirty-four years after the band's debut, Heart's dreamboat sails on."
Over the course of their remarkable career, Heart has sold over 30 million albums and had 22 Top 40 hits. In America, their current AC single “Hey You” has been in the Top 30 for three months, while their classic rock single, “WTF” hovers near Top 10.
Over the past decade, Heart songs have achieved ubiquity in pop culture in films (Shrek 3, The Dilemma), television (American Idol, Glee, Dancing with the Stars), commercials (Honda, Swiffer), and videogames (Rock Band, Guitar Hero), as well as in performances by other top artists (Eminem, Fergie, Gretchen Wilson, et al).
They were 2008 recipients of VH! Rock Honors, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northwest Grammy Foundation and received ASCAP’S award for Excellence in Songwriting in 2009.
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