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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Shania Twain Delights Fans with Surprise Intimate Performance in the Bahamas
Shania Twain surprised fans with an intimate performance in a restaurant in the Bahamas With a baseball cap on and her hair pulled back into a ponytail, Twain sang "You're Still the One" for the audience The Queen of Country Pop embarks on a limited North America tour this JulyShania Twain makes the case for hitting the local restaurants while on vacation. The "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" singer, 59, shared a TikTok of her singing "You're Still the One" while playing the guitar at a restaurant in the Bahamas, joining a few other musicians for what appeared to be an impromptu set. Wearing a baseball cap with her hair pulled into a ponytail, Twain — who lives part of the year in the Bahamas — wrapped up her song and blew kisses to the audience. "POV you walk into a random bar on a saturday night in the Bahamas and you find shania twain singing you're still the one," the text over the video read. Twain reiterated the spontaneous sentiment. "You never know what's gonna go down on a Saturday night in Eleuthera! I just love the music scene and atmosphere here 💗," the five-time Grammy winner captioned the clip. "These guys were awesome!" is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Fans were quick to react to the intimate performance Twain gave. "My absolute DREAM COME TRUE to walk in someplace and find the queen just casually singing her stuff!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰 like WHAT!?!😍😍😍," one said. "the way I would have dropped dead," another wrote. A third fan simply wrote, "Chills." Someone pointed out that the couple at the bar "won the lottery" with their up-close seating and the privacy of their Queen of Country Pop concert. Twain spoke to PEOPLE in February about how being contained in the music industry after venturing into both pop and country genres throughout her career. "If I feel like I'm being put in a box, I start to panic," Twain said at the time. "I run in any direction I can because I don't want to be contained. I have to be able to find my own way." "Sometimes I'm not even sure where I'm going myself. How can somebody else tell me that, right?" she continued. So I need the freedom to explore and to land wherever that exploration takes me." For fans who missed out on this Twain experience, the singer is headed on a limited North America tour this July and August, making stops in Quebec City and Toronto, along with Hershey, Pa. Hollywood, Fla. and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., among other cities. Read the original article on People
Glasgow Times
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Glasgow Times
Twain ‘still not 100 per cent' and will miss Royal Ascot
A son of Wootton Bassett, Twain has only had two runs – both within eight days of each other last year – yet he was able to win a Group One in France on just his second start. He beat his stable companion Mount Kilimanjaro in the Criterium International who has won the Dee Stakes at Chester subsequently. Twain became something of a gamble for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket when it became apparent that winter favourite The Lion In Winter was struggling to be ready in time. However, just days before the race he was ruled out of it by a dirty scope and it was announced if he was ready he would be supplemented for the Irish Guineas. The confirmations for that came and went on Tuesday, though, and his name did not appear. O'Brien told the PA news agency: 'He hasn't been supplemented for the Guineas. 'It's the same issue he had before Newmarket, he's still not 100 per cent. 'I don't think he'll make it to Ascot now if he hasn't made it this weekend, we'll probably give him a little bit more time now.' Dreamy, owned by the Niarchos family's Flaxman Stables in partnership with Coolmore, is a filly by American Pharoah out of Tapestry, O'Brien's Yorkshire Oaks winner. She won a Goodwood maiden on her debut and a Group Three at the Curragh afterwards but was only fourth to Desert Flower in the Fillies' Mile. O'Brien expected her to come into her own over middle distances this season, but plans are now on the back burner until the second half of the campaign. 'Dreamy will miss the first half of the season,' said O'Brien. 'Hopefully she'll be back in the autumn when there'll be some nice races for her.'
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
New executive director of Mark Twain House & Museum is a familiar face
Jeffrey L. Nichols has been named as the new executive director of the Mark Twain House & Museum following a nationwide search that took over a year. Nichols succeeds Pieter Roos, who served as executive director from 2017 to 2023 and announced his retirement at the end of last year. Nichols, a Naugatuck native, has held the position before. He was the executive director of the Twain House from 2008 to 2012. When he recently returned to Connecticut to visit his mother, he said 'I saw the house again and realized how much I loved the place.' Nichols' first day on the job will be June 9, a day before a major event sponsored by the Twain House — an appearance by Ron Chernow, whose new biography of Twain was published earlier this month. Chernow visited the Twain House photo archive while researching the book. Later in June, the Mark Twain House & Museum will host a book signing by novelist Joyce Carol Oates, the famed author's first visit to the Twain House. Mark Twain House Museum executive director Pieter Roos to retire from historic venue Nichols said Twain figures in many aspects of the other jobs he's held. For the past four years, he was at the National Civil War Museum and before that at George Heritage in Washington D.C., institutions which overlap with some Twain's activities and interests in the 19th century. Nichols also worked at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, an historic home in Virginia. He recalls bringing some of his former (and now future) Twain House colleagues to the Civil War Museum for a program about the house. 'Every job I've had, people get tired of me talking about Mark Twain,' NIchols said. He is looking forward to being back so he can share that great impact Mark Twain had and still has. 'We are very fortunate that Jeff Nichols will be leading the Mark Twain House and Museum,' Mark Twain House and Museum board chair Hans Miller said in a statement. 'His extensive experience in historic site and museum management, combined with his deep appreciation for Mark Twain and understanding of this organization, brings us a dynamic leader who can build on our past success.' Last year marked the 150th anniversary of when the house at 351 Farmington Ave. was built for Twain and his family. Twain not only wrote some of his famous works at the house, including 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,' he was actively involved with local businesses and newspapers. Twain left Hartford following the death of his daughter, toured the world for years as a comic lecturer and eventually returned to Connecticut to build a new home in Redding. Asked if he has favorites among Twain's many works, Nichols praised the author's short stories, mentioning 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness' as one of many examples of where 'Twain is writing about political and social issues of his era that still have great relevance in our world today.' Besides tours of the house, the Mark Twain House & Museum provides an archive of Twain materials, a museum with changing exhibits based on Twain's life and works, frequent lectures and special performances. Nichols noted that one of the enduring events at the institution, its 'Ghost Tours,' began during his previous time as executive director. 'There's a lot that's familiar, but there has also been a great expansion,' he said. 'Rooms have been finished since I was last here. I'm going to go into this now not looking back but seeing how we can move the organization forward. It's going to be great fun. I'm going to slide right back in.'
South Wales Guardian
21-05-2025
- Sport
- South Wales Guardian
Twain ‘still not 100 per cent' and will miss Royal Ascot
A son of Wootton Bassett, Twain has only had two runs – both within eight days of each other last year – yet he was able to win a Group One in France on just his second start. He beat his stable companion Mount Kilimanjaro in the Criterium International who has won the Dee Stakes at Chester subsequently. Twain became something of a gamble for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket when it became apparent that winter favourite The Lion In Winter was struggling to be ready in time. However, just days before the race he was ruled out of it by a dirty scope and it was announced if he was ready he would be supplemented for the Irish Guineas. The confirmations for that came and went on Tuesday, though, and his name did not appear. O'Brien told the PA news agency: 'He hasn't been supplemented for the Guineas. 'It's the same issue he had before Newmarket, he's still not 100 per cent. 'I don't think he'll make it to Ascot now if he hasn't made it this weekend, we'll probably give him a little bit more time now.' Dreamy, owned by the Niarchos family's Flaxman Stables in partnership with Coolmore, is a filly by American Pharoah out of Tapestry, O'Brien's Yorkshire Oaks winner. She won a Goodwood maiden on her debut and a Group Three at the Curragh afterwards but was only fourth to Desert Flower in the Fillies' Mile. O'Brien expected her to come into her own over middle distances this season, but plans are now on the back burner until the second half of the campaign. 'Dreamy will miss the first half of the season,' said O'Brien. 'Hopefully she'll be back in the autumn when there'll be some nice races for her.'
North Wales Chronicle
21-05-2025
- Sport
- North Wales Chronicle
Twain ‘still not 100 per cent' and will miss Royal Ascot
A son of Wootton Bassett, Twain has only had two runs – both within eight days of each other last year – yet he was able to win a Group One in France on just his second start. He beat his stable companion Mount Kilimanjaro in the Criterium International who has won the Dee Stakes at Chester subsequently. Twain became something of a gamble for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket when it became apparent that winter favourite The Lion In Winter was struggling to be ready in time. However, just days before the race he was ruled out of it by a dirty scope and it was announced if he was ready he would be supplemented for the Irish Guineas. The confirmations for that came and went on Tuesday, though, and his name did not appear. O'Brien told the PA news agency: 'He hasn't been supplemented for the Guineas. 'It's the same issue he had before Newmarket, he's still not 100 per cent. 'I don't think he'll make it to Ascot now if he hasn't made it this weekend, we'll probably give him a little bit more time now.' Dreamy, owned by the Niarchos family's Flaxman Stables in partnership with Coolmore, is a filly by American Pharoah out of Tapestry, O'Brien's Yorkshire Oaks winner. She won a Goodwood maiden on her debut and a Group Three at the Curragh afterwards but was only fourth to Desert Flower in the Fillies' Mile. O'Brien expected her to come into her own over middle distances this season, but plans are now on the back burner until the second half of the campaign. 'Dreamy will miss the first half of the season,' said O'Brien. 'Hopefully she'll be back in the autumn when there'll be some nice races for her.'
