Vanessa-Mae news: the archives 2008

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VANESSA-MAE NEWS

THE ARCHIVES 2009

December 27, 2009, Vanessa-Mae will join the new year celebrations in the Moscow National Hotel.
Vanessa-Mae will participate in special new year celebrations organised in the National Hotel in Moscow, the Moscow News online reports!

"On New Year's Eve, we have always hosted special celebrations in the rooms overlooking the Kremlin," Amosova, head of the press service of the National said. "This year, our guest will be the world-famous violinist Vanessa Mae."

sources: Moscow News online and The National Hotel

December 15-17, 2009, Vanessa-Mae joined Il Divo on stage in New York City (NY) at the Beacon Theatre.
Vanessa-Mae joined Il Divo on stage at 3 of their Christmas concerts in the USA at the Beacon Theatre (Dec 15, 16 and 17). The video shown in embedded player below was made during the show on December 16.

sources: Il Divo, RMfkb You Tube channel, Beacon Theatre and Encore magazine

December 11-12, 2009, Vanessa-Mae performed two concerts in Russia, St Petersburg (October Hall, Dec 11) and Moscow (Crocus City Hall, Dec 12) for her Violin Magic Period Tour.
Vanessa-Mae performed in a two sold out concerts in Russia for her Violin Magic Period Tour, the first one on December 11 at the October Hall in St Petersburg, the second one a day late on December 12 at The Crocus City Hall in Moscow. Both evenings, Vanessa-Mae performed dressed a bright red gala gown, her face heavily made up with a firm covering crème to create an impeccable complexion, black eye liner, mascara, little red brown shadow on her upper lids, and excessively applied glossy lipstick in the colour red matching the dress. Remarkable, Vanessa-Mae was on bare feet at her concert in Moscow, where in St Petersburg, she acted on spike heeled open shoes. Below are two videos in embedded players that were made during her concert in St Petersburg. In the videos, she performed Bolero for Violin and Orchestra and The Havana Slide. The videos are available via You Tube at the JuliaForPatricia channel. Below the 2 videos, a series of 11 photos form Vanessa-Mae's concert in Moscow are shown.

December 7 & 8, 2009, Vanessa-Mae teamed up with Il Divo as special guest on stage with the international vocal group at their London concerts on December 7 and 8 at the Apollo Theatre.
Vanessa-Mae joined Il Divo on stage during their Xmas concerts in the London Apollo Theatre last December 7 and 8. A short video of Vanessa-Mae accompanying Il Divo is available a You Tube at christine83000 channel. The video is shown below in embedded player.

source: christine83000 channel at You Tube.

December 6, 2009, Vanessa-Mae will start her new 'The Violin Magic Period' Tour in Russia with concert in St Petersburg (Dec. 11) and Moscow (Dec. 12).
Vanessa-Mae will start a new tour of concerts with two shows in Russia on December 11 (St Petersburg, October Hall) and 12 (Moscow, Crocus City Hall). Information about ticket sales can be found via the links provided below as the sources of the news.

sources: Kassir.ru, St Petersburg Times and Liden & Denz.

Comments by VMSPOS: At this moment we have no clue whether Vanessa-Mae will bring new music on this new tour of concerts. The name of the tour suggests that it will probable provide an overview of Vanessa-Mae's music so far. We will report on this as soon as more information becomes available to us, and as soon as more concert dates become known.

December 4, 2009, Vanessa-Mae participated in the launch ceremonial opening for the new Mandarin facility in Las Vegas, and she performed at the gala evening as well.
Vanessa-Mae acted in the ceremonial opening of the new facility of the Mandarin Hotel Group in two ways, by a joined cutting a ribbon with dignitaries and other celebrities present, and with a splendid and spectacular performance at the gala evening.

The 6 photos below were made at the ceremonial cutting of a ribbon by dignitaries and celebrities. Here, Vanessa-Mae was styled in a wonderful creased blue shining satin dress, she had a crucifix pendent that nicely dangled at a tiny necklace in the V-neck opening of her dress, and her face looked quite natural, moderately made up with minor eye definition and light purple lipstick as marks in a smoothly complexioned visage - see the photos below.

At her performance at the gala evening, Vanessa-Mae provided the audience an unforgettable show with great music, spectacular lighting of backgrounds, and a beautiful physical presentation in a bright red gala dress, open shoes with exceptional high heels, and, of course, an overwhelming make-up consisting of firmly applied covering crème, eye definition with black liner and mascara, lush lipstick and a fine blush high on her cheek bones both in the same red as the dress. The 22 wonderful photos below underline Vanessa-Mae's enchanting appearance that evening.

Vanessa-Mae is an official Fan of The Mandarin Hotel Group, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group's international advertising campaign simply and elegantly connects the Group's well recognized symbol - the fan - with international celebrities who regularly stay at the hotels and consider themselves to be fans of the Group. Each fan has chosen a charity to which Mandarin Oriental is delighted to have made a donation of USD 10,000. Vanessa-Mae's charity of choice is the RSPCA - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

source: Mandarin Hotel press release at The Mandarin Hotel Group, and Getty Imagers.

November 26, 2009, Vanessa-Mae attended the launch party of a new facility in Barcelona of the Mandarin Hotel Group.
Vanessa-Mae was present at the launch party of a new facility in Barcelona of the Mandarin Hotel Group, last Wednesday November 26. The 6 photos below show Vanessa-Mae on open brown high heeled shoes, wearing a fine elegant strapless black dress, and her lips beautifully painted in bright red as a striking mark in her visage that was only soberly made up for this occasion.

sources: press release of The Mandarin Hotel Group; Getty Images and Wire Image

November 5, 2009: Vanessa-Mae sends her reaction to the presents that members of the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum (VMF) had send to her on the occasion of her 31st birthday.
A few highlights from Vanessa-Mae's answers to the list of submitted questions are given below. Do visit the appropriate topic at Vanessa-Ma' reaction in the VMF to read all the details.

Highlights from Vanessa-Mae's answers
- Vanessa-Mae feels more happy today than ever before. She had a few injuries this year and hope to stay without these in 2010.
- There is not release date for the new album yet!
- She has never been to Iceland but feels that the landscape there must be very inspiring.
- Her wishes for future collaborations would be to participate in another jam session with Prince.
- Gaspard is doing very well and got a play pal Maximus, a Chihuahua, last Christmas, much to his delight.
- Vanessa-Mae received some cool stuff from Lionel for her new house.
- Finally, Vanessa-Mae wishes all her fans to enjoy the approaching winter.

October 27, Vanessa-Mae celebrates her 31st birthday today.
Today, October 27, Vanessa-Mae becomes 31 years of age. VMSPOS congratulates Vanessa-Mae with her birthday, and expresses hopes that she will enjoy her day together with Lionel, Gaspard, family members, and friends. See our special birthday greeting page at Vanessa-Mae's 31st bday and read an about Vanessa-Mae as a short biography page in relation to her birthday. A full biography of Vanessa-Mae and a discography of Vanessa-Mae can be read via the link. Members of The Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum sent her their traditional birthday presents and a list with questions. So far, Vanessa-Mae has always provided her fans with her feedback on the questions that they had.

October 14, 2009, Vanessa-Mae will appear as special guest on stage with the international vocal group Il Divo at their London concerts on December 7 and 8 at the Apollo Theatre.
Vanessa-Mae will appear on stage a guest at the London concerts that will take place on December 7 and 8 at the Apollo Theatre. Il Divo announced the special series of concerts that will see a Christmas inspired program on their website:

source: Il Divo news and Times Of The Internet.

September 24, 2009, Vanessa-Mae delivered a sold-out concert in Athens, Greece, at the Herod Atticus Theatre under the Acropolis.
Vanessa-Mae performed in Athens, capital of Greece, Herod Atticus Theatre under the Acropolis on Thursday, September 24. YouTube has 4 short videos available of Vanessa-Mae's concert in Athens that she gave last Thursday September 24 at the Herod Atticus Theatre under the Acropolis.

sources: True Athens, music heaven, DRAKFIREMAN at YouTube and Papadopoulos net at YouTube

July 21, 2009: Upcoming concert announced: Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in the Herodeon, located underneath the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, on September 24 of 2009
Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in Athens, Greece, at the Herodeon on September 24 of 2009. more details will follow as soon as they come to us.

The event is sponsored by the Hellenic Bank and The Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel.

Ticket can be ordered via Greek Festival. Sale has, however, not started yet!

source: trikaland and Greek Festival

July 18, 2009, Vanessa-Mae gave a sold out concert at the Westonbirt Arboretum.

Vanessa-Mae performed a sold out concert at the Westonbirt Arboretum, last Saturday July 18. Vanessa-Mae was accompanied by her band and the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anthony Inglis. The All Angels acted as support act. The concert came to an end with Vanessa-Mae playing her blockbuster hit Storm, accompanied with a spectacular fireworks being let off.

At first, cold weather with rain threatened to spoil the fun for the audience and the acting musicians. However, once the concert had begun, rain ceased and, fortunately, the evening remained practically dry from there.

VMSPOS was there at the concert , and our full story review with many photos can be found at Vanessa-Mae live at the Westonbirt Arboretum.

The event is sponsored by the Hellenic Bank and The Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel.

Ticket can be ordered via Greek Festival. Sale has, however, not started yet!

source: trikaland and Greek Festival

June 27, 2009 Vanessa-Mae submitted her drawing to the Action For children to raise awareness for vulnerable children in our society.
Vanessa-Mae is among a large host of stars who illustrated their personal journeys to raise awareness of the difficult and complex journeys that thousands of the most vulnerable children and young people make everyday. BBC News writes:

'The stories behind the success of some of the UK's celebrities have been revealed in a series of self-portraits.
The sketches each illustrate the start and end of a personal transformation in their lives in a single, unbroken line.'

Vanessa-Mae's drawing is shown below.

Comments by VMSPOS: Vanessa-Mae is known to have charity for children in need very close to her heart. She regularly contributed and participated in actions to raise money to protect children against cruelty and to support children in need. She donate parts of the royalties for her album sales to the NSPCC, the National Society for Protection of Children against Cruelty.

sources: Action For children and BBC news

June 3, 2009, Vanessa-Mae attends the preview for VIP's of the annual Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Vanessa-Mae attends the preview for VIP's of the annual Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. The 6 nice photos below show Vanessa-Mae at her outdoor arrival. For this occasion, Vanessa-Mae uses a simple but very nice cotton grey knee length dress with small shoulder straps, and she was on beautiful bright red open shoes with high heels. Vanessa-Mae is only moderately made up with simple black definition of eyes and brows, but with excessive lipstick in a bright colour red that forming a perfect match with her shoes.

sources: Zimbio, Film Magic, Getty Images, Rex Features, Wire Images and ANP

May 30, 2009, Britain's Got Talent star Sue Son met her all time idol Vanessa-Mae.
Behind the scenes of Britain's Got Talent, violinist candidate Sue Son met with her all time idol Vanessa-Mae: see the embedded video below that is available at YouTube.

source: YouTube

May 24, 2009, Vanessa-Mae announces details of her Westonbirt Arboretum concert with a special guest appearance of The All Angels.
Vanessa-Mae announces that The All Angels will appear with her on stage for a special guest collaboration at her Westonbirt Arboretum concert this summer on July 18. The guest appearance alongside Vanessa-Mae is confirmed by The All Angels. Vanessa-Mae announces that she will be joined on stage by her band and the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anthony Inglis.

Vanessa-Mae's concert at the Westonbirt Arboretum will be her first concert in the UK since her shows in 2005 in the London Royal Albert Hall (May 12) and at the Henley-On-Thames music festival (July 17).

About The All Angels - quoted from their official website:
Four very different teenage girls. One shared passion for music. MELANIE NAKHLA, 18 (Date of Birth 29.12.88); CHARLOTTE RITCHIE, 18 (Date of Birth 29.08.89); LAURA WRIGHT, 17 (Date of Birth 17.06.90); DAISY CHUTE, 18 (Date of birth 17.08.89)

In the autumn of 2006, the four teenage members of All Angels were a phenomenon-in-waiting, about to deliver their debut album to an unsuspecting world. A year later, they can justly claim to be the World's First Female Classical Supergroup. They performed at the Classical Brits, where their debut album was nominated for Album Of The Year, and were watched by 10 million viewers when they sang in front of the Queen at the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall. They've shared stages with Russell Watson and Katherine Jenkins, and have unleashed their collective lung-power in support of the England rugby team at several crucial international matches. Their first album was the UK's fastest-selling debut for a classical act, and won them a platinum disc. Now they're eager to find out if their follow-up can do even better.

sources: This is Wiltshire and The All Angels

May 9, 2009, Vanessa-Mae honoured with a Big Ben award for outstanding young people in the UK of Chinese descent.
Vanessa-Mae was one of the 10 young people in the UK of Chinese descent to be honoured with the Big Ben award for outstanding young Chinese living in the UK this year. Unfortunately, Vanessa-Mae was not attending the ceremony.

The Big Ben Awards are presented annually by the British Chinese Youth Federation (BCYF), an England-registered charity, to recognize the achievements of Chinese young people in their professional fields and their contributions to the community. The ten winners are seen as role models to inspire young people of Chinese descent in the UK to excel in business and public service. Big Ben Award is formed by three parts, which include the BCYF-BBA Personal Award, BCYF-BBA Enterprise Award, and the award for UK Ten Outstanding Chinese Young Persons.

sources: radio86, china.org and Jenny Hao blogspot

May 2009, Vanessa-Mae will release a new album in 2010, her management Merlin Music Company states
Vanessa-Mae is currently working on a new album that is scheduled for release in 2010. According to the Merlin Music Company, Vanessa-Mae is also active in various television projects that are not, however, specified further. We quote Merlin Music Company as follows:

Vanessa is currently playing concerts all over the world whilst working on various new music and television projects for 2009 & 2010.
Vanessa will perform her first public UK concert for a number of years at Westonbirt this summer and is currently working on various projects which will see her return with an album in 2010.

source: Vanessa-Mae at Merlin Music Company

April 27, 2009, Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attend the launch party of the Michael Kors flagship fashion store in London, on New Bond Street.
Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attend the of Michael Kors organised for the launch of his new Flagship fashion store on New Bond Street in London. The photos below show Vanessa-Mae wearing casual jeans with a green short jacket with ruffled collar, and she is on pointed black boots. Her face looks perfect and quite natural with not too much visible make-up, yet showing excess of bright red lipstick.

sources: The Telegraph, This Is London, Daily Mail Online, Jamd, Wire Images and Getty Images.

April 26, 2009: The Sunday Times estimates Vanessa-Mae's wealth to be £ 30 million on their annual rich list.
The Sunday Times ranks Vanessa-Mae with an estimated fortune of £ 30 million on position 1771 on their annual rich list in the UK. Among musicians, Vanessa-Mae is just outside the top 50. The Sunday Times writes in their report on Vanessa-Mae:

In all, she has sold 10m albums worldwide although there is little evident in her company, Fretless,
with just £160,000 net assets in 2007. Nicholson [VMSPOS - surname of Vanessa-Mae] has been quiet on the music front of late and so we clip her back to £30m.

sources: The Sunday Times annual rich list and Sunday Times report on Vanessa-Mae

April 25, 2009, Vanessa-Mae provides her comments to questions asked by fans on the occasion of her 30th birthday, last October 27 of 2008
Vanessa-Mae provided her answers to questions submitted by fans of the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum (VMF) on the occasion of her 30th birthday. It has become a tradition (firstly organised in 2000) that Fans organised in the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum send Vanessa-Mae a present for her birthday. Part of the present is a list with questions about issues of concern by these fans that are submitted to Vanessa-Mae. Vanessa-Mae is so kind to answer these questions every year, and she has revealed inside information on several issues that was not previously reported in the media, and that was not publicly known yet. Normally, Vanessa-Mae sends her answer within 1 or 2 weeks, but for reasons of her busy schedule, her answers came only recently. List of the questions and the comments by Vanessa-Mae are available in the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum in the topic Vanessa-Mae's answers.

Vanessa-Mae apologises for the delay and thanks her fans for their patience!

The following interesting highlights come from Vanessa-Mae's comments:

On her new forthcoming album: 'I am at the initial stages of an exciting project that will be a whole new experience for me

On her acoustic violin: 'I can disclose that my violin was seized by St Petersburg customs last December and that it was only released about 2 weeks before my show in Moscow this March!'

On BBC's The Making Of Me and her mother: 'I found out that the BBC programme introduced me to many (and even me to myself!). I obviously owe much to my mother but I now feel at peace regarding our relationship.'

On the Siemens EMI party organised for her 20th birthday: 'I was actually quite sad at that PR party as I had no control over my private life in those days.

On becoming 30 and cutting her hair short because of that: 'I had always thought that 30 was a physical milestone, but when I actually got to it, I did not have the heart to cut my hair as I remembered how much I disliked my short hair.'

On why she uses her acrylic Ted Brewer violin so rarely: 'My led acrylic Ted Brewer violin is stunning, but I like the feeling that it has more impact when it is used rarely.'

Vanessa-Mae ends her comments with the following final statement to her fans: 'Thank you all so much for your support and I hope to play to you all soon. In the meantime, stay happy and safe!

To read Vanessa-Mae's complete comments to the questions, do visit Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum in the topic Vanessa-Mae's answers.

source: Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum in the topic Vanessa-Mae's answers.

Comments by VMSPOS: Vanessa-Mae is so sweet to provides her fans in the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum with her interesting and revealing comments and answers. A few remarkable statements a worth commenting on:

1 Obviously, we all fans have to exert some more patience on the release of Vanessa-Mae's new album - she is only yet in the initial stages and the release will take a while, but hopefully we will see a new album this year 2009.

2 It is sad that the relation between Vanessa-Mae and her mother is so troubled and disturbed. We are glad to learn that Vanessa-Mae is now able to place her youth and the role her mother played in building her career in perspective and that she has come to peace with the relationship she currently has with her mother. We are so glad that she participated in the The Making Of Me and that she learnt from this so many, also about herself. It certainly helped us as fans to understand Vanessa-Mae much better.

3 It is beyond our comprehension that St Petersburg customs came to seize Vanessa-Mae's valuable acoustic Guadagnini violin, especially considering that she has been there several times before. Even if the idea about illegal transportation was to be conceivable, the question still remains why it had to take almost 3 months before the instrument was released to the rightful owner, Vanessa-Mae. Anyway, we now have a clear picture why Vanessa-Mae's concert on December 5 of 2008 in St Petersburg was cancelled.

March 22, 2009, VMSPOS provides more photos of Vanessa-Mae at her sold out concert at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow on March 18, 2009
We found the following series of 7 photos of Vanessa-Mae at her sold out concert at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, last Wednesday March 18. Vanessa-Mae played music from her most recent album Choreography and from her albums Storm, Subject To Change, and The Violin Player, using both her acoustic Guadagnini and electric Zeta violins.

These photos clearly show the elaborated nature of Vanessa-Mae's silver coloured dress: mark all the details of the decorative embroiders! Also, the strong eye definition with black and dark shadow, as well as the striking mark of red lipstick in her pale complexioned visage, indicate that Vanessa-Mae's face was considerable made up for this concert, well inline with common practice for her performances and public appearances.

source: Pure People

Comments by VMSPOS: Please step forward and contact us via the email link below in case you have more information about this concert of Vanessa-Mae. Or submit your review on this concert via info on Vanessa-Mae's concert in Moscow

March 18, 2009, Vanessa-Mae delivers a sold out concert at the Kremlin Palace, Moscow.
Vanessa-Mae performed a live sold-out concert at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, on last Wednesday March 18 in front of a enthusiastic audience that rewarded her with standing ovations. Vanessa-Mae played music from her most recent album Choreography and from her albums Storm, Subject To Change, and The Violin Player, using both her acoustic Guadagnini and electric Zeta violins. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a gorgeous knee length silver dress with sparkling ornaments and embroiders that had strings attached to her arms serving as open sleeves, and she walked on knee high brown leather boots with flat soles. Vanessa-Mae had her long shining black hair loose in free style, and her face was, of course as always at her concerts, heavily made up with a smooth covering crème, a lot of red lipstick, and a dark brown line of shadow on her upper eye lid with further definition of sharp black liner and mascara on the lashes - view the photos below to see how great she looked out there. Vanessa-Mae had a silver belt to which her adapters were attached on her back.

YouTube has a series of 12 videos of various numbers that Vanessa-Mae played at her concert, see the list below:

sources: Voice of Russia, ANP photo service, Photoshot and YouTube

March 14, 2009, Vanessa-Mae will perform a live concert at the Kremlin Palace, Moscow Russia, on coming Wednesday, March 18.
Vanessa-Mae will travel to Moscow, Russia, to do a concert there on Wednesday, March 18, in the Kremlin Palace. Tickets are available online at parter.ru (automatic translation by Google Translate from parter.ru), but the concert is almost sold out, leaving only a few mid price available in category 9 at RUB 6050 (about EUR 135)! Tickets range from RUB 13,200 to RUB1980 (about EUR 295 to EUR 44). This will be already the 5th time that Vanessa-Mae visits Moscow to do a concert, the most recent time being March 7 of 2005, and her ever first concert was for the Storm On World Tour and took place on May 1 of 1998. Vanessa-Mae will bring music from her albums Choreography, Storm, Subject To Change and from The Violin Player, including pieces form Bach, Vivaldi and Khachaturian.

The Russian press has already paid attention to Vanessa-Mae's forthcoming visit to the capital city of Russia, see: the English Moscow News and Rian (in Russian language but via Google Translate an acceptable impression of the contents can be obtained).

VMSPOS will report on Vanessa-Mae's concert, hopefully with photos, as soon as reviews and information becomes available to us!

sources: parter.ru, Moscow News and Rian

February 26, 2009, Vanessa-Mae discusses on BBC 1 television how society looks at intelligent women
Vanessa-Mae appears on BBC 1 television show This Week to participate in a discussion on wise women. The BBC website describes as follows:

Intelligence is in the spotlight - with the success of Gail Trimble on University Challenge - as violinist Vanessa-Mae looks at how society views clever people, especially women.

We quote Vanessa-Mae from the show twice, as follows:

'I think that people don't take for granted that a woman is intelligent, which is bizarre'

'In this country, people just want their children to be happy,
but to be happy as a child, means to invest time
and hard work in becoming a better adult'

sources: Vanessa-Mae official website, BBC This Week and Vanessa-Mae on wise women at YouTube

February 19, 2009, Sky Arts 2 will broadcast Vanessa-Mae's Alternative Classical Concert at 8pm (GMT)
Sky Arts 2 broadcasts Vanessa-Mae's Alternative Classical Concert that she performed on January 25 of 1997 at the Symphony Hall of Birmingham, UK. Vanessa-Mae saw her classical tour concerts in the UK hampered because foreign members of her orchestra were refused work permits for the UK. Sky Arts provides the following description on their website for the announcement of Vanessa-Mae's concert:

January 1997 saw young violin star Vanessa-Mae scheduled to bring her pop-classical tour from Germany to the UK for a series of 14 concerts. However, legal wrangles prevented the entry of her backing musicians - so in the space of 48 hours, Vanessa-Mae devised a new concert programme to keep the fans who had tickets for the tour happy.

The result was a triumph of resourcefulness over adversity, with an impromptu band being assembled virtually overnight, and a new programme of popular classics put together on the hop.

One of the concerts - at the Birmingham Symphony Hall - was filmed for this programme, giving you the chance to enjoy the show which ensured that not a single ticket for the original tour was returned. Vanessa-Mae brings her effervescence and undoubted technique to a range of popular classics including the showpiece solo of Bach's E major Partita Prelude, the joyful ensemble work in Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet, the fizzing exuberance of Rossini's String Sonata No 3, and several surprises.

sources: Vanessa-Mae in Alternative Classical concert on Sky Arts 2 and Program schedule at Sky Arts 2 for Thursday, February 26

Comments by VMSPOS: We have seen this wonderful concert already and have it in our collection of digital video material. We recommend the concert to all who dares to step outside the traditional classical heritage, and of course to all fans of Vanessa-Mae who haven't seen this great performance before. Enjoy Vanessa-Mae in Alternative Classical Concert!

February 5, 2009, Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attended a charity event to raise money for the Morecambe Bay Children's Fund.
Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attended a charity party in the Electric Cinema to support fund raising for the Morecambe Bay Children's Fund. The party was hosted by fashion icon David Tang. Among the attendees were also models Naomi Campbell and Laura Bailey. The photo below shows Vanessa-Mae sitting down together with her friend and life companion Lionel Catalan. Vanessa-Mae wears brown pair of tights, a long sleeved green T-shirts underneath a off white to light pink shirt with puffed short sleeves, she is on large knee high brown leather boots, and has her long black shining hair in free style. Vanessa-Mae's face is perfectly smooth and is made up with covering flawless crème, little eye definition, and an excessively use of bright red glossy lipstick results in a nice and eye catching presentation.

The Morecambe bay tragedy took place in 2004 when 23 Chinese cockle pickers were found dead. The gang master was caught and convicted for murder, and the bodies repatriated. However, 5,000 miles away in Fujian province, the tragedy has only deepened, and the impact on the children of the 23 victims is enormous. The Morecambe Bay Children's Fund aims to support the children and the families of the 23 victims. Morecambe bay is a large sandy bay in the north west of England, reaching from Walney Island in the north to Fleetwood in the south, and the second largest bay in the UK after the Wash bay.

sources: The First Post, The Guardian, and Morecambe bay

January 27, 2009, the official website of Vanessa-Mae is currently redesigned and the new site will be launched soon.
The official website of Vanessa-Mae is currently under redesign and the new site will be available soon. The following message is shown right now on vanessa-mae.com:

'Welcome to Vanessa-Mae 2009: new site coming soon'

Sony owns the vanessa-mae.com domain and Sony also takes care to maintain the site. The contact address info@merlinelite.com is to Vanessa-Mae's management at Merlin Elite

source: Vanessa-Mae

comments by VMSPOS: We know that Vanessa-Mae is working on a new album, currently. The new design of her official website that, is announced to be available soon, might be a sign that we are at the eve of the release of new album. We are thrilled by the prospects for a new album already and will bring more news as soon as it is available to us - so keep an eye on this space to stay in touch with the latest!