Loose Ends: Nelly Furtado And Taking Back Sunday Act, Amy Lee Gets Engaged And Celine Dion Winds Things Down In Vegas

01/11/07 8:00pm

Nelly Furtado will make her prime time acting debut by playing Ava Grant, a shoplifter suspected of murder, in an episode of CSI: NY airing on CTV on Feb. 7. The singer previously played herself in a 2001 episode of the sci-fi drama, Roswell.

Speaking of music artists on the small screen, Taking Back Sunday have been scheduled to appear on the long-running Canadian high school drama, Degrassi Junior High: The Next Generation. In an episode titled "What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?", after the band's song of the same name, Degrassi student and aspiring musician Craig Manning joins the group for a one-night-only show and finds that partying like a rock star may stand in the way of his dream girl and career.

In real life drama on TV, Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee announced during the band's Live@Much performance on Tuesday that she became engaged to her boyfriend Josh the previous night while the group were in Toronto for a concert at the Air Canada Centre.

Here's one show that we won't be sorry to see draw to a close: Celine Dion's run at the Colosseum theatre in Las Vegas' Caesar's Palace casino/hotel will end on Dec. 15. The chanteuse started performing there in March 2003 and almost 2.5 million people have seen her thus far. The final year of the show will feature new songs and costumes, and a performance is slated to be filmed this month for a TV special and DVD. Circle March 1 on your calendar if you want to get in on the final block of tickets for concerts from August through December.

Toronto concert announcements:

Jan. 18 Vercity, The Flints, Blues Biscuit and Jeen O'Brien @ Horseshoe Tavern
Jan. 19 The Miniatures @ Horseshoe Tavern
Jan. 25 Trans Love Airways, John Borra, William New and Brian Ruryk @ Holy Joe's
Jan. 26 The Brown Hornets, Ride Theory, The Exchanges and Oh The Pretty Things @ Horseshoe Tavern
Jan. 26 The Creeping Nobodies, The Guest Bedroom, The Sharp Tongues, Huckleberry Friends and DJ Kid Millions @ Concord Cafe
Jan. 27 Carlos Del Junco And The Blues Mongrels @ Silver Dollar
Jan. 28 Hollowphonic, Original Recipe and DJ Music Is My Radar @ Sneaky Dee's
Jan. 29 Sylvia Tyson, Garnet Rogers and Don Ross @ Hugh's Room
Feb. 1 Pony Up! @ Horseshoe Tavern
Feb. 1 Royal Wood @ Music Gallery
Feb. 5 James McMurtry @ El Mocambo
Feb. 9 Hostage Life, Attack In Black and The Surplus Sons @ Mod Club
Feb. 15 Demon's Claws and No Dynamics @ Silver Dollar
Feb. 18 Ember Swift @ Hugh's Room
Feb. 20 Papa Roach, It Dies Today and Kill Hannah @ Phoenix
Feb. 21 The Blue Nile @ Mod Club
March 1 Pepper and Mad Caddies @ Opera House
March 5 El Perro Del Mar @ Mod Club
March 5 Gomez and Ben Kweller @ Phoenix
March 8 Lynn Miles @ Hugh's Room
March 9 United Steel Workers Of Montreal, The Barmitzvah Brothers, Ox, Barzin and Two-Minute Miracles @ Silver Dollar
March 14 Cartel, Cobra Starship, Boys Like New Girls and New Atlantic @ Phoenix
March 22 Gordie Sampson @ Hugh's Room
March 24 The Roots, Zaki Ibrahim and DJ Agile @ Kool Haus
March 26 Johnny Winter @ Phoenix
April 9 The Early November, The Rocket Summer, Melee and Nothing Ever Stays @ Opera House
April 9 Elvis Perkins In Dearland @ Mod Club
April 11 Chris Hillman @ Hugh's Room
April 13 The Books @ Opera House
April 20 Al Stewart @ Hugh's Room
May 11 Carol Welsman @ Hugh's Room
May 12 Marc Jordan @ Hugh's Room
May 25 Tanglefoot @ Hugh's Room
July 3 The Strawbs @ Hugh's Room

Vancouver concert announcements:
Feb. 2 Ten Second Epic, The Set and Cowboy & The Prizefighter @ Croatian Cultural Centre
Feb 3 Menomena @ Pat's Pub
Feb. 13 Buckcherry and Idle Sons @ Plush Nightclub
Feb. 13 Camera Obscura and Portastatic @ Richard's On Richards
Feb. 13 Neko Case and Eric Bachmann @ Commodore Ballroom
Feb. 17 Grizzly Bear and Papercuts @ Plaza Club
Feb. 22 The Thermals @ Media Club
Feb. 23 The Dan Band @ Commodore Ballroom
March 3 Sebadoh @ Richard's On Richards
March 26 India.Arie @ Commodore Ballroom
March 27 Badly Drawn Boy @ Richard's On Richards
March 30 Pepper, Mad Caddies and The Supervillains @ Richard's On Richards