Idol Tour 2018: July 19, 20 and 21: Idol and Kris Allen visit Texas

American Idol Live 2018! is visiting Texas this week! (Links to tickets and information.)

July 19: Dallas, Texas (The Verizon Theatre)  - Thank you to Aspen (@SpenReed4) for updating us with some great twitter videos from the whole show! Dallas will earn #gavegoodlist for these!

July 20: San Antonio, TX (The Tobin Center) - We've got a video... c'mon San Antonio fans time to share...!

July 21: McAllen, Texas (McAllen Performing Arts Center) - We've got a video. Hope to see more posted.

Fun fact: Kris has played Dallas a lot, and San Antonio a couple of times (although it's been awhile!), but he's also played McAllen, Texas once before! It's where he gave us this gem from 2011.


Come back after the shows for coverage! Information on the expected set list is here. (Updated 8/16/2018 with some photos from San Antonio that popped up.)

Throwback Thursday: Kris Allen and Andy Grammer

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

As most Kris fans probably know, the first show of the summer for us is tomorrow in Anaheim, CA, as Kris opens for Andy Grammer, and they have a second show together on Saturday in San Diego. Get your tickets now!

Photo courtesy of @summerdaze_

But this is not Kris' first interaction with Andy Grammer; in fact, the two have performed in a few shows together and share quite a few fans. So a retrospective seemed in order for this week's #TBT post.

Many Kris fans, including me, first heard of Andy Grammer when we spent October 2010 desperately spamming useless radio station polls in an effort to get Alright With Me played. I can't remember which station it was, but one of them put Alright With Me head to head in a poll with Andy's eventual big hit, Keep Your Head Up. Alright With Me won but it was a very narrow victory and I recall those of us who clicked on Andy's clip liked it a lot.

A few weeks later, Kris and Andy met for the first time while doing a radio station's 2010 Christmas show together in Portland, OR (along with season 9 winner, Lee DeWyze). Here's a picture of their meeting from Andy's Facebook:

Kris fan @mylifeback remembers that both guys were entertaining and fun in the show. Here's KrisTogether's thread for the show (thanks @ISBinLA!) Andy posted this nice comment on Facebook.

Here's a video of Alright With Me taken by @elemental1025 from that show:



Flash forward a few more months into 2011, and Keep Your Head Up had become a big hit! My friend @subeeDC won a radio station contest to meet Andy at a lunchtime concert/meet and greet event, and took me. It was a lot of fun and we did ask Andy about meeting Kris (and @mylifeback) - he was very effusive in his praise of Kris and how much he had enjoyed doing that Portland concert. Here's a video of Andy from that event.



The following year, Kris and Andy met up again when they performed at a Buffalo radio station's Starry Night in the Garden summer concert. Sadly the station has taken down its video of that show, but @altrus01 has some excellent videos of both Kris and Andy on her YouTube channel.

No duets or collabs from Kris and Andy yet, but hopefully they will collaborate in the future! Meanwhile, let's look forward to the shows this week! The Anaheim list and post will be available later tonight. Be sure to let me know (@KrisAllenLists on Twitter) to add you to the lists if I haven't done so!

Enjoy!

Throwback Thursday: June 25, 2011: Kris Allen and Kris Allen Band perform at the ALIVE Festival, Mineral City, Ohio

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

One show that remains fondly in the heart of many Kris fans is his 2011 appearance at the Alive Christian Music Festival. It may not sound like it, but this is an honest to goodness rock music festival and Kris and band delivered an amazing set for which many fans traveled from afar! They looked fantastic, had a blast with a lively crowd and were so amazing that three years later, fans are reminiscing about how much they enjoyed that show.

So here is a video of their set closer, Come Together! Check out that catwalk!



And for fun, here is the KAB playing some wiffleball before their set:



Finally, for more ALIVE Festival memories, check out:

• Kris Allen Set Lists
• Ameeliu's Video Playlist (full set)

Enjoy!

p.s. Don't forget that we are putting the final touches on Kris' birthday plans! Make sure you sign the group card tonight by 11 pm Eastern! And if you are going to his 6/21 show in Michigan, PLEASE let me know by tweeting @KrisAllenLists to put you on the live tweet list!

Event: May 1-3, 2014: Various Kentucky Derby Events, Louisville, KY

Southern Gaming's Derby Poker Bourbon Bash

Unbridled Eve Gala

May 2, 2014

7 PM - 1:30 AM EDT
Also performing: Frankie Ballard, Landau Eugene Murphy

Kentucky Derby

May 3, 2014

Races start 1:30 PM EDT

Post Time for Kentucky Derby 6:24 PM EDT

Preview:

Starting tonight, Kris is scheduled to attend several Kentucky Derby related events. First up is a celebrity poker party sponsored by Southern Gaming Magazine tonight. (Update: Although he was listed in promotional articles as attending, it appears he did not. Of course, as we know, he's been very busy with Arkansas tornado relief, so that's my guess for where he was.)  Friday night, he's one of the entertainers at an official Kentucky Derby charity ball, Unbridled Eve. Both events benefit a charity named Blessings in a Backpack. And Saturday, we can expect him to pop up as a spectator at the Run for the Roses.

Special thank you goes to one of my favorite Kris fans, @KYnurse45_ for helping me pull together the list! She also shared this #throwbackthursday video find from the last time Kris played a Kentucky Derby event (in 2011):

Pre-Event Press and Publicity:

• Louisville Courier-Journal article on poker party
• Louisville Courier-Journal article on Unbridled Eve
• WSLM Radio's article on Unbridled Eve
• Louisville.com's article on Unbridled Eve
• KentuckyDerbyTours.com's post on Unbridled Eve
• Unbridled Eve Press Release [PDF]

Screencap by KrisAllenLists

Unbridled Eve Event Photos:

Rehearsal pic by thelouisvillecrashers

Event set-up pic by @EmilyWDRB

Media for Unbridled Eve:

Red Carpet!

Photo by @TheKenGent

News Articles and Other Media:

• Getty Images Album (Click newest for most pictures)
• Zimbio Album
• WDRB 
• Louisville Courier-Journal
• Louisville.com (Great description plus set list!)

The Show!

Photo by @PanasonicUSA

Jamming with Frankie Ballard and Landau Eugene Murphy -
 Photo by @The DoctorTTT

Set List for Unbridled Eve (Partial, obviously; order uncertain): 

• Better and Wild
• You Got a Way
• Live Like We're Dying
• Brick House (cover - The Commodores) - With Frankie Ballard and Landau Eugene Murphy

The Derby!

• Kris Allen Media: Kris and Katy at the Kentucky Derby
• Kris Allen Media: Getty Pictures from Kentucky Derby and Unbridled Eve Gala
• Kris Allen Media: Unbridled Eve and Kentucky Derby Videos

Photo by katyallen79

Photo by @BH_EMarr

Kris and Katy hanging with Donald Driver and wife
Photo by Donald Driver

Photo by Julia Baker of the Cooking Channel 

Photo by kentucky.com

Throwback Thursday: January 30, 2011: Kris sings the National Anthem at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

This week we go back exactly three years to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, where Kris performed the National Anthem. This ended up being an excellent and unique performance, and quite the media-fest for us!

Let's take a look back:

Pre-Show Shenanigans:

Back then we were "Krinjalists" and everything was so DIY. We had to figure out everything for ourselves! (It's still kind of that way at times, lol. But at least Kris fans can find me in search now.) And with me not being the biggest football fan, I really didn't know how the Pro Bowl worked. Luckily - we got an assist and a Kris spotting from the Pro Bowl's pre-show musical act:

Here's an awesome picture taken by Kris' then manager, Lizzie, of Kris with Johnny Rzesnik of the Goo Goo Dolls during the festivities:

And I think a lot of you loved this picture when it first came out:

(Source: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images North America)

The Performance:

Kris put a nice Hawaiian spin on the anthem, assisted by adorable schoolchildren. He got a lot of compliments and trended on Twitter organically (i.e., not intentionally fan-generated but just people watching the Pro Bowl) for awhile

You can download an mp3 here.
Some Bonus Good Stuff: Here's my favorite thing of all of this:

.gif by Gracefulally

And my other favorite thing:


Enjoy! Remember, if you are going to any of the February shows, please let me know so I can add you to the twitter lists!

Throwback Thursday: August 14/15, A Day for Epic Apparently

On every (well, most) Thursdays we take a look back at Kris Allen's past performances to remember the good times! Since I've been a little remiss lately about this, thought I'd load you up with a few videos.

Usually I start this by searching the date and Kris' name in YouTube. When I did this with August 15, so many goodies came up! So - in reverse chronological order, here's August 15 in Kris Allen World (excluding 2012 and 2013 - nothing to report for these years).

First, August 15, 2011, Clarkston, MI: Kris debuts You Got a Way during a concert opening for Lifehouse! Here's Altrus01's awesome video! (Click here for the setlist and more media.)



Then, August 15, 2010, (well technically August 14 but the videos were uploaded on the 15th!), at the Indiana State Fair, we got this little piece of Kreith goodness from supox30!


This was the first time they performed Jack and Diane together. The Indiana audience did a great job of singing along! And of course at the beginning we get Kris telling Keith he's hot (:DDDDD) and at the end, a big old epic Kreith hug! (Lots more media and the full setlist for Kris here.)

And August 15, 2009? Kris was still touring with the Season 8 Idols, in Hamilton, Ontario! Here's a awesome but terrifying video (when you think about the giant cavernous hole that opens up behind him) from Lupin788 of Kris performing the Killers' All These Things That I've Done!


Enjoy!

Flashback Friday! Festival Time!

We've started a new thing to pass the time... Flashback Friday! Every Friday we'll take a look back and check out a video to catch up on the Out Alive Tour. Plus I'll try to give you a bonus video - maybe one that got overlooked or one that is just worth watching again.

For our Out Alive Tour catch up, let's go check out one of the many videos shot by the lovely @ameeliu - just because it's her birthday today and she is one of the most awesome Kris Allen fans out there!

For the bonus video, as you know, Kris is at South by Southwest this week for a showcase tomorrow! I thought it would be great to go back to the last time he played a music festival - that would be the Alive Festival in Ohio, in 2011. So here's another video by @ameeliu - Falling Slowly/With or Without You - that is just stellar from that show.

Enjoy! And be sure to check out the South by Southwest Festival Post with its embedded twitter list - Kris' show is tomorrow night, March 16, 2013!