Livestream | Kris Allen plays Letting You In and a new song for fans, March 18, 2020

Hope all of you are healthy, washing your hands and staying safe! Kris Allen is self-isolating just like the rest of us in these times of COVID-19. Of course, on March 18, 2016, one of his best albums, Letting You In, was released. And to celebrate, and raise money for his team who is not working at the moment, Kris threw a livestream show on Instagram on March 18, 2020.

If you missed it, you missed a fun party! A highlight for me was seeing Kris' bandmates and former bandmates in the chat, including Torres, Cale (who was hilarious), Devon, and Brad.

Also awesome: Kris sang his new song called Mr. Right Next Door, about an older neighbor who passed away. For those who enjoyed it, and those who missed it, @Shazamy had your back and grabbed the audio of the new song! You can download it here.

If you want to contribute to Kris' team, go to this link.

House Show | Kris Allen plays a house show with Jon McLaughlin in Nashville, January 25, 2020

Photo by Buddy's Place

I'll be honest, it's been so quiet on the Kris front that I forgot he had scheduled this joint show with friend and fellow singer-songwriter Jon McLaughlin. If you are a Kris fan and not familiar with Jon's music, check him out and I think you'll like it.

The two played a house show at Buddy's Place Nashville last night and luckily for all of us Annie (@ameeliu) was there! Kris premiered a new song called Mr. Right Next Door. (You can hear that song in my March 19 post.) Media after the break...

10 Years, 1 Night Tour | Kris Allen plays a hometown show in Conway, Arkansas on December 5, 2019

Rumor had it that Kris had slotted an Arkansas show during his 10 Years, 1 Night tour but the original venue fell through. Not to worry though, his hometown of Conway stepped in and organized a free show on December 5 so Kris could bring the tour to his home state.

The basic 22 song set list Kris followed for the tour is in this post. Kris has added Written All Over My Face to that set, and has dropped in a few surprises occasionally (Parachute and Paul Simon). Even more awesome, he's occasionally performed a few new songs (More Machine, We Will Change and Whenever You Are Here).

Updated December 13 with a complete playlist from the show!

10 Years, 1 Night Tour | Kris Allen's 10th anniversary acoustic tour concludes with Michigan stops, November 21-23, 2019

Kris Allen finishes up the 10 Years One Night tour with a swing through Michigan. He plays Ann Arbor on November 21, Orion Charter Township on November 22, and ends the tour with a show in Grand Rapids on November 23. Hoping his old Idol friend Matt Giraud is there for that one!

The basic 22 song set list for the tour is in this post. Kris has added Written All Over My Face to that set, and has dropped in a few surprises occasionally (Parachute and Paul Simon). He's also getting brave with doing songs he NEVER does in VIP, like Turn the Pages! Even more awesome, he's occasionally performed a few new songs (More Machine, We Will Change and Whenever You Are Here).

Come back after the shows as I'll put the highlights from these final stops in this post!

Updated November 23 with whatever I found from Grand Rapids plus a few more videos from Lake Orion. Lake Orion earns #gavegoodlist.

10 Years, 1 Night Tour | Kris Allen brings the tour to Indianapolis and Chicago, November 19-20, 2019

After a quick Christmas show in Virginia (thanks, Kris!) and a few days off, it's back to the road for Kris Allen, who heads to Indianapolis on November 19 and Chicago on November 20.

The basic 22 song set list for the tour is in this post. Kris has added Written All Over My Face to that set, and has dropped in a few surprises occasionally (Parachute and Paul Simon). He's also getting brave with doing songs he NEVER does in VIP, like Turn the Pages! Even more awesome, he's occasionally performed a few new songs (More Machine, We Will Change and Whenever You Are Here).

Come back after the shows as I'll put the highlights from these two stops in this post!

Updated November 22 with video from Chicago (including one of his Christmas songs - I suspect his Christmas music will now find its way into set lists), and a fantastic Out Alive from Indianapolis.

Christmas Show | Kris Allen comes to light our Christmas Tree in NoVa again on November 15

Tysons Corner Tree Lighting

Tysons Corner, Virginia

November 15, 2019

Free! 6 - 9 PM EST

So true confessions, I didn't go to the local DC area tour stop this year for various reasons. I felt kind of guilty about missing it! Flash forward, I was searching Facebook and local event blogs for some fun and free things to do this month, and I stumbled on this event before the mall announced it! Kris is returning to light up Northern Virginia's nicest mall's Christmas Tree. So I get a Kris show after all!

The photo above is mine from the last time he did this. It was a great way to kick off the holiday and I'm glad he's going to do it again for us. Hopefully the weather will be good, as it is an outdoor event. Hope to see many of you there! It's free, you can take the metro there, and having gone a few times, I can say it is a lot of fun. You can find all the information here. Keep an eye on the mall's IG account too. Last time they had a meet and greet contest.

Updated November 16 with Kira's photos and Eric's video of five songs from the set from this event after the break! Plus bonus review from Mr. KAL who saw Kris for the first time last night. 

10 Years, 1 Night Tour | Kris Allen plays shows in the southeast November 7, 8 and 9

After a break, it's back to the road for Kris Allen, who heads to the Southeast for his next run of shows. Kris plays Shelby, North Carolina on November 7 (Charlotte area), Bluffton, South Carolina on November 8 (Hilton Head area), and returns to Eddie's Attic near Atlanta, Georgia on November 9. He did an interview with Shelby's local paper to promote the shows.

The basic 22 song set list for the tour is in this post. Kris has added Written All Over My Face to that set, and has dropped in a few surprises occasionally (Parachute and Paul Simon). He's also getting brave with doing songs he NEVER does in VIP, like Turn the Pages! Even more awesome, he's occasionally performed a few new songs (More Machine, We Will Change and Whenever You Are Here).

Come back after the shows as I'll put the highlights from the southeastern stops in this post!

Updated November 9 with videos from South Carolina:

News | Kris Allen and David Cook are going to tour Europe in 2020

Well this is welcome and exciting news! Many of us have long wanted Kris Allen and David Cook to do more collaborations. They've shared the occasional billing or stage, but this is an honest to goodness tour, and even better, it's Kris' first tour in Europe (beyond the USO tours).

Here are the dates, locations and ticket links for the tour!

Updated March 19, 2020: Sad news. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tour is postponed. I'm leaving the dates/links up so fans can get updated information on refunds or rescheduled dates.

04/11 – Luxor, Cologne, Germany
04/12 – Frannz, Berlin, Germany
04/13 – Knust, Hamburg, Germany
04/15 – Whelan's, Dublin, Ireland
04/17 – Bush Hall, London, UK
04/18 – The Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
04/19 – King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, UK
04/21 – Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen, Denmark
04/22 – Skive Theater, Skive, Denmark
04/24 – Nalen, Stockholm, Sweden
04/26 – On the Rocks, Helsinki, Finland

Hoping they bring this tour to America! And continue to bring us wacky videos like this tour announcement!

DCO | (VIDEO) David Cook @thedavidcook & Kris Allen @KrisAllen Go to Europe Acoustic Tour 2020! https://t.co/b9ym1AenVb

— David Cook News/Info (@FoolsApril64) October 23, 2019

Updated December 6: The guys have just announced a show in Utah on March 28. Hmmm, US tour in the works or just getting prepped for the Europe tour?

10 Years 1 Night Tour | Kris Allen plays Colorado cities October 24, 25 and 26, 2019

It's on to the state of Colorado for Kris, who plays Denver on October 24, Boulder on October 25, and Fort Collins on October 26.

The basic 22 song set list for the tour is in this post. In subsequent sets, Kris has added Written All Over My Face to that set, and on one occasion, Parachute and Paul Simon. He's also getting brave with doing songs he NEVER does in VIP, like Turn the Pages! Even more awesome, he's been performing a few new songs (More Machine, We Will Change and most recently, Whenever You Are Here).

Come back after the shows as I'll put the highlights from the Colorado stops in this post!

Updated October 26 PM with videos from Fort Collins' show! All of the Colorado cities earned #gavegoodlist.

10 Years, 1 Night Tour | Kris Allen brings the 2019 tour to the Pacific northwest on October 21 and 22

The tour continues, moving from California to the Pacific Northwest with stops in Portland and Seattle. I feel like it's been quite awhile since Kris played Portland and Seattle, so I checked and it was not actually as long as I was thinking... he played both cities during the Letting You In tour (just click their names in the post tag to see the posts).

The basic 22 song set list for the tour is in this post. In subsequent sets, Kris has added Written All Over My Face to that set. He's also done some songs just once: Parachute and Paul Simon.

Come back after the shows as I'll put the highlights from these stops in this post!

Updated October 25 with fantastic full-length meet and greet video, joining the fantastic full-length concert video from Portland featuring another new song from Kris! Portland thus earns #gavegoodlist

10 Years, 1 Night Tour | Kris Allen finally returns to California for solo live shows October 15 - 18

It's been a long while since Kris Allen played regular (non-Christmas) shows, and played them in California. Those fans have waited awhile, and the week of October 15, 2019, Kris returns to play Los Angeles, Berkeley, Novato (Marin County near San Francisco) and Winters (near Sacramento).

The basic 22 song set list for the tour is in this post. In subsequent sets, Kris has added Written All Over My Face to that set, and on one occasion, Parachute.

Come back after the shows as I'll put the highlights from these stops in this post! In the meantime, here's a nice interview with Kris from the Winters, CA local paper.

Updated October 24: Added some links to all the awesome stuff that @krismicklin posted from the Winters show!

10 Years 1 Night Tour | Kris Allen plays New York, Connecticut and Washington, DC, October 3-6

This week Kris plays Cambridge, MA, Pawling, NY, New York,NY, Fairfield, CT and Washington, D.C. This post will contain the highlights from the New York, Connecticut and Washington, D.C. shows after the break. (We're covering the opening date in Cambridge in this post, where you can see the full 22 song set list!) Come back for updates after each show.

Updated October 7 with even more videos from the DC show! New York City, Fairfield, and Washington DC all received the coveted #gavegoodlist tag.

10 Years 1 Night Tour | Kris Allen opens his fall 2019 tour on October 2 in Cambridge, MA

Kris Allen follows up the release of his album "10" with a fall tour starting on October 2 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and winding up on November 23 in Grand Rapids, MI. You can find ticket links and more information for all shows here.

This post will capture the set list and all the action from the first show.  I'm planning regular highlight posts for the other show, grouped by region. 

Updated October 3: The fabulous @ameeliu got the very long (set list (22 songs, including one brand new song) and videos. We've also heard some good banter stories. I notice her videos do include the banter. Kris played acoustic, it's a solo show (no band) and it lasted over two hours. Everything after the break!

College Show: Kris Allen plays Manhattan College, August 30, 2019

Photo by Manhattan College

Kris played back to school show called "Quadchella" at Manhattan College on August 30, 2019 in Riverdale, NY. Videos after the break.

10 Years One Night Tour | Fall Tour 2019 Announced by Kris Allen

Exciting news: Kris Allen announced a fall tour! It will be a small venue, solo acoustic tour and to quote one of the venues (NYC's Cutting Room), "Celebrating 10 years from his monumental American Idol win, platinum-selling singer/songwriter Kris Allen is taking his stories and career-defining songs out on the road in a rare, intimate solo-acoustic performance."

Sounds wonderful! We'll cover this tour as always, but in the meantime, tickets for most shows are available! Go to Kris' official website for all the dates and ticket links!

Private | Kris Allen returns to Arkansas for charity benefit and convention appearances

Photo by KATVAlyson

Kris returned to Arkansas this past weekend and played a gig on April 13 to benefit Alzheimer's Arkansas, hosted by Glen Campbell's widow. He reportedly sang Wichita Lineman with his father. Updated with video from Kim Allen! That's not Wichita Lineman though. Neil sounds great! The song is called Gentle on My Mind.

On April 17, he played a private gig for the Arkansas Bankers Association conventions. We do have a little video.

See what we do have for both events after the jump.

Writer's Round: November 7, 2018: The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, TN

In the Round for Musician's Corner

November 7, 2018

The Bluebird Cafe

Nashville, TN

9:00 PM CST

Kris will join some of his past collaborators for a songwriter's round at the famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. KS Rhoads has played and co-wrote with Kris on the albums Horizons (Lost) and Letting You In (If We Keep Doing Nothing). Marie Miller from Virginia was the opener for the Somethin' About Christmas 2017 tour and the two dueted (beautifully) on Wasting Away. Wish one of them would release it! They have already written one song for Kris' next album (scoop some of you got us from the last tour) and last week, Marie shared in an IG story that they were working on another one. I confess I had to google Emily Kopp; she's described as an indie-soul artist from Orlando.

It is sold out, but late-released tickets may be available at the door. Any good stuff from it (Kris has been known to debut songs at these rounds) will be in this post.

Updated November 9: Marie Miller and Kris' duet on Wasting Away is always the good stuff. Marie was kind enough to share it on IG.

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Man oh man! Always a gift to play at the @bluebirdcafetn thanks @kris_allen for singing this one with me and being such a good friend! #bluebirdcafe #krisallen and special thanks to @muscornernash for hosting!

A post shared by Marie Miller (@mariemillersing) on Nov 8, 2018 at 6:51am PST

Updated 11/11/18: Turns out Kris also live premiered a new song he sang during Idol tour VIPs, Safe Harbor. While we don't have video from this event, Kris did a live IG last night and sung it for us. I'll put the video in that post.

Radio Show: August 11, 2018: Kris Allen visits Baltimore's Todays 101.9 Up Close Studio

Kris Allen played the Up Close studio for Baltimore's 101.9 FM adult hits station on August 11, 2018. Here's the highlights!

• Station's photos
• And here's the interview and performance! Thanks 101.9 and Gina Crash (Very cool DJ that I remember from her DC DJ days at WHFS, a radio station I really miss listening to!)
  
  

June 2018 catch-up post

So this is a catch-up post for all things Kris for the last few weeks! Real life has kept me very busy. Apologies for that! Here's what's been happening Kris-wise:

New single on Friday June 29!
We never see Kris tweet anything anymore (it's all IG stories from him) so it was a great and nice surprise to see this little bit of news pop up:

....NEW MUSIC FRIDAY.... link to presave the song to your Spotify! https://t.co/cPhCr9WbpJ pic.twitter.com/YubFuGXl0D

— Kris Allen (@KrisAllen) June 26, 2018

That's right - new single on June 29. It will also be out on Apple music and iTunes. Kris has been chatting with fans about it on his IG post.

UPDATE: And it's premiered! You can stream the new song here exclusively today (6/28).

UPDATE: It's out! Go here for all the purchase and streaming links.

Show on June 23
We had almost no advance notice of this (which is why you should follow me on Twitter, because I did have a second to RT the tweet from one of the other performers). Kris performed at the Listening Room in Nashville on June 23. We know he sang Faster Shoes and that's about all we know. I wonder if he performed that new single? If you were there, let us know in the comments!

Checking out Kris Allen, Dean Fields, and Maybe April. An American songwriter, America’s sweethearts, and an American Idol!!! #singersongwriter @maybeaprilmusic @kris_allen #countrymusic @listeningroomcafe

A post shared by Travischeyennemusic (@travischeyennemusic) on Jun 23, 2018 at 4:24pm PDT

Festival: April 6, 2018: Tin Pan South, Nashville, TN

Tin Pan South performance

April 6, 2018

The Local

Nashville, TN

6:30 PM CDT

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Kris plays the Tin Pan South festival for singer-songwriters. This annual festival attracts many name performers. Kris last performed at it in 2015, where he debuted Waves  and the Dames' song Belle Meade Gal (sorry no video of that to link and good gravy, this was three years ago!!).

Anything we get from this year, I'll post here! It would be cool if he did Never in a Million Years with Tony Lucca (since he co-wrote it). It would be even cooler if we got new music!

Updated 4/10/2018: Found the set list and a cool behind the scenes video. Was there a premiere? Maybe? (Confirmed, there was!) After the jump...