Happy Birthday Kris Allen!

Tipping my hat to Kris on his 31st birthday. Congratulations on that and on new baby Rosie! It's a big week obviously for him!

If you want to celebrate the occasion, here's some ideas!

• Make a $31 donation to a charity of your choice! (Tweet @christig428 about it as she is compiling a list of these!)
• Send your birthday wishes to Kris! Instructions and email to use are here!
• Leave a comment on Team Kris' Instagram for Kris! 
• And/or leave a comment on their Facebook post!
• Stream 31 Kris Allen songs on Spotify! 

And don't forget to hashtag it all! #HappyBirthdayKrisAllen Now go forth and celebrate!

Concert: June 21, 2014: Monroe Community College 50th Anniversary Celebration Festival

Photo via Monroe County Community College

Monroe County Community College

50th Anniversary Celebration Festival

June 21, 2014 (Kris' Birthday)

Monroe CCC Campus

8:30 PM EDT

Show and List Preview:
Kris plays the 50th anniversary festival for a community college in Southern Michigan. Although it is set on a college campus, this event is free, open to the public and all ages. Not to mention, it is taking place on Kris' birthday! We've got a few good tweeters on our list, but the list overall is very small. But this show is near Toledo and Detroit, and the festival sounds like a lot of fun, so I've got a feeling more will pop out of the woodwork.

Pre-Show/Event Press and Publicity:

• Festival Page

The Show:

Photo by @LindseyFavreau

Acoustic - Kris, Andrew and Torres

Set List: (Partial; order is my best guess and unconfirmed)

1. Paul Simon
2. Alright With Me [Instagram] [Video]
3. Don't Set Me Free [Video] [mp3]
4. Team/Pompeii (Cover - Bastille/Lorde mash-up) [Video] [mp3]
5. Happy Birthday [Video]
6. Out Alive
7. Better With You [Instagram]
8. Beautiful and Wild
9. In Time [Video] [mp3]
10. In Your Eyes (Cover-Peter Gabriel)
11. Monster [Instagram]
12. Rooftops with a smidge of In Da Club (50 Cent) before it
13. Leave You Alone
14. Live Like We're Dying [Instagram] [Video]
15. Shut That Door

After the Show:

• MCCC Student Government Photo Album
• Pink Elephant 

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!

Sssssh, Birthday Plans Afoot....

It's time to make some plans for Kris Allen's 29th birthday, happening on June 21! Here's the various things that various fans are undertaking... Join in and do one, two or all!

Birthday Card
First off, there is an online birthday card for fans to sign at http://www.groupcard.com/c/dYN5V9NlU4e. The card will be closed on June 19, so make sure you sign by then! Thank you to @Ang_716 for setting this up for all of us!

Charity Effort
Kris superfan @christig428 has challenged other Kris fans to donate $29 to any charity of your choosing in honor of Kris. Details here.

Get the TVOL Video to 2 Million Views by 6/21
Several fans have tweeted that it would be sweet to get that darn video for The Vision of Love to 2 million views by Kris' birthday. It's so close! To make it easy, I've embedded here. Just click on it when you get a chance! If you are highly motivated to do this, click this link instead and leave it on.


Go to His Birthday Concert! (Detroit and Toledo, OH Areas) On June 21, Kris will headline the Monroe County Community College 50th Anniversary Celebration. He'll be performing on the campus in Monroe, MI at 8:30 PM in a show that is free, all-ages and open to the public, and that will be followed by fireworks! Monroe, MI is just north of Toledo, Ohio and is about an hour south of Detroit. If you need more incentive, he doesn't have another non-college show scheduled right now until late August in Washington State. Whatever you choose to do, please join me in saying, Happy Birthday Kris!