StageIt Concert, Christmas in Nashville, December 12, 2013

Screencap by @heartsandroses9

Christmas in Nashville

StageIt Show

December 12, 2013

8 PM EST

Kris did his second annual Christmas show on StageIt (well, hopefully we can call this an annual tradition) and it was wonderful! He performed with Cale and Andrew St. Marie, and brought in Two Story Road for the encore. (They are a married performing duo he met on the Gokey Sophia's Heart cruise and the show was done out of their house.) I logged off feeling Christmas warmth and cheer. 

In the end, he performed six Christmas classics and premiered one original song which I love! We will need to figure out its title though. Let me know your thoughts on that. I'll link mp3s and videos to the performance below, but make sure to pick up the studio recordings of the classics if you haven't already! (You can get the five tracks from Waiting for Christmas on iTunes and I'll Be Home for Christmas from NoiseTrade (no longer available).)

Screencap by KrisAllenLists

Plugged In - Kris, Cale, Andrew S. and Two Story Road

Set List:

1. Holly Jolly Christmas (Cover - Burl Ives)  [Video] | [Video] | [Video]
2. The Christmas Song (Cover - Nat King Cole)  [Video] | [Video] | [Video]
3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Cover - Judy Garland) [Video] | [Video] | [Video]
4. New Untitled Original Christmas Song by Kris - PREMIERE [Video] | [Video w Q&A] | [Video]
5. White Christmas (Cover - Bing Crosby) [Video] | [Video] | [Video]
6. O Holy Night (Traditional Carol) [Video] | [Video] | [Video]

Encore:

    7.  I'll be Home for Christmas (Cover - Bing Crosby) - PREMIERE [Video] | [Video] | [Video]

Banter Videos: [Banter] | [Q&A] |

Related Links:

• YouTube Playlists:  [p_eleph] | [sirkandthedirtyminds] | [snapcracklypop]
• Mp3's: By Song | Full Show | New Song
• Recaps: Pink Elephant

Throwback Thursday: Kris' Stage-It Christmas Concert, December 20, 2012

Every Thursday (most of them anyway) we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

Today is a special Thursday, because tonight is Kris' Stage-It Christmas concert. This year it will be held in Nashville and feature Cale, Andrew St. Marie and maybe some others. This is an online concert and a rare opportunity for international fans, not to mention American fans of scorned states and cities, to catch Kris live via the magic of the Internet.

So if you haven't gotten your ticket yet, what the heck are you waiting for? The first batch sold out and the second batch of tickets will too. As of the time I write this (Wednesday night), there are only 44 tickets left! Get yourself a ticket here! And if money is tight or you don't have a Paypal, then just post in the chat area that you are looking to hitch a ride and I'm sure a generous Kris fan will gift you the ticket. (For those wondering, I won't do a list since really everyone in the fandom who is not otherwise engaged with work or school events should go to this show. But I will post the setlist afterwards.)

Still not convinced? Let's take a look at some highlights from last year's Christmas show for Throwback Thursday!

Here was the 2012 setlist:

Part 1 Video, including:

• Holly Jolly Christmas (Cover - Burl Ives) - PREMIERE
• The Christmas Song (Cover - Nat King Cole)
• Please Come Home for Christmas (Cover - Charles Brown) - PREMIERE
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Cover - Judy Garland)
• Christmas All Over Again (Cover - Tom Petty) - PREMIERE

Part 2 Video, including:

• White Christmas (Cover - Bing Crosby)
• Oh Holy Night (Traditional Carol) (This one is soooooo pretty)

And the encore (yes, if enough people buy tickets and tip $, you get an encore/longer show):

• Monster
• No Boundaries (Reggae)
• Blindfolded

And this last hauntingly beautiful number, which he sang right after the Newtown tragedy of 2012...

• Where Are You, Amy? - dedicated to people of Newtown, CT - PREMIERE [Video]

During the show last year, people got the opportunity to tip the artist (i.e., Kris). The top tippers won cool swag including personalized ornaments. This year, according to a post on Kris' official website, we shall be tipping for the opportunity to win "some exciting new-album related rewards." Sounds good!

See you there in the StageIt Main Stage Chatroom tonight! 8 PM Eastern Standard Time (7 PM Central, 5 PM Pacific).

- KAL

Throwback Thursday: Everybody Wants to Rule the World, San Francisco, 11/21/2010

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

Uploading a little early today as we have a family celebration tonight.

I was really happy to see this video come up when I plugged 11/21 into the YouTube search box. I've always loved Kris' cover of Tears for Fears' Everybody Wants to Rule the World, and he began mashing it up with Michael Jackson's The Way You Make Me Feel during the 2010 Lifehouse Fall tour. The mash-up was a lot of fun, and it turned into a sexy duet of Kris' falsetto with Andrew DeRoberts' guitar. Check it out in this awesome video from headonfire1105 from his November 21, 2010 concert in San Francisco!


Enjoy!

Throwback Thursday: Stuck in a Moment, L.A. Grove, November 17, 2010

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

This week, and really the past few weeks, I admit I have hit a little stumbling block creativity-wise. I've been kind of stuck.

Coincidentally, I happened to go to a David Cook concert this past Monday. He's always good, and I really enjoyed the energy and love his fans showed him. I firmly believe that musical acts really want that kind of energy from their audiences, especially those acts in the pop-rock genre. The vibe of the crowd and the night was fun and lively and I came away feeling energized about live music.

We could use a little of that energy in our particular fandom, and it was great to see news of two shows leak out - February 8 in Watseka, IL and February 14 in Natick, MA (near Boston). I think many Kris fans are starved for live shows, even though truthfully, it hasn't been that long since he toured and he does need the time to work on new music. But new shows are soon to come and the two we know of are now listed on the Kralendar on the bottom of this page. Let me know on Twitter (@KrisAllenLists) if you are going so I can add you to the lists!

For our throwback Thursday entry this week - I was similarly stuck again for an idea. Than I stumbled on this pretty video by jeck s of Kris singing U2's Stuck in a Moment at a 2010 appearance at the L.A. mall called the Grove. This has always been one of my favorite covers by him and it's a song with lyrics that call for one to get oneself together and get out of one's rut.


My hopes? That our fandom can rejuvenate during this downtime and bring a renewed energy towards promoting and attending the upcoming shows! For my part, I have got some ideas for this blog that I am looking forward to putting forth in the new year to come. Let's get unstuck!

Throwback Thursday: Falling Slowly/With or Without You (11/08/09): A Tribute to my Leaves

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

This week's entry is inspired by the past two days which I have spent raking many leaves. The leaves in Virginia are beautiful, that is until they fall all over the place and you have to spend countless hours raking them in time for "leaf collection day" which is never a convenient day.

So what better song to pay tribute to those leaves to than Kris's debut performance of his mash-up of his Idol movie night classic cover of The Swell Season's Falling Slowly and U2's With or Without You. He first performed this at a Live in the Vineyard showcase in November 2009. Here's the official video posted by Live in the Vineyard:


Bonus goodie: For those who would like it, here's an mp3 of this particular performance.

I still can't believe I have never seen this live. Consider yourself lucky if you have; I'm very envious!
Now I am going to have a nice oaky chardonnay to commemorate this year's leaves falling slowly, and raking, which I certainly could live with or without.