American Idol 11 Top 3 Homecoming Schedules!

By On 05/11/2012 · 50 Comments · In American Idol

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This weekend, Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez and Joshua Ledet will be heading to their hometowns to be feted like rock stars! And it’s all for the American Idol cameras. Here are the kid’s hometown visit schedules:

Phillip Phillips – Leesburg, GA

Fri 10 PM: Phillip’s celebration starts when he arrives Friday night at the Eagles of America near the Southwest Georgia Regional Airport. The address is 3905 Newton Rd, suite 111. The brown building housing Eagles of America sits off just from the airport. It is not the Southwest Georgia Regional Airport and parking is not allowed there. Free parking is allowed at the service entrance in the grass lots. You are encouraged to be there by 10 PM and you are allowed to bring signs!

Saturday 10 AM: On Saturday, Phillips will make visits to the local Cumulus building for a radio tour on Broad Avenue at 10 AM. This will be followed up by a visit to his dad’s pawn shop afterwards.

Saturday: 2:30 PM: Then, the Lee County Chamber of Commerce continues the homecoming celebration with a parade that will begin at 2:30 p.m. and will run down Hwy. 32 from Starksville Avenue to the Lee County High School.

Saturday 3 pm: The concert will begin at 3:00 p.m. at the Lee County High School Football Stadium. Gates will not open until 2:00 p.m. No coolers or backpacks will be allowed. The event is free and open to the public. (FOX31)

Jessica Sanchez – San Diego, CA

10:15 a.m. to noon Saturday, Eastlake High School’s Stan Canaris Football Stadium in Chula Vista. The Chula Vista homecoming will begin with a brief parade outside of the stadium, which has a capacity of 6,000. Attendees should arrive from the south, using Olympic Parkway, or from the east, using Clubhouse Drive to Eastlake Parkway. Eastlake Parkway will be closed to traffic, from Clubhouse Drive to Otay Lakes Road, from approximately 8:30 a.m. until noon, in order to permit safe viewing of the parade.

2 to 3 p.m. Saturday on the flight deck of the USS Midway Museum at downtown’s Broadway Pier. The homecoming celebration on the USS Midway is free, but only for those boarding between 1 and 2:30 p.m. Admission is limited to the first 3,500 people, so it is advisable to line up before 1 p.m. Public parking is available nearby, but is expected to fill up quickly. (UT San Diego)

(More Details about her Midway appearance at FaceBook

Joshua Ledet – Westlake, LA

Saturday 12 PM: The parade will go down Sampson Street in Westlake, starting at around noon.

Saturday 6 PM: The pep rally will start at 6 p.m. at Burton Coliseum, located at 7001 Gulf Highway in Lake Charles. The pep rally will feature live entertainment, including several songs by Ledet. (The Advertiser)

 
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  • http://twitter.com/blkeener Brittany Keener

    Exactly. 

    There was an article about a month ago talking about Jessica’s homecoming and where it would be…that depended on how/who was paying for it. She’s very lucky to have Sycuan Casino supporting her. They are sponsoring her homecoming, as well as paying for a number of billboards around San Diego freeways. 

  • Christopher Auyeung

    There’s a decently sized Filipino community that I’m sure will be out to support Jessica in full as well. I have a couple Filipino friends from when I was at UCSD whose families live in San Diego as well, and they tell me that the community always makes a huge deal when a Filipino entertainer gets big.

  • Anonymous

    Hollie’s hometown will probably have a big welcome for her as well.  I believe that the tv crews go to the top 4 hometowns a week before to start getting ready for the hometown visits.  I remember that from one season the 4th place hometown did it all anyway – just without the FOX cameras!!   I hope Hollie gets a big welcome home in Katy, TX.

  • Anonymous

    I was at the homecoming for James and according to a woman from a Tourettes organization that I talked to he was scheduled to have a private meeting with a bunch of kids with tourettes, not wanting to disappoint them, their organization, the city of Santa Cruz, and the Boardwalk were the ones that negotiated James’s release from AI.  I don’t think AI funded anything, but James brought $1M into the city that day so there were no complaints from businesses or taxpayers.  The interesting thing was because of the 24Hr notice, the crowd of 30K were mostly from the local region, the police estimated it would have been at least 50K if James had actually been in the top 3.

  • Anonymous

    Atlanta is 190 miles away from Leesburg which is in South Georgia.  Atlanta is considered North Georgia, so there is quite a distance between them.

  • Anonymous

    Leesburg is part of Metro Albany. It is no huge area but there are 165,000 or so people there.

  • Anonymous

     I see the typical parades and concerts that everyone gets every year….I don’t see anything different.

  • Anonymous

    Love Joshua’s concert info….

    There will be two opening acts — both of which are related to Josh.
    Before Josh takes the stage, there will be a little Louisiana flavor on the floor. Zydeco artists Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience and Brandon Ledet will be his openers. They also happen to be cousins of Josh.

    http://107jamz.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-joshua-ledets-american-idol-concert-at-burton-coliseum/

  • Anonymous

    There are supposed to be terrible rain storms in Westlake, LA tomorrow.  They have already had to move Joshua’s parade up to noon.  If it gets to roll, fingers crossed, it’s going to be a mini Mardi Gras parade with a float for his family.

  • http://twitter.com/MissGolightly22 No Thanks

    Visits to local radio stations and the local Fox morning shows seems to be missing from most of the visits.

  • too-cool-for-school

    Wow, I’ve really been in the dark. I assumed Idol paid for most of the expenses for the homecoming visits. Thanks everyone! I learned something new today, haha.

  • http://www.etsy.com/shop/AdorablyHooked Gwen

    Those storms, moving that way from Texas, caused several tornadoes in our area last night. Hopefully, it’s not too bad.

  • http://www.etsy.com/shop/AdorablyHooked Gwen

    Do they do that AT & T thing anymore?

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately I live on the east coast so I wont be able to attend Jessica’s homecoming. But I hope someone takes some really awesome videos so the rest of us can enjoy :)

  • Chris

    I think people are just going by the crowds or enthusiasm.  Some, but not all, of the “big city” homecomings seem lightly attended considering the size of the city.  Some of the small towns, have a parade (e.g. the person mentioned Mardi Gras float for Josh???), the mayor comes out and gives them the key to the city or names a day after them, police escorts, so its just different. 

  • Anonymous

    The homecomings are always interesting. However, I feel like Idol never shows enough footage on the performance shows and they save much of it for the results show filler slots. 

  • Chris

    One would think that ATL would rally around Idol contestants from GA.  For the last 2 seasons, it appears the hometowns are too far from the city.  Last year Chatanooga, assisted Lauren’s homecoming, even though she’s officially a GA resident.  
    Now that we know the cities pay, maybe its just a cash issue.

  • Anonymous

    I LOVE the Hometown visits episode every year. No matter who gets to go home, my favorite or not so favorite. I love seeing how touched they are to see the outpouring of love. I love their families. I just love it all. 

    Also, a homecoming episode brought my all-time favorite line from an Idol, “Where did they park?” (David Archuleta) ha ha

  • Anonymous

    He’s baaaacccckkkkkkk!

  • too-cool-for-school

    “I love seeing how touched they are to see the outpouring of love. I love their families. I just love it all.”

    Me too! The homecoming episode always makes me tear up. :’)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NDYOWBIIPZU6PBRHGOPT2ZZJXQ sweetmm

    It tickles me that Jessica’s homecoming is almost exact to that of Adam’s; the school stadium and the armed forces venue :)

  • Anonymous

    After Joshua got off the private jet in Lake Charles, Phillip deboarded.  Louisiana gave him a very nice welcome and he signed autographs.

  • Anonymous

    Westlake, LA is 3 1/2 to 4 hours from New Orleans.
    It’s closer to Texas, which is only 1 1/2 hours from Westlake.

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    I was at the homecoming for James and according to a woman from a Tourettes organization that I talked to he was scheduled to have a private meeting with a bunch of kids with tourettes, not wanting to disappoint them, their organization, the city of Santa Cruz, and the Boardwalk were the ones that negotiated James’s release from AI.

    Yes, James was/is very important to special needs children.  On the Parenting Forum, there were dozens of children who were rootin’ for him and some cried when he was eliminated.  There were some autistic children scheduled to meet with James, too.   They would have been disappointed had he not been able to go home.  James was a very special contestant and I wish he had been in the TOP 3.

  • Wex

    If not ATL< I assume theres still a Fox local station near these smaller home towns…After all, the families are watching Idol so they must be watching on FOX.  But yeah, there are other factors – $$ -scheduling – sponsors that take precedence…But Idol contestants from the South do very well and P2 may not only be another WGWG winner but also another Southern winner from a small town. Jess is at a disadvantage there as a california girl

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