Headlines: Kelly Clarkson on Late Night, Kris Allen Tix on Sale

‘LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS NEW YEARS EVE SPECIAL’ GOES PRIMETIME ON SATURDAY, DEC. 31 WITH A-LIST LINEUP – Celebrate the incoming New Year with “Late Night with Seth Meyers New Year’s Eve Special” to air Saturday, Dec. 31 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The hourlong program will feature special appearances by Jennifer Lawrence (“Passengers”), Arnold Schwarzenegger (“The New Celebrity Apprentice”), Leslie Jones (“Saturday Night Live”), a performance by multiple Grammy-winning superstar Kelly Clarkson and more. Clarkson will perform “It’s Quiet Uptown” from “The Hamilton Mixtape”. – Read more at NBCumv.com

Kris Allen Tickets Go On Sale Today

Kris will be opening for the band Parachute this coming spring.

Q&A: ‘Tis the Season to Catch Up With ‘Voice’ Winner Jordan Smith – YAHOO MUSIC: If you could sing a Christmas duet with any other famous singer — past or present, dead or alive — who would it be, and why? And what song would you do? JORDAN SMITH: I would sing “Do You Hear What I Hear” with Julie Andrews, because that’s my favorite Christmas song and she is my number one celebrity crush! What is your favorite holiday album — besides your own, of course! — and why? The Carpenters’ Christmas Portrait. It’s such a classic, and the song “Merry Christmas, Darling” gets me every time. – Read more at Yahoo.com

Singer Jax, coming to Easton, blazing a new trail after ‘American Idol,’ health scare – “Oh man — the pressure’s on!” the singer says laughing, in a recent phone call from Brooklyn, after being told how Easton’s downtown will be closed for her concert. The 21-year-old Jax says her new disc essentially chronicles the past year of her life. “I think it takes you through my journey — what I was going through, like, relationship-wise and what I was going through health-wise with my own kind of sarcastic, Alanis Morissette girl-power twist on it,” she says. “So hence the title, ‘Funny.'” – Read more at McCall.com

‘I used to listen to him when I was in high school!’ Carrie Underwood reveals she was a young fan of Keith Urban as they head on Australian tour together – Carrie Underwood was never going to say ‘no’ to the offer of touring with Keith Urban. That’s because she’s loved the Australian country music singer since her school days. ‘I used to listen to Keith when I was in high school and college, and now I’m singing with him, it’s pretty surreal,’ Carrie told the Herald Sun. – Read more at DailyMail.co.uk

Can Kelly Clarkson top her last Christmas card? – Kelly Clarkson had a huge hit last year, and she says she’s feeling “enormous pressure” to deliver a worthy follow-up. But we’re not talking about a song — like the pop star’s newly Grammy-nominated “Piece By Piece.” We’re talking about a Christmas card. Last year, she and her family set the internet ablaze with a “Game of Thrones” themed card, which featured them in kilts and dresses with the show’s tagline: “Winter is Coming.”
“Everybody keeps asking about that dang card,” she tells The Tennessean with a laugh. – Read more at the Tennessean

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