The American Idol Small Town Bus Tour holds auditions in Casper, WY.
See the Season 11 Top 10 on the American Idol LIVE! Tour 2012 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC.
Lee DeWyze performs at L.A. Live in Los Angeles, CA.
Kelly Clarkson performs at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park in Alpharetta, GA.
Daughtry performs at the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences in Charleston, WV.
Kimberley Locke performs at XI Nightclub in New York, NY.
Bo Bice, Ruben Studdard, Vonzell Solomon, Katie Stevens and RJ Helton perform at the Andy Williams Moon River Theatre in Branson, MO. – Via American Idol.com
No Surprise! American Idol David Cook is Zippo 200 Grand Marshal – WATKINS GLEN, NY – Platinum selling recording artist and American Idol winner David Cook will perform the National Anthem and give the command to start engines for the NASCAR Nationwide Series Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International, Saturday, August 11. As Grand Marshal for the NASCAR Nationwide Series Zippo 200, Cook will deliver the most famous words in motorsports – the traditional call for drivers to start their engines. Additionally, Cook will perform the American National Anthem during the pre-race ceremony. – Read more at The Glen.com
Scotty McCreery meets Merle Haggard
Scotty McCreery tweets, “Honored to meet a country legend tonight in NC.. Merle Haggard!”
Mariah Carey A ‘Great Choice’ For ‘American Idol,’ Haley Reinhart Says – “I think it’s a great choice, and I don’t think they could have done much better than that,” Reinhart told MTV News after her performance at Chicago’s Lollapalooza. “She’s a huge diva with a huge, beautiful, amazing voice. I don’t think that there’s anybody who could give better critiques to people who are trying to be aspiring singers, so I think they did really good.” Reinhart, who released her debut album, Listen Up!, in May, doesn’t envy the incoming contestants who will have to perform in front of Carey, admitting that the powerhouse diva is a bit intimidating. “I think it would be a little more pressure,” Reinhart said of singing in front of Carey. “So I’m glad she wasn’t there, but it would have been very cool to meet her.” – Read more at MTV
Kelly Clarkson & The Fray Throw Down $$$ to Help Injured Stagehand – t all went down in Phoenix, AZ on August 1 … while setting up for the “Stronger” / “Scars & Stories” tour … a 57-year-old stagehand suffered a hemorrhagic stroke and was rushed to the hospital. We’re told the man had been offered health insurance through his job, but didn’t sign up for it. Sources close to the situation tell TMZ … following the incident, a promoter for the concert series approached the music superstars to sign a “get well” card … but Clarkson and The Fray took it one step further. We’re told both headliners — along with other people involved in the production — grabbed all the cash they had on hand and donated it to help pay for the stagehand’s hospital bills. By the time they were done — they collected $2,200. – Read more at TMZ
Jordin Sparks: Whitney Houston Was Like a Mother to Me on Sparkle Set – Several scenes in Sparkle feature heavy drug use, something Houston struggled with on-and-off throughout her career. “There are certainly some themes in the movie that everyone would have wanted to ask Whitney about like, ‘Did you relate your own life to this part,’ which I’m sure she would have answered honestly,” Sparks says. “The cool thing about Whitney was that she was not scared to talk about or confront the things she had gone through.” “I do think there is a different aura around the film now,” the multiplatinum singer adds. – Read more at US
Jordin on the cover of September’s Redbook
‘Glee’ Star Casts a ‘Wishing Spell’ – Do you think an actor has to write his own projects to get ahead in Hollywood these days? No one’s going to hand you things. To be completely frank, if you’re someone like me, and you’re a really specific, niche type of person, you really have to make opportunities yourself. You don’t have to be a genius to think that. When I look back at my childhood heroes, I realize there was no one who was me in a nutshell. There wasn’t one person I wanted to be. I wanted to be Tina Fey slash Woody Allen slash Mickey Mouse. So, I had to be a template for myself. – Read more at the Wall Street Journal
The “X Factor” judge is wooing his co-star with big promises — but Barry Weiss, head of Justin Bieber’s label, won’t give up without a fight. – A battle for Britney Spears is brewing. The pop star’s recording contract with the former Jive Records (now RCA, a division of Sony Music) has one album left, and among those courting the chart-topper are L.A. Reid, chairman of Sony’s Epic Records and Spears’ X Factor sidekick, and Barry Weiss, former Jive head who’s guided her career through its greatest heights and now chairs Island Def Jam Motown and Universal Republic, home to Justin Bieber, Kanye West and American Idol’s Mariah Carey. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
