AMERICAN IDOL LIVE! 2013 TOUR KICKS OFF AT CHAIFETZ ARENA ON JUNE 29

TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, MAY 3 AT METROTIX.COM

 

(April 18, 2013) – AMERICAN IDOL^® LIVE!  featuring St. Louis native Curtis Finch Jr. and this season’s talented finalists launch their 40-show concert tour this summer at Chaifetz Arena on Saturday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for AMERICAN IDOL^® LIVE! are $33.50, $46 and $66 and go on sale on Friday, May 3 at 10 a.m. at MetroTix.com, the Chaifetz Arena box office, and charge by phone at 314-534-1111.

AMERICAN IDOL^® LIVE! gives fans the unique opportunity to be up close and personal with Season 12 Idol Finalists Amber Holcomb, Angie Miller, Burnell Taylor, Candice Glover, Curtis Finch Jr, Devin Velez, Janelle Arthur, Kree Harrison, Lazaro Arbos, and Paul Jolley. Plus, Aubrey Cleland joins the Tour as the 11th Idol Finalist thanks to the AT&T AMERICAN IDOL^® LIVE! Tour Fan Save voted on by the Idol fans.

Curtis Finch Jr., a St. Louis native, will be bringing his gospel-style singing to Chaifetz Arena as part of the tour. Finch was the first to be eliminated in the top 10 after singing Fantasia’s “I Believe.” Surprised by his elimination, judge Nicki Minaj threatened to leave as well.

Finalists will perform favorite moments from the season as well as never before seen performances. The AMERICAN IDOL^® season Finale will air on FOX on May 16th but this season’s fan-favorites will continue on with the 2013 Live! Tour.

Claire’s, one of the world's leading specialty retailers of fashionable accessories and jewelry, joins as an Associate Sponsor of the Tour.

This year AMERICAN IDOL^® LIVE! partnered with The Melanoma Research Alliance (www.curemelanoma.org). For every ticket purchased for the Tour, AMERICAN IDOL^® LIVE! will donate $1 to The Melanoma Research Alliance to help cure melanoma. Melanoma Research Alliance helps find treatments and a cure for melanoma, a skin disease whose incidence is among the fastest growing cancers.

Global Spectrum (global-spectrum.com) manages Chaifetz Arena as well as more than 100 other public assembly facilities around the world. Nearly 20-million people attended more than 11,000 events in Global Spectrum venues last year. Based in Philadelphia, PA, Global Spectrum is part of Comcast-Spectacor, one of the world’s largest sports and entertainment companies. Comcast-Spectacor also owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage services provider, New Era Tickets, a full-service ticketing and marketing product for public assembly facilities, Paciolan, the leading provider of venue establishment ticketing, fundraising and marketing technology solutions, Front Row Marketing Services, a commercial rights sales company, and Flyers Skate Zone, a series of community ice skating rinks. In a partnership with Disson Skating, Comcast-Spectacor annually produces eight nationally televised figure skating spectaculars on NBC-TV.