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Went to the boardwalk event. It was cold and waited about an hour for Clay to appear.

nDuring the wait we had caroling and one short dance number. The dancers were freezing

as they had no coats. Hot chocolate, hot cider, ice cream and popcorn was available to drink

and eat. Around 6 Clay was introduced by the mayor of AC. Clay looked great and was greeted by a round

of cheers and applause. His speech was short, funny and worth the wait. He is so at ease before

a crowd. Clay used an ipad to start the light show. It took a few seconds to start after stating

he was ex ited to begin it witn an ipad and hoped it would work.

I'll post about the concert later. Using my new tablet and it's about out of juice. Sorry,

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I have a few minutes....so I can post a few links for YouTubes for last night:

Scarlett's Folder for JNT '12, Atlantic City:

https://docs.google....2VXTmVoTDQ/edit

Note: This is where Scarlett uploads her individual JNT '12 Atlantic City clips from the tapes she has rendered. They are in mpg format and are downloadable from the folder. Scarlett adds each clip to the folder after she has uploaded it. I grab the clip from the same folder and then upload it to You Tube at Scarlett's request.

Atlantic City You Tube Playlist Link:

http://www.youtube.c...eature=view_all

Atlantic City Individual You Tube links:

"The First Noel."

[media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_McXVg-Wk

"My Grown Up Christmas List."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2yGrBP-1M4&feature=youtu.be

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"Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel" Banter aka "Idol, TCA, Wardrobe Malfunction and Pantomiming; Clay is Hilarious" Segment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUXCwOXijU4&feature=youtu.be

"Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j14PYU_3GN8&feature=youtu.be

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Scarlett's Folder for JNT '12, Staten Island:

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BwNYwUaGAgJ5MTZtbkdncXpZb0k/edit

Note: This is where Scarlett uploads her individual JNT '12 Staten Island clips from the tapes she has rendered. They are in mpg format and are downloadable from the folder. Scarlett adds each clip to the folder after she has uploaded it. I grab the clip from the same folder and then upload it to You Tube at Scarlett's request.

Staten Island You Tube Playlist Link:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJQej1EmLjNYHD1Wxf3qjb22TBkDyRKE&feature=view_all

Staten Island Individual You Tube links:

"All Year Long."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YVP9_-8MxM

"Don't Save It All For Christmas Day."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRlZxY6Fck0

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couchie, I'm so sorry. I'll try my best to bring over clack and pictures for you. I tried to get to it yesterday, but the day was just so busy, and I've got another one of those days today. I know that Scarlett's clack gets uploaded to YouTube and put on both CV and the CH; if someone else could bring those links over, it would be great. (If you do it right, the links turn embedded automatically -- but then you can only load two clips per post, and you have to wait a few minutes to post again!)

He has been looking so fine lately. Honestly, I haven't had the time to watch a bunch of clack myself, so this show will feel fairly fresh to me when I see him in less than two weeks!

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Scarlett's Folder for JNT '12, Bethlehem:

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BwNYwUaGAgJ5LWJ2czRGd0w4cGs/edit

Note: This is where Scarlett uploads her individual JNT '12 Bethlehem clips from the tapes she has rendered. They are in mpg format and are downloadable from the folder. Scarlett adds each clip to the folder after she has uploaded it. I grab the clip from the same folder and then upload it to You Tube at Scarlett's request.

Bethlehem You Tube Playlist Link:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJQej1EmLjPKDsWT9c6ct_kCoE3ExE98&feature=view_all

Bethlehem Individual You Tube links:

"All Year Long."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsmXxbUtZ8&list=PLrJQej1EmLjPKDsWT9c6ct_kCoE3ExE98&index=1feature=plpp_video

"Don't Save It All For Christmas Day."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VzBPameqoU&feature=youtu.be

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deemer was off to the side last night, fighting with a spotlight, so pictures are mostly profile and a little dark. Having said that, there are some dramatic photographs. I only have time to bring over one, which took my breath away:

Bethlehem0270.jpg

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So far, last night was the funniest show ever. Do not miss the clack.

I still can't get margins on this thing. Heading home in a while, but so glad went

to these other shows. Without a doubt you can't get too much Clay Aiken.

I'm so messed up with my days. Thursday is when I'm going home.

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A couple of new interviews. The first I cannot bring the actual text over, as it is a pdf file:

The Sound: Interview with Clay Aiken

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heraldmail.com

Clay Aiken brings his Christmas show to Shippensburg

Clay Aiken brings his Christmas show to Shippensburg

By CRYSTAL SCHELLE

crystal.schelle@herald-mail.com

5:55 PM EST, December 5, 2012

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa.

It was a lovingly maternal push that helped a young Clay Aiken realize that maybe he should share his voice with others.

He’ll be doing just that Saturday night when he makes a stop at the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania as part of his “Joyful Noise” tour.

As a child, Aiken said he was always singing.

“My mom said I was singing before I was even talking,” he said during a telephone interview from New York City.

But by the time he was in middle school, he didn’t want to participate in choir.

“I didn’t want to sing,” he said. “I really liked singing, but I wanted to do something else in sixth and seventh grade. I wanted to be on the yearbook staff and that was an elective. I didn’t want to waste my elective on choir.”

However, his mother, Faye Parker, knew that her child could sing and needed the right outlet.

“My mom called the choir teacher and said ‘Listen, he won’t do choir and he needs to do it,’” Aiken, 34, said.

So his mother and teacher arranged for Aiken to come in during the mornings before school.

“And from there, I never really stopped singing,” he said.

Was he meant to be a singer even then? Aiken said he’s not sure.

“I don’t know if I was any good back then or not,” he said. “I’ve heard recordings of me as a kid and I think, ‘Oh my god, I’m awful.’ But I still think that sometimes now.”

Those who watched the second season of “American Idol” in 2003 found out during auditions that Aiken, a teacher at the time, clearly had the makings to be a star. Especially when his audition consisted of a that-voice-came-out-of-that-guy of reaction from the judges about Aiken.

Although he came in second to Ruben Studdard, “Idol” launched Aikens’ career, taking him around the world and even to a stop on the Great White Way.

“People kept clapping and I kept working,” he said.

Aiken promises with the “Joyful Noise” tour that “It’s all holiday, all the time,” Aiken said with a laugh.

This is the fifth time Aiken has taken his holiday music on the road, each time, he said, with a different twist. This year, it’ll just be him and an orchestra on stage.

“There’s something about a French horn that makes it seem like Christmas to me,” he said.

For Aiken, the holiday season doesn’t seem to start until he does the Joyful Noise tour.

“For me, this starts the holiday season off,” he said. “... Even if I decorate the house and deck the halls full out, I still don’t feel like it’s the holiday unless I’m doing the show.”

If you go ...

WHAT: Clay Aiken’s “Joyful Noise” Tour

WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8

WHERE: H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University, 1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, Pa.

COST: $39 to $57

CONTACT: Call 717-477-7469 or go to www.luhrscenter.com

Copyright © 2012, Herald Mail

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Christmas with Clay

Christmas with Clay

Singer to perform in Easton on Dec. 12

8:31 PM, Dec. 5, 2012 |

Written by Josh Davis

For Go! Magazine

If You GO

When: 8 p.m. Dec. 12

Where: The Avalon Theatre, Easton

Cost: $50-$80

Call: 410-822-7299

Web: avalontheatre.com

EASTON — You may have seen Clay Aiken on “American Idol,” bought one of his chart-topping records, seen him on Broadway or even bought his best-selling book. (The guy is everywhere these days.)

On Dec. 12, the multitalented 33-year-old performer brings his 20-piece orchestra to the Avalon Theatre in Easton for an evening of contemporary and classic Christmas music. Aiken answered questions for Go! magazine ahead of that performance.

As someone with a best-selling Christmas album under your belt, what do this season and its music mean to you?

Doing this Christmas show and the Christmas music with it has kind of become a tradition. People ask me what my holiday traditions were as a kid, and I grew up near all my family, so we saw each other every weekend practically. Christmas, of course, is a time to be with family, but I don’t know that my Christmas traditions were any different than most folks.

I don’t remember too much about Christmas music; we didn’t really sing anything at Christmas. I sang Christmas stuff at church, and that was kind of how I formed my opinion about Christmas music, and I think a lot of people do the same thing.

This Christmas tour has sort of become my new holiday tradition, and it doesn’t really feel like Christmas for me unless I’m doing this show.

On your latest album you tackled a lot of what are considered “standards.” Is it at all daunting to you recording a classic like “Misty” or “Moon River”?

Those were much easier for me than some of the others. As far as being daunting, doing a song that no one has ever done before was probably more stressful for me than doing these songs that I grew up listening to, because my mom played them all around the house. Those songs like “Misty” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” — those were a part of my childhood more than anything, you know? So they fit my voice and were a natural fit for me much more than some of the newer stuff was.

What can you tell our readers about the current tour?

This is our fifth year doing it, and for me it’s what gets me in the Christmas spirit; I don’t feel like it’s the holidays unless I’m doing the show, and there are a lot of people who have come to the tour one year, two years — three, four, five — that say the same thing, so that’s our goal. We do traditional holiday songs and some more contemporary original stuff, but it’s all holiday, all the time.

I hear you’re bringing a 20-piece orchestra. Can you talk about what it’s like having that large of a group backing you up?

The orchestra thing seems more like Christmas; there’s something about a French horn that feels like Christmas, you know? We’ve done this show with all kinds of different incarnations. We’ve done it with a five-piece band, we’ve done it with dancers and actors and snow coming out of the ceiling, and this time we’re doing it with the orchestra, and it just feels more like the holidays to me.

You’ve done reality TV twice, made records, you appeared in “Spamalot” on Broadway, you wrote a best-selling book — what’s left?

You know, everything that I’ve done in the past 10 years has been because we kind of stayed open to different opportunities. I think a lot of people come off of those shows and say, “I’m going to be a singer, and that’s what I’m going to do; I’m going to focus on singing, singing, singing,” and then that doesn’t work out for them, and they were never open to different things. I think one of the things that’s worked out for us is we’ve tried to remain open to different possibilities.

I feel like I’ve done everything but play linebacker for the Steelers. I don’t think that’s going to happen for me, but if they called, we’d consider it!

Love the last line. Hee.

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