Kris sang the national antheme before the Mets vs Twins MLB game at Citi Field in New York on Friday June 25, 2010. Watch his performance below.

GRAND CHUTE, WI – Kris Allen, the winner of American Idol in 2009, will participate in the Donald Driver Softball Game presented by Kwik Trip on Sunday, June 6. There are tickets remaining for the annual charity game hosted by Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver.

Allen will play in the game and sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the fifth inning stretch.

The softball game raises money for the Donald Driver Foundation. The Donald Driver Foundation was started by Donald and Betina Driver. The foundation’s goal is to help homeless families and improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth.

Tickets for the softball game are $30 for a box seat, $20 for a reserved seat, and $10 for a general admission grass seat. There are also a limited number of patio tables – which seat four – available at $200. The game begins at 1:05pm.

Fans may purchase tickets to the Donald Driver Charity Softball Game in one of the following ways: Over the phone at 800-WI-TIMBER or (920) 733-4152; in person at the Time Warner Cable Field Box Office; or through the internet at timberrattlers.com.

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Kris was interviewed on NY PIX on May 28, 2010. They also showed his performance at WLPJ’s Summer Blast Off.

View the videos at WPIX’s website.

Tonight is the night! Will it be Crystal or Lee that will be crowned Season 9’s American Idol? While the season 9 cast awaits the answer, last year’s American Idol winner, Kris Allen, will be performing his new single, “The Truth” LIVE.

Tune in to Fox @ 8 PM EST to watch his appearance and performance back where it all began!

Source: Kris Allen Newsletter

Here’s a video of Kris’s performance on Idol tonight. He gave a beautiful performance of Let it Be.

Also, here are screencaptures of Kris’s performance.


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Kris will be performing on the results show of American Idol tonight. Also, his performance will be up for sale on iTunes, with all proceeds from sales going to help Haiti. Watch in support of Kris and donate to the UN to help Haiti if you can.

Kris Allen’s “American Idol” appearance on Thursday (February 25) will not just be a homecoming for the show’s reigning champ, but also an opportunity for the 24-year-old to contribute to a worthy cause: the ongoing relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Allen traveled to the embattled island nation last week, and before he takes the “Idol” stage for the first since his win last May, the singer spoke with MTV News about his experience in Haiti and what he hopes to accomplish during Thursday’s appearance.

“It was a weird trip, because you get over there — everyone’s seen the pictures and stuff and the videos — it’s really bad,” he said. “It’s a lot of destruction. A lot of people have been affected by it. But there’s a lot of stuff going on.”

Allen pointed to the relief efforts of organizations like the Salvation Army and the Red Cross, who have been working on the ground ever since a 7.0 quake nearly leveled the capital city of Port-au-Prince in January. During his visit, Allen stopped by an aid camp that opened the night of the earthquake and now is the temporary home for more than 3,300 Haitians, with more arriving every day. All these relief groups, the singer said, “have done so many amazing things for the Haitian people and gave that nation a lot of hope for the future.”

The idea for the trip to Haiti came from “Idol” creator Simon Fuller. As soon as Fuller made the suggestion, Allen came onboard. He ended up handing out food, breaking up fallen concrete with a sledgehammer and clearing rubble with his hands, all the while working side by side with the Haitian people. Allen’s last stop took him to a tent where mothers come to breastfeed their babies and care for their children.

During Thursday’s show, viewers will be asked to make online or text-message donations to the Idol Gives Back Foundation, with funds going to support the United Nations Foundation’s ongoing efforts in Haiti. “I wanted to go over there and help,” Allen said. “I felt like I did that in a little way. I think that me being on the show is going to be a bigger help than me going there with the little bit of manpower that I have.”

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Kris Allen on his return to Idol: It’s not about me…

Thursday evening brings the first live results show back to American Idol for this ninth season, but more than that, it brings the return of Idol Gives Back, a mega-hit in 2008 and that was all but forgotten last season. The very special episode was thrown together a bit hastily in response to the devastation in Haiti after the earthquakes earlier this year. On the behest of Simon Fuller, season 8 winner Kris Allen went down to Haiti to witness the devastation for himself and will return to the Idol stage on Thursday to perform and premiere a video package of his time helping the UN with their relief efforts down in Haiti.

Allen’s trip was a whirlwind: he left last Friday and only got to spend about nine or ten hours in the country. While he dug through rubble and handed out food, water, and clothing and all of the “hard labor” work, Allen said the most lasting memories for him came from just getting to spend time with the people who were affected. “For me, it’s always the kids, you know? I got to go into this women’s tent, and it felt like a really safe place. They were taking care of the babies, which were, like, from newborn to two, and I got to sing a song for them and hold a couple of babies…There was a lot of happiness and hope in people’s eyes; it was a really cool experience.”

And Allen lending his name to charity does not begin and end with Haiti. In the past he and his wife have taken quite a few mission trips, and he even visited Thailand after the terrible tsunami a few years back. Allen found a lot of similarities between Thailand and Haiti in terms of the level of destruction and yet the sense of hope from the people. “They know everything is going to be okay. It’s going to take a long time but everything is going to be hopefully better than it was,” he says. Allen will also travel to Rwanda this spring with the Toms Shoes Foundation and hopes that he can return to Haiti to help even more when he has a little bit more time.

For now, though, he is focusing on his immediate return in front of Simon, Randy, and Kara. When asked how he feels about stepping in front of the judges once again, he is quick to point out that “It’s nerve-wracking!” But if he was ever going to come back– to perform or mentor or just visit– Allen is glad it could be to help the UN raise funds for such a good cause.

“This is for a completely different thing; it’s not about me at all. Every time I was on that stage last year, it was about me, and this time it’s not. It feels like a really good thing to come back for.”

And just what will Allen perform on Thursday night: is it the cover of “Amazing Grace” he performed for that children’s ward in Haiti or “Live Like We’re Dying,” the first single off his debut album that has even more significance when put up against such a serious backdrop? Well, first Allen played coy and teased that it would be “inspirational and uplifting.” But he also should have mentioned that it was a song beloved by many across generations: the Beatles’ “Let It Be!”

Allen also previewed that the performance will be available on iTunes with the proceeds benefitting all the good, hard work the UN is doing down in Haiti. Throughout the show, fans will also be able to text donations in to a very specific number. While item donations are welcome, too, right now, money is still the most effective asset someone can give, as there are many, many Haitians who have lost not just their homes, possessions, and family, but also their jobs and will need help with basic survival until things are begun to be rebuilt.

Of course Allen has been too busy to watch the current season of Idol and try to formulate an opinion on any possible frontrunners, but his advice for each and every one of them is the same: “Just go out and do your best. It’s a pretty general thing to say, but I think they need to hear that. Just go out and do what you do!”

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Allen also previewed that [Thursday's] performance will be available on iTunes with the proceeds benefitting all the good, hard work the UN is doing down in Haiti. Throughout the show, fans will also be able to text donations in to a very specific number.

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Kris Allen to perform live in the Philippines together with hip hop champion Jabbawockeez from Randy Jackson’s America’s Best Dance Crew, and YouTube sensation Boyce Avenue. They will be in Cebu on Feb 5, 2010 and at the McKinley Hills Concert Grounds, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig on Feb 6, 2010 for FEBFEST 2010. Check the events page for more info!

Thursday, December 31
Perform on FOX New Years Eve Live
11:00 PM ET/PT on FOX

Friday, January 1
A repeat performance on the Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien
11:35 PM ET/ PT on NBC