The New Year (2014) and Halien reflections

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Five kids. Three American Idols. One amazing experience!
Join us Friday night, March 21st, as five young stars take the stage in a live music celebration! The cause is childhood cancer research, and the celebration is for talent, courage, and hope. In American Idol fashion, five kids fighting childhood cancer take The Buckhead Theatre stage. They’ll perform with the band before a live audience, and a panel of judges who know music… Our star-studded cast includes American Idols Anthony Fedorov, Bo Bice, and Haley Reinhart!

http://rallyidol.org/
http://rallyidol.org/judges/

Too bad Haley's Judging there isn't 1 week later as I will be driving right thru Atlanta on March 28th to Birmingham, AL to see the White Sox play their AA Farm Team as the last game of spring training.


Haley Reinhart
With a vocal style that landed somewhere between a jazzy croon and a throaty, soulful belt, Haley Reinhart became an American Idol finalist in 2011.
She began singing as an 8-year-old, eventually earning a spot in her parents’ cover band while attending high school in Wheeling, Illinois. After graduating in 2009, Reinhart began studying jazz at nearby Harper College. Her first audition for American Idol arrived the following year, but it wasn’t until the summer of 2010, when Reinhart returned to auditions for a second time, that she advanced to the semi-finals. Pitted against rock singers and country crooners, Reinhart became one of the more unique performers during the show’s tenth season, performing a mix of old classics (“Bennie and the Jets,” “Steppin’ Out with My Baby”) and contemporary hits (Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep”). She finished third, earning a contract with Interscope Records in the process. In 2012, Reinhart released her debut album, Listen Up! featuring the single, “Free.