Haley opening for Allen Stone (3 dates w/video from Boston)

[LovinDaHaley]

Loved Tom's raggae rant And I'm happy for Haley. This booking speaks well regarding what the powers to be think of the quality of her voice and singing. And he's a good match in styles for Haley; no doubt the audience is in for a very good time. I can't say that I love the music in those two videos, but I think USA Today hit the nail on the head with, "pitch perfect". I'd pay fifty to see the show were it just him, but I'd pay four times that with Haley on the bill.

[Miguel]

This had fallen to the second page. Haley doesn't want you to forget it.

Haley Reinhart ‏@HaleyReinhart

lately I've become such a fan of this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Hy6kp5k...ata_player … @allen_stone"

Haley Reinhart ‏@HaleyReinhart

Music for the soul.. @allen_stone Man I'd sure love to play a few dates with a cool cat like him. Howza bout it Allen?

Allen Stone ‏@allen_stone

@HaleyReinhart you're so sweet darlin! What are you doing mid November??

Haley Reinhart ‏@HaleyReinhart

@allen_stone Why thank you Hmm.. Mid november. Well, I was hopin' you could tell me!

Allen Stone ‏@allen_stone

@HaleyReinhart well girl in that case, come kick it with me and the fellas nov 15 and 16 in Montreal and Portland Maine! What say you??

Haley Reinhart ‏@HaleyReinhart

@allen_stone Count me in mista!

Allen Stone ‏@allen_stone

@HaleyReinhart sick! Bring your dancin shoes. It's gonna be silly times!!

Haley Reinhart ‏@HaleyReinhart

@allen_stone Haha right owwwn, we'll have a ball! See ya's soon then

Allen Stone ‏@allen_stone

Stoked to announce @HaleyReinhart will be opening for me on Nov 15 in Montreal and Nov 16 in Portland, ME! For tix: http://www.allenstone.com
Retweeted by Haley Reinhart

^ Note second show in Portland, Maine

[LovinDaHaley]

Ooooooo UberSweet! VERY COOL POST M!

[Tusk]

Apparently They've added Haley to a third of Allen Stone's show

Allen Stone‏@allen_stone

@KenOstroff @HaleyReinhart incorrect. shows have not been cancelled. Haley is doing all 3 of those with me. Can not wait.

I can't find confirmation on his concert schedules beyond this tweet. The shows will be in Montreal, Portland Maine, and Cambridge Massachusetts (15th,16th and 17th of November)
http://www.allenstone.com/

[Miguel]

Mention of the show in the Boston Music Spotlight:

Allen Stone to play The Sinclair with Haley Reinhart

Allen Stone will make his way to New England next month as he tours in support in support of his self-titled debut album. Joined by special guest Haley Reinhart, he’ll perform at The Sinclair in Cambridge on Saturday, November 17. Tickets for the show, which will also feature opener Tingsek, are available through Ticketmaster for $15.50 advance.

...Reinhart, who placed third in the tenth season of American Idol, is touring in support of her debut album, Listen Up!. Powered by lead single “Free”, it debuted at #17 on the Billboard 200 after its release in May.

http://www.bostonmusicspotlight.com/news...mber-2012/

[yanni5]

I couldn't help but think about the paradox of paths taken by Allen vs Haley.

Allen raised in a home that didn't allow secular music. Haley in a home that pursued all things musical on a full time basis, playing all secular music. Allen wanting to play R&B because it was not allowed and develops a passion for performing it. Haley is freely given the chance to sing and perform Rock, R&B, Jazz, Funk, etc. and develops a passion for performing it. Allen going the independent, go your own way route. Haley going the route of letting the ultimate profit making TV "15 minutes of fame" slave traders showcase her abilities. Yet, both can perform on the same stage based on their love of music, similar styles of music and superb individual talents.

I like it...I think it is a great way to get Haley in front of different audiences...audiences that will appreciate her unique and powerful voice!

Rather ironic now that you mention it.

[john]

Nice profile of Haley for the Cambridge show. http://www.boweryboston.com/event/168409/

Haley Reinhart

Last summer, while spending nearly every night singing to sold-out arenas on the American Idols LIVE! Tour, Haley Reinhart landed her first record deal. Although the smoky-voiced singer/songwriter was unspeakably eager to dive into recording her debut, Reinhart decided to hold off until the 49-date, continent-hopping tour had ended. “I wanted to wait till I could put all my focus and energy into the album and be very hands-on with every single aspect of it,” says Reinhart. “It was really important to me that the record have an organic, soulful sound that truly reflects the kind of artist I want to be.”

Immediately after the tour ended, Reinhart (who ranked third in the tenth season of American Idol) moved from her hometown of Wheeling, Illinois, to Los Angeles and began furiously crafting the songs that would eventually grace her debut. The result is Listen Up! (19 Entertainment/Interscope Records), a ten-track fusion of pop, R&B, rock and roll, and soul that’s both timeless and irresistibly fresh. Serving as co-writer on all but one number (“Free,” the album’s sweetly sorrowful, piano-driven torch-song lead single), Reinhart infuses Listen Up! with her strikingly authentic sensibility and, in turn, more than meets her mission of bringing a classic spirit to modern pop.

To help harness that spirit, Reinhart joined forces with a first-class lineup of songwriters and producers that includes Mike Elizondo (Jay-Z, Fiona Apple, Maroon 5), Rob Kleiner (Usher, Flo Rida, Timbaland), and busbee (Katy Perry, Kid Cudi, Kelly Clarkson). “We just dove in headfirst, and it all ran really smoothly because I was feeling so inspired,” says Reinhart of the recording process. “I’d get into the studio with a producer and we’d get going on a song and start laying it down right away. A lot of the time we ended up going with the first take—the mood and the energy were so good the first time around, it didn’t make sense to try to re-create it.”

Not only helpful for building momentum, the synergy between Reinhart and her collaborators was key to the album’s stunning diversity of sound. “Working with all these different people, we got to bring in so many tonalities and play around with different rhythms and techniques from a whole mix of genres—from classic rock to funk to psychedelia to jazz,” she says. “We weren’t even intentionally trying to fit all that in. It just happened naturally once things got flowing.” Still, much of Listen Up!’s strength lies in Reinhart’s devotion to old-school pop simplicity. “The most crucial thing to me is that people hear the album and feel good and just get lost in the melodies,” notes Reinhart.

Right from the opening track (“Oh My!” ft. B.o.B, a horn-soaked stomper that Reinhart describes as giving off “a cool, swampy, James Bond kind of vibe”), Listen Up! reveals itself as a brightly inventive pop pastiche built on contradiction: it’s sultry yet playful, slick yet gutsy, breezy yet endlessly passionate. Songs like the tough-talking, triumphant “Hit The Ground Runnin’” offer the strut of ‘60s soul, while the harmony-kissed “Wasted Tears” and “Wonderland” bear all the wistful spirit of a girl-group hit (“I grew up on Motown,” explains Reinhart, “so one of my goals for this album was to bring that back and give it my own twist”). A swelling, string-accented piano ballad about love gone wrong, “Undone” leads into “Now That You’re Here” (a sunny pop gem that gracefully flaunts Reinhart’s soaring, high-spirited vocals and boasts an infectious handclap backbeat). And on the album-closing “Walking On Heaven,” Reinhart sets her bravely hopeful lyrics about “waiting for the world around me to change” to a scorching guitar riff delivered by her father, Harry Reinhart. “That song’s about how the world can be a beautiful place, heaven on Earth, if we look at it right,” says Reinhart. “It’s got a great message and my dad plays a really sweet lead on it. It was such an honor to have him on the song.”

The first American Idol contestant to perform on the show’s stage with a parent (when Harry joined his daughter for a smoldering rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “What Is And What Should Never Be” during top three week), Reinhart is quick to praise her parents’ influence on her development as a musician. Ardent fans of rock legends like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin—as well as countless classical and jazz pioneers—Reinhart’s parents are both musicians in their own right: her father played guitar for blues-rock band Midnight, and her mother sang for a group called The Company She Keeps before joining Midnight in 1977. As a result, Reinhart grew up idolizing everyone from the Beatles to Sarah Vaughan to Heart to Tony Bennett (with whom she sang a duet of “Steppin’ Out with My Baby” on the American Idol season finale). “I’m really lucky to have grown up in a house where good music was always playing,” she says. “It’s a huge part of what makes me the artist I am.”

Thanks largely to her parents’ encouragement; Reinhart began pursuing her music dreams at a remarkably young age. First taking the stage as part of her parents’ band when she was only seven, Reinhart started writing songs in her first year of high school. By the end of her junior year she’d joined the high school jazz band, which allowed her to tear through big-band standards onstage at local jazz clubs in Chicago and—after the band won a state-wide music contest—at the Montreux Jazz Fest in Switzerland and Umbria Jazz Fest in Italy. After graduating high school in 2009 (and failing to pass an audition for the ninth season of American Idol the same month), Reinhart enrolled at Harper College and started singing in three different combos. Making a last-minute decision to try out for American Idol again, Reinhart scored a spot on the tenth season and ended up wowing audiences with her fiery performances of songs like “House of the Rising Sun” and “God Bless the Child.”

“American Idol did a lot to prepare me for the next phase of my career,” says Reinhart. “Especially with the tour, where I was singing 11 numbers a night, it really helped build my endurance.” Now that she’s striking out on her own, Reinhart’s excited about merging her tightly honed performance chops with what she calls “that raw musicianship that means so much to me.” “With the music I grew up on, there were all these imperfections that made it amazing,” she says. “It wasn’t about trying so hard; it was all about pure feeling and energy. To me that’s the important stuff. That’s what I want to bring back into music today.”

[Miguel]

Reminder - Tomorrow Haley will perform with Allen Stone in Montreal. Doors open at 6:30 and show begins at 7:30 (EST).

This is the first of three shows with Allen. We'll have different threads for each show so we can track tweets/videos more efficiently.

edit: Make that 2 shows. The third was rescheduled. Since there was not much posted about Haley's appearance in Montreal (no videos yet), we will roll the Portland, MN appearance into this thread as well.

The original thread about the Allen Stone hookup:
http://haleyfans.com/newthread.php?fid=11

[Himm2]

Wonder if she'll mention on stage that it's her dad's birthday.

[Miguel]

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