Kansas City, MO (April 17, 2013) -  AMERICAN IDOL® LIVE! returns this summer for another hit Tour to showcase the season’s talented top Finalists. The 40-show concert Tour visits Kansas City on June 30. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 3 at 10 AM at t-mobilecenter.com, in person at T-Mobile Center Box Office or charge-by-phone at 888.929.7849.

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 AMERICAN IDOL® LIVE! Tour Fan Save voted on by the Idol fans.

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 16, but this season’s fan-favorites will continue on with the 2013 Live! 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.

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