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Thursday, December 18, 2008
12/18: David Archuleta at Star 94’s Jingle Jam with video and photos
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ABOVE: David Archuleta singing Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles.” A “classic” for a 17 year old, I fathom.
I didn’t get a chance to talk to David Archuleta but I got some video and took a few photos from his six-song, 25-minute performance at Gwinnett Arena for Star 94’s Jingle Jam.
This was the first time in recent memory that Jingle Jam was not sold out. Last year, more than 10,000 people came to see the Jonas Brothers, Avril Lavigne (and Elliott Yamin). This time, I guess there were at most 6,000 people there. In fact, they moved the stage forward to help make it look fuller. The problem: no obvious headliner. Colbie Caillat and Gavin DeGraw performed after Archuleta (though I only came for David.)
I posted the video below of him getting an early Christmas cake from his band on stage. (He turns 18 on December 28.) The crowd sang him “Happy Birthday” impressively offkey. The cake had trick candles so he couldn’t blow them out. He then sang “Crush,” his hit, and “The Christmas Song.” I uploaded this onto YouTube last night and hadn’t even linked it. This morning, it already had more than 1,100 views. Amazing! (The videos I uploaded of him surprising Q100 viewers a few weeks back are already up to 37,000 combined views.)
I have to say he was his usual charming, aw-shucks self and he sounded great. Here are some more photos I took of him.
I’ll get to Simon Cowell’s comments from Wednesday’s press conference tomorrow. (I’m going on vacation for the next week so I’m going to probably be a little lighter on the content than usual until December 29, when we launch on Wordpress!)
