The IDOL Live! 2013 Tour Dates!

AMERICAN IDOL® LIVE! returns this summer for another hit Tour to showcase the season's talented top  Finalists. 19 Entertainment and AEG Live announced today the 40-show concert Tour launches June 29th in St. Louis, MO and stops in major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami before wrapping in Nashville, TN on August 31. Tickets go on sale May 3rd at 10:00 AM local via www.AmericanIdol.com/tour and www.aeglive.com.

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 AT&T 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 16th but this season's fan-favorites will continue on with the 2013 Live! Tour.

Claire's®, one of the world's leading specialty retailers of fashionable accessories and jewelry, joins as an Associate Sponsor of the 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.

While you wait for your chance to get tickets see what the finalists are most looking forward to about the 2013 tour in our Tour Talk videos.

June 29           St. Louis, MO                     Chaifetz Arena
June 30           Kansas City, MO                 Sprint Center
July 2              Minneapolis, MN                  Target Center
July 5              Detroit, IL                           Joe Louis Arena
July 6              Rosemont, IL                      Allstate Arena
July 8              Tulsa, OK                            BOK Center
July 10            Broomfield, CO                   1STBANK Center
July 12            Las Vegas, NV                    Mandalay Bay Events Center
July 13            Ontario, CA                        Citizens Business BankArena
July 14            Oakland, CA                       The Oracle Arena
July 19             Kent, WA                          ShoWare Center
July 20             Portland, OR                     Rose Garden
July 22             Sacramento, CA               Sleep Train Arena
July 23             Los Angeles, CA                Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE
July 24             Phoenix, AZ                      Comerica Theatre
July 27             Grand Prairie, TX               Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
July 28             Houston, TX                     Reliant Arena
July 30             New Orleans, LA               UNO Lakefront Arena
August 1           Orlando, FL                      Amway Center
August 2           Miami, FL                         AmericanAirlines Arena
August 4           Duluth, GA                       The Arena at Gwinnett Center
August 5           N. Charleston, SC             North Charleston Coliseum
August 6           Knoxville, TN                    Thompson-Boling Arena
August 8           Charlotte, NC                   Time Warner Cable Arena
August 9           Fairfax, VA                       Patriot Center
August 12         Trenton, NJ                      Sun National Bank Center
August 14         Newark, NJ                      Prudential Center
August 15         Long Island, NY                Nassau Coliseum
August 16         Atlantic City, NJ                Arena at Trump Taj Mahal
August 17         Uncasville, CT                   Mohegan Sun Arena
August 19         Boston, MA                      Agganis Arena at Boston Univ.
August 20         Manchester, NH                Verizon Wireless Arena
August 21         Providence, RI                  Dunkin' Donuts Center
August 23         Bridgeport, CT                  Webster Bank Arena
August 24         Reading, PA                      Sovereign Center
August 25         Youngstown, OH               Covelli Centre
August 27         Toronto, ON                      Air Canada Centre
August 29         Columbus, OH                   Schottenstein Center
August 30          Louisville, KY                     KFC Yum! Center
August 31          Nashville, TN                     Bridgestone Arena