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Austin Mahone Tour Dates
12/13/13 Z100 Jingle Ball New York, NY
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Call it the “party” before the “Party”.
Jingle Ball has become a year-end tradition locally, put on by CHR/Top 40 radio station KDWB, that brings together a handful of the latest pop chart success acts, and this year was no exception. Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke, Fall Out Boy, and others headlined the main event at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center, which is one of 12 such December concerts that Clear Channel puts on in major radio markets around the country.
Attendance to these events is primarily tween/teenage girls and their chaperone parents, usually resulting in sustained shrieks that can be louder than the music, when their favorite acts hit the stage.
This year, a Jingle Ball Pre-Party concert was also planned, featuring appearances by up-and-comers Austin Mahone and girl group Fifth Harmony. The event was free to the public, held late afternoon at the adjacent Roy Wilkins Auditorium, and provided welcome and warm relief to those early birds waiting for the arena doors to open for the evening’s concert.
The auditorium’s floor was only in use (balcony seats were covered and roped off) with a makeshift stage set up towards the back of the arena in an open floor, with sponsoring vendor booths located on the other end. Though the station claims over 2,000 attended, a crowd maybe half that size was there at any one given time.
Just shy of two hours after doors had opened, teen heartthrob Austin Mahone took to the stage for a brief two-song acoustic set and Q+A session. The Texas-raised teen has released mostly singles (on Chase/Republic Records) with new material on a full-length album due in early 2014.
Mahone’s fans, the so-called “Mahomies” wailed cries of “I Love You” and “Marry Me” as the teen began his cover of Mario’s ‘Let Me Love You’ which had the young girls swooning. A short and controlled Q+A followed, with Mahone then covering Biz Markie’s ‘Say You’re Just a Friend’, before dashing out the side door to his adoring fan’s continuing screams.
Girl group and X-Factor veterans Fifth Harmony followed, with a loose 5-song set that played to a slightly diminished, yet still excitable crowd. The American quintet, formed under the watchful auspices of Simon Cowell, is promoting their debut EP, Better Together (Syco/Epic Records) and was also the opening act for the bigger evening concert.
Ally Brooke Hernandez, Normani Hamilton, Dinah Jane Hansen, Camila Cabello, and Lauren Jauregui launched right into their hit single, ‘Miss Movin’ On’ and after noting the extreme cold that they’d never previously experienced, followed with a smooth cover of Rihanna’s ‘Stay’.
After introducing themselves to their audience, the girls played the title track of the EP, then treated the December crowd to their version of classic, ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’, before finishing appropriately with the female-centric ‘Me and My Girls’. Ticket and sponsor giveaways and contests, were also a part of the overall event.
The show itself was a welcome addition to the Jingle Ball festivities and one to hope they continue, though with a little tweaking –
better overall show pacing
the stage placed on a riser (so shorter tweens could see the performers)
improved lighting (as it was non-existent) and a video screen or two,
and the addition of a local pop/rock band(s), to promote a local presence and keep the show moving
would all be much-welcomed improvements. Though some of the faithful had been waiting since before 10am for doors to open; the idea of having a free event to see live music, maybe win your way into the bigger evening concert, and place to get out of the cold, was perhaps the biggest draw.
Jingle Ball has become a year-end tradition locally, put on by CHR/Top 40 radio station KDWB, that brings together a handful of the latest pop chart success acts, and this year was no exception. Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke, Fall Out Boy, and others headlined the main event at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center, which is one of 12 such December concerts that Clear Channel puts on in major radio markets around the country.
Attendance to these events is primarily tween/teenage girls and their chaperone parents, usually resulting in sustained shrieks that can be louder than the music, when their favorite acts hit the stage.
This year, a Jingle Ball Pre-Party concert was also planned, featuring appearances by up-and-comers Austin Mahone and girl group Fifth Harmony. The event was free to the public, held late afternoon at the adjacent Roy Wilkins Auditorium, and provided welcome and warm relief to those early birds waiting for the arena doors to open for the evening’s concert.
The auditorium’s floor was only in use (balcony seats were covered and roped off) with a makeshift stage set up towards the back of the arena in an open floor, with sponsoring vendor booths located on the other end. Though the station claims over 2,000 attended, a crowd maybe half that size was there at any one given time.
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AUSTIN MAHONE
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Mahone’s fans, the so-called “Mahomies” wailed cries of “I Love You” and “Marry Me” as the teen began his cover of Mario’s ‘Let Me Love You’ which had the young girls swooning. A short and controlled Q+A followed, with Mahone then covering Biz Markie’s ‘Say You’re Just a Friend’, before dashing out the side door to his adoring fan’s continuing screams.
Girl group and X-Factor veterans Fifth Harmony followed, with a loose 5-song set that played to a slightly diminished, yet still excitable crowd. The American quintet, formed under the watchful auspices of Simon Cowell, is promoting their debut EP, Better Together (Syco/Epic Records) and was also the opening act for the bigger evening concert.
Ally Brooke Hernandez, Normani Hamilton, Dinah Jane Hansen, Camila Cabello, and Lauren Jauregui launched right into their hit single, ‘Miss Movin’ On’ and after noting the extreme cold that they’d never previously experienced, followed with a smooth cover of Rihanna’s ‘Stay’.
After introducing themselves to their audience, the girls played the title track of the EP, then treated the December crowd to their version of classic, ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’, before finishing appropriately with the female-centric ‘Me and My Girls’. Ticket and sponsor giveaways and contests, were also a part of the overall event.
The show itself was a welcome addition to the Jingle Ball festivities and one to hope they continue, though with a little tweaking –
would all be much-welcomed improvements. Though some of the faithful had been waiting since before 10am for doors to open; the idea of having a free event to see live music, maybe win your way into the bigger evening concert, and place to get out of the cold, was perhaps the biggest draw.
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Fifth Harmony at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St Paul (12/10/13) |
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