Last night (12/04/12) the very talented JoJo (Joanna Levesque) performed her first LA concert in ages at the Roxy Theatre in LA. And as you can probably guess, I was there.
You might remember her 2004 self titled debut album, her 2006 follow up album “The High Road,” or if you’ve ever seen “Aquamarine” she played Emma Robert’s best friend.
My work commitments keep me rather busy durring the holidays, but one of my favorite Christmas time traditions is to see Billy Hill and the Holiday Hillbillies.
This year, following the opening of Cars Land across the plaza, Disney had decided to move the Billies out of the Golden Horseshoe and into the Frontierland festival area.
The move has upset some, but I must admit that they are certainly taking advantage of the opportunity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYTordsK-_8
What really impressed me was that they brought the Country Bears back!
Okay, so it’s not their old show, but it is still very cool to see Big Al and the gang back at Disneyland.
Meanwhile back over at DCA, Buena Vista St is all decked out for the holidays…
And the town center Christmas tree could not be any more perfect.
Cars land got a similar Christmas make over.
They did a really good job on it in my opinion.
And the make over looks especially good at night.
Of course, nothing compares to Sleeping Beauty castle after snowfall.
Except for possibly the Holiday Fireworks from the Astro Orbiter.
As always, you can click any photo above to see the full set of holiday photos from the resort.
As I had recently mentioned, I went to see Cher Lloyd and Bridgit Mendler at the LA County Fair this past Saturday September 15th 2012. I went primarily to see Bridgit, but Cher put on a great show as well. She sang a total of seven songs, including one cover and six songs from her UK album. I’m not terribly familiar with the British songstress, but I like her single “Want U Back” and I plan on checking out her US Album Sticks & Stones when it drops next month.
Bridgit Mendler has been doing a lot of promotion for her upcoming album Hello My Name Is… including that special appearance at Extrapalooza, and then this past Saturday her first ever public concert in the LA area with Cher Lloyd at the LA County Fair in Pomona.
She performed ten songs from the new CD, including the single “Ready or Not”, plus another two covers and “Somebody” from Lemonade Mouth.
Well, Saturday 9/15/12 was certainly a fun day! The fabulous Jasmine V and her brother Jream Andrew came to town for a free concert and meet and greet sponsored by AT&T’s anti-txting-while-driving campaign#itcanwait.
As you can see, I got to meet her again. She’s clearly gotten even prettier. I won’t comment on myself. xD Oh, and this time I got an autograph too. That was cool. 🙂
Her and her brother did a few songs for us. She pulled a girl on stage to do the dance for Werk with her and, well, she did a great job. I was shocked just how in sync they were!
Extra, which is a Warner Bros. production, celebrated their 19th season with a party called “Extrapalooza.”
This event was held at The Grove LA on Monday 9/10/12 and featured several Disney stars.
Disney Channel’s Bridgit Mendler was there to perform her new single “Ready or Not.”
She also did a rare public meet and greet, and I was able to get a new autograph. 🙂
Also on hand earlier on the day was Olivia Holt from Disney XD’s Kickin’ It.
And she signed these really cool new Kickin’ It posters.
China Anne McClain from A.N.T. Farm was there as well.
She actually had both standard headshots and A.N.T. Farm posters to sign. I picked the headshot as you can see.
There were a number of other people there as well, including Rob Paulsen. He voiced Raphael in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and he now voices Donatello in the forthcoming Nick reboot of the franchise.
I also got to see Wayne Brady as he was interviewed by Maria Menounos.
Plus I got to see the great George Lopez briefly as they filmed the conclusion to the festivities with host Mario Lopez and the Grove’s owner Rick Caruso.
There are two separate image galleries linked from this post, one of Bridgit’s performance and one of everything else.
