American Idol Season 7 finalist, Carly Smithson, has been tapped to perform during the Opening Ceremony of the 2009 State Games of America on July 30 at the Colorado Springs World Arena. 
“This will be something special for the athletes and the fans,” said Colorado Springs Sports Corporation President/CEO Tom Osborne. “Carly Smithson is one of America’s most popular performers, recognized by millions of young fans everywhere. We are grateful to our Opening Ceremony sponsor, AT&T, for its support and huge role in helping us bring Carly Smithson to the event.”
Uhhh, I love Carly Smithson and she was a real …read more

I wanted to write about this earlier but between technical issues and a hugely busy schedule, it just didn’t happen.  As I wrote earlier, Carly Smithson has joined up with some former members of Evanescence to create a new band called “We Are the Fallen” (it was originally “The Fallen” but they had to change it because some other band claims to have had first dibs on the name).
Have you had a chance to listen to their first single “Bury Me Alive”?  If not, you can go and listen to it on their MySpace page (or listen to a live …read more

American Idol season 7 finalist, Carly Smithson, is reportedly working with Grammy Award-winning group, Evanescence on a new album called The Fallen.  The band’s guitarist, Ben Moody, told Idol Tracker: “We began looking for our soulmate, which we were scared was going to take a long, long time.”
Carly seems very happy with the offer to work with the group and said: “I’m excited to be able to completely jump out of the box.  The Idol thing, you know, was very PG, it was for a family audience … I’ve never been more happy than being in this band.”
I know some …read more

Did you catch Carly Smithson and Michael Johns performing “The Letter” on the results show tonight on American Idol.  They are both good singers (and actually really nice in person) but I wasn’t fond of this performance.  Did you like it?