Is Clay Your TIME Person of the Year?

As part of a promotional push for its big "Person of the Year" issue, TIME Magazine is allowing readers to submit anyone's photo for display on two huge jumbotrons - in New York's Time Square and Toronto, Canada's Yonge-Dundas Square.

Take a look at some shots of Clay gracing the huge display in Time Square (courtesy Time website):

Tidbits 8/25

• We're a little light on news today.... so above is a YouTube clip of Clay's 2005 Jukebox Tour concert in Toronto - 2 years ago today. What great memories ... my first (and only) Clay concert so far...
  
• Times News - article about a band that has performed with Clay -

  Led Foot has been making waves with their unique brand of country/classic rock and original music. The band's diversity has allowed them to share the stage with artists like Jamie O'Neal, Clay Aiken and Julie Roberts. In 2006, the band released it's first all original CD called The Long Road. The limited edition compilation contains twelve original tracks including "Always Be There."

A new photo of Clay at Cedar Point last month in between tour stops in Ohio.

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Toronto Claymates - Update On Possible Clay Appearance In Toronto

There is SPECULATION that Clay will be appearing at the Royal Ontario Museum's free concert tonight at 9:30 PM on Bloor St. between Avenue Rd. and Bedford Rd. The concert celebrates the opening of the ROM's new "Michael Lee-Chin Crystal".

There is no confirmation that Clay will be there, but there is now strong evidence that Clay is indeed in Toronto tonight. David Foster, who is travelling with Clay in Canada, is a scheduled performer at tonight's event.

If any Claynadian Claymate is available in Toronto tonight, we strongly urge you to go to this concert tonight for a POSSIBLE Clay sighting.

This is from the ROM's website. The program for tonight's concert can be found here (PDF).

Free concert celebrates Architectural Opening of ROM’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal on June 2nd at 9:30pm

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) hosts A World of Possibilities,, a free outdoor concert on the ROM’s new Bloor Street Plaza on Saturday, June 2, 2007 to celebrate the Architectural Opening & Building Dedication of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Presented by CIBC, the Inaugural Season Sponsor, the 75-minute concert features three stages of theatrical performances by an outstanding line-up of Canadian and international artists, complemented by spectacular visual effects projected on the dramatic exterior façade of the Lee-Chin Crystal. The concert starts at 9:30 pm. The public is admitted on a first-come, first-served basis, with access beginning at 8 pm. Bloor St. W. will be closed between Avenue Rd. and Bedford Rd. for this event, but audience space directly in front of the stages is limited

Clay Visits Calgary, Toronto According to Canadian Media Reports

Clay on the front page of the Calgary Herald today. Thanks to the CB's aikenfan6 for the scan!

A Vancouver Sun article seem to suggest that Clay was in Calgary, Canada yesterday and will be in Toronto, Canada today to perform at several engagements with David Foster. No more details at the moment, but we will get them to you if/when the become available. Clay performed for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell in Vancouver on Thursday.

CLAY AIKEN, the American Idol super-graduate, stole the show by singing at Arnold Schwarzenegger's appearance at the Stanley Park Pavilion Thursday. With Premier Gordon Campbell humming along, the California governor preached the green-way mantra other politicos have suddenly taken to heart. But a far older theme -- a star is born --played later when Aiken dined with homegrown music-biz biggie David Foster at Umberto Menghi's Il Giardino restaurant.

It involved a Greenway, too.

That was server Andrea Greenway, who, at Menghi's request, ripped off an operatic aria while setting Foster and Aiken's chow on the table.

Foster's response: "A car will pick you up at eight in the morning. Bring two changes of clothes and your passport. You'll sing with Clay in Calgary Friday. We'll be in Toronto Saturday."

That would be for tonight's benefit concert for the Royal Ontario Museum. By Friday, though, Foster had booked her to sing with pianist Lang Lang in Las Vegas Sunday, and to go into a Los Angeles studio with him (Foster) Monday. Ecstatic at Greenway's break, Il Giardino general manager Bobby Copiak still said: "Now I'm hooped for a server this weekend."

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Update 8:31 AM: The Calgary Herald has confirmed that Clay was indeed in Calgary yesterday for a special concert with David Foster:

As for that famed runner-up from American Idol, Clay Aiken? Well, a playful Foster dances around the rumour that Aiken will be performing at the Calgary concert, but he did manage to bring the pop star into town Friday to perform at a private backyard party for the foundation.

Why wasn't Aiken at the Friday afternoon press conference, held downtown at the new Wild Ginger restaurant? "Clay likes to sleep late," explains a dapper Foster, posing for pictures at his keyboard as the conference wraps up.

"But he's a wonderful friend of the Foundation and he loves Canada. . . . He's just here to help."