Sunday, June 22, 2008
Bethany Joy Galeotti and One Tree Hill Tour Members Photographed
Bethay Joy Galeotti, Tyler Hilton and Jessica Harp were photographed behind the scenes of the One Tree Hill Tour in 2005.
Bethany Joy Galeotti Behind the scenes of the One Tree Hill Tour
Bethany Joy Galeotti behind the scenes of the 2005 One Tree Hill tour.
From left to right: Jessica Harp, Tyler Hilton, Bethany Joy Galeotti, Gavin DeGraw, and Michelle Branch.
From left to right: Jessica Harp, Tyler Hilton, Bethany Joy Galeotti, Gavin DeGraw, and Michelle Branch.
Bethany Joy Galeotti Footage
Bethany Joy Galeotti and Tyler Hilton in the studio recording the hit single When The Stars Go Blue.
Galeotti and Hilton's raw version of their duet.
Galeotti and Hilton's raw version of their duet.
Bethany Joy Galeotti Press: "'One Tree Hill' Show-Within-a-Show Stops In Area" March 28, 2005
The Flint Journal -
Actress and singer Bethany Joy Lenz is seeing life imitate art.
One of the stars of the WB network's Tuesday night teen soap opera "One Tree Hill," Lenz plays Haley, who left her new husband, Nathan, to join Chris Keller and the Wreckers band on tour.
Now there's a real-life "One Tree Hill" concert tour and the headlining band is ... you guessed it ... the Wreckers, whose members include real music star (and mom-to-be) Michelle Branch and the guy who plays Chris Keller, emerging pop star Tyler Hilton.
The show's show comes to the Royal Oak Music Theatre at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
"They gave me a phone call and I thought, 'Wow. This is a really cool opportunity.' I love to sing and write and play, but I never really pursued it. I was when I was living in New York but it just wasn't the right timing," Lenz said.
"I had put together a little band and played at clubs like the Knitting Factory. Things were moving along, but I was also running out of money. So I thought I had to move to L.A. and start acting because I'm not making any money anymore. I had to drop the ball on that and move to L.A. Luckily, it came back around."
The 23-city "One Tree Hill" tour is all about timing. Lenz is juggling the tour dates with the show's filming schedule in Wilmington, N.C. (new episodes return April 12). Although Lenz's character has been absent from recent shows - because of The Wreckers' storyline - she will return to "One Tree Hill" in mid-April.
"We're flying back and forth between all the gigs. It definitely gets exhausting," she said. "I'm trudging on, though, and we're having fun. I really had no expectations for it. It's been a pleasant surprise for sure - the friendships that you build along the way. Everybody that is a part of this tour has really been a dream. They're so nice and friendly and helpful."
Hilton, a musician for seven years, echoes that sentiment. Hilton, who stars as Elvis Presley in the upcoming Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line," is pushing his CD, "The Tracks Of," his debut for Maverick Records.
"I think it's kind of neat. It's definitely different. It's new. It's kind of cool to see the idea come about and see the light slowly turn on in all of our heads. It's very cool to be a part of this," he said. "The jury's still out (on) how it's going to go. So far it's been going great. The crowds have been amazing."
Lenz said the tour shows how television and music can market one another.
"It's an opportunity for people to hear stuff that's not on the Top 100, or Top 40, or on the radio," Lenz said. "I think everybody gets sick of those (songs) after awhile. I know I do. I don't listen to the radio much. However, it's a double-edged sword. Every artist hopes to get their song on the radio. At the same time, it's a cool new venue for artists to push their music."
- Christina Fuoco
Actress and singer Bethany Joy Lenz is seeing life imitate art.
One of the stars of the WB network's Tuesday night teen soap opera "One Tree Hill," Lenz plays Haley, who left her new husband, Nathan, to join Chris Keller and the Wreckers band on tour.
Now there's a real-life "One Tree Hill" concert tour and the headlining band is ... you guessed it ... the Wreckers, whose members include real music star (and mom-to-be) Michelle Branch and the guy who plays Chris Keller, emerging pop star Tyler Hilton.
The show's show comes to the Royal Oak Music Theatre at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
"They gave me a phone call and I thought, 'Wow. This is a really cool opportunity.' I love to sing and write and play, but I never really pursued it. I was when I was living in New York but it just wasn't the right timing," Lenz said.
"I had put together a little band and played at clubs like the Knitting Factory. Things were moving along, but I was also running out of money. So I thought I had to move to L.A. and start acting because I'm not making any money anymore. I had to drop the ball on that and move to L.A. Luckily, it came back around."
The 23-city "One Tree Hill" tour is all about timing. Lenz is juggling the tour dates with the show's filming schedule in Wilmington, N.C. (new episodes return April 12). Although Lenz's character has been absent from recent shows - because of The Wreckers' storyline - she will return to "One Tree Hill" in mid-April.
"We're flying back and forth between all the gigs. It definitely gets exhausting," she said. "I'm trudging on, though, and we're having fun. I really had no expectations for it. It's been a pleasant surprise for sure - the friendships that you build along the way. Everybody that is a part of this tour has really been a dream. They're so nice and friendly and helpful."
Hilton, a musician for seven years, echoes that sentiment. Hilton, who stars as Elvis Presley in the upcoming Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line," is pushing his CD, "The Tracks Of," his debut for Maverick Records.
"I think it's kind of neat. It's definitely different. It's new. It's kind of cool to see the idea come about and see the light slowly turn on in all of our heads. It's very cool to be a part of this," he said. "The jury's still out (on) how it's going to go. So far it's been going great. The crowds have been amazing."
Lenz said the tour shows how television and music can market one another.
"It's an opportunity for people to hear stuff that's not on the Top 100, or Top 40, or on the radio," Lenz said. "I think everybody gets sick of those (songs) after awhile. I know I do. I don't listen to the radio much. However, it's a double-edged sword. Every artist hopes to get their song on the radio. At the same time, it's a cool new venue for artists to push their music."
- Christina Fuoco
Bethany Joy Galeotti Press: "One Tree Hill Branches Out" March 28, 2005
The Detroit News -
It's not quite reality TV, but TV crosses over into reality when the WB's "One Tree Hill" Tour rolls into the Royal Oak Music Theatre on Tuesday.
Here's how it works: In one of the plotlines on the hit drama, Haley James Scott (Bethany Joy Lenz) is touring the country with Chris Keller (Tyler Hilton), leaving behind her troubled husband, Nathan Scott (James Lafferty). On the 23-city "One Tree Hill" Tour, Lenz and Hilton perform -- as themselves -- and occasionally, audience members heckle them by shouting things like, "Haley, go back to Nathan!"
Confused? So was Lenz, when she was first approached with the idea of hitting the road in real life as an extension of the plotline of her TV show.
"I think Tyler and I both were a little wary about getting caught up in our characters," says Lenz, who also says she was worried the concept would come off as cheesy.
"That was our main concern at the very beginning, just sort of, 'Oh, gosh, I don't know if this is going to be really gimmicky or what.' There were so many opportunities for this to go awry, but we really trusted the people who were in charge of it, so we knew they were going to take care of it."
Tour headliners Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp, whose country-influenced band, the Wreckers, performed on an episode of "One Tree Hill" this season, had similar doubts about the tour.
"We didn't want anyone to think our band was this contrived TV band," says Branch, who describes the Wreckers sound as Dixie Chicks lite.
"Our main concern was people knew this was a real thing."
Thus far, however, the tour has been a successful melding of reality and fiction, and one that reinforces the importance music plays in a show such as "One Tree Hill."
"I have a feeling a lot of shows are going to follow in 'One Tree Hill's' footsteps," says Grammy winner Branch, whose Wreckers album, tentatively titled "Stand Still, Look Pretty," is due in June, around the same time as her first baby. "It's a good way to get people out and let them feel a little more interactive with the show."
Adding to that are the show's stars, who've been popping up at various tour stops to introduce the concert's acts.
Of course, to pull off a successful tour, first you have to have a successful show, and singer/actress Lenz says "One Tree Hill" has built a solid fan base because it's a show teens can identify with.
"It's a normal group of teenagers that kids in the Midwest, kids in cities and kids everywhere can relate to," Lenz says. "It's not about high glam, which is what 'The O.C.' is, which is great, and they're very good at that. We're just a different ZIP Code, and we relate a little bit more to the everyday stuff of what high school drama is like."
- Adam Graham
It's not quite reality TV, but TV crosses over into reality when the WB's "One Tree Hill" Tour rolls into the Royal Oak Music Theatre on Tuesday.
Here's how it works: In one of the plotlines on the hit drama, Haley James Scott (Bethany Joy Lenz) is touring the country with Chris Keller (Tyler Hilton), leaving behind her troubled husband, Nathan Scott (James Lafferty). On the 23-city "One Tree Hill" Tour, Lenz and Hilton perform -- as themselves -- and occasionally, audience members heckle them by shouting things like, "Haley, go back to Nathan!"
Confused? So was Lenz, when she was first approached with the idea of hitting the road in real life as an extension of the plotline of her TV show.
"I think Tyler and I both were a little wary about getting caught up in our characters," says Lenz, who also says she was worried the concept would come off as cheesy.
"That was our main concern at the very beginning, just sort of, 'Oh, gosh, I don't know if this is going to be really gimmicky or what.' There were so many opportunities for this to go awry, but we really trusted the people who were in charge of it, so we knew they were going to take care of it."
Tour headliners Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp, whose country-influenced band, the Wreckers, performed on an episode of "One Tree Hill" this season, had similar doubts about the tour.
"We didn't want anyone to think our band was this contrived TV band," says Branch, who describes the Wreckers sound as Dixie Chicks lite.
"Our main concern was people knew this was a real thing."
Thus far, however, the tour has been a successful melding of reality and fiction, and one that reinforces the importance music plays in a show such as "One Tree Hill."
"I have a feeling a lot of shows are going to follow in 'One Tree Hill's' footsteps," says Grammy winner Branch, whose Wreckers album, tentatively titled "Stand Still, Look Pretty," is due in June, around the same time as her first baby. "It's a good way to get people out and let them feel a little more interactive with the show."
Adding to that are the show's stars, who've been popping up at various tour stops to introduce the concert's acts.
Of course, to pull off a successful tour, first you have to have a successful show, and singer/actress Lenz says "One Tree Hill" has built a solid fan base because it's a show teens can identify with.
"It's a normal group of teenagers that kids in the Midwest, kids in cities and kids everywhere can relate to," Lenz says. "It's not about high glam, which is what 'The O.C.' is, which is great, and they're very good at that. We're just a different ZIP Code, and we relate a little bit more to the everyday stuff of what high school drama is like."
- Adam Graham
Bethany Joy Galeotti March 26, 2005: Philadelphia, PA
Bethany Joy Galeotti makes a tour stop at Philadelphia, PA.
Bethany Joy Galeotti March 25, 2005: Boston, MA
Bethany Joy Galeotti makes a stop at Boston, MA for the One Tree Hill Tour.
Bethany Joy Galeotti WGN Morning News
Bethany Joy Galeotti and Tyler Hilton drop by the WGN studios to promote the One Tree Hill Tour and sing their chart topping duet When the Stars Go Blue.
Bethany Joy Galeotti March 23, 2005: New York City, NY
Bethany Joy Galeotti makes her most exciting stop at New York City's Roseland Ballroom.
Bethany Joy Galeotti returns to sing alongside Tyler Hilton for their duet When The Stars Go Blue.
Bethany Joy Galeotti returns to sing alongside Tyler Hilton for their duet When The Stars Go Blue.
Bethany Joy Galeotti Press: "Shining through a clear Lenz" March 21, 2005
Nashville City Paper -
Some television viewers may only know Bethany Joy Lenz from her current role on One Tree Hill, where she’s been featured since the show debuted in 2003. Others may remember her three-year stint on the soap opera Guiding Light, or guest appearances on such shows as The Guardian or Felicity. But music fans also know that Lenz has a prominent, strong voice, and isn’t just another actor trying to be a singer.
Her 2002 release Incarnate [sic] was evidence of her extensive musical background, and she’s currently demonstrating those skills nightly during her portion of the One Tree Hill concert tour that’s appearing tonight at Rocketown.
“I’ve been singing since childhood and it’s always been a major part of my life,” Lenz said. “For me it was always combining singing and acting, and it’s never been something that was any kind of stretch. When they worked it into the show for my character’s musical career to begin taking off, it was perfect for me. Now I’m really focusing on the music, but I wouldn’t necessarily say that I’m putting acting on the back burner either.”
However Lenz hasn’t been seen on One Tree Hill in recent months, with her character Haley now traveling on the road with the Wreckers, a plot twist that really reflects reality as the Wreckers (Jessica Harp and Michelle Branch) are part of the tour, as well as Tyler Hilton and on some stops Gavin DeGraw, whose voice can be heard doing the show’s theme.
In addition, the song “When The Stars Go Blue” was co-written by Lenz and Hilton and first performed on the Nov. 2 edition of One Tree Hill. It is now available on the show’s soundtrack CD, although unfortunately an arguably stronger Lenz number “Let Me Fall” has not yet been issued on disc. But for someone who was singing in a production of The Wizard of Oz as a 7-year-old and managed to appear realistic portraying a mobster’s wife at 17, Lenz simply views her current work as a continuation of what’s she enjoyed doing much of her life.
- Ron Wynn
Some television viewers may only know Bethany Joy Lenz from her current role on One Tree Hill, where she’s been featured since the show debuted in 2003. Others may remember her three-year stint on the soap opera Guiding Light, or guest appearances on such shows as The Guardian or Felicity. But music fans also know that Lenz has a prominent, strong voice, and isn’t just another actor trying to be a singer.
Her 2002 release Incarnate [sic] was evidence of her extensive musical background, and she’s currently demonstrating those skills nightly during her portion of the One Tree Hill concert tour that’s appearing tonight at Rocketown.
“I’ve been singing since childhood and it’s always been a major part of my life,” Lenz said. “For me it was always combining singing and acting, and it’s never been something that was any kind of stretch. When they worked it into the show for my character’s musical career to begin taking off, it was perfect for me. Now I’m really focusing on the music, but I wouldn’t necessarily say that I’m putting acting on the back burner either.”
However Lenz hasn’t been seen on One Tree Hill in recent months, with her character Haley now traveling on the road with the Wreckers, a plot twist that really reflects reality as the Wreckers (Jessica Harp and Michelle Branch) are part of the tour, as well as Tyler Hilton and on some stops Gavin DeGraw, whose voice can be heard doing the show’s theme.
In addition, the song “When The Stars Go Blue” was co-written by Lenz and Hilton and first performed on the Nov. 2 edition of One Tree Hill. It is now available on the show’s soundtrack CD, although unfortunately an arguably stronger Lenz number “Let Me Fall” has not yet been issued on disc. But for someone who was singing in a production of The Wizard of Oz as a 7-year-old and managed to appear realistic portraying a mobster’s wife at 17, Lenz simply views her current work as a continuation of what’s she enjoyed doing much of her life.
- Ron Wynn
Bethany Joy Galeotti Press: "Fantasy and Reality Merge Into Hip 'One Tree Hill' Tour" March 19, 2005
The Morning Call -
In one of the season cliffhangers on the WB television network's top-rated drama ''One Tree Hill,'' Haley left her new husband, Nathan, to follow her ambition and join the singing group The Wreckers on tour.
Next Saturday, the tour will pull into Philadelphia's Theater of Living Arts — not on TV, but for real.
When Haley, played by Bethany Joy Lenz, hit the road, so did the One Tree Hill Tour, featuring Grammy-winning singer Michelle Branch and partner Jessica Harp as The Wreckers — the group they play on the series.
The twist is that Lenz has actually joined them, as has singer Tyler Hilton — whose character on ''One Tree Hill,'' aspiring singer-songwriter Chris Keller, has been trying to seduce Haley away from her husband.
In its second season, ''One Tree Hill'' — which is set in the North Carolina town of Tree Hill and centers on two half-brothers, their high-school friends and their families — is the WB's top-rated show and a hit among teen and young women.
''One Tree Hill,'' in the WB's youth-oriented style, relies heavily on new music to set the mood of its scenes, with every episode named after a song. And its influence can't be overstated: It made a No. 1 hit of Gavin DeGraw's ''I Don't Want To Be,'' which is the show's theme, and a ''One Tree Hill'' soundtrack is selling briskly with another single, The Wreckers' ''The Good Kind.''
The 23-city tour is a cross-promotion for both the artists and the show.
The artists on the tour say that it happened at all can be attributed to several twists of fate. But it's apparently working: Many dates, including next Saturday's, have sold out.
''I'm sure it came from the marketing department,'' Lenz says, laughing in a telephone interview last week from a tour stop in Las Vegas. ''I mean, I think it's just a brilliant way to market the show and make some extra money and get some new fans and get additional publicity.''
It helped that Lenz has a background in musical theater, and Hilton is actually a singer whose major-label debut, ''The Tracks Of ... ,'' was released in September. Lenz left tours with Hanson and MTV's Rock the Vote to join the cast of ''One Tree Hill.''
Harp, 23, in a telephone interview from another stop in Salt Lake City, says she and Branch wrote ''The Good Kind'' ''a long time ago'' and sang it at shows last spring, when she was a backup singer for Branch.
''It was just getting this huge response,'' Harp says. ''And we'd always kind of talked about, jokingly, doing a band, but when we saw what a huge response it was getting, we were like, 'Hmm, maybe there's something to this.'''
In June, Harp says, she ''was literally in my car driving to Nashville to sign my solo record deal'' when Branch called her and told her they should record ''before you sign with someone and it gets more complicated. And I turned my car around and said 'OK.'''
While recording last fall, ''we were just meeting with a bunch of different people and 'One Tree Hill' happened to be one of our stops,'' Harp says. ''We played for them and they pretty much immediately asked us to be on the show. And we were expecting just to have an appearance, but they ended up writing us into the story line and then turning it into a whole tour.''
The story for Hilton, 21, is similar. In a telephone interview after being awakened from yet another stop in Los Angeles, he says he was one date short of completing a tour with Hanson and joining MTV's Rock The Vote when his agent called him two years ago to say ''One Tree Hill'' was casting musicians.
Hilton says he had been a working musician for seven years, ''and I was like, 'Oh, I don't know what that is, this really doesn't sound like my thing.' I thought, I've been asking to do the Rock the Vote tour forever, and I'm going to leave it to go on a WB show? And they showed me the script and I thought, 'Oh, man, I've never seen the show, but this character is friggin' awesome. And the script seems really cool.'
''So that's what I did. I went to North Carolina and I started being Chris Keller. And I had no idea how this 'One Tree Hill' thing was going to happen — if the show [would be] popular. I know now that I was stupid, 'cause the show is huge, but I just didn't know.''
One concern for the artists on the tour might be that they'd be mistaken for TV creations, not true singers.
Harp, in particular, says she and Branch ''just wanted, most importantly, for people to know that we weren't a contrived thing — that we weren't just a television show band,'' and that they'd already recorded an album, due out in June.
But Hilton, who also will appear as a young Elvis in the upcoming Johnny Cash biopic ''I Walk The Line'' with Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, says fans know who they're seeing.
''I didn't realize that people would make the disconnection from the show that easily, but they have been,'' he says.
As for Lenz, 23, probably the most traditional actor on the tour (she previously had a part in the daytime soap opera ''Guiding Light''), she says she's not actively pursuing a career in music, anyway.
''I'm meeting with labels and I'm definitely talking with people, but it's nothing that I've gone really banging anyone's door down,'' she says. ''Music's something I'll be doing for the rest of my life, whether I'm just playing guitar in my living room or whether I'm playing for 3,000 people. So I'm just enjoying it right now and having fun.''
She says fans of ''One Tree Hill'' aren't above making the decision for her.
At the concerts, she says, ''the fans come up and they'll say something like, 'You know, you need to go back to Nathan.'''
- John J. Moser
In one of the season cliffhangers on the WB television network's top-rated drama ''One Tree Hill,'' Haley left her new husband, Nathan, to follow her ambition and join the singing group The Wreckers on tour.
Next Saturday, the tour will pull into Philadelphia's Theater of Living Arts — not on TV, but for real.
When Haley, played by Bethany Joy Lenz, hit the road, so did the One Tree Hill Tour, featuring Grammy-winning singer Michelle Branch and partner Jessica Harp as The Wreckers — the group they play on the series.
The twist is that Lenz has actually joined them, as has singer Tyler Hilton — whose character on ''One Tree Hill,'' aspiring singer-songwriter Chris Keller, has been trying to seduce Haley away from her husband.
In its second season, ''One Tree Hill'' — which is set in the North Carolina town of Tree Hill and centers on two half-brothers, their high-school friends and their families — is the WB's top-rated show and a hit among teen and young women.
''One Tree Hill,'' in the WB's youth-oriented style, relies heavily on new music to set the mood of its scenes, with every episode named after a song. And its influence can't be overstated: It made a No. 1 hit of Gavin DeGraw's ''I Don't Want To Be,'' which is the show's theme, and a ''One Tree Hill'' soundtrack is selling briskly with another single, The Wreckers' ''The Good Kind.''
The 23-city tour is a cross-promotion for both the artists and the show.
The artists on the tour say that it happened at all can be attributed to several twists of fate. But it's apparently working: Many dates, including next Saturday's, have sold out.
''I'm sure it came from the marketing department,'' Lenz says, laughing in a telephone interview last week from a tour stop in Las Vegas. ''I mean, I think it's just a brilliant way to market the show and make some extra money and get some new fans and get additional publicity.''
It helped that Lenz has a background in musical theater, and Hilton is actually a singer whose major-label debut, ''The Tracks Of ... ,'' was released in September. Lenz left tours with Hanson and MTV's Rock the Vote to join the cast of ''One Tree Hill.''
Harp, 23, in a telephone interview from another stop in Salt Lake City, says she and Branch wrote ''The Good Kind'' ''a long time ago'' and sang it at shows last spring, when she was a backup singer for Branch.
''It was just getting this huge response,'' Harp says. ''And we'd always kind of talked about, jokingly, doing a band, but when we saw what a huge response it was getting, we were like, 'Hmm, maybe there's something to this.'''
In June, Harp says, she ''was literally in my car driving to Nashville to sign my solo record deal'' when Branch called her and told her they should record ''before you sign with someone and it gets more complicated. And I turned my car around and said 'OK.'''
While recording last fall, ''we were just meeting with a bunch of different people and 'One Tree Hill' happened to be one of our stops,'' Harp says. ''We played for them and they pretty much immediately asked us to be on the show. And we were expecting just to have an appearance, but they ended up writing us into the story line and then turning it into a whole tour.''
The story for Hilton, 21, is similar. In a telephone interview after being awakened from yet another stop in Los Angeles, he says he was one date short of completing a tour with Hanson and joining MTV's Rock The Vote when his agent called him two years ago to say ''One Tree Hill'' was casting musicians.
Hilton says he had been a working musician for seven years, ''and I was like, 'Oh, I don't know what that is, this really doesn't sound like my thing.' I thought, I've been asking to do the Rock the Vote tour forever, and I'm going to leave it to go on a WB show? And they showed me the script and I thought, 'Oh, man, I've never seen the show, but this character is friggin' awesome. And the script seems really cool.'
''So that's what I did. I went to North Carolina and I started being Chris Keller. And I had no idea how this 'One Tree Hill' thing was going to happen — if the show [would be] popular. I know now that I was stupid, 'cause the show is huge, but I just didn't know.''
One concern for the artists on the tour might be that they'd be mistaken for TV creations, not true singers.
Harp, in particular, says she and Branch ''just wanted, most importantly, for people to know that we weren't a contrived thing — that we weren't just a television show band,'' and that they'd already recorded an album, due out in June.
But Hilton, who also will appear as a young Elvis in the upcoming Johnny Cash biopic ''I Walk The Line'' with Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, says fans know who they're seeing.
''I didn't realize that people would make the disconnection from the show that easily, but they have been,'' he says.
As for Lenz, 23, probably the most traditional actor on the tour (she previously had a part in the daytime soap opera ''Guiding Light''), she says she's not actively pursuing a career in music, anyway.
''I'm meeting with labels and I'm definitely talking with people, but it's nothing that I've gone really banging anyone's door down,'' she says. ''Music's something I'll be doing for the rest of my life, whether I'm just playing guitar in my living room or whether I'm playing for 3,000 people. So I'm just enjoying it right now and having fun.''
She says fans of ''One Tree Hill'' aren't above making the decision for her.
At the concerts, she says, ''the fans come up and they'll say something like, 'You know, you need to go back to Nathan.'''
- John J. Moser
Bethany Joy Galeotti Tour Footage
An enjoyable clip of Bethany Joy Galeotti singing Billy Joel's Movin' Out at the One Tree Hill Los Angeles stop.
Bethany Joy Galeotti and Tyler Hilton singing When the Stars Go Blue.
Bethany Joy Galeotti and Tyler Hilton singing When the Stars Go Blue.
Bethany Joy Galeotti March 9, 2005: Los Angeles, CA
Bethany Joy Galeotti makes a stop at Los Angeles California.
Footage of Bethany Joy Galeotti and Tyler Hilton
Here's a video of Bethany Joy Galeotti and Tyler Hilton singing their rendition of When The Stars Go Blue at the San Fransico, California stop.
Bethany Joy Galeotti singing Crazy Girls from her second independent album Come On Home.
Bethany Joy galeotti singing John and Junior.
Bethany Joy Galeotti singing Crazy Girls from her second independent album Come On Home.
Bethany Joy galeotti singing John and Junior.
Bethany Joy Galeotti March 8, 2005: San Francisco, CA
Bethany Joy Galeotti makes a stop at San Fransico California for the One Tree Hill tour.
Bethany Joy Galeotti returns on stage to join Tyler Hilton in their rendition of When The Stars Go Blue.
Bethany Joy Galeotti returns on stage to join Tyler Hilton in their rendition of When The Stars Go Blue.
Bethany Joy Galeotti Press: "Playing by Ear" March 7 , 2004
By Sandra Barrera
U Redlands
Life imitates art as actress follows her character's path on 'One Tree Hill' tour.
When we last saw Haley James Scott on the WB drama "One Tree Hill," she had left her husband to join a concert tour.
The next time you see Bethany Joy Lenz, who plays Haley, the high-school brainiac married to star basketball player Nathan, it could be in the flesh.
On Wednesday, Lenz rolls into the Wiltern LG for a night of live music on the "One Tree Hill" Tour.
The idea of having Lenz go on tour at the same time as her character is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking from the creative team behind the WB's top-rated show.
Now in its second season, "One Tree Hill" is currently the No. 2 drama for teen girls, ages 12 to 17, behind "Desperate Housewives." However, its biggest audience is women ages 18 to 34.
Set in the North Carolina town of Tree Hill, the show is about the day-to-day dramas of two half-brothers, their high-school friends and their families.
"We're doing a really gray line, life imitates art sort of thing," says "One Tree Hill" executive producer Joe Davola. Tollin/Robbins Productions is the company footing the bill for the 23-city trek that also features Michelle Branch's duo the Wreckers, as well as Gavin DeGraw and Tyler Hilton, all of whom have appeared on the show.
Hilton, a 20-year-old Americana-influenced pop singer-songwriter who made his Maverick recording debut in September with "The Tracks Of," will portray a young Elvis Presley come November in "Walk the Line," the Johnny Cash biopic that stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. But fans of "One Tree Hill" know him as Chris Keller.
During the second season, Chris had been trying to seduce Haley away from her husband, Nathan Scott, played by James Lafferty.
At the end of last week's episode, Nathan set off to find his young bride and bring her back home.
Will he succeed?
"I wish I knew," says Lenz, acting coy. "Being so far away from Wilmington (in North Carolina, where the series is filmed) I'm completely out of the loop. But I'm not leaving the show, I can tell you that."
Haley's current story line was the inspiration for the "One Tree Hill" tour, according to series creator Mark Schwahn.
While he was mulling over Haley's decision to go against Nathan's wishes and board the bus for the tour, Schwahn says a light bulb went on in his head.
"If her character gets on that bus," he says, "maybe (Bethany) Joy (Lenz) will want to get on a bus, too, and tour with them."
The 23-year-old actress says it wasn't even up for discussion. For as long as she could remember, Lenz has been singing.
But she pursued acting instead.
After her two-year stint on the soap "Guiding Light" ended, she decided to give music a try.
Lenz formed a band with some friends to play New York City clubs. But when the band couldn't get a record deal, she packed it up for Los Angeles and continued her acting career.
In 2003, she landed the part of Haley on "One Tree Hill," which regularly scripts music into its episodes.
"We do better with the right piece of music than I can do with pages of dialogue," Schwahn says. "It somehow speaks to your soul."
The tour is yet another extension of that.
All of its performers have appeared on the show at one time or another. Branch and her Wreckers bandmate Jessica Harp made one of the most recent cameos.
Additionally, DeGraw is heard each week performing the theme song, "I Don't Want to Be," during the show's opening.
"That song sort of speaks to that place that adolescence is rooted in, which is you don't have all the answers, but you have hope and you have faith," Schwahn says. "You're hopeful that things are going to turn out well. I just love when music does that."
DeGraw's track also appears on the TV show's soundtrack, which has sold 70,000 copies since its release in January.
It includes songs by the likes of Jimmy Eat World, 20-20s and Keane.
The Haley and Chris duet "When the Stars Go Blue," written by Ryan Adams, also appears on the soundtrack.
Lenz says she is thrilled about getting the opportunity to sing more on the show.
"All of a sudden, the music's just falling into my lap, so it has been a real blessing," she says from her home in Washington state at the beginning of the tour that, while inspired by fantasy, is the real deal.
All of the performers on tour are supporting their respective albums, including "Come on Home," Lenz's independently produced set.
The album is an acoustic folk-rock session that she likens to a cross between old Joni Mitchell and Sheryl Crow. It was recorded in the basement of her friend's Brooklyn home and is available along the tour route and at her Web site _ www.bethanyjoylenz.com.
"So much of my heart is in my music," Lenz says. "If you pay close attention to the lyrics, you can get a much better perception of who I am when my guard is down."
She offers her song "If You're Missing (Come on Home)" as an example.
"This has been a recurring theme in my life over the past year or so," Lenz says, describing the song as a "spiritual" call-and-response about getting so caught up in Hollywood that she ends up feeling lost.
Her only salvation is the pair of "heavenly open arms" that reaches out to her and reminds her to stop trying to be something she's not.
"The fact that Joy is a talented musician and had an interest in performing some of her material was wonderful," Schwahn says. "The fans deserve a night of good music in relationship to the show."
These actor-musicians are the biggest draw, according to DeGraw, who is promoting "Chariot," his platinum 2003 J-Records debut, through Friday before leaving the tour.
"The most ironic thing about the whole music business is that the best singers I'm hearing live right now are actors on TV shows," DeGraw says.
He's especially become a fan of Hilton.
"His music is excellent," DeGraw says, adding, "He plays guitar great. He's a pleasure to watch, you know."
For Hilton, the admiration is mutual.
"Gavin DeGraw is great," he says. "And the reason I'm digging the Wreckers on this bill is I haven't seen an act that's come and done that kind of really rootsy badass country in a long time."
The concept for the "One Tree Hill" tour was test-driven last summer when Lenz got to warm up the crowd for DeGraw.
"Before the doors opened, there was a line around the block," recalls Davola. "Usually nobody shows up for the warm-up acts, and they showed up for Joy ... so we knew we had something that was going to work."
U Redlands
Life imitates art as actress follows her character's path on 'One Tree Hill' tour.
When we last saw Haley James Scott on the WB drama "One Tree Hill," she had left her husband to join a concert tour.
The next time you see Bethany Joy Lenz, who plays Haley, the high-school brainiac married to star basketball player Nathan, it could be in the flesh.
On Wednesday, Lenz rolls into the Wiltern LG for a night of live music on the "One Tree Hill" Tour.
The idea of having Lenz go on tour at the same time as her character is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking from the creative team behind the WB's top-rated show.
Now in its second season, "One Tree Hill" is currently the No. 2 drama for teen girls, ages 12 to 17, behind "Desperate Housewives." However, its biggest audience is women ages 18 to 34.
Set in the North Carolina town of Tree Hill, the show is about the day-to-day dramas of two half-brothers, their high-school friends and their families.
"We're doing a really gray line, life imitates art sort of thing," says "One Tree Hill" executive producer Joe Davola. Tollin/Robbins Productions is the company footing the bill for the 23-city trek that also features Michelle Branch's duo the Wreckers, as well as Gavin DeGraw and Tyler Hilton, all of whom have appeared on the show.
Hilton, a 20-year-old Americana-influenced pop singer-songwriter who made his Maverick recording debut in September with "The Tracks Of," will portray a young Elvis Presley come November in "Walk the Line," the Johnny Cash biopic that stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. But fans of "One Tree Hill" know him as Chris Keller.
During the second season, Chris had been trying to seduce Haley away from her husband, Nathan Scott, played by James Lafferty.
At the end of last week's episode, Nathan set off to find his young bride and bring her back home.
Will he succeed?
"I wish I knew," says Lenz, acting coy. "Being so far away from Wilmington (in North Carolina, where the series is filmed) I'm completely out of the loop. But I'm not leaving the show, I can tell you that."
Haley's current story line was the inspiration for the "One Tree Hill" tour, according to series creator Mark Schwahn.
While he was mulling over Haley's decision to go against Nathan's wishes and board the bus for the tour, Schwahn says a light bulb went on in his head.
"If her character gets on that bus," he says, "maybe (Bethany) Joy (Lenz) will want to get on a bus, too, and tour with them."
The 23-year-old actress says it wasn't even up for discussion. For as long as she could remember, Lenz has been singing.
But she pursued acting instead.
After her two-year stint on the soap "Guiding Light" ended, she decided to give music a try.
Lenz formed a band with some friends to play New York City clubs. But when the band couldn't get a record deal, she packed it up for Los Angeles and continued her acting career.
In 2003, she landed the part of Haley on "One Tree Hill," which regularly scripts music into its episodes.
"We do better with the right piece of music than I can do with pages of dialogue," Schwahn says. "It somehow speaks to your soul."
The tour is yet another extension of that.
All of its performers have appeared on the show at one time or another. Branch and her Wreckers bandmate Jessica Harp made one of the most recent cameos.
Additionally, DeGraw is heard each week performing the theme song, "I Don't Want to Be," during the show's opening.
"That song sort of speaks to that place that adolescence is rooted in, which is you don't have all the answers, but you have hope and you have faith," Schwahn says. "You're hopeful that things are going to turn out well. I just love when music does that."
DeGraw's track also appears on the TV show's soundtrack, which has sold 70,000 copies since its release in January.
It includes songs by the likes of Jimmy Eat World, 20-20s and Keane.
The Haley and Chris duet "When the Stars Go Blue," written by Ryan Adams, also appears on the soundtrack.
Lenz says she is thrilled about getting the opportunity to sing more on the show.
"All of a sudden, the music's just falling into my lap, so it has been a real blessing," she says from her home in Washington state at the beginning of the tour that, while inspired by fantasy, is the real deal.
All of the performers on tour are supporting their respective albums, including "Come on Home," Lenz's independently produced set.
The album is an acoustic folk-rock session that she likens to a cross between old Joni Mitchell and Sheryl Crow. It was recorded in the basement of her friend's Brooklyn home and is available along the tour route and at her Web site _ www.bethanyjoylenz.com.
"So much of my heart is in my music," Lenz says. "If you pay close attention to the lyrics, you can get a much better perception of who I am when my guard is down."
She offers her song "If You're Missing (Come on Home)" as an example.
"This has been a recurring theme in my life over the past year or so," Lenz says, describing the song as a "spiritual" call-and-response about getting so caught up in Hollywood that she ends up feeling lost.
Her only salvation is the pair of "heavenly open arms" that reaches out to her and reminds her to stop trying to be something she's not.
"The fact that Joy is a talented musician and had an interest in performing some of her material was wonderful," Schwahn says. "The fans deserve a night of good music in relationship to the show."
These actor-musicians are the biggest draw, according to DeGraw, who is promoting "Chariot," his platinum 2003 J-Records debut, through Friday before leaving the tour.
"The most ironic thing about the whole music business is that the best singers I'm hearing live right now are actors on TV shows," DeGraw says.
He's especially become a fan of Hilton.
"His music is excellent," DeGraw says, adding, "He plays guitar great. He's a pleasure to watch, you know."
For Hilton, the admiration is mutual.
"Gavin DeGraw is great," he says. "And the reason I'm digging the Wreckers on this bill is I haven't seen an act that's come and done that kind of really rootsy badass country in a long time."
The concept for the "One Tree Hill" tour was test-driven last summer when Lenz got to warm up the crowd for DeGraw.
"Before the doors opened, there was a line around the block," recalls Davola. "Usually nobody shows up for the warm-up acts, and they showed up for Joy ... so we knew we had something that was going to work."
Bethany Joy Galeotti on the One Tree Hill Music Tour
Bethany Joy Galeotti and costar Tyler Hilton joined The Wreckers (Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp) for a 25-city North American "One Tree Hill" tour that started Feb. 28 in Vancouver. The jaunt also featured Gavin DeGraw on select dates. While on tour Galeotti performed some of her original songs from her second independent record.
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