We invite you to join us for a fun social evening at the NZ Consul Residence, 154 S Rockingham Ave, Brentwood, CA 90049 on Saturday May 19, 6-9pm.

Netball America President, Sonya Ottaway is hosting the event to help the public become aware of how Netball is helping American youth with bullying and obesity while encouraging team unity. All proceeds will go to these ‘Let’s Move the Youth Programs’ as well as support the first ever collegiate Team USA Netball heading to the world championships in South Africa in July.

Tickets only $20 and can be purchased here. Kids under 15 are free. Ticket price includes dinner, drinks (including the new range from Mike’s Hard Lemonade) and great entertainment featuring American Idol finalist Michael Johns, Wilson Phillips guitarist and backup vocalist Troy MacCubbin & band with special guest, Country Artist Stephen Rowe. Master of Ceremonies will be Kirsty Spraggon who is an award winning international speaker and author.
It would be great for you to welcome the first ever all American USA Netball team as they will be present. Be there early to grab a meat pie from the Aussie Import Company. A GOLFTEC professional will be there so you can get a golf swing analysis. Great silent auction items include: 1 week stay in a luxury villa in Orlando; golf lessons; autographed Wilson Phillips CD; 1 hour coaching session with Kirsty Spraggon, a stay at the Ramada West Hollywood and other great items. If you or your company would like to contribute or sponsor this event please contact us. Donations are tax deductible as we are a 501c(3) charity.

Netball players are welcome to the Carson Courts from 9-11am on May 19th to play some Netball games against the National Team.

Thanks again for your support to help promote good health and education of youth.

Cheers,

Sonya Ottaway

President, Netball America

www.NetballAmerica.com

Read the entire article HERE

Please tell all your friends to come out for their chance to see Michael sing live and support this worthy and fun filled evening…besides, doesn’t everyone want to try one of those Aussie meat pies??  :D

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Every year, Brit Week in Los Angeles honors prominent people and raises funds for important causes. This year, Piers Morgan was chosen and honored at the gala event, “An Evening With Piers Morgan”. The event benefited Children’s Hospital LA and was held at the gorgeous Beverly Wilshire Hotel (famous from the movie, “Pretty Woman”).

Katherine Jenkins, a mezzo-soprano and contestant on Season 14 of Dancing With The Stars  performed at this wonderful gala as well as our own Mr. Michael Johns!
We couldn’t be any prouder of him!!

More about Britweek HERE.

Some amazing pictures and red carpet videos have surfaced! Many thanks to both Maja and Sharon for finding these! Please enjoy

MJ on the red carpet from CelebrityFootage Youtube account! Look for him ~:54

Next group of photos with credit to: Zimbio.com

Michael wowing the audience!

Michael and Stacey..STUNNING!

Michael with his movie-star good looks!

Check out even more gorgeous photos!
Photo Credit for the next images from Cozycot.com

MJ serenades the crowd!

This man needs to be on the big screen!!

Handsome and so talented!!

Check out even more beautiful photos in the gallery!
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 The Award is given annually to exceptional individuals in our society who, through courage and dedication, overcame the difficult circumstances they faced early in life and accomplished their goals. The Award is also a salute to these individuals’ philanthropic endeavors in their communities, nationally, and internationally.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9290562.htm

It seemed fitting that Michael should sing at an awards event that honors the qualities of courage and determination of people to achieve their goals..he left Australia when he was still in his teens and came all alone to America to pursue a singing career and look at him now! So well done MJ..We just love you!!

Michael with former Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney, who was an award recepient.

MJ with well known football player and mixed martial artist , Herschel Walker!

 An outstanding singer at an outstanding event!! Way to go, Michael! We are always so proud of you!

If any more pictures or videos appear, I will update this blog post

Thanks to Michael for all his twitpics on this post

Horatio Alger Association Website:
http://www.horatioalger.org/index.cfm

Thanks to the URRE Facebook page for this gorgeous photo!

Wow, what an exciting 5 days for music lovers!! Michael, idol pal Mikalah Gordon and other rock musicians took part in the fun and music festivities at the very picturesque Cancun Palace.  See the poster for the great line-up!!

http://www.ultimaterockandrollexperience.com/UltimateRockandRollExperience-Event-Details.cfm
A fabulous performance by MJ and guest guitarists of the G & R favourite “Patience”

A young star sings “Livin’ On a Prayer” with MJ and Mikalah singing backup!

Thanks to Maja for the screencap photos

Thanks to the URRE Facebook page for the next photos

You can watch other performances posted on YouTube HERE.

Love the media from these events! Almost as good as being there

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http://www.bajainsider.com/baja-life/charities/gartchampagnejam2012.html

Michael once again gave his time and amazing talent along with other artists to support the very worthy Ray Thomas Foundation, a children’s charity event in Cabo. The gala was held beachside at the beautiful Hotel Casa Dorada.

The funds raised in this year’s event are earmarked for the GART’s first fully funded kitchen in the Los Cabos community. This brand new kitchen, which accompanies the sports and activities programs in Leonardo Gastelum’s Elementary School, is located on the outskirts of Cabo San Lucas. With the success of the Champagne Jam as an annual event, the foundation plans to reach out to many more schools and students in need of their programs in the near future.

Michael killer rendition of “Proud Mary”!!

The Ray Thomas Foundation..wonderful work!!

…way to rock Cabo MJ and next stop Cancun!

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UPDATED: RED CARPET INTERVIEWS..HEAR MJ SING A FEW BARS AT 2:03!!

Celebrity Fight Night is a huge star studded event that has raised over $70 million over the past 17 years benefitting The Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute and other charities.
Awards are also given out at the event as a way to pay tribute to business leaders, entertainment and sports communities who represent qualities associated with The Champ and his determination to find a cure for Parkinson’s. Two of this years winners are NFL great, Larry Fitzgerald and Bill Austin, the CEO of Starkey…congratulations!

The gala, emceed by Reba McIntyre consisted of a live auction, a gourmet dinner and some very special entertainment from stars. Some of the performances were from Lionel Ritchie, Rascal Flatts, Jackie Evancho, Rita Wilson (wife of Tom Hanks) and again this year, our favourite and shining star, Michael!!

Michael and Rita performed “ALL I DO IS DREAM” by The Everly Brothers..just WOW!!! I wonder how many of us would have given our eye teeth to hear that! I can imagine it was absolutely amazing!

All of the fans are so proud of Michael for again supporting and giving his time and talent to this wonderful charity event…just one of the many reasons why we all love him.
We hope that this year’s event raised a ton of money!!

Many thanks to Maja and Sharon who brought over some fabulous photos to MJO.

The photos are amazing and everyone looks like they are having the time of their lives! Way to rock the stage MJ!!!

Michael and Stacey looking fabulous on the red carpet Photo Credit to Zimbio.com

Michael performing and accompanied by David Foster. Photo Credit to Yahoo News

Michael on Stage with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson! Photo Credit to Zimbio.com

MJ having some fun and dancing on stage with Rita Wilson Photo Credit to Yahoo News

Rita and MJ rocking the stage! Photo Credit to Zimbio.com

MJ always performs with such passion! Photo Credit to Zimbio.com

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UPDATED: PERFORMANCE VIDEOS
WATCH MJ SINGING AND TAKING A TWIRL WITH ANGELINA BALLERINA

MJ LEADING THE GROUP FINALE PERFORMING ALL RIGHT NOW

Performing for the Hard Rock Hotel launch Party in downtown Toronto, Michael and his pals Blake Lewis, Matt Giraud, Tim Urban and Didi Benami thoroughly entertained the guests!

MJ rocked Proud Mary which was the perfect choice to get everyone going! The atmosphere was electric as soon as MJ started to sing…a great way to start it off! He also performed Free Falling, To Love Somebody, Benny And The Jets (group song) and rocked the hell out of We Are The Champions! I am always struck at how beautiful and powerful his voice is and what a gift MJ has for engaging the audience. ROCKSTAR!!

Barney, Bob The Builder, Angelina Ballerina and Thomas The Tank Enginer were on hand and Angelina and Barney both took a small spin with MJ during Champs!

Matt, Blake, Didi and Tim were great and Hard Rock was treated to some fabulous talent from them too!

Correction here: (it was very loud and hard to hear) Some great news from Michael was that he was in the UK earlier in March arranging shows for both Wimbledon and The Olympics with the Bryans! The other is that he is scheduled to open and perform a duet with Tony Bennett at one of his shows and he will be at Muhammad Ali’s Fight Night later this month so stay tuned when we should have more exciting details!

Read about the event!

MEXICO HARD ROCK STYLE
In the world of the “all inclusive” hotel business, there is a new player on the block: The Hard Rock International Brand. And on Thursday March 15th, 2012, at the Hard Rock Café downtown Toronto, while guests enjoyed the performance of American Idols: Tim Urban, Matt Giraud, Didi Benami, Michael Johns & Blake lewis; Frank Maduro, VP of Marketing and Ash Tembe, Director of North American Field Sales, announced the transformation and re-branding of Palace Resorts properties in Cancun, Puerto Vallarta and The Riviera Maya into Hard Rock Hotels. These will be the mother of all inclusive luxury properties; bringing the acclaimed Hard Rock ultimate experience to these popular destinations for Canadians.

Read the rest of the Bold Magazine article and see the photos HERE.

Thanks again to Bold Magazine facebook page.

One final photo just for fun! Michael is a great sport and posed with the special sunnies they all wore during “Benny And The Jets”

Last but not least…many thanks to Sharon and Maja, our resident detectives, who find the articles and photos for us to share and please check out the gallery for the latest MJ photos

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PHOTO CREDIT: MICHAEL’S TWITPIC

On March 6, Michael will be attending the 8th Annual K-Swiss Desert Smash, a charity celebrity tennis event benefitting Variety The Children’s Charity. It will be held again at the beautiful La Quinta Resort and Club.

Some of the superstar tennis greats attending are Novak Djokovic, 2012 Australian Open Men’s Champion, Mardy Fish, America’s top tennis player and World #8, Sam Querrey and MJ’s pals, The Bryan Brothers who are the World’s #1 doubles team!

Entertaining and rockin’ the crowds off their socks will be our super talented idol, Mr. Michael Johns and the fabulous Bryans!

Read all about the event and charity HERE.

Michael tweeted that he was getting “his lazy arse” back on the tennis court to get ready for the event!! In addition to performing, it looks like he’s playing tennis too!

 Love that man’s tweets! (follow @Michael_Johns)

Someone’s finally getting his lazy arse back onto the tennis court. Getting ready for Desert Smash at LaQuinta for K Swiss

Have a blast MJ!!! Music, tennis and charity..now that definitely sounds fantastic!!!

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Michael performed at the 987fm Grammy Gifting Suite stage to give everyone an absolutely outstanding cover of Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees”. That has to be the best cover of the song…EVER! He never ceases to amaze us all with his performances!

@Michael_Johns tweeted about it!

Just finished playing for Kiss FM’s Grammy Suite Party. Good to be back in LA

BEAUTIFUL MJ!!!

Many, many thanks to 987fmradio for sharing this video.
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CLEAR CHANNEL Top 40 KIIS and Alternative KYSR (98.7 FM) are hosting their 3rd Annual Artist and Celebrity gifting lounge celebrating THE GRAMMYS. Recording artists and celebrities will stop by to participate in the live broadcast, chat, blog postings and gift lounge located at the ESPN ZONE at L.A. LIVE, 800 W. Olympic Blvd in LOS ANGELES.
Celebrities scheduled to appear include DIANE WARREN (songwriter), DAMIEN MCGINTY (Glee), ALI FEDOTOWSKY (The Bachelor), ARSENIO HALL and TIA CARRERE (Celebrity Apprentice), KYLE RICHARDS, TAYLOR ARMSTRONG and DANA WILKEY (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills), HAYLEY REINHART (American Idol), HEATHER DUBROW and TERRY DUBROW (Real Housewives of Orange County), TRISTAN WILDS (90210), RENE GRAZIANO (Mob Wives), MAYIM BIALIK (Big Bang Theory), RACHEL CROW, MELANIE AMARO and CHRIS RENE (The X Factor), ROSS MATTHEWS (Chelsea Lately), THE GUNCLES (TORI and DEAN), BEVERLY MCCLELLAN (The Voice), MELISSA RIVERS, AMBER ROSE, and more.
Recording artists scheduled to appear include NEON TREES, CAROLINA LIAR, FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS, THE FRAY, SUM 41, JESSIE AND THE TOY BOYS, DEBBIE GIBSON, KEVIN RUDOLF, K’NAAN, MICHAEL JOHNS, NOAH, ZZ, BECKY G, CHRISTINA GRIMMIE, SOPHIA BLACK and more.

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/102202/kiis-and-98-7fm-partner-to-celebrate-the-grammy-aw

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Michael, along with UNA Head Coach Bobby Wallace, Tony Barnhart, Larry Blakeney and Griff Redmill were the Tuesday guests on Huntsville’s 97.7FM popular sports show, “Cubelic and The Kid”. Michael’s comments on the Aussie Open were insightful, fun, and he is such a natural in any sort of interview! It was such a pleasure to hear him on the radio again.

Thanks to Cole and Matt for inviting MJ on their show and posting the podcast.

Please have him back again. The fans loved it

Podcast – MJ starts at 2:27:48

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