America’s Got Talent finalist Evie Clair to perform Valentine’s Day concert
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REXBURG — Music lovers are in for a sweet Valentine’s treat this weekend as “America’s Got Talent” finalist Evie Clair takes the stage to perform various crowd-favorite love songs and some original tunes. Fittingly, the Valentine’s Day performance will be held at Rexburg’s Romance Theater at 2 East Main Street. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the music starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at evieclair.com.
Clair came to prominence as a finalist on Season 12 of “America’s Got Talent” in 2017 when she was just 13 years old, but she had been honing her musical talents for many years already. She grew up in a musical family in the Mesa Valley area of Arizona.
“I really have always done music my whole life,” she says. “Ever since I was born. My mom was a musician and taught private voice and piano lessons from our house my whole childhood.”
Her mother, Hillary, also taught choir, band, and orchestra at several different schools, so Clair was immersed in music from the time she could remember.
“My mom taught me everything I know since I was a baby,” Clair says. “She began teaching me how to play the piano when I was 2, and then I eventually wrote my first song when I was 5, so for me, it’s kind of like music came very naturally, and it’s what we did in our family. All my siblings really love music as well, so it was a really natural progression for me to eventually start performing and doing competitions.”
Life hasn’t slowed down for the music prodigy since her days on “America’s Got Talent.”
“Since AGT, I did a lot of tours, I’ve done a lot of writing and releasing music, and then I graduated high school,” she says with a laugh. “I went to BYU-Idaho and got my associate’s and got married, and I have a little girl now who will be two in April.”
Clair and her husband, Clancy Thomas, spent a couple of years living north of Kansas City before Thomas accepted a job that allowed the couple to move back to his hometown of Blackfoot, where they now live.
“We both have a lot of family out here, and we just loved the mountains and the town,” she says. “It’s so nice. The people are good here, and we wanted to come back.”
Returning to Idaho reopened the door to performing with some of her east Idaho musician friends. Their new band, The Union, features Stephen Henderson on guitar, Joe Griffin on bass, and Tanner Robinson on drums. Tanner’s wife, Katie, will also join them on violin for a few numbers.
“She’s such an awesome addition to the show,” Clair says. “It’s going to be so, so good.”
While the show would make a perfect Valentine’s Day date, Clair wants everyone to know that they’re invited to come enjoy the show whether they bring a plus-one or not.
“The show is going to be so fun. It’s perfect for Valentine’s Day,” she says. “We’re primarily advertising it as a Valentine’s Day date, but also, we wanted to make sure that everyone knows they’re welcome. You don’t have to come with a date.”
Clair says she and the band will perform “fun love songs classics, also some sad love songs, and some more fun ones dedicated to our families and our kids. It will just be a super good night for everyone who comes.”
Clair and Henderson each have some original tunes they’re excited to share with the audience, including songs that Clair recently recorded and released on streaming platforms.
“Some of the music that I’m doing in the show is new music of mine,” she says. “I released an EP just this last fall called ‘Conversations with Angels,” so I’ll be doing some songs from that. I’m super excited about that. It’s a new release for me, so I haven’t gotten to perform them live very much, so it will be fun to try them out with an audience.”
To hear more from Evie Clair, you can find her on YouTube and all streaming platforms. To get tickets to her Valentine’s Day show, visit evieclair.com.
