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American Idol XIV Audition Bus Tour Starts in Maine

Are you the next Alex Preston? Are you the next American Idol?

While Alex Preston and the other nine American Idol finalists launch a 41-concert tour, American Idol is busy kicking off auditions for next season. 

The American Idol XIV audition bus tour kicks off in Portland, Maine, on July 9. The bus tour will be at the Maine State Pier.

Preston, who won third place in the 2014 season, joins the Live Idol tour that launches June 24 in Bingham, N.Y., which has stops in New York and Los Angeles before wrapping up in Redmond, Wash., on Aug. 23.

American Idol's live auditions will be in 15 cities, the closest to New Hampshire being Long Island, N.Y.

People can also audition online or – for the first time – people can audition via social media using the hashtag #TheNextIdol and posting the video on Facebook, Instagram or Vine, or by posting a link to a YouTube video using Twitter, Facebook or Google+.

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