THE CHAINSMOKERS

I am not a big concert goer, but when 4 tickets pop up for you and your friends, I will go, sing, and dance. 

Grandtheft and Kiiara opened up the show for The Chainsmokers.

I will be honest and admit I don't know a lot of the songs by the Chainsmokers,

 but they sure do put on a good show onstage.

 The crowd was wowed with fire, graphics, confetti, and awesome lights.

They didn't let me down.

DIXIE CHICKS SERIOUS

What do you do when your best gal pal's favorite musicians come to town?

You get a group together who are ready to run to dress up in black and white outfits just like the band.

You go early to save wide open spaces for your party of ten.

Thank you, Dixie Chicks for taking us away to memories from almost 15 years ago.

 DCX MMXVI tour 2016 at Usana Amphitheater.

ELLIE GOUDLING Concert

Have you had the chance to see Ellie Goulding on tour?
This girl did.

Even if we didn't know the lyrics to all of her songs,

 if you add some ice cream,

good friends, and sweet dance moves and...

you will love her like we do.

Thanks for the great concert.

THE SUN WILL SHINE AGAIN

Remember that time it was the end of the world and my little post-apocalyptic family found some guy who showed us a magical book full of hope? 

Oh wait...that was just my friend Rendon and me in a Ryan Shupe music video.

(Hint: We start at about 45 seconds in, but feel free to enjoy the entire video.)

The Sun will shine again.

GARTH BROOKS CONCERT

Garth Brooks now has a flag hanging in the Vivint Smart Home Arena (formerly known as the EnergySolutions Arena or Delta Center for the oldies) for most tickets sold for his shows October 29-31, 2015.

I am so glad I was holding some tickets to one of those shows.

I can honestly say that was THE best concert I have been to (beating out Keane in 2005 at Abravanel Hall). 

 I remember buying the Double Live CD set for my brother Tim for Christmas in 1998 and loving every song. His show was just like listening to that album and so much more. Garth sang all the oldies so the crowd could sing along. He is a fabulous entertainer.

Trisha Yearwood is on tour with him and came out to sing a couple songs as well.

It wouldn't be a live Garth show without the secret 3rd verse to Friends in Low Places. I know, people who show clips from concerts are kinda silly, but sometimes you've got to be silly.

 Thanks for s great show in Salt Lake City.

A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY...

I used to be a member of a country dancing team, and then I started traveling and dancing with them wasn't possible. It appears that I'm in Utah for a good chunk of time now and the team just sent me an invitation for a road trip to dance our way across the states to the Grand Ole Opry.

That means it's time to dust off my boots, turn on the country music, and get scootin. It's time to be a little bit more country. I'll share my favorite song of the week to help get you in the country mood too.

COLBIE CAILLAT

A few years ago, I volunteered at a concert with my roommates Jenny and Hannah. One of the performers was Colbie Caillat. We had all heard the Bubbly song on the radio by then, but we acquired her entire album that night. I'm not the biggest chick singer fan, but I can't tell you how many times I listened that CD on repeat in my car for the next few months. 

I had the opportunity to go to the Coca Cola lounge today 

for a mini concert with Colbie

and, of course, I took Jenny.

NOT YOUR AVERAGE ORCHESTRA CONCERT

Last week, I scored tickets to an orchestra concert. I know what you're thinking, an orchestra concert might not sound super exciting to lots of people, but this show was called "Radioactive Orchestra" and it was so much fun!

 Way to go, Salt Lake Pops. 

 There were iPad instruments which were super cool.

Dancers performed with the orchestra during a few songs.

This was their first real concert. You can check them out on YouTube with some incredible videos like this one:

*All of their arrangements are available for high school orchestras to download for free. Way cool.*

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Last Summer On Earth Tour

I scored free tickets to the Last Summer on Earth Tour from Rewind 100.7 fm radio station tonight. Here's how it went:

Guster opened the show. Since the concert was outside and started at 7pm, they battled the blaze of the sun on Usnas’s west-facing stage. The lead singer mentioned he wasn't prepared for the brightness and people from the crowd gladly donated floppy hats and sunglasses to the band members. 

Guster had a a fun, carefree performance of 11 songs and sometimes their drummer played with just his hands.

I was most excited that Ben Folds Five were playing together again at this show. However, their performance was just ok. 

They played 11 songs without much time to talk in between (some of the bands old songs and new songs and a couple of Ben's solo stuff):

1. One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces 

2. Selfless, Cold and Composed 

3. Erase Me 

4. Sky High

5. Landed 

6. Draw A Crowd 

7. Brick 

8. Do It Anyway 

9. Underground 

10. Song for the Dumped

11. Army

Barenaked Ladies headlined the show. The banter between the lead singer and the other guy who left the band just wasn't there. They tried...but it just did't quite work. The best part of the show was a little rap routine toward the end of the show. I found this on Youtube from another fine concertgoer.