I do so many “entertainment” related activities (ie: movie watching, broadway shows, concerts, television shows) that I decided to add Entertainment Saturdays. Entertainment Thursdays will focus primarily on movie reviews and television show reviews while Entertainment Saturdays will focus primarily on concerts, music and reviews of Broadway shows or any kind of theatrical/dance performance. Eventually the titles may evolve into something different but that will be the breakdown.
I’ve been wanting to write this post since October!!! But was so swamped with movie reviews that I just never got around to it. I apologize that this is so delayed but hopefully you’ll still enjoy it. Back in October, my co-worker Rachelle and I went to the Sugarland/Keith Urban Concert. We are both huge country fans and we both love love love Sugarland. We listen to them at work often, much to our other co-workers shagrin (sp?)!
Sugarland Performing
Sugarland was the opening act! They were awesome. Rachelle and I were so excited to finally see them live. I would say that my favorite song they performed was “Everyday America“. They broke out into some freestyle action, where they sang a couple of different songs in the middle, before coming back to “Everyday America”. The other reason that was my favorite song was because that’s where my blog name came from. I was listening to their cd “Enjoy the Ride” a lot back when I started this blog. Part of the chorus goes, “Whoa, whoa, everybody’s dreaming big, whoa, whoa, but everybody’s just getting by.” I love that because I feel like I’m always “dreaming big” (planning vacations, trying to accomplish challenges and goals I set for myself, exploring NYC, trying to make my life bigger than it is, etc) and yet I’m just “getting by” like everyone else (clockin’ a 40 hour work week, doing laundry, doing dishes, working out, living in reality, etc). So now y’all know the origin of the blog name! My other favorite song that they performed was “Love” and of course “Stay“. They played for about an hour and then it was time for Keith Urban.
Rachelle & I
Rachelle and I decided to get all decked out country style! We thought for sure a majority of the people attending would be wearing plaid, cowboy boots & hats, etc. But no, we were like 2 of 20 people in all of MSG decked out. Oh well, it made our viewing experience more fun for sure! I will say this was the most on time prompt concert I have ever been to. Both the opening act and the main act started right on time, not a minute late. It was awesome, it elimated a lot of sitting around you tend to do at concerts.
Keith Urban rockin' out!
Rachelle and I weren’t sure what to expect from Keith Urban. Don’t get me wrong, we both love his music and listen to it a lot, but we don’t have all of his cds so we were uncertain if he was going to play stuff we knew, and if we were going to like him as much as we were planning on liking Sugarland. Boy were we blown out of the water by his performance. He played a lot of old stuff as well as new stuff, he came out into the crowd a bunch of times, he was just AMAZING! I would say that Keith Urban is pretty rock ‘n’ roll, some of his guitar riffs were crazy. We practically lost our voice singing and screaming to his songs! I would say my favorite song was “Days Go By“, I LOVE that song! (seriously.) This concert made me realize just how many great songs he has, “Better Half”, “I Told You So”, “Sweet Thing”, “Stupid Boy”, “Hit the Ground Runnin’”, the list goes on and on and on.
Overall, this was a GREAT concert and I would certainly see both these acts again live! So glad they came to little ‘ol NYC!
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Who’s your favorite country band/duo/group/singer? Do I have to pick a fave??? Sugarland, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town…I guess those would be my Top 4.
