April rolled around, and the All the People tour rolled through town! Okay, not exactly through town but a close enough town to justify going to the show. Also, the show was on my last day of vacation, which basically made it the best vacation ever. This time Chris August was the only person on the tour I really was familiar with. I had never heard of Bellarive, and knew of Matt Maher but had never really listened to his music.
So the doors open at 6, and we literally pull into a parking spot exactly at 6. However, they aren't opening the doors, it's super windy out, there aren't too many people, and it was a long drive so we just chill in the car for a while. The doors open, we scoot through the side door and are waiting in the lobby area for the main doors to open. I take a trip to the ladies room and when I find my way back to my spot in line...who is standing there but Mr. August himself. So I grab the back of his shoulders and he turns around and chit chats with me till the door opens :).
We end up 3rd row center, which makes me a pretty happy girl. And everyone in my row snuck in french fries? Yup...you read that right, and I am just as confused. Chris sits in the front row and chit chats with a girl that brought him cup cakes and the ladies behind me don't believe it's him because in his promotional picture he doesn't have a beard. Really?
First onstage is Bellarive, who I'm pretty sure most of the audience had never heard of. They are awesome, and if you are in the same boat as I was and have never heard them take a listen.
A little Bellarive on youtube SUPER good live, and really fantastic worship!
Also Bellarive hand stamped paper bags as their cd packaging and sealed it with wax, pretty much the coolest cd packaging ever. I would show you a picture but I'm having a hard time putting it up here...
Then to my great pleasure Chris August takes the stage. As usual, everyone sits down between sets, and Matt Maher tells everyone to stand back up, which I love him for doing! Chris did his magic trick again and this time I was prepared:
Ya know, the Matt Maher comes on, and I really enjoyed him I had never really listened to Matt Maher before, but his music was great and he put on a good show. I loved the story about his song "My Only Love." At one point he had some of Bellarive come out to join him for a few songs and the fire alarm went off. I was SUPER impressed by how well Bellarive handled the situation.
The show is over and everyone is standing and chanting "One more song" which in my experience doesn't typically happen at Christian concerts, but he came back out and had Chris come back out to sing Starry Night.
Then everyone is back out onstage singing together and it is fantastic!
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Sometimes when CA plays keys he thinks he's Stevie Wonder ;)
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So the show is over and I camp myself at Chris's table. After some time he heads over and one lady jumps in front of me, but honestly I would wait till everyone else talked to him so that I didn't have limited time :). Then a group of preteens try to jump in (which like I said I'm fine with) but he tells them it will be a sec and turns to me and says "Tabitha we need a picture"
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| So that happens |
I wanted to take another picture, and he said he "really really liked" the first one.
We chat for a bit and he tells me that next show I get to pick any song and he'll sing it. :)!!! My sister tried to get him to "duck face" with her and this happened:
We say goodbye and he says "Tabitha wait I need a hug" so we hug and he says "I'll see you in June."
Then we just kinda wander around and take some pics with some of Bellarive
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| She is really impressive at remembering names |
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This is a duck face compromise
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| Look who got someone to duck face. |
Well that's all I got till next time.
