June 01, 2016

Concert Stories #47: Carrie Underwood with Hunter Hayes


Carrie Underwood (2nd time)

Opener: Hunter Hayes

 The Blown Away Tour

BMO Harris Bradley Center

May 3, 2013

Age 30

I LOVED this concert from Carrie Underwood and Hunter Hayes.  This was my second time seeing Underwood and things started off great when I won tickets to sit in her record label's suite at the Bradley Center (it was mainly filled with just radio people and ticket winners though).  I had seen Underwood before with my friend Shannon, and even though she's not a huge country fan she likes Underwood as well so she came along with again.

Underwood really showed that night how far she had come from her first show at the Bradley Center in 2008.  This concert was a full on, high-quality PRODUCTION.  Underwood's stage had a pyramid structure in the middle which would raise up, down, and push back into the projection screens.  It was utilized extremely well with the graphics for the show.  The best graphics came during "Blown Away" when a tornado tares apart a home on the screens.  Then, near the end of the show, the front section of the stage detached and carried Underwood and her band across the arena.  

As one would expect, Underwood also sounded amazing live with not a hitch in her voice at all.  She had a few costume changes, all which were awesome outfits that I would want to wear myself any day!

Hunter Hayes opened the night riding high off of his hit song "Wanted".  His performance was incredibly impressive.  He performed with such passion and appeared to thoroughly enjoy what he was doing.  The crowd responded connecting with him and enjoying his performance along with him.

Overall this was a great pairing of two very talented artists who gave two great performances!













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