My husband and I drove 8 hours from Louisiana for the concert to meet my best friend who drove 8 hours from Colorado. The concert was worth every mile and then some! It was touching how humbled Chris was by the crowd. They were expecting 20,000 and 40,000 people attended! It was packed and muddy but no one cared- the concert was that awesome! He's such an amazing singer, songwriter, and performer and the band sounded great. I especially want to thank Chris and the band for being so great to their fans. We waited outside by the bus after the concert and all of the band members came out and signed every single autograph the fans wanted, talked to the fans, let us take pictures... they were all really cool. About 45 minutes later Chris came out and did the same thing. He signed an autograph for every single person waiting and let us take pictures. He was behind a fence and I'm sure he felt like a caged animal at the zoo, but he was so cool about it. He took 4 or 5 pictures with this one obsessed fan near us and climbed up the fence to take pictures with her kid - how cool is that? even though then he didn't have time to take pictures with some other fans that wanted one... I still can't complain because he was so nice to everyone. The whole experience was amazing! Like many fans, I've loved him since his first audition on American Idol and followed him the whole show, bought the Absent Element cd too... but he has by far surpassed any other Idol contestant. He didn't need to win, all he really needed was some exposure. The rest is pure talent. The cool thing about him is that he still seems like the same guy we fell in love with on Idol. Stay cool Chris, you deserve all of the success you have and more. We are so proud of you and love you!
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Madeline from Shreveport, LA

Best friend and I are each driving 8 hours to meet up JUST for this concert ! Have already booked hotel!