Lindsey Stirling Concert

So Josh and I had a fun night. We bought Lindsey Stirling tickets last January and last night we finally got to see her perform! She performed at the Saltair, which I had never been to. Once I got there, I was a bit let down. It's a standing-room-only location. I hadn't been to a standing-room-only concert since the Aquabats in 2008. That's right--six years ago. And let me tell you, there are things you don't enjoy as much when you're six years older, standing for three and a half hours being one of them.

But it turned out to be a wonderful experience anyway. I couldn't help jumping up and down (a LOT) and cheering until I grew hoarse and clapping after every performance. That girl can really rock a song! Her dancing was elegant and fast-paced and triple-y impressive with her two backup dancers in sync behind her. The choreography was spot-on incredible. I can really tell she's improved  her dancing and violin-playing a lot since her last album came out. I especially loved her costume changes. She had five different (awesome) outfits complete with five different violins for the concert, including a black-and-gold violin that she "unearthed" from a chest during her pirate-themed performance.

She talked a bit between some of the numbers, which I really loved. She's bubbly and bright and energetic and she has the sweetest things to say. After her first number, she was discussing the research she did before going on tour this time around, and said she had attended a Lady Gaga performance where Gaga did a "sexy" costume change on stage until she was "down to her nothings." Lindsey said she wanted to do something similar, so her backup dancers threw a bright green track suit on over her outfit. It was a funny bit,  especially when she called it her sexy wardrobe change, but then the lighting changed and her clothes started to glow and she performed an incredible rave-like techno number that perfectly worked with the outfit. It was awesome and the crowd loved it.

Immediately after the song, she begged her dancers to help her take it off, though, claiming that "being sexy was too hot."

My favorite numbers were a song she wrote for a little boy struggling with bullying and her album-cover song "Shatter Me." The anti-bully song dealt with wind and flight and stars and sky and the dancers wrapped Lindsey in this sheer blue fabric and a powerful fan blew her beautiful dress behind her as she was carried on the shoulders of the dancers and leaned far over the crowd. It was so beautiful and artistic. And Shatter Me. Ohhh...I love that song like nothing else. The music video is spectacular and you should all watch it and fall in love with me:

It deals with Lindsey breaking out of her shell, except in a literal sense via the music video. I think it's absolutely fantastic.

The opening band was Archis with Dia Frampton, whom I now love. My favorite song they performed was Blood. You can see her perform it two weeks earlier in this video:

I thought their performance last night was better, but our stage had better acoustics and the band was two weeks more experienced.

Anyway, Josh and I left at 9:30 with our ears ringing from standing too close to the stage. We felt like old fuddy-duddies with our sore feet and ears, but my heart was light. We picked up our sleeping baby from the grandparents' on the way home and then we all went to sleep. It was a magical night.