all-star concert.

minneapolis has been getting a LOT of love lately from the sports world.
i don't think our teams are very good (i actually have no idea...i don't follow sports at all but that's the general feeling i get) but we have new stadiums and fields and that's always appealing.

this year target field is playing host to the all-star baseball game. i was told this means all the who's-who in baseball are here to play a fantasy game and people from all over the nation turn up to see the best of the best play.

in addition to the star studded game they have a TON of other activities going on in downtown. i love it. so many people getting to experience my favorite city.

most of the activities i don't care at all to participate in but when they announced a few months ago that there would be a concert as part of the festivities i was all ears. then they announced it would be imagine dragons. and finally they said it would be free.

it's like they designed this show just for my cheap-action self. 

these pictures are kinda crappy. they're from my phone. 

we may look far away but our seats were BOMB.

27,000 people gathered in tcf stadium to watch the dragon boys and i was blown away by their live show.

first shot of the dragon boys. 

i would kill for their job. 

dan reynolds is quite possibly the most precious frontman of all time. he seemed so genuinely happy to be there. it really felt like there was no where else in the world he would rather be.

as a band they are incredibly talented musicians; they all can keep a beat (seriously, there had to have been 20 drums on stage that they rotated around and played ) and have choirboy vocals that give you goosebumps when they break into a 5-part harmony.

they did a good chunk of the songs off of night visions and covered u2's with or without you. dan and guitarist, wayne sermon, did a stripped down song that they dedicated to a friend they had lost to cancer, it was a surprisingly intimate moment in a packed stadium with thousands of people. they ended their set with radioactive and i literally thought everyone in the audience was going to start levitating with excitement.

i liked imagine dragons before, i would definitely call myself a fan now.

if you look really closely you can see a tiny dan reynolds beating

on the huge drum! taken during 'radioactive'

after the concert there was a fireworks show above the stadium. they kicked off the fireworks with prince's 1999 and ended with american authors' best day of my life with a few other songs sprinkled in between. what fun!

then my roommate and i decided to walk home since we had taken the lightrail over and the line for that was well over a city block long. the walk turned out to be slightly longer than i thought it would be. i thought it was around 2 miles (and it is. by car.). when you're on foot and can't walk across the 35W bridge it's more like a 3.5 mile walk. oops.

xo