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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Earth Day Concert

On Saturday, I attended the free Earth Day Concert on the National Mall.  The concert started at 11am, I wanted to get there by 10:30 to get a spot close to the stage.  I didn't get there until a little before 12pm.  Luckily, it wasn't that crowded when we arrived.

The only issue was on their site, they listed you could not bring in "structures" However, they did not list exactly what structures were.  Well once we got there we realized that folding chairs was considered a "structure" They were very strict about not letting people bring their chairs in. One of the guys who was searching bags told us that chairs would be thrown away by 5pm (this is supposed to be a celebration for EARTH  DAY yet they are throwing away chairs :\ ) I put my two chairs in the pile and said I would leave at 4pm to make sure I retrieved my chairs.

Once we got through security, we found a spot not too far from the stage.  Train came on to perform not long after.  It was a great performance!  Once Train finished, we decided to head out to the food trucks.  I am glad we left out when we did because they were collecting the large pile of chairs and tossing them.  I snatched up my two and asked the wonderful ladies at the free bike parking "lot" if I could leave them there.

Anyway, after standing in the long food lines we headed back in to watch the reminder of the performances.  Overall, it was a great day and all of the artist put on a great show. I like how they had the speeches on the environment & global poverty between each artist set instead of all in the beginning.

The artist line up was:
Train
Fall Out Boy (they rocked!)
Mary J. Blige
Usher
Common (I totally fangirled over him)
My Morning Jacket
No Doubt (LOVED, LOVED and LOVED their performance)

I didn't get a lot of pictures as I was too busy dancing and having fun.


First let me take a selfie

The one and only Gwen Stefani



Now lets take an usie

My oldest photobombing Tay

My allergies were starting to act up at this point of the day

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