Ashlyn loves the show Austin & Ally on Disney Channel and if you are on Disney Channel chances are you are a singer as well. The main character who plays Austin on the show - Ross Lynch - fits that mold...him and his siblings have a band R5. They play on Radio Disney all the time and some of their songs are on main stream stations as well. I heard an advertisement that they were coming to Boise the week Blake and Rick were going to Scout Camp and surprised Ashlyn with tickets.
For the two months she had to wait for the concert everybody teased her with a quote from one of the episodes - "Austin Moon My Boyfriend." I even tried to get her to make a poster for the concert, no luck though.
To make the whole thing even better she found out that one of her BFFs, Alexis, got tickets too, sitting in the row in front of us. We met them at Red Robin for an early dinner and headed to the show together.
We found their tour buses right away...the girls didn't seem to see what the big deal was about that though.
They had to get matching concert t-shirts to wear, even though Ashlyn had her Ross Lynch shirt on already. They can't wait to wear them to school the first week of school.
After lots of photo ops we went and found our seats...ours was 11th row and center stage. It was like sitting on the back row of the chapel, pretty sweet to be so close!
Their younger brother, Ryland, came out first and did kind of a DJ thing to get everybody on their feet dancing and pumped up. Ashlyn was pretty shy and wouldn't dance or sing saying she didn't want to bother anybody. Eventually I got her to loosen up when she realized it was so loud nobody could hear her singing along and she was ready to be crazy like everybody else by the time R5 came out.
Jacob Whitesides was who opened for R5. We've seen him on Disney Channel interviews before but weren't very familiar with his music. He was really good, so it will be interesting to see how popular he gets.
She was pretty excited when it finally was finally R5's turn of the show!
These two pictures were our view of the stage without zooming in for pictures!
Ross Lynch, isn't he cute?!
At one point he was the only one on the stage, playing the keyboard and singing...it was really good! He plays the piano on his TV show, but we weren't sure if it was real or not.
Rydel is his sister and played keyboard most of the time and back up vocals, but on their new album she has a song that she is the lead vocals on. Ashlyn really liked watching her.
Rocky is an older brother who got into acting before Ross. He sang back up and played lead guitar. Ashlyn was pretty grossed out by his long hair.
Then Riker played bass and sang backup vocals. When we told Grandma about going to the show she mentioned he had been on last season's Dancing With the Stars and won Runner up...we were sad we didn't know and missed watching. We were hoping they would do some dancing during the concert, but no such luck.
This is their drummer, who is actually just a friend, Ellington Ratliff...so staying with the R theme because of his last name. He was really fun to watch because he REALLY got into it..we have quite a few funny pictures of him...
...this was my favorite, looking like he is singing opera.
Being Ashlyn's first concert she was constantly amazed by the lights, lazers, smoke machine and how loud everything was.
It was so fun to watch her reaction to everything and see how much fun she was having.
She was pretty excited to get an autographed light stick to wave during the show...kind of like their version of waving cigarette lighters.
At one point Ross and Riker walked to the far corners of the stage and jumped to a short wall the divided the first 3 rows VIP section with the rest of the seats and sat and chatted with the crowd for a few minutes.
And sang a song from there...boy was Ashlyn wishing she was sitting right there!
It was a great night and definitely more fun than Blake's first concert, which was The Wiggles! I can't wait for her to really get into bands to go to more shows with her!
(This was at the end, after the encore. Unfortunately, I had already put the camera away so snapping this shot with my phone, it didn't turn out great, but couldn't pass up a group shot.)
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