About two weeks ago, I read a bulletin on my MySpace announcing a show in Palm Springs featuring Pat Monahan, Mandy Moore, Emmerson Hart (from Tonic), Dolores O’Riordan (from The Cranberries), and Matt Nathanson. Not only am I a HUGE Pat Monahan fan, but we’re friends with Matt Nathanson. How awesome was that?! And for only $60 it was a meet-and-greet! What?!?!? For $60 I can meet Pat Monahan?! Holy crap!
That following Saturday, I promptly got on the phone to get my tickets that went on sale at 8:00am. When I called though, they said they weren’t going on sale until 10:00. So of course I called back 2 minutes later to make sure. Then I started calling again at 10:00. They still didn’t have the box office open and they wanted to take my name and number and they would call me back. Huh? That’s when I think I started to sweat. I thought for sure I was going to miss out on the tickets. But sure enough, they called me back, and I was able to get 2 of the 45 VIP meet-and-greet tickets!!!
I left Saturday morning to meet hubby in Palm Springs. The plane ride was nice and smooth and when I landed in Ontario, the weather was beautiful. Hubby picked me up and we drove the hour to Palm Springs. The ride was nice and we stopped in downtown Palm Springs at a place called Tylers. The majority of their seating was outdoors, reasonable prices and yummy food!
After lunch, we walked around downtown for a bit, then headed to find our hotel and the casino. Once we settled in at the hotel, we walked across the street to the casino. We picked up our tickets and headed to the Cascade Showroom to check out the venue. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw how small it was! There were ~45 chairs set up on the dance floor for the VIP tickets and the rest were tables and chairs and maybe the place held 200 or so people, at the most. I could hardly wait until 7:30…
Around 6:00 we got in line for the show. It was pretty fun too, we met some really nice people while we were waiting. At 7:00 them came and took us to the outside patio for the meet and greet. We stood around for a little bit then lined up to meet the artists. First up was Pat Monahan. I think I actually stopped breathing when he walked by me. There he was! Oh. my. god.
After Pat walked by, he was followed by Matt Nathanson. Matt is a friend of ours but I haven’t actually seen him in a few years. I caught his eye as he was being escorted by and when he saw us, the look on his face was absolutely priceless! I’ll never forget, his mouth dropped open and you could see the wheels turning in his head trying to comprehend why we were standing here! It was a pretty awesome moment and it was so good to see him again!
The line to meet the artists moved pretty quickly and next thing I knew, it was our turn to meet Pat Monahan. I was holding two pictures that were given to us for him to autograph. I couldn’t even say anything. Hubby had to prompt me to ask him to sign the pictures. I think I stopped breathing again. We got our picture taken with him and all I could think was “he’s touching me”.
After I started breathing again, we went over and met Mandy Moore. Poor thing, she was running a little bit of a fever and you could tell she was under the weather. Even still, she let us take a picture with her. She was a lot taller than I thought she’d be.
We then went and hung out with Matt for a little bit. It was really cool watching people come up to meet him and ask for his autograph. I’m so proud of him.
The show was absolutely AWESOME! I can’t even begin to explain how great it was! We were less than 10 feet from the stage. How cool was that?! Matt was out first, followed by Emmerson Hart, Mandy Moore, and then Pat Monahan. The music was great, the fans were great, it was just a perfect day!
Matt Nathanson
Mandy Moore
Emmerson Hart of Tonic
And of course, Pat Monahan
We had to get up at 4:30 the next morning to fly home, but it was so worth it.
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