Red Sky Music Festival - Day 1

For one week in hot July, Omaha hosts a music festival with local and national acts. This year we were lucky enough to get tickets to see two wonderful groups, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. (can you call Brad a group...I'm not sure) Anyway yesterday was the first day of the festival and even though it was hot - we saw several wonderful groups.  To get things started Eden's Edge was up first.  They are a newer group to country music and I really didn't know that much about them except for the one song I hear on the radio... "Amen"  They were really good.  Here is a photo I was able to take in between sips of water. Did I mention it was hot?  102 and we were in the shade hot!!

Up next came the Eli Young Band, another newer group and a crowd pleaser judging by the screams from the crowd. One of my favorites of theirs is "Crazy Girl".  Here they are: I know it's not a great picture but I was saving my energy for Rascal Flatts.

We had one more opening act before the stage was turned over to Gary, Jay and Joe Don, it was Little Big Town.  They were great and sang my two favorites..."Pontoon" and "Boondocks" - 

As you can see our seats weren't to bad...center stage and we were in the shade, but again does that matter when it is 102?  Finally all the opening acts were finished, and although they all were really good, I couldn't wait until Rascal Flatts took the stage.  They were amazing!  And we had a good time. Here are a few of the pics I took before my battery died.  Don't worry, I will have it charged and ready for Brad Paisley on Friday!!  We have the same seats for his show so I hope to come away with a few good shots.  And we found out that our seats come with club level access to the a/c bar, bathroom and concession area and in seat concession service.  Love it when we fall backwards into things like that!  :) 

Here's Rascal Flatts:

One of my favorite songs is "Bless the Broken Road", (Gary is singing that one above), what's yours? Please share...I would love to get comments!!