Cheyenne Frontier Days
 2012

Cheyenne Concert - Reba McEntire

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Cheyenne Frontier Days – Reba McEntire Concert

Doug and Marilyn had made arrangements for an early barbecue buffet at the Little America Hotel. There was a huge buffet table of salads and then a selection of entrees, ranging from bratwurst to hamburgers to chicken to steak. From the Little America we drove to the shuttle parking lot to pick up the bus to Frontier Park.

We were part of a group of hundreds of cars parking in a field and then boarding school buses to get to the Midway and the concert. Throngs of people pushed into the Park and headed for the grandstands, while others were taking the rides, playing at the arcades and grabbing all sorts of fair food. The concert was scheduled to start at 8 p.m and a young newcomer, named Hunter Hayes, was the first act. He had groups of young women screaming and singing along in the "mosh pit" in front of the stage. After a complete changeover of stage equipment, Rodney Atkins sang with his group for about 45 minutes. Then, there was another complete changeover and Reba came on about 10 p.m. She was supported by a 9 piece band and it was clear that they have been together for a long time and have all been in the business for a long time as well. As they had told us, it always rains when Reba is at Frontier Days and that night was no different. It absolutely poured, but we were under shelter and so was the band and Reba. They covered some of the equipment on the edges of the stage with plastic. By the time the show was over, the rain was long gone. The folks in the "mosh pit" just stood in the storm. After the show, we left the grandstand and lined up with thousands of people for the shuttles back to the parking lot. When the Glenores and Webers got there, of the few cars left we found the Venns' and the McIntoshes'. They were on the next bus. We got back to the motel at 1:00 am – just in time for a few hours sleep before our 7:00 a.m. departure time the next morning.

The lesson we all learned from the concert was that we are too old to attend concerts where the sound is so loud that the bleachers vibrate and even earplugs make no difference.