ZZ Ward

[Tusk]

Great show. I watched ZZ's Youtubes before the show, but honestly, none really caught my interest (I do like 'Til the Casket Drops). That being said, ZZ's Live performance added a jolt of life to the songs. She is an excellent performer whether the energy came from her fans or vice versa, the energy that traveled through the venue lasted the entire show



The Meet and Greet belied how energetic and the 'swag' the woman has on stage. She was soft spoken, chill and personable. I told her I knew Chiara through Haley, met her in Vegas. Also asked if she might have insight if there was a connection with Haley to Hollywood/BoardWalk, but of course, she gave the politically correct and neutral, "I really wouldn't know about that" although she did say she knew Haley.

At the Meet and Greet line, I was surprised to find out so many 'flew in' to see ZZ here. In our group, people flew in from California, Texas and Oregon. In line with us were people from Colorado, Alaska...I was about the only 'local among the group LOL (I'm sure there were others, but it was of note so many were willing to travel to see her)

The crowd was electric, knew and sang every song, clapped to make a beat when ZZ needed them... She had them in the palm of her hand

The whole experience just reenforced in me, just how badly Haley was supported by her Label. ZZ's 'Team' made the whole thing an easy treat from creating her 'Brand', Social Media (If you tweeted from the venue, likely you were 'favorited' or 'retweeted' by her Twitter) They had us take a group pic of the MnG'ers as well as one of the crowd in the venue



We were in the balcony upper right

Here are some pics taken by Greg (My camera was terribly insufficient )

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I really, really, really hope that Haley's new team can give Haley the same type of support ZZ got, a very professional operation from what I saw

PS, one of her opening bands featured a unique, bluesy vocal from the lead singer and a 3 man brass section, a nice surprise, by the name of the "O My's" (The Haley force is strong in this one ), I'm told they also hail from Chicago



They also have done stuff with ZZ