Julianne Hough

Scotlyn and I went last night to see Julianne Hough live in concert. For those who don't know, Julianne Hough is an American professional ballroom dancer and country music singer. She is most-widely known for being a two-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography. ABC's 20/20 called her one of the "very best dancers on the planet."[1] Julianne's brother, Derek Hough, is also on Dancing with the Stars and is a one-time winner himself. Hough was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in December 2007. Her self-titled debut album was released May 20, 2008, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Country Album chart and #3 on the Billboard 200. (As taken from Wikipedia!)

Anyway, she came to Astoria and performed at the Liberty Theater, http://www.liberty-theater.org/ , a great place to see any performance because of the intimacy of the venue.

Scotlyn and I have watched Julianne on DWTS for the last several seasons, and listen to her on the radio. We were both excited to get to see her in person! Scotlyn got a new outfit and we did her hair and she was adorable and ready to go! All seating was general admission and we found a pretty good spot about halfway back and almost in the middle. The singer who opened for her is local - and I'm PRETTY sure I've seen her before when I sang karaoke with a couple of friends!

Julianne was incredibly entertaining, she sings great live (which isn't always the case!) and has SO much energy! She's TEENY TINY - she looks small on tv, but in person - WOW! and SO pretty. Scotlyn and I got to go up to the front of the theater and stand at the stage. Really fun and a great experience for Scotlyn. She sang to the kids and gave them high 5's and stuff.

We heard that she was going to be signing autographs for a little while after the show, so we had a t-shirt, publicity photo, and our ticket stubs and waited in line. She was SO sweet and gave Scotlyn and me both hugs. She signed all our stuff and let me take a picture of her with Scotlyn!

Scotlyn spent the next couple of hours thanking David and me profusely for taking her to the concert. I think it was a success!!!