Hunter Hayes at the Santa Barbara Bowl

Want to know a weird fact? Considering the amount of times I have seen Hunter Hayes live, I have only seen him in Los Angeles once. Yup. Once. That would be the first time I saw him on his Most Wanted tour at The Troubadour in West Hollywood. Every other time, I have had to drive at least an hour or so. So where else have I seen him? Well, here's the list in the order of where I have seen Hunter live: West Hollywood, San Bernardino, East Rutherford, NJ, San Diego, Fullerton, San Diego, Ontario, Las Vegas, Costa Mesa, and now, Santa Barbara.

I was originally going to the show with a friend, but she ended up not going because of work. When I told my mom this, she decided that she wanted to come along to SB, so we ended up spending a night there. The weirdest part of the whole thing was that she drove me to and from the concert, since we took one car up to Santa Barbara. It took me back to the times before I had a car and had to be driven to concerts. The great thing about my mom wanting to come along was that we got to spend a nice 1.5 days in Santa Barbara.

Yummy açai bowl from Brasil Arts Cafe.

The concert itself was amazing as always. Hunter always bring the highest amount of energy the moment he steps on stage, and the greatest thing about his shows are that he always wants to tell stories and connect with the crowd. This time was no different. As much as he labels himself as this shy, awkward geek that just loves music, the shyness and awkwardness is not really detected while he's on stage. Okay well, maybe a little of the awkwardness comes out such as when he laughs at his own jokes and stumbles over words on how to say the right thing to relay what is in his mind.

Dan + Shay opened up the show for Hunter- crazy to think that they almost didn't make the show because of flight delays, but made it in time because they drove down all the way from SF. 

It felt like it had been forever since I last saw him perform a new song (well, to be fair it had been 10 months since I last seen him) and it was so great to see and hear him perform songs from his new album, Storyline. I do wish that he had performed at least one of my two favorite songs- Cry With You and In A Song. I can only hope that one of those songs are in his set list for the next time he tours and is in Southern California. Also to hoping that the West Coast is included in his next tour, considering it has been excluded the past two times.

I hope you liked the pictures! The next show I'm going to is HAIM, then Sam Smith, and hopefully Ed Sheeran in between along with Bastille.

xx