Day 4382: Pop-Up Concert & Grandma to the rescue.

    

"Sides": junk collage, ink.

  

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Click :  Keith Urban, Wild Hearts.

 

  

 

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Keith Urban plays free pop-up concert .

Country singer Keith Urban gave just a few hours' notice before performing a free concert Friday night in the parking lot of a large convenience store and gas station in north Alabama.

About 5,500 people turned out for the show in Athens, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) south of Nashville, said Athens Police Department Capt. Brett Constable. The concert was outside a Buc-ee's, a chain of roadside stores known for barbecue.“I came down to this Buc-ee's about a month ago. And when I left, I went, ‘It’d be kind of fun to do a show there,'” Urban told the crowd during the concert.Urban said his “cave man brain” told him it would be fun to set up a little stage for a small audience. “I swear to you, I thought maybe 100, 200 people,”Urban said as a video showed a larger crowd. People started gathering hours before the show, news outlets reported.

While he was at the store, Urban also worked behind a food counter. A video showed him wearing a Buc-ee's T-shirt and apron as he poured barbecue sauce on some brisket and chopped the meat into smaller pieces.

A Grandma speaks out!

A 90-year-old grandma served as a refreshing source of hope after her grandson and his soon-to-be husband were turned away by a Christian wedding vendor in North Carolina.

When fiancés Daniel Sheehan and Matt Price were denied wedding services in July because they were a gay couple, they were nervous about how Sheehan's grandma Ginny Parasiliti would react. "It was exactly what she was afraid we would experience when I came out,"  "I knew she'd be hurt to know what happened." The New York City–based couple, both 31, told a loved one about their disheartening experience, and word began to travel within the family. Before long, the news reached Parasiliti, prompting her to rattle off an impassioned text message of support filled with exclamation points, emojis and a Tuscan chicken recipe. "Hi guys, I am just beside myself with FURY!!!!! But, I'm not going to let these bigots ruin my excitement about your wedding," Parasiliti's text read. "Christianity is loving each of us & the path we have chosen!!!! Love is who we choose as our partner, & the one who makes our lives complete!!!! Raise your heads up high, & be PROUD of who you are!!! Amazing humans!!!!! Love you guys with all my heart. ♥️"

Sheehan and Price say that it's perfectly on brand for Parasiliti — a Catholic, first-generation Italian American — to swoop in and restore morale. But they're still "taken aback" every time she goes out of her way to defend their love."She is a light of my life," Sheehan says, explaining that she and his grandpa helped raise him when his mother became ill with multiple sclerosis. "She’s so outspoken in her support, becoming another grandparent for friends of mine, including many who had less-than-desirable coming out experiences." "She is an incredible balance of sweet and fiery that I don’t think you always find in someone, but it’s something that I think she really embodies," Price adds. "She's just been fantastic to myself, to both of us, and helped support our relationship." To read more, here.

Daniel Sheehan and Matt Price stand with Sheehan's grandparents, Ginny and Papa.

 

  

 

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