Artfolio Arts & Culture Jun. 2014 | Page 12

CA6 Glennis Grace On Saturday the 15th of March of this year I, per surprise, went to a concert of Glennis Grace. When I came home from work around 6 as usual, my mom didn’t even say hi, no, she immediately asked if I was up for a Glennis Grace concert. So at first I was like, ‘haha well that’s funny, what are we having for dinner?’’, but then she was like ‘No I’m serious’. Apparently my uncle and aunt had won 4 tickets for her concert but my nieces had to work that evening so they had contacted my mom to ask if we would like to go. It was somewhere in Brabant, so my mom and I got a sub and drove there. When we got there we first got a coffee at my aunt and uncle’s place and then we went to ‘Theater de Leest’, where Glennis would give her concert. We had some more coffee there and then we finally went to the ‘Rabozaal’. Before I went to her concert I always thought that she was quite arrogant and egoistic because of the way she acts in interviews and those kind of things, so I didn’t look forward to it that much, however I felt like I was not allowed to judge her since I had never been to one of her concerts before and so I didn’t know her. Her entrance was already quite awesome, which I did not expect though. We heard her singing but she was not on the stage yet, until there was a kind of explosion on the stage with lots of smoke going over the stage. And there she was, in a leather outfit, which I did expect and didn’t really like. The outfit made her look ordinary and it didn’t flatter her at all. But well, I guessed she just had a bad stylist. I didn’t know most of her songs but somehow she got me excited too. When she sang she had the whole crowd with her. Everybody sang with her, at least the ones that knew her songs. The more she sang the more I started to like her. I especially liked how she got the whole crowd with her. This kind of proved for me that she wasn’t egoistic or arrogant at all. Glennis also told a story with almost every song she sang, this made me feel involved in her life, even though she didn’t even tell that much. Later that evening she also invited a 12