I am so excited to share with you guys about the Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae concert we went to this week!

I’m not a huge follower of concerts coming through town and missed the early bird on Bruno Mars coming to town. I actually had no idea he was even coming until last week when I sent over some concert info to Chris. There’s a few artist I’d really love to see in concert and Bruno Mars is definitely in the top ten! I was bummed when I found out the concert was already sold out (not surprising) though and the only tickets available on Stubhub were too much to pull out the credit card.. After a stressful week and hitting a bad case of homesickness Chris decided to try and cheer me up with a pair of tickets to the concert. Boy, was I an excited girl!

So, Wednesday rolled around and we headed to the Roseland Ballroom for the concert! We met up with our friend Candice too, who is a big Janelle Monae fan. The concert was amazingggggg with a lack of better words to describe its pure amazingness. I didn’t know much of Janelle Monae before her Grammy performance this year, but if you don’t know of her yet check her out! She’s an incredible performer and artist! I love her tack on jazzy-upbeat music that makes you want to grab the person next to you and start swing dancing or doing the “twist”. Her performance did not disappoint. It was pretty wild too with a full band, back-up singers, and, my favorite, a chamber orchestra. The orchestra was pretty jazzed up woo with the instruments with outlined bodies. 

Next up, the fabulous and also very talented Bruno Mars! Aw, I love him. Truly. His music is so great, and pretty lovey what I came to realize. A lot of love songs.. Again, Bruno takes on a great balance of being current but also mixing in the history of jazz and reggae into the pop world. Known for rocking fedoras, Bruno stayed true to his style winning over every girl in the audience as he sang, “Just the Way You Are.” 

If you get a chance to see Bruno or Janelle, don’t pass the opportunity up! 

This week was quite the busy week! While historical events were taking place I also had a busy week with after work plans. One of the events I had the pleasure to attend was Comedy Night Live at the Gilda’s Club. Chris ran the New York City marathon this fall and the charity he represented was the Gilda’s Club. The Gilda’s Club is a non-profit that offers cancer patients and their families social and emotional support in a fun environment. Cancer is unfortunately a disease that has probably touched each of our lives in one way or another and this charity focuses on giving people a safe place.

So when Chris told me about the event and that the money supported charity you can bet we were on board pretty fast! The event was in the clubhouse down in the West Village location. The night featured local comedians, dj and had Colin Quinn head-lining. It was a really fun evening filled with meeting some of Chris’ friends that are involved with the charity, drinks, and plenty of laughs. Especially with the events of the weekend it was nice to take a break from everything serious and just get in a nice laugh. The other comedians were Brad Cohen, Carolina Hidalgo, Chewy May, Sam Pepper , Jean Themelis, and cesar Zamora. I was definitely impressed too! Which, is saying a lot since it takes a lot for me to laugh at stand-up. I call some up-and-coming stars in that group for sure. Collin Quinn was hilarious too! I, in astonishment to Chris, didn’t know who he was previous to the show, but he had me cracking up his whole performance. 

Such a great show and night for a great cause! Couldn’t ask for anything better!