Once we made it to Raleigh and bought our tickets, we walked around and explained what everything was to Mandie. While we were finding where the tents/stages were that we needed for the day, we saw Walker and went over to say hi. He was like, “Who are you? How do I know you?” in a funny voice, and once we told him Charlotte from yesterday, he remembered us and said he was glad to see us again and glad we were there, which was sweet.
We were right up against the barricade again for Emily’s set at the Outlaw stage, which was awesome. She was amazing as always, and when she saw us there, she called out hi to us and waved. After her set we went over to see the first songwriter’s group at the Blue Bird Tent, which was Troy, Heather Morgan and Walker. We watched each of their first songs, then went back to the Capitol tent real quick to say hi to Emily. When she saw me, she gave me a big hug, and then did the same for Holly. We introduced Mandie to her and Emily gave Mandie a hug too. I showed Emily her sign, and she freaked out. She showed it to her boyfriend and best friend who were in the tent too and kept gushing about how this was her first sign, and that she loved it.
After the 3 of us got pictures with Emily, we went back to the Blue Bird tent to catch the end of the songwriter’s group. We went up to Troy and introduced ourselves again and gave him his sign. He was pretty excited. He said, “I have to go back to the bus right now to hang this up!” He also told us that Sarah and Jedd hung their purple wall up on the bus for everyone to see. We got pictures with him as well, and when he left, we got a group picture with Walker. At one point after that while we were waiting for Buxton Hughes’ set next, Brad Tursi was walking around in the tent too and we said hi to him. He replied, “Hi! You’re the girls who made the purple wall right?” We told him we were, and he said he thought it was cool we made that for them. We thought it was kind of funny that he knew we’re the ones that made it.
Eventually Jedd came to set up his guitar and stuff and when he looked over in our general direction, we called out hi to him and his eyes lit up and he waved. A little while later, Sarah rolled up (literally) on the back of Tyler Reeve’s scooter and she looked so cute with her backpack on haha As she was setting up, she saw us as well and waved. At the beginning of their set with Cory Brannan, Sarah and Jedd mentioned how they were a duo now, which is when we busted out our sign. We held it up and Sarah saw it right away and started reading it out loud.
“We need friends..Oh my gosh! That is AWESOME! We do need friends!” Her and Jedd were cracking up, and I handed the sign to Sarah. Then Sarah held it up again for everyone to see and read their Facebook page URL out loud for everyone. I told her to flip it over because there was a back, and she did and held it up again for the tent to see and read, “We Love You. ~Your Purple Wall Girls” She said she loved us too and decided to tell the ENTIRE tent of people aboutthe purple wall and how Holly and I made it for them. She was like, “These two girls right here, Holly and Michelle, they’re so awesome. They made Jedd and I a purple wall banner for our online chats that we do!”
When their set was over, they went over to one of the plastic tables to be able to take pictures with people and sign stuff. Mandie, Holly and I went and stood off to the side of the line to wait to be able to talk to Sarah and Jedd. While we were standing there, I noticed how much longer the line was than it had been in Charlotte, and I felt bad because not only were Sarah and Jedd trying to meet people, they were responsible for trying to sell their CDs and stuff themselves. Somehow I got the courage to ask, “Hey Sarah, do you want us to help you sell your merch or something?” She looked at me for a second and responded, “Oh my gosh, would you?” We all nodded and walked over to the table and helped them get the CDs and pictures and stuff out of the duffel bag they had with them.
For the next hour and a half or so we had the BEST time selling merch. It was seriously SO much fun. Mandie took pictures for anyone who wasn’t with someone already in line. Holly went on the hunt for change at the concession stands because we were severely lacking anything less than a $20 bill haha I handed people their CD or picture and took money from them and handed it off to Mandie or Holly and gave them back their change (once we finally got some).
At one point Mandie tried to use her own money to make change just to help out and Sarah caught her. Sarah was like “Oh no, you put your money away right now!” hahaha It was so funny. Mandie snuck some back in there when she wasn’t looking until Holly brought back some change and switched Mandie’s money out. Another funny moment was when I asked Jedd if I could wear his sunglasses because it was so bright out and I put them on. He said, "Yeah, keep wearing them! You look really good in them!"
The last singer-songwriter group was performing while they were signing and we were selling merch, so it was cool to get to hear the last group as well. When Dave sang “Do You Believe Me Now”, the three of us were totally singing it and jamming. At one point, Sarah and Jedd turned around while we were singing along to it and were like ‘Heck yeah!’ Sarah bobbed her head along to the music and Jedd started singing along with me…it was so awesome. We also got to finally hear a little bit of Eli Young Band when they played their set too haha
It was really cool to get to see Sarah and Jedd interact with everyone waiting in line to meet them. They were genuinely so excited to meet everyone, and it was really special to get to watch all that.
When Sarah and Jedd were done signing and meeting with everyone, they kept thanking us over and over again and we were like, ‘No seriously, thank YOU! We had a blast!’ They told us that we should come back with them and we told them that Troy told us about the purple wall hanging on the bus. Sarah said, “Yeah, Troy showed us his sign and he said do you want the good news or the bad news? Good news is I got my own sign! The bad news is, I think I stole your biggest fans” hahah We laughed about that and then helped them pack up their duffel bag and went to walk backstage.
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