![]() The moving video screens and lighting are used to create environments on stage, culminating in an on stage tornado for the concert’s final song. ![]() Several of the new songs are performed on the hot air balloon stage resulting in extra audience engagement, another new song is the occasion for a duet with Carrie’s opener Hunter Hayes, and another new song is partly used as a band showcase and an opportunity to introduce her very talented band members. Carrie and her team are very savvy in how they present the new material, recognizing it’ll be the least familiar to the more casual fans in the audience. The 22 song set list (which includes a medley of 2 songs) ranges from twangy pop-rockers to traditional country and includes 9 songs from Carrie’s current album. There’s recurrent Oz imagery throughout the show, like the Emerald City backdrop during “I Told You So” (which sort of parallels Dorothy’s dissatisfaction with home and then desire to go back once she landed in Oz) and the hot air balloon stage ride Carrie and a few of her bandmates take around the arena (a reference to one of the ways Dorothy tried to get home). She ain’t in Kansas, I mean, Checotah anymore. The show, like the “Blown Away” video, casts Carrie as a modern day Dorothy swept up by a tornado and taken into an unknown world of adventures as depicted in Carrie’s songs. Carrie and her team put a lot of thought into a set list that flows. ![]() Having seen the show myself last Thursday, it’s definitely the visual and audio treat Carrie promised. Meanwhile Carrie is 2 weeks into her Blown Away tour. Carrie Underwood Behind The Music Tune-in 9/30 At 9/8c
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