Avery Anna brought her “Girl of Constant Sorrow Tour” during its last week to the Rave Eagles Club in Milwaukee back in May. Before this concert, the UWM Post spoke exclusively with Anna about her music, the tour and the ACM Awards.
Not long after being named the Academy of Country Music Awards’ new female artist of the year, the 22-year-old took the stage at the Eagles Ballroom. Fans showed up dressed in their best western-inspired attire, which of course included cowboy/cowgirl boots and hats.
“The reason I called it the ‘Girl of Constant Sorrow Tour’ is because my life has kind of changed in the blink of an eye. It’s a lot of whiplash going from driving around this country in my car, to then having a full crew and the bus to sleep in,” Anna said during the concert.
The Opening
Fellow 22-year-old artist Ashley Anne took the stage before Anna to deliver an appropriate opening performance that matched Anna’s sound and vibe.
The fans anxiously shuffled around the venue and bought merch, sang along to the pre-show playlist and wrote letters to Anna. The playlist represented Anna’s versatile music taste with country, rock, pop and more genres of songs.
One song that everyone in the crowd sang along to was Toby Keith’s “Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American).” With the lyrics “‘Cause we’ll put a boot in your a**, it’s the American way,” getting a loud, echoing uproar from the audience…