Pam’s Recap: Danny Gokey at Dupage County Fair (Wheaton, IL)

If you missed it, you can check out Pam’s pictures from the DuPage Country Fair (Wheaton, IL – July 21st) HERE.

The tell-tale sign of a True Gokeyholic: making another road trip just 6 days after the last one to see Danny. I couldn’t resist since Wheaton was only a two hour drive from Milgokey. And my fellow road travelers are definitely enablers, asking me ahead of time if I wanted them to get me a ticket! Michelle – you would not make a good GA (Gokeyholics anonymous) sponsor!

It was a little miserable at the fair – No cloud cover, little shade and in the 90′s temperature wise (that would be 33-35 degrees Celsius for our international fans). One person spent the time waiting in the bathroom, where at least there was shade. At least my group came later, since some of us had to work in the morning. Michelle and Christy came down in the morning (they were so sweet to come early to get tickets for some fans who decided to come at the last minute) and were fried by the time we arrived.

DuPage was a larger fair than Rockton, but smaller crowd for D. I am terrible at estimating, but maybe 2000? Rockton had 3000 tickets sold for Danny’s concert.

I am not a fan of the tank shirt look, but wow, just wow, Danny looked incredible at the meet & greet. Like Jan said, he gets better looking all the time! Tattoo on full display.

I was so flustered I stepped on his foot!!! He said it was ok, he has “tough feet”. Erika, I was happy to re-read your recap and discover that you had also stepped on his foot prior to the interview, lol.

Like Jan said he was very talkative, even though he confirmed they were exhausted, had been up since 4 am with no nap.

He told me THREE times once again how much he loves Ihearties! Not sure why all the new found love (maybe Erika coming?), but we’ll take it! At the meet & greet he said it, also said he tweeted to go to iheart (instead of specifically saying to request his single, Lizzy, Josie) because we have it laid out so well with the super fan buttons (and it tells people exactly what/how to do). He asked whose idea that was! – I said Steph and Erika as far as I knew – sorry if I missed anyone I wasn’t aware of. He said he wanted to link his Facebook page to iheart also. He hadn’t watched our interview yet – I asked.

Michelle had asked him at the meet & greet to do a snippet of Single Ladies at this concert (he had done it at Summerfest on a whim I think!) so she could record it for all the fan requests and he did! Love Mr. Daniel J <3 Michelle recorded Trouble again but it may not turn out as well as first one, because there were a bunch of VIP winners in front of the barricades getting in the way. I still haven’t had time to catch up on all the videos, but have heard that Trouble Part II is Double Trouble! Raining on Sunday was EXQUISITE. I wasn’t that fond of it the first time I heard it on videos, but wow, is it beautiful live. He is so soulful.

Smaller crowd not as responsive as Rockton/Summerfest, but still good!

Cherie, so nice to meet you finally! I think the heat addled my brain, thanks Jan for pointing her out so I could introduce myself. I was going to intro you to Michelle (the master mind behind your favorite video – TROUBLE – she was the pretty, tall dark one) but concert started and things got nuts as usual. Also met Brandon (indigo from Twitter) there, super nice, good looking guy, as well as great Danny fan.

The band was great, again, soooo glad Matt is with them, he shines. Jamie was with them again.

Danny was full of banter, think he was hyped from AI excitement in the morning. Voice seemed a little tired/hoarse at times (who wouldn’t with his morning activities) but concert was great as usual. The guy with his family we befriended (we let his little girls stand in front of us at the front, saved their place in line and gave them SHF bracelets) thought it was “superb”, saying “Now I know what all of you were talking about”.

Danny wanted security guards to remove the barricades and asked them to do it (at the front) to let all of us run up to the stage at the end! But the guards said no! I think he loves it when we are mobbing the stage and dancing with him at the end.

He signed at the end, and again when he saw me, said how much he loved his ihearties. When Jen and some others went through the line he start singsonging/chanting “Luv, luv, luv Ihearties”. He must have been a little punch drunk from exhaustion, lol! It was difficult for Mike to drag him away from people. Poor, wonderful Mike, such a terrible job (Mike is the sweetest) – maybe we should offer to sit in for him.

They were off immediately to another city. They must get so fatigued, yet all band member smile at fans, are extremely kind, and give 110% at every concert. A Danny concert is such a bargain!