My wife, youngest son (14 in a few weeks), and I saw his concert NY Eve at Winstar Casino. Tickets were very reasonably priced ($60 each, 30 rows back...same seats for ZZ Top priced at $175). Great show, but you could tell he was a bit under the weather.
After midnight, I saw a few of the band members in the bar. I thanked them for a great show, introduced my son to their trumpet player, embarrassed him by saying he made All City band (5th chair trumpet). My son's jaw dropped when one of the singers said, "I grew up in Denton. Coppell is well known for their music program."
Instead of playing blackjack, and likely dropping a couple of hundred, I grabbed a beer at the bar, and toasted them in German (Prosit neujahr). Their sax player started rapping back at me in German, as he lived there nearly 20 years. It was a lot of fun comparing experiences.