Concert review: Kelsea Ballerini dazzles Target Center in her local arena debut
Like Swift, she’s a natural up on stage with the ability to come off as the biggest star in the world who could also be your best friend.
More than a decade after her perky debut single “Love Me Like You Mean It” topped the country airplay charts, Kelsea Ballerini made her local debut as an arena headliner Friday in front of a near-capacity crowd at Minneapolis’ Target Center.
While she has toured clubs and theaters on her own, the 31-year-old Tennessee native is favorite opening act for the likes of Kenny Chesney, Dan + Shay, Thomas Rhett, Keith Urban, Jonas Brothers and Kelly Clarkson. She’s always turned in friendly, easy to enjoy short sets that keep the audience buzzing but, crucially, don’t steal the show from the top of the bill.
That may suggest Ballerini isn’t up to the task, but her engaging, energetic performance Friday proved her arena upgrade was actually long overdue.
Early on in the show, Ballerini gleefully told the crowd she loves playing Minnesota and that her March 2023 show at the nearby Armory was her biggest to that point in her career. She asked how many folks were there and, judging by the cheers, pretty much everyone was, and this time around they brought a friend and/or boyfriend.
Ballerini’s music has always leaned into pop and her latest album, “Patterns,” shares the same vibes as Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” and Kacey Musgraves’ “Star-Crossed.” Indeed, songs like the sultry “First Rodeo” don’t have much of anything to do with Nashville and would sound perfectly at home in rotation on 89.3 The Current.
The set list leaned heavily on “Patterns,” and the audience clearly was familiar with every last one of the songs. She also dipped into “Rolling Up the Welcome Mat,” a 2023 EP she surprised fans with by announcing it a day before it hit streaming, on Valentine’s Day. But it’s not about love. She wrote about her then-recent divorce from Australian country singer Morgan Evans in pretty stark terms, like “Leave Me Again,” which she played solo acoustic style. But the “Welcome Mat” tracks sounded fine bumped up against the (mostly) sunnier material from “Patterns,” including “Wait,” “This Time Last Year” and the title track.
Ballerini performed on a fairly simple stage with her five-piece band, pair of backup singers and massive screens behind her, giving the show the widescreen dazzle of a Swift stadium spectacle. And like Swift, she’s a natural up on stage with the ability to come off as the biggest star in the world who could also be your best friend. She’s just that likable. Don’t be surprised to see her back in a Twin Cities arena sooner than later.
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