It wasn’t lost on country singer Trisha Yearwood that she could have gotten snowed in for days while in Green Bay.
The three-time Grammy winner was able to get her March 14 concert at the Meyer Theatre in before the snow started later that night, but the impending blizzard that went on to dump at least 23 inches of snow on the city was on her mind when she took the stage for a stop on The Mirror Tour.
Before singing “Put It in a Song” to open the show, she told the sold-out crowd they all might get snowed in at the Meyer.
“There is a bar, right? We’ll be OK,” she joked.
It was Yearwood’s first concert in Green Bay in 24 years, and the Meyer is one of just 15 cities to get a stop on the acoustic tour. The forecast undoubtedly made people who had snatched up tickets back in December nervous about whether the show might be postponed or canceled.
“Y’all are for real about your snow up here,” she said. In Nashville, where she and husband Garth Brooks live, if it even looks like it might snow, everyone stays home and they close school, she said.
She has her own connection for getting aged Wisconsin cheese
Had she gotten stuck in Green Bay, there would have been a silver lining for the noted cook and author of several cookbooks: plenty of cheese.
“Cheese is my spirit animal,” she said when talk turned to food during a segment in which was joined by singer-songwriter friends Leslie Satcher and Bridgette Tatum.
Yearwood said she and Brooks got to be close friends with a couple from Wisconsin during the days when they were all spending time at children’s soccer games in Oklahoma. The woman is originally from Sheboygan and the man from Chippewa Falls. Whenever they come back to Wisconsin to visit their parents, Yearwood said they always bring her the most aged cheese they can buy – the kind that you don’t even have to cut with a knife because it crumbles.
Yearwood, who performed in Des Moines the night before, also indulged in cheese cuisine during her tour stop.
“I would like to say today for lunch I had a cheese curd pizza. I took a picture of it. I’m going to post it. I’m going to make it. It was good.”
Green Bay Packers, Fall Out Boy came up during the night
If Yearwood hadn’t already endeared herself to the audience with her easygoing chatter about Wisconsin, including a comment about how “super beautiful” the Meyer is, Satcher brought up another topic dear to Green Bay’s heart. Before singing “Troubadour,” the George Strait hit she co-wrote, Satcher, who is from Texas, told the crowd she has a deep affection for Green Bay, because she’s a big Packers fan.
“Don’t tell my Cowboys, but I’m a huge cheesehead,” she said, joking that she had one on under her cowboy hat.
She’s not the only one in her family. Her son-in-law, who just happens to be drummer Andy Hurley of rock band Fall Out Boy, loves the team, too.
“He is the biggest Green Bay Packers fan on the planet, and we have learned now that when the Packers are playing, do not call their house,” Satcher said.
The Mirror Tour is billed as “An Intimate Acoustic Evening of Stories and Songs,” and Yearwood more than delivered on that. She was warm and witty as she talked about her life and career between songs.
The reception for the new music on 2025’s “The Mirror,” particularly a stirring “The Ocean and the River,” was as robust as it was for such ’90s radio hits as “XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)” and “She’s in Love with the Boy.” The three women ended the night with “Stetson,” a flirty toe-tapper they just wrote a few days ago and said they weren’t even sure if it’s completely finished yet.
Kendra Meinert is an entertainment and feature writer at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Contact her at 920-431-8347 or kmeinert@greenbay.gannett.com. Follow her on X @KendraMeinert.
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