Belfast woman’s ‘once in a lifetime’ experience picks up front row seats at Billy Joel’s party in New York –

The Belfast woman said she was shocked and delighted to renew tickets to Billy Joel’s concert in New York in the first place.

Hannah Alexander is currently on a five-day trip to New York with her friends Alex Asher Rhea and Alice Patterson and Zara Grant as they all celebrate the 30th anniversary of the pandemic.

Since many of his friends are fans of Billy Joel, the girls booked tickets to his concert at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night.

Hannah and her friends described their original seats as “100 100 back”, and they were “shocked” when they arrived late and resumed the front row seats.

“We arrived at Madison Square Garden and were five minutes late because our original tickets had not been scanned because our friends had broken phone screens so we had to wait until we could fix the problem,” Hanna told Belfast Live. .

“We started going up the stairs to get to our chairs—which were just at the back of the gods—and this guy walked out the door and called us. He said he wanted to give something and gave us four rows in the front row. Tickets, right in the center.

He said that Billy is tired of those rich people who have been sitting in the sad front rows, so he now leaves the first two rows to the real fans and surprises them at every show.

“We were absolutely shocked! Out of more than 20,000 people, we were the lucky ones chosen! My two friends are totally super fans, so they cried, then laughed in shock and then cried again!”

Speaking at the concert, Hannah said it was a “once in a lifetime experience” as the 72-year-old played for two and a half hours.

He continued, “Enough of the old school entertainment! We danced all night and were constantly on the big screens.

“It was a once in a lifetime experience – we feel very fortunate.”