Alfredo Flores, award-winning D.C.-based freelance event photographer

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Keith Urban's "Get Closer" Tour at Verizon Center

Photo Credit:Alfredo Flores, Special to Metromix

You can easily tell that Keith Urban is a good ol’ country boy. Extremely affable, kind, and engaging with his fans, Urban went out of his way to make sure that everyone in the audience got a chance to get an up an close and personal experience at Verizon Center. While many arena shows feature a brief acoustic song or two for the audience in the back of the venue, Urban spent nearly a third of his two-hour-plus show from a special rotating stage in the back of the arena much to the delight of the fans in that section. That stage also rose up so that even those in the nosebleeds got a solid view of the Nashville crooner and hubby to actress Nicole Kidman. Urban made the intimate evening even more special for a select few in the audience who were lucky enough to perform “Kiss A Girl” with the multi-Grammy award winner on center stage.