Russell Eresmas had an enviable view of pop music group TLC’s performance in Edmonton on Saturday.
A lifelong fan of the group, he says he made sure he was as close to the stage as possible.
“[TLC] gets a couple songs in, I’m singing my heart out, I’m dancing,” Eresmas recalled a day later. “I hear these two ladies go, ‘Hey you!’ at the very front of the barrier and they’re waving me over.”
The women asked Eresmas how many TLC songs he knew.
“I said, ‘A lot,’ as any regular person should,” Eresmas said.
He was asked to join TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas on the stage.
LISTEN BELOW: A little TLC: Edmonton man hits the stage at Soundtrack
Eresmas said he didn’t get to take his phone onstage for the performance but left with a less permanent memento.
“I got a kiss and a not-so-G-rated dance. It was awesome, it was so much fun,” Eresmas said.
He said his nostalgia for TLC, a group whose popularity peaked in the 1990s, is now at an all-time high.
It seems the encounter with the superstars has led to a bit of fame for Eresmas himself.
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“After I got offstage, everybody recognized me — [there were] lots of high fives and fist bumps,” Eresmas said. “A couple of people took a picture of the lipstick mark on my cheek.”
Soundtrack Music Festival transformed Kinsmen Park into a 90s-themed wonderland over the weekend. TLC, Ma$e and Goo Goo Dolls headlined the festival.
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