Taylor Swift Hosts 14.5 Hour Meet & Greet

Taylor Swift’s 13 hour meet & greet on Sunday during the CMA Music Festival turned into an epic 14.5 hour event! Swift signed autographs and posed with fans for photos the entire time. She took a short break about half way through the day to play a FREE short acoustic set for fans.

During the meet & greet Taylor rarely looked down at the items she was signing; she made a point to pay attention to the fan she was with and to make that person feel as if he or she was the only one that mattered at that moment. You can see that she genuinely cares about each and every one of her fans, and no matter what some may say, she hosted this event to say “thank you” to them, not as a marketing ploy.

After signing for a few hours, Swift performed a short acoustic set free of charge. She played her hits, “Our Song,” “Fearless,” “Love Story,” and “You Belong With Me” before going back to sign autographs for hours on end.

Swift and her team made the event a memorable experience for fans by adding many personal touches to the day such as displaying a few of her famous dresses, allowing fans to take photos with Swift’s many awards, and also get an up close and personal look at Talyor’s backstage “T-Party” room that is set up at all of her concerts. The castle that Swift used on her Fearless Tour was also on display along with her tour bus and semi trucks. To keep fans entertained during the wait, home videos and behind the scenes clips played on the jumbotron.

I was extremely impressed by the entire event. It was SO organized and it was so touching to watch all the fans’ excitement over it all. It meant the world to them to be able to experience something like that and it was all for FREE…No fan club membership required!

Also, I don’t know if some people realize just how much went in to making this event possible. There was staff everywhere and the entire arena was closed down just for the meet and greet…That had to cost some big bucks! Some of Swift’s sponsors such as Sony, Verizon, and American Greetings were on hand for the event which surely off set some costs, but still, it wasn’t cheap to pull something like this off.

Kudos to Swift and her team for making this amazing event possible!

***All images courtesy of, and used with permission from, the Country Music Association (click images to enlarge)