Embracing the Fandom: A Twilight in Concert Experience
Captured by Chance at the Count Basie Center for the Arts, Nov 12, 2025.
Sixteen years later, Team Jacob and Team Edward can still make a crowd swoon. On a rainy, cold Wednesday night at the Count Basie, the Twilight fandom showed up for a sold-out event: Twilight in concert. Every time a character appeared, the theatre erupted. After iconic lines came the collective gasps and laughter, and when those unforgettable songs started, everyone fell silent, watching the scenes unfold as if it were 2008 all over again, back when we were counting down the days until the next movie release.
It was billed as “Twilight in Concert,” but really, it was a celebration of the fandom.
“I just told you I can read minds, and you think there’s something wrong with you,” Edward Cullen says to Bella.
Lines like that take you right back to watching Edward and Bella’s chemistry for the very first time. That one has always stayed with me. There was this wave of nostalgia and warmth, fittingly ironic, considering it’s a movie about vampires. But events like this remind us of the joy in falling in love with characters, directing, and scripts. It’s the same feeling as having a melody get stuck in your head, relating to a lyric, or feeling a song in your chest.
Twilight in Concert wrapped all of that together. It created an atmosphere where everyone could enjoy whatever it was they came for, whether it was hearing the iconic “Hoa, Hoa, Hoa” live as Bella questions Edward’s cold behavior, leaning into the aesthetic and love of the books, or simply having something fun to look forward to in the middle of the workweek. No matter the reason, you could look around and see the same thing everywhere: people having a genuinely good time.
