How Chase Stokes reacted to Kelsey Ballerini’s show at Madison Square Garden

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A day after the country superstar, 31, sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden32-year-old Stokes touchingly celebrated the milestone of her career Instagram post.

“To make a record your way, with your people, and to sell out the most famous arena in the world, my heart exploded out of my chest and a little bit of water from my eyeballs,” he admitted. Foreign banks star.

“I am so proud to be in your corner, to be on your team and to be your partner on this life journey. I love you, I’m so proud of you,” the actor’s caption continued.

Stokes’ post included a cute photo of them hugging backstage and snapping their hands in the back pockets of their jeans.

In addition to a video of Ballerini arriving on stage with a crowd lined up outside the arena, he showed off a photo from the show on his Instagram Stories.

“My love, you did an incredible thing (including making yourself and everyone else cry a little). I am so proud of you. MSG. New York. Yall appeared and left. KB, I f*ck… “Love you,” he captioned the photo.

A fan posted on TikTok video Stokes, overwhelmed with feelings, watching Ballerini, who he started dating in January 2023perform.

The singer — who recently announced a A three-month tour of 30 cities in North America supports her new album Patterns Stokes thanked him for his support in her own Instagram posts.

In one postthe musician shared a carousel of photos and videos from the concert, starting with a picture of her and Stokes.

“You’ll never know how much I needed you ,” she captioned the post, to which Stokes commented, “And you’ll never know how much I needed you .”

another post showed different angles of Stokes watching Ballerini perform the track “To The Men That Love Women After Heartbreak”.

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Ballerini cutely captioned the post something with song textwriting, “thanks for everything you didn’t have to do men who love women after heartbreak last night at Madison Square Garden.”

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The musician recently confirmed this to PEOPLE the two reached a new milestone in their relationship moving in together “Oh, we unpacked, baby!” said Ballerini.

Ballerini’s 2025 tour kicks off on January 21 at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.