2016 photo100 – #17
Matt is a powerful vocalist, songwriter and guitar player. I first saw him as an openner at the Lowell Summer Music Series and was blown away. He had a band with him for this show and frankly, I think I like him better solo.
This was our first visit to the legendary Club Passim. The stage lighting consisted of 3 small track lights, likely purchased from Ikea (as suggested by the openner Tom Wilson of LeeHarveyOsmand). I’m still getting the hang of my new f2.8 70-200 lens; the shots were less than stellar.
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photo365 – Day 329
This is a rather small venue (http://www.regattabarjazz.com/)and I was able to get a table immediately in front of the stage. Sadly, the show was poorly marketed and the crowd was very small, a few dozen at best. Considring the caliber of the talent I was very surprised by the low turn-out. The band was also surprised but they put on a full, energetic and delightful show despite the small audience.
This was one of the last shows I shot with the Sony Cybershot. It was quite challenging due to the strong direct lighting blowing out the highlights and low general lighting for the rest of the scene. Because of the small crowd my shooting was quite obvious so I was a bit self-conscious. That camera had a rather loud shutter noise so I had to be careful to shoot only during the ‘loud bits’. 😉
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