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Category Archives: Bluesfest
BLUESOUL: The long-awaited Blues Album by Canada’s King of Roots Music and Ottawa’s own Terry Gillespie played at the NAC last night. Terry Gillespie is considered a forefather of the cultural dissemination of American music into Canada. Today his voice is frequently compared to Van Morrison and Bob Dylan while his guitar is reminiscent of Mark […]
Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick and his 12 string bass guitar featured in Vintage Guitar Magazine this month. This photo was taken seconds before the stage collapsed at Ottawa Bluesfest in July of 2011.
As you may remember, my excitement of seeing the rock band Cheap Trick again after 32 years last summer was cut short when the stage collapsed. I maintained an email relationship with their tour manager since the collapse as I had provided a few photographs of the boys on stage just before the chaos for the bands […]
I was honoured recently when Ottawa Studio Works owner Harry Nowell, asked me to be part of an exhibition he will be showing this weekend. The show titled “Welcome the Ottawa Music Festivals Show of Music Photography” will feature such noted concert photographers such as André Ringuette, Brian Goldschmeid, Sandy Sharkey, Steve Gerecke, Harry Nowel and myself. The event takes place […]
I managed to squeeze off a few shots before the stage collapsed. The last photo was taken seconds before the collapse. (those photos MAY follow at a later date) As you may already know, the main stage where Cheap Trick was playing collapsed 20 minutes into their set. I was in the photographers pit area […]
