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 Knopfler. Richard Ludmerer, Vice-President, New York Blues and Jazz Society describes Gillespie’s music: ” Terry Gillespie possesses a magic that seems to occur right in the middle of each song. It’s what causes the hairs to rise on the back of your neck.”
Terry was accompanied by seasoned musicians Lyndell Montgomery and Wayne Stoute with special guest Peter Measroch formerly of The Luther Allison Band on piano.
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.
Montreal based Boogie Wonder Band brought disco music to the masses this weekend at the Casino du Lac-Leamy.
With a tight, energetic and well choreographed stage show, complete with lasers and exotic lighting, the 10 piece group had the crowd on it’s feet from the very first note and they boogied on down the entire night.
With hits such as “I Will Survive,” “I Love the Night Life,” “We are Family,” “Get Down Tonight,” “Raining Men,” “Stayin’ Alive,” “Dancing Queen,” “YMCA,” “Celebration” and “Disco Inferno” they definitely brought back the 70’s in grand style!
Taryn, an Ottawa professional makeup artist, was an absolute pleasure to work with yesterday.
With her new website about to go live, a few headshot and portrait photographs of this stunning beauty were in order.
As well as Camille and Kaiden, you will get to know Ben more at the upcoming 65 Roses Gala on February 23 at the Hampton Inn.
December turned out to be fantastic month for we Led Zeppelin fans around the world. First their release of “Celebration Day”, the DVD of their 2007 reunion concert, a concert in the aid of the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund. Then there was The Kennedy Center Honors with an epic performance of Stairway To Heaven by Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart that had Robert Plant on the verge of tears. To see Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones so moved by someone else’s rendition of one of their songs was a joy to watch.
Joining Ann and Nancy on stage was the late John Bonham’s son Jason Bonham on drums, which was I’m sure an emotional night for him.
I had the pleasure to meet and photograph Jason’s band, “Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience” on their last tour through Ottawa and thought I’d re-post a few of my shots of Jason from that night because this is as close as I’m ever going to get to the greatest rock band in the world.
Jason Bonham Of Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience
Heart’s Ann Wilson Kills Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’ At Kennedy Center Honors
Meet Camille. You’ll be seeing more of this adorable young lady leading up to the 65 Roses Cystic Fibrosis Gala!
Details to follow soon!
Kaiden is a young man that I am sure you are familiar with. If not, you will be seeing and hearing much more about him in the coming months.
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Adam wanted a few casual portraits done and a couple of business headshots for his Ottawa business venture.
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William Prince - She is COMPLETELY mesmerizing. The shots are amazing.