It’s good to be The King. Québec’s King of Country, Matt Lang, kicked
off a Summer long party at the MTelus in Montreal on May 9th. It was the first show of a tour that will see
him play all over Québec in the following months and was also a launch party
for his brand new album, All Night Longer, which was released the next
day. The show sold out shortly after
being announced and there were cowboy hats littered over the entire building as
more than 2000 fans packed the MTelus in their finest attire to pay homage to
Matt Lang. Country music has become a big hit in La Belle
Province over the last several years.
Québec has several Country music festivals lined-up every summer, with
the Festival Western St. Tite and Lasso Montréal, where Matt Lang will also be
performing in August, being some of the biggest
Country events held in North
America. Through this resurgence, Montréal
has earned the nickname of Nashville North and leading this wave of renewed
popularity has been Matt Lang. All Night Longer is the third album for Matt
Lang, and his production team, headed by Vickye Morin and Joelle Proulx of
Agence Ranch, pulled out all the stops to make the evening into a party none
would forget. Picture booths, exclusive
merchandise, wrist band lights and even a beer pong tournament where the winner
would get a trip to Nashville could be found all over the floor. Up on the stage, the fireworks were in abundance
and an unlimited number of high fives were shared as Matt Lang performed and
shared the moment with his loyal 
subjects, only to happy to grab a cell phone
or 10 for some quickly selfies with the fans. All of the songs from All Night Longer were
played, with the previously released singles ‘All Night Longer’ and ‘Sweet On
You’ getting the sing-a-long treatment from the crowd. A killer medley of songs he remembered
hearing with his grandfather and other Country songs that had an impact on him
as well went over well with the crowd who also exploded to life when the band
broke into Matt Lang’s breakout song from 2019, ‘Love Me Some Of You’. Etienne Joly, Matt Lang’s lead guitarist and
stage-right hand man, who also has performed with several other of Québec’s
crop of Country artists, was on fire.
I’ve seen them perform several times and this duo could one day be
spoken of in the same rarified air as other famous singer/guitarist
combos. The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/500sec, ISO 2000 at 67mm. The second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/1600sec, ISO 4000 at 67mm and the third was taken at f/3.2, 1/1000sec, ISO 4000 at 28mm. I had no restrictions shooting this show, and since there was no opening band, this will be a larger update than usual. Mind you, we're all here for to see photographs, so I don't suppose a few more to look at will be a problem.
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