All-Star Grand Finale

They say that all good things must come to an end, and so it is time to put to bed this set of photographs taken at the All-Star concert that took place during the recent Saint-Lambert en fête.  I realize that it's been a little bit more than two weeks since this concert took place and I'm still putting photos from the show up here on the page, but I figured it would be best for business to split the concert up into different segments.  I also tried to market myself a little bit with this set but directly linking to the artists in question on my Facebook page, Eric Mahannah Photography for those of you who may have forgotten, and as a result I not only saw traffic to my sites increase my several thousand viewers, but I also got good comments back from France D'Amour and from Andrée Watters, who actually shared one of my photographs on her page.  Combined, all of those things did a good job of swelling the old ego a little bit.  But, it's time to bring the curtain down, and we're going to do so with a bang.  This last batch of photographs comes from the final encore of the night, when all of the artists returned on stage for a big farewell.  I continued to snap away while everyone on stage was going through a cover of the AC/DC song, You Shook Me All Night Long.  They even managed to get some of the docile Saint-Lambert crowd to come out of their seats before everyone called it a night and went home for the evening.    The first photograph on this page was taken at f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 168mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.5, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 120mm.  There's not really much more to add at this point, so let's get on to the photographs.  Get yourself a little snack and a cold beverage, because there are lots of photographs to come.

f/3.5, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 90mm

f/3.5, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 90mm

f/3.5, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 90mm

 f/4.5, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 90mm

f/4.5, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 90mm

f/4.5, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 105mm

f/4.5, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 100mm

f/4.5, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 130mm

f/4.5, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 125mm

f/4.5,1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 140mm

f/4.5, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 95mm

f/6.3, 1/125sec, ISO 3200 at 95mm

f/5, 1/125sec, ISO 3200 at 135mm

f/5, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 135mm

As the great Willie Nelson used to sing, "Turn out the lights, the party's over."  It was a great evening.  When all was said and done, I was a bit of a sweaty mess, but I had a huge smile on my face because I had just spent the last three hours photographing all of these different musical acts.  If you'd like to go back in time and check out all of the other photographs I took, feel free to click on the following links.  Up first was The Million Dollar Band.  The All-Star portion of the show began with some songs featuring Andrée Watters and Sylvain Cossette.  Up next was a few songs featuring Andrée Watters, Sylvain & Beth Cossette and Félix-Antoine Couturier.  After that was a little segment that saw Stefi Shock and Andrée Watters perform together and finally, just before the show came to an end, there was a brief set performed by France D'Amour.  Quite the evening of talent, and quite the two weeks of updates for the site.