While a rather big band was making their return to Montreal this weekend, I think I found the better show in the borough of Greenfield Park where Canadian Blues great Angel Forrest was performing as part of the Canada 150 celebration. When the flyer for this event came out, I immediately wanted to see the show, despite never even having heard of Angel Forrest before. This was obviously my loss as I soon discovered an artist with one of the most powerful voices I've heard as she belted out classic blues and rock standards by groups like Led Zeppelin, Janis Jopin and Leonard Cohen, as well as some of her own original songs as well,
many of them from her recently released album, Angel's 11. It was only afterwards that I learned that she had won the Maple Blues Award for best Canadian Female Blues Vocalist for the past four years to go along with a career that has been going strong since 1996. The crowd on hand really was treated to a masterful performance, from the opening note to the closing jig with her daughters on stage. The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/80sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm and the second photograph was taken at f/4, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 105mm. Here are several more photographs that I took during the show.
many of them from her recently released album, Angel's 11. It was only afterwards that I learned that she had won the Maple Blues Award for best Canadian Female Blues Vocalist for the past four years to go along with a career that has been going strong since 1996. The crowd on hand really was treated to a masterful performance, from the opening note to the closing jig with her daughters on stage. The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/80sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm and the second photograph was taken at f/4, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 105mm. Here are several more photographs that I took during the show.
f/4, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 175mm
f/4, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 115mm
f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 1600 at 90mm
f/3.2, 1/100sec, ISO 1600 at 85mm
f/3.5, 1/125sec, ISO 3200 at 52mm
f4, 1/125sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm
f/3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 3200 at 55mm
f/3.5, 1/125sec, ISO 3200 at 145mm
f/3.5, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 165mm
I was alternating between a 70-200mm and a 24-70mm during the show, switching off a couple of times during the performance. I had some issues with the lights, but I still managed to grab a couple of nice photographs. It was a great performance, hopefully Angel Forrest comes back this way again soon.
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