Patrick Norman at/à Saint-Lambert en Fête

After the success that was the concert given by Jonathan Macaulay, the crowd in Saint-Lambert was ready for the headlining act.  On this night, it was Québec country music great, Patrick Norman.  Patrick Norman has been a presence on the Québec music scene since the late 1960's.  First in his band Les Fabuleux élégants and then as a solo act.  In his career, he has earned several Juno and Félix Award nominations, and won the Félix for Male Singer of the Year in 1986 and the Félix for Country Album of the Year in 1987.  For those wondering, the Félix would be the Québec equivalent of the Grammy Award.  In March of this year he released his 32 album,  Bonheurs partagés, which is an album of his songs sung with other prominent singers, including his new wife, Nathalie Lord, who he married in July and also joined him on stage during the performance.  Add to his resume being awarded the Order of Canada back in February, and you have a very busy year for a 70 year old.  Here's to hoping that I will still be so active at that age. Once again, I was confined to one spot during the show for my photograph taking, but I believe I captured a fair amount of cool moments.  The first photograph was taken at f/5, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm.  Here are several other photographs that I took during his performance.

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/3.2, 1/125sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/3.5, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 145mm

f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/3.5, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 3200 at 145mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/4, 1/125sec, ISO 3200 at 170mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 170mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 168mm

f/4, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

It was a very entertaining few hours as M. Norman obviously knows his way around a guitar, and threw in a couple of spoken comedy with the crowd on hand.  With that, the Friday night portion of the fun came to an end.  But fear not, there is still lots more musical action to come.  Stay tuned.