Frédéric Dionne At Le Verre Bouteille

On Monday, I was invited to photograph a small concert in one of Montreal's hidden away music venues, Le Verre Bouteille.  I had never actually been there myself, but knew of it's reputation as a cozy little concert venue.  The opening act, Frédéric Dionne, has been playing music for a few years, but has only recently decided to go solo after having been in the band Les Jacks.  I actually already photographed him once in Greenfield Park as part of the Canada Day celebrations back in 2019.  I didn't figure that out until afterwards, but it was something of a 'small world' moment.  He played us a selection of his new songs that he has been working on and hopes to release an album shortly.  He sure seems to be on the right track as the crowd very much enjoyed what they heard.  The first photograph was taken at f/3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 32000 at 70mm.  Here are a few more photographs that I took during his performance.

f/3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 32000 at 70mm

f/3.5, 1/60sec, ISO 32000 at 70mm

f/3.5, 1/160sec, ISO 10000 at 39mm

f/3.5, 1/100sec, ISO 32000 at 70mm

f/3.5, 1/60sec, ISO 20000 at 24mm

f/3.5, 1/60sec, ISO 20000 at 70mm

f/3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 20000 at 61mm

f/3.5, 1/50sec, ISO 16000 at 61mm

f/3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 32000 at 70mm

f/3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 32000 at 70mm

It was a nice acoustic set that helped warm up the crowd who was walking in from a cold early winter night.  To find out more about Frédéric Dionne and his music, you can visit his Facebook page by following the link.  You can also follow this link to see my photographs of Mountain Daisies who played afterwards.  Best of luck with the new music Frédéric, may your guitar and my camera cross paths again some day.