Mountain Daisies At Le Verre Bouteille

The headlining act of out little evening at Le Verre Bouteille was veteran Montreal Country music group, Mountain Daisies.  The core of the group, guitarist Carl Prévost and singer/violinist Ariane Ouellet have been together for nearly 20 years, dating back to their days in CEGEP.   However, as they explained, they are kind of experiencing a renaissance of sorts after having spent some time in Nashville to take in the scene down there.  Now back in town, they are preparing for the release of a new EP and decided to share some of their new songs at this event.  The whole event was put together by their management company, Agence Ranch, who were kind enough to invite me out to take photographs of the show.  The first photograph was taken at f/3.5, 1/125sec, ISO 5000 at 24mm.  Here are several more photographs of their performance.

f/3.5, 1/125sec, ISO 3200 at 35mm

f/3.5, 1/50sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm

f/3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 3200 at 33mm

f/3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 3200 at 24mm

f/3.5, 1/60sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm

f/3.5, 1/50sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/3.5, 1/50sec, ISO 3200 at 120mm

f/4, 1/320sec, ISO 12800 at 28mm

f/3.5 1/60sec, ISO 5000 at 70mm

f/3.5, 1/125sec, ISO 5000 at 24mm

f/3.5, 1/160sec, ISO 5000 at 70mm

f/3.5, 1/100sec, ISO 5000 at 70mm

There is a certain thrill that comes with photographing concerts at some of the bigger venues in town, but this evening at Le Verre Bouteille had a certain feeling in intimacy that only a smaller venue can provide.  Almost like a family gathering where everyone is close and having a great time listening to some music.  A big thank you to Joelle Proulx of Agence Ranch who invited me to photograph the show.  If you'd like to see the photographs that I took of Frédéric Dionne, who opened the evening, you can do so by following this link.  If you'd like to find out more about Mountain Daisies and their music, you can do so by visiting their Facebook page.