At the annual Longueil - Greenfield Park Ribfest, I'd say that a very large majority of the people show up for the food. I'm told that the ribs are heavenly, but ribs are not really my thing. I go to the yearly event for a different divine entity, that being the voice of Canadian jazz and blues superstar Dawn Tyler Watson. Over the last few years, she has routinely shown up to play with a collection of local Greenfield Park musicians collectively known as The Roots Band, at the yearly event, and she always blows the crowd away. I believe I listed off all of her accomplishments during the post for her 2019 performance, which can be seen by following this link, but she has since added a Juno Award to her
collection as her album Mad Love won the award for Best Blues Album in 2020. I'm sure there will be more award to come as she has already been nominated for another Canadian Maple Blues Award this year for Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year. I was hanging around the site a little bit after the show checking out my photos when I spotted Ms. Watson by the stage. I chose my best shot from the camera and went to say hello. What My Lovely Assistant likes to call 'being a groupie'. She, and fellow photographer Laura Carbone were both very complimentary and nice to speak with. A true pleasure. The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/1600sec, ISO 3200 at 35mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm. Here are several more photographs of her, and the bands, performance.
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