Roxane Bruneau At MTelus

This past June saw Roxane Bruneau headline the festivites for the Fête Nationale de Québec from Longueuil and the show was a blast.  I had never seen her perform before and I had such a good time that I have been singing her praises ever since.  Feel free to take a moment to go back in time and revisit the photos if you'd like by following the link.  A few weeks back, it was announced that an album release party would be held at the MTelus in Montreal so I figured I might as well try my luck and see if I could get a pass to shoot the show.  Party would be the perfect word to describe the evening.  We had celebrities galore, the building was packed to the rafters and the crowd was in an electric mood from the moment they entered the building until the lights finally went out and the music began.  Roxane Bruneau hit the stage to a thunderous applause and seemed to be moved by the entire experience.  There was even a brief moment at the end of the first song where she knelt down on the stage and had to hide her face in her hands.  Whatever emotions she may have been trying to hide were quickly replaced with smiles and laughter the rest of the way.  She even made note that everyone in the crowd seemed to be singing along with her, despite the fact that her album had only been released four days before the show.  There was also a special guest on the evening as local rap star Souldia hit the stage with Roxane to perform their hit single 'Côté passenger'.  I was able to shoot that one from the crowd as though we were only allowed our usual three songs from the pit, we were granted a few extra minutes of shooting from elsewhere in the building before it was time to pack up our gear.  Once again, a Roxane Bruneau show didn't disappoint.  A large part of that has to do with the fans.  Roxane's fans obviously love her and her music, so I tried to get a couple of extra shots of the crowd in to this set.  The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/80sec, ISO 2000 at 24mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 2000.  Here are several more photographs that I took of her performance.

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 2000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 2000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 2000 at 45mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 2000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/50sec, ISO 20000 a 53mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 2000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/100sec, ISO 2000 at 25mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 2000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 20000 at 35mm

f/3.2, 1/20sec, ISO  2000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 5000 at 50mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 2000 at 47mm

f/3.2, 1/800sec, ISO 5000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 5000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 5000 at 35mm

f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 5000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/125sec, ISO 1600 at 41mm

f/3.2, 1/1250sec, ISO 5000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/1250sec, ISO 1600 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/1000sec, ISO 1600 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 1600 at 31mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 1600 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 5000 at 50mm

f/3.2, 1/30sec, ISO 5000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/160sec, ISO 1600 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/500sec, ISO 1600 at 55mm

f/3.5, 1/500sec, ISO 4000 at 200mm

f/3.2, 1/400sec, ISO 4000 at 200mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 4000 at 200mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 4000 at 200mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 50mm

f/3.2, 1/100sec, ISO 1600 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/400sec, ISO 5000 70mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 4000 at 168mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 1600 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 1600 at 28mm

If you'd like to find out more about Roxane Bruneau and her music, you can do so by following the link to her website.  A big thank you goes out to Valérie Hamel of ValMGMT Management and Kevin Lalancette of Roy & Turner who handle her publicity for getting me a pass to shoot the show.  I very much appreciate it.  I've said it before and I'll continue to say it again, Roxane Bruneau puts on one heck of an entertaining show.  With a new album out, there are sure to be a series a shows coming up in 2024.  Be sure to be there if she ends up having a show near you.