Darius Rucker At Place Bell

We're a little bit backed up on getting my concert photographs up here on The Old Blog.  I suppose we will catch up at some point, but this would be a good time to remind you that my concert photographs can be seen in a much more timely manner by visiting V13Media, which you can do by following the link.  If you'd like an even more direct route to my photographs, you can visit my personal page over there but using the following link.  Music may in fact soothe the savage beast.  It also does a good job with a fever and tummy ache.  I was perfectly healthy for Darius Rucker’s concert at the Place Bell in Laval this past weekend.  The same could not be the same for the first time that I head his wonderful voice.  If we can turn the calendar back a few pages, I got my first listen back on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.  The clock had struck midnight and 1995 had officially begun.  I had been invited to a friend’s party, but felt ill and stayed home instead. I missed the ball drop that year as I passed out on the couch, only to be awakened by a group called Hootie & The Blowfish, which featured Darius Rucker on lead vocals.  In the years since, Hootie has made some appearances here and there, but Darius Rucker has continued his career as a country music artist.  His show in Laval was something I had been looking forward to since it was announced.  I never got to see Hootie & The Blowfish perform live, so I was really looking forward to finally hearing the voice that soothed my sickened soul.  Which brings us right back to Darius Rucker.  All smiles, he hit stage and broke right in to “Forever Road”.  Working all sides of the stage, Darius Rucker made sure that everyone who came out to see him got a good look.  His warm voice and Southern accent were just as soothing as they were 30 years ago.   “For The First Time” had the crowd with their hands in the air.  The fans were clapping and swaying to and fro to the beat.  A couple more originals got everyone in a party mood before “Only Wanna Be With You”.  A couple more Hootie & The Blowfish hits also made the set list, along with some other tasty covers to round out what was a wonderful show.  All of the photographs were taken at f/3.2 while using various different shutter speeds, ISO settings and focal lengths.  Here are the rest of the photographs that I took of Darius Rucker as he performed on the Place Bell stage.

If you would like to find out more about Darius Rucker and his music, you can do so by following the link to his website.  If you would like to see the photographs that I took of Kashus Culpepper and Tyler Braden, who performed earlier that evening, you can do so by following the respective links.  Much thanks to Darius Rucker's team at Maverick Management, Evenko and Christopher Gonda at V13 Media for getting me a pass to photograph the show.  As always, it is very much appreciated.   Darius Rucker has one of those voices that just sticks with you.  Soulful, warm and welcoming, there is no genre that he wouldn't excel in.  This leg of Darius Rucker’s Canadian tour has come to an end, but he will be back out on the road soon.  Don’t you dare miss it when he plays a town near you.