N-Nao At MTelus

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.  The year is still early, but one of the most anticipated shows of 2026 took place at the MTelus on the 6th.  Opening the evening was a young artist, N-Nao, was making her very first appearance at the MTelus.  Crowded against the curtain, she didn’t have much room to work with, but made sure that her music filled the room.  Moody, haunting and melodic, she owned her little bit of the stage.  Aside from the music, I appreciated the performance art aspect as well. Particularly, by having an assistant planted in the crowd.  From there, they lit her with a flashlight.  The flashlight was then passed to her on stage where N-Nao effectively lit herself while still singing.  Good stuff, though I do have to wonder if there was a backup plan in case some mischief maker might have taken off with the flashlight.  They would have probably had a bad meeting with the cracker jack MTelus security team.  N-Nao's most recent album was 2025's Nouveau Language.  With four other albums and a couple of EP's of music, there is certainly a lot out there to dig in to.  I will certainly be doing so, and so should all of you.  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 N-Nao while she performed up on the MTelus stage.

  

If you would like to find out more about N-Nao and her music, you can do so by following the link to her website.  If you would like to see the photographs that I took of Lou-Adriane Cassidy, who performed later that night, you can do so by following the link.  N-Nao gave us a great night of art and music.  Don't  you dare miss it when she performs in a town near you.