Vincent Vallières at Festin Culturel Brossard

We have reached the end of my blog updates for the musical performances at Brossard's annual Festin Culturel.  Unless that is you are reading this from a time other than when I was updating them in which case you should keep scrolling down the main page as you will find photographs from all of the other artists who performed as well. This final update covers the performance of Vincent Vallières.  I first found out about his music due to the fact that he comes from the same region of Quebec as my family, the Eastern Townships.  I have also seen him a few times before, during the times before I began bringing my camera to concerts.  He released his first album back in 1999 and really climbed to fame with the release of the song 'On va s'aimer encore' in 2009.  The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm and here are several more photographs that I took during his performance.

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

 

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 105mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/640sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/640sec, ISO 3200 at 182mm

f/2.8, 1/640sec, ISO 3200 at 168mm

f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

And with that, the evening of music in Brossard came to an end.  The fun thing about these multi group performances is that you get a nice diversity of music over the course of an evening. The bad thing is that for an obsessive photographer like myself, you end up getting home with so many photographs t hat it takes three days to go through and edit everything. It was still great fun and I'd do it again tomorrow.  Keep scrolling through the site to see the photographs of Mara Tremblay, Elizabeth Blouin-Brathwaite, Nomadic Massive, Bandidas and Wesli, all of whom took the stage during the Festin Culturel.  Hopefully I'll get a chance to go back next year.

 

Mara Tremblay At Festin Culturel Brossard

Mara Tremblay has been a constant in the Québec music scene for 30 years, and she brought her music to Brossard as one of the musical acts for the Festin Culturel.  After taking part in several other groups, she released her first solo album in 1999, and her most recent, Cassiopée, was released last year.  She has been nominated for several ADISQ awards, winning more than a few along the way, including the award of Alternative Album of the Year in 1999 for her album Le Chihuahua.  The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm and here are several more photographs that I took while she performed.

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

 

f/2.8, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 168mm

f/2.8, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 168mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/1000sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/1600sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/1600sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/1600sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

Nothing like some good old rock and roll guitar to get the blood flowing.  There is nothing I like more than watching someone rock out on the guitar, and she got the crowd rocking to her songs.  For those of you who have been following along to all of the updates, there is still one more to go, and based on that last two photographs of this update, you might be able to figure out who it will be.

Elizabeth Blouin-Brathwaite at Festin Culturel Brossard

The musical performances continues here on the blog as we continue to feature artists who performed at Brossard's Festin Culturel this past Saturday night.  The next singer who I got to photograph was Elizabeth Blouin-Brathwaite.  She not only took the stage to perform her own songs, but she also spent most of the night performing as a back-up singer for most of the other acts as well.  A second generation performer, her father Normand was the host for this event, Elizabeth has been entertaining crowds since she was very young, releasing a first album of songs when she was only 11 years old.  My only complaint about her performance was that it was almost entirely spent behind her large conga drums.  As such, I tried to take advantage of the times she would step out from behind them, and also play with the light a little bit.  The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm and here are several more photographs of her performance.

f/2.8, 1/1000sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/1000sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/1000sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/1000sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

 

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 168mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

That hair was just so awesome photograph.  Even behind the congas, she was flying all over the place and it was a nice challenge to try and catch all of that hair flying around.  As luck would have it, on several of the shots you could see the drummer behind her and his stick often followed Elizabeth's body movements.  Great fun, but there are still some more Festin Culturel photographs to go.

Nomadic Massive At Festin Culturel Brossard

The music continued at Brossard's Festin Culturel as another of the bands to take the stage was Nomadic Massive.  A group who sing in five different languages came together to form a musical collective back in 2004 and have been bringing crowds to their feet ever since in festivals all over North America and Europe.  In Brossard, they were part of Normand Brathwaite's group of headliners and earned the appreciation of the gathered crowd in the little time they had to perform.  The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 160mm.  Here are several more photographs that I took of their performance.

f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm

Not only were they great musically, but they had some terrific stage presence as well.  Taking the time to interact with those of us watching as well as having fun with each other on the stage.  It's always fun to photograph people who look like they are having lots of fun.  You can find out more about Nomadic Massive at their website, where you can also find ways to get their albums as well.