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Cursive – Union Transfer 4-5-2012

Stay tuned for a full report including more photos, short video clips and some words!

Tim Kasher of Cursive at Union Transfer, Philadelphia

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Newport Folk Festival

It’s never too early to plan ahead, especially when you are planning for one of the neatest summer events of the year! The Newport Folk Festival.

Last year’s “wishing we had gone” manifested into early planning for this year as soon as the 2012 line up was released. With tight schedules and busy summer plans, Shan and I have found a way to carve out some summer time fun for ourselves! If you haven’t seen the lineup yet, check it out, it’s gonna be great. Tickets are selling quickly and lodging is going fast (as we found out for ourselves after about 4 hours of consulting, calls and booking). Hope you check it out, and try to make it. You can listen to last year’s festival which was filled to the gills with musical greatness, via NPR, to get you fired up!

You can be sure that come July 30 Shan and I will have photos, sketches and some awesome accounts of our time in RI.

Pictured above, Jim James who will be performing at Newport Folk Fest with My Morning Jacket as well alongside Jay Farrar and company as The New Multitudes (Woody Guthrie project) (photo by Ady at MMJ at the Philly Mann Center 2011)

White Rabbits live at Union Transfer, Philadelphia

I’d first seen White Rabbits at Daytrotter’s brilliant Barnstormer5 tour when it rolled into Akron, Ohio last summer. It was the perfect summer evening event with five bands sharing the spotlight, and each equally but uniquely dominating the stage. When White Rabbits arrived (and I was several delicious beers in) I found myself temporarily putting down my camera (I only caught one photo). Not because I wasn’t enjoying them, but so that I could really soak in the show. White Rabbits filled the air with a thick electric blanket of sound as they lived up to the ol’ barnstormer name.

Of course I kicked myself later on and wished that I had gotten more photos that night. When I heard they were playing in Philly this week, I made sure Ady was going to be there, and that she would take photos. She was, and she did. Always ten steps ahead of everyone, a working professional who had already put in a 10 hour work day prior to arriving at the venue, she did it all half in her pajamas (anyone at the show catch a girl with a camera in a pajama top mostly hidden by a grandpa sweater? That was Ady). More words from her about the show to follow very soon, but for now you can check out the amazing set she captured and documented with her lens. Wish I coulda been there, too.

View the full photo set of White Rabbits at Union Transfer 3-6-2012 via Flickr.

Nick Lowe – live photoset from the Fillmore, Detroit 2011

Words by Shan, photos by Ady

It is with great pleasure and excitement that we finally present this set of photos Ady took on December 10, 2011 at the historic and very beautiful Fillmore Detroit (a former movie house built in 1925, my favorite kind of venue). Ady was on double duty in the photo pit this night for not only Wilco, but also their much anticipated opener, the legendary Nick Lowe, the spoils of which we now share with you.

Shards of Wooly Willy's beard (aka Nick Lowe's attentive audience)

Lowe was striking, visually as well as musically, and completely captivated the audience. I swear I felt every molecule of every person’s body stand up and give their full attention to his performance the moment he walked onto the stage, as if he were a magnet and we were the metal shards of Wolly Willy’s beard being pulled toward it. His presence was genuine, humble, and genius—a true gentlemen sharing his craft and talent, making us laugh, and visibly enjoying performing for a truly receptive and engaged audience. It was simply perfect. Which, of course was followed by the incredible set by Wilco (you can read about their performance in this post). Wilco/Nick Lowe Detroit, one of the highlights of 2011 (and beyond) for both Ady and I.

View the full photo set of Nick Lowe at the Detroit Fillmore December 10, 2011 via Flickr.

From the Vault: photo set – First Aid Kit 9:30 Club

From the vault, a small but very expressive batch of photos from their set as opener for Bright Eyes at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC on September 4, 2011. All photos were taken by Ady.

First Aid Kit are two sisters (yeah!), Klara and Johanna Söderberg from Stockholm, Sweden. They have, since these photos were taken, gone on to release the incredibly powerful and lush full-length album, The Lion’s Roar, of which the title track you can sample here.

The other Two Sistas, (that would be Ady and I) will be attending another First Aid Kit show in the near future when they return to the states, so expect a full report down the line! Sista sista, yeah!