Last night myself and several of my friends attended Amnesty International's "Make Noise" concert. For only $5 we were able to support Save Darfur, Invisible Children, Docotors without Borders, and we got to see four amazing local bands play some wonderful music, right here on our little campus. There weren't many people there, perhaps the fee or the time deterred them, but those of us who did go had an absolutely wonderful time! I even wore my "Save Darfur" shirt, although no one snapped a picture of me.
I was experimenting with some performance photography last night, I've never taken pictures at a concert like this. Now my pictures are acting more as something to remember the night by than as art.
There was tons of info on all the organizations!
Christina, Kristen, Regina, Kristina, and Kaitlyn.
The First Band! (I don't remember their name).
The Second Band, Psycho Rainbow.
Everyone was in LOVE with this guy! Kaitlyn informed us that he was an 11th grade English teacher at her High School. During the whole concert I was laughing at the fact that tomorrow he would get dressed in slacks, a collard shirt, and a sweater vest (according to Kaitlyn) and lecture about Hester Prynne or Gatsby.
The Third "Band", Jacob Vanags.
He was a piano player, and he brought out his very first "piano" and played it for part of a song.
We quickly forgot about Mr. English Teacher when Jacab was on. I bought his CD for $3, lol.
This was his trumpet player and drummer.
Rocking out! His keyboard kept sliding slightly off the stand he was playing with such enthusiasm. It made everyone very nervous!
The Final Band! I can't remember their name even though our friend Lisa knows them personally, ooopps.
The lead singer. By this time we were actually right in front of the stage, so I didn't have my telephoto lens on anymore, and they were moving so fast I couldn't get a good picture of them. Plus we were dancing.
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4 comments:
You mean you couldn't see Mr. McElroy as a secret rock-star.
I read it! and cool pics/thanks for remembering my name! haha... would you mind if i used some of the pictures to post up on some of my webpages?
Jacob, I don't know if you'll see this, lol. Of course I remembered your name, it didn't hurt that it was on the CD cover though ;), but of course you can use the pictures! I can email you the higher quality ones if you let me know where to send them. We thought you were great! Although how you found this blog, I'm slightly curious about, lol.
Emma..I work with Jacob and his music, and I wanted to invtie you out to his EP release. We're having it about 15 minutes from Adelphi down in Rockville Center on October 25th, and it would be great if you could be there to see him play again!
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