Category Archives: Musicians/Bands

Patti Smith at HSB :: Portrait of an Icon of American Music

Just back from one of the best music festivals west coast has to offer… Hardly Strictly Bluegrass celebrated its 10th anniversary with yet another fantastic lineup. While there were many notable performances, one of them was sticking out right when the lineup was first announced. I would argue that Patti Smith can still (after all...

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(Portrait of) Trent Berry, a guitarist extraordinaire! ::

Trent Berry in da house! Can’t even start to mention all the musical credits this guy has attached to his name and I can’t even ask him as he doesn’t care about that stuff anyways. But he is one of the nicest people I know, and an excellent musician on top of that. I get...

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CD cover art :: Kelly Vogel/Five-Mile River :: Before We Were Wise

Huge congrats to Kelly who just released her new music CD! [with images by yours truly]. We had soooooooooooooo much fun shooting the cover art last fall, especially (NOT!) moving the piano around the Crissy Fields (but judging by the final images, perhaps it was a good thing we lost one of its legs in...

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Kelly Vogel :: CD cover shoot

How do you get to play piano in Chrissy Field in San Francisco? Well, first you move it there…but what a task it was! We almost ran out of light outside, even though it was just a block or so…Not easy being a piano player, let me tell you. Those trumpet players have it so...

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