Saturday, December 24, 2011

Kellie Pickler

Waterfront Concerts in Maine Presents  
Country Music Star from American Idol Kellie Pickler .


Live Concert photos from the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston, Maine USA. December 17, 2011.
Article and  Photographic images created by Conall O'Brien.

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Androscoggin Bank Colisee

The New Mastersounds Winter Shows & Photos

The New Mastersounds with Eddie Roberts, Simon Allen, Pete Shand and Joe Tatton performed a high energy, sweat-dripping late night set at Gathering of the Vibes this summer (photos below).  The New Mastersounds are playing at The Warfield in San Francisco with the Tedeschi Trucks Band on New Year's Eve.  There are still tickets available for the NYE show.  The New Mastersounds will be at the Bond-Fire Art & Music Festival in Deland, Florida on New Year's Day.  The band, after a week of sun will be at Revolution Live in Ft. Lauderdale on January 8 before setting sail on Jam Cruise.


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Thursday, December 22, 2011

COUNTDOWN TO 2012: A Celebration of New Planetary Consciousness

13:28 Productions presents Countdown to 2012 – 
a Galactic Activation Multimedia Concert Experience. 
Article by Robert Lucente . Photographic images created by Conall O'Brien.



Canal Room
285 West Broadway at Canal Street
New York City, NY.

Friday, 
12/16/11(Red Rhythmic Earth)

KUNG FU - COUNTDOWN TO 2012: A Celebration of New Planetary Consciousness -

13:28 Productions presents Countdown to 2012 – 
a Galactic Activation Multimedia Concert Experience.
Article and  Photographic images created by Conall O'Brien.


KUNG FU (funk-fusion-jazz-jamrock)

Canal Room
285 West Broadway at Canal Street
New York City, NY.

Friday, 12/16/11(Red Rhythmic Earth)

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KUNG FU

BMD JAM Session - COUNTDOWN TO 2012: A Celebration of New Planetary Consciousness

13:28 Productions presents Countdown to 2012 – 
a Galactic Activation Multimedia Concert Experience.

A very special electronica jam rock performance created especially for the event, by the BMD JAM SESSIONS featuring MARC BROWNSTEIN and ARON MAGNER of The Disco Biscuits with ADAM DEITCH of Break Science and Lettuce. 
Article by Robert L. , Photographic images created by Conall O'Brien.



Canal Room
285 West Broadway at Canal Street
New York City, NY.

Friday, 12/16/11(Red Rhythmic Earth)


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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

91X Wrex the Halls in San Diego featuring Social Distortion, Death Cab, Florence and Many More.

91X Wrex the Halls had a myriad of great performers including Run DMC, Blink 182, Social Distortion, Death Cab, Florence + Machine, Noel Gallagher, Switchfoot, Everlast, Pennywise, Cage the Elephant, Airborne Toxic, Naked and Famous, and Mutemath. The event spanded the evenings of December 10th and 11th at The Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, California. There was a great sense of community as most of the bands checked out each other from the stage side and conversed while waiting to play their set. The 12 bands only had hour long sets so they played their strongest songs to have a very full night of great rock and roll.

Please see the following link for more photos from the fest:



Photos by Doug Siegel

Please note some bands are not included due to release:




Big Gigantic NYE Tour

Big Gigantic are hitting the road for three shows at the end of December.  Dominic Lalli and Jeremy Salken are performing on Thusday, December 29 at the SnowGlobe Music Festival in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.  On Friday, the duo perform down in Dallas, Texas at the Lights All Night festival.  There are still tickets available for both events.  On New Year's Eve, Big Gigantic performs to a sold out audience at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.  The NYE show will be with Polish Ambassador & LoBounce.  Below are photos from Big Gigantic's performance at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, North Carolina this September.










Saturday, December 17, 2011

My Morning Jacket - Madison Square Garden

My Morning Jacket Shakes the Garden
Images and Article by Bill Kelly

Referring to Madison Square Garden as “holy ground” MMJ frontsman Jim James led his band through a rollicking 3 hour set at the venerable arena.  Home to the NY Knicks, NY Rangers and 52 Grateful Dead shows, the Garden’s suspended floor shook from opening song “Victory Dance” through the last encore, an ensemble cover of the old holiday chestnut “I’lll Be Home For Christmas” that brought opening act Band of Horses back onstage.     The last show of the “Ciruital” tour, the band pulled songs from all corners of their catelog, including the rarely played “Mahgeetah”.  Several tunes during the evening were accompanied by the Elvis Perkins in Dearland horns, bringing punch and brightness to the bands sound.  Throughout the show, James, guitarist Carl Bremel and bass player Tom Blankenship would charge back to drummer Pat Hallahan’s riser, jumping and spinning like dervishes.  The Garden literally pulsed with the energy emanating from the stage, the crowd jumping and singing in unison with the band.Hailing from Kentucky, with the roots of a Southern rock jam band, MMJ somehow transcends that labell by bending it beyond the usual clear noodling common to the genre.  Loud, beat driven with electronica undercurrents, the band demonstrated how a jam band can sound in 2012.

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Holiday Hootenany with My Morning Jacket in San Diego

The 2011 Holiday Hootenany at Jenny Craig Arena, featured several bands including My Morning Jacket. MMJ played a full set of their classics and new songs off the album Circuital. In an initial interview, the band seemed exhausted from their travels, but it did not affect their set as they played the three hour set with colossal energy. The show ended with a fitting track named "One Big Holiday," which had the crowd fired up and wanting more from this legendary quintet. Photos by Doug Siegel Photography.





Bonnaroo Music Festival Crowd Photos

The 10th annual Bonnaroo Music Festival attracted around 80,000 music fans last summer to see, hear and experience an huge plethora of bands that came from across the globe to perform.  The mid June festival, held in Manchester, Tennessee, frequently saw temperatures over 100° degrees during the 4 day event.  During the course of four incredible days this summer and photographing at least 30 performances at Bonnaroo, I captured many photos of the crowd during and between the performances.  Many people having lots of fun—that's what you'll see in this gallery.  To play a slideshow of the Bonnaroo crowd photos, click on any photo.  Then click on the large image to scroll through or use your mouse roller.  Visit Performance Impressions concert photography archives to see photos from the last 10 years of Bonnaroo Music Festival including 29 galleries from performances at Bonnaroo 2011.