The primary half of 2024 was busy with seven pageant and severaal separate live shows. For the second half of the yr I attende 9 extra festivals and in addition a number of live shows, aneding with a complete of 345 photographed live shows at festivals and different venues. Listed below are my favourite images from the second half of 2024. (Photograph above: Janelle Monáe at Øyafestivalen)
This a part of my favorite images from 2024 begins with the final pageant I attended in June, Tons of Rock in Oslo. This yr it was the largest pageant in Norway with a complete of just about 150.000 folks attending the 4 days. My whole variety of live shows photographed at Tons of Rock was 29, and listed below are six of them: Alex Rosén from Go Go Gorillas, Rob Halford from Judas Priest, ZZ High, Joshua Kiszka and Jake Kiszka from Greta Van Fleet, Satyr (Sigurd Wongraven) from Satyricon and Nuno Bettencourt from Excessive.
After Tons of Rock Dropkick Murphys guested Oslo with a live performance at Sentrum Scene. The band is quite a lot of punk enjoyable!
In early July I attended one of many two days of a brand new pageant in Halden, By The Border. The weatheer wasn’t the most effective, however this system was good. I photographed 4 artists, and listed below are two of them, Åge Aleksandersen and Hellbillies.
After By The Border I attended a pageant that has been occurring for a number of years, however a primary time for me. Norsk Countrytreff is a rustic pageant at Breim on the west coast of Norway. A really pleasant ambiance and a few nice artists. I attended the final day of the pageant and noticed a church live performance with a number of of the pageant artists, plus the primary venue with Asleep At The Wheel, Hellbillies and extra. Listed below are Ray Benson from AATW and the bluegrass band Get Rhythm from the church live performance.
From Breim the journey continued to Trondheim the place I noticed a live performance with Unni WIlhelmsen and in addition obtained to take some portrait images of her.
After Trondheim, I went to Bergen to {photograph} Bruce Springsteen and the E Avenue Band. Bergen is thought for its climate, and at the present time was a file day of rain. I obtained miserably moist, however obtained a number of good pictures of the Boss and his band. Should you look carefully on the picture, you’ll be able to see that Little Steven, Bruce and Nils Lofgren seems to be on the video digital camera in the back of the stage, and my picture is of the large video display screen behind the band with a part of the moist crowd.
The final pageant of July was Månefestivalen, which can also be certainly one of my favorites for its good ambiance and nice picture colleagues. I photographed 18 live shows, and listed below are Bob Geldoff, Dumdum Boys and Seigmen.
Yearly since 1994 (besides one yr plus the pandemic) I’ve attended Notodden Blues Pageant. So additionally in 2024, and I photographed 20 nice artists and bands.The primary day Paal Flaata performed a very unplugged live performance in Heddal Stave church, which is 700 years previous. The remainder of the images are Ana Popovic, DK Harrell, Joey Tempest from Europe, Vanessa Collier, Deep Purple and Rag’n’Bone Man.
From Notodden again to Oslo and Øyafstivalen. This has additionally been a yearly custom since 2000, and this time I photographed 28 totally different artists. The beauty of Øya is the number of musical types. I obtained to see each PJ Harvey, Astrid S and Raye once more plus André 3000, Holly Humberstone, Bala Desejo, Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, Arca and Janelle Monáe.
Pstereo is a Trondheim primarily based pageant that I haven’t attended since 2015, however this yr I managed to come back. I just like the ambiance there, and so they do some nice reserving, I photographed 15 live shows, and listed below are Fay Wildhagen, crowdsurfing with the singer of Kvelertak, the singer of Anti-Lam Entrance and The Pixies.
My subsequent and in addition the final pageant for the summer time, was Blues i Hell, exterior of Trondheim, on the finish of August. That is additionally certainly one of my “common” pageant, which it has been for greater than 20 years. I photographed 18 live shows on the pageant. Listed below are The Boogie Boys, Cat Squirrel with Mingo Balaguer and Carlos Moreno plus Mike Vernon, Angela Brown, Marco Cinelli from The Cinelli Brothers and Knut Reersrud and Rusty Zinn.
After Blues in Hell I went to Spain once more for six weeks, and the primary weekend I attended the Blues in Cordoba pageant to see cat Squirrel once more.
In Alhambra, Granada they’ve had a live performance sequence, “1001 Músicas Pageant”, and I obtained to see the final two for the season. The live shows had been held on the lovely and previous outside theatre Teatro Gerenalife, and the primary evening I noticed the sensational younger flamenco singer Maria José Llergo, and the Queen of punk Patti Smith the second evening.
I Nerja, like in lots of different Spanish cities they’ve a brief week with festivities within the fall. Apart from an enormous carneval and parades, in addition they have a number of live shows. I atended certainly one of them, with the Spanish artist Marta Sanchez.
One other yearly occasion in Nerja is the Certamen de Joven Flamenco, the competitors for younger flaamenco dancers and singers. Right here is the winner of the dance half, Sara Luqe.
The Oslo World pageant is held late October, and yearly they current a powerful program with artists coming from all components of the world. I noticed Marisa Monte, Egberto Gismonti, Jorge Drexler and the quickest rapper I’ve ever heard, J Noa.
The primary week in November I noticed two good, however very totally different live shows. First Aqua of Babrie Lady fame at Oslo Spektrum, then Jason Isbell at Sentrum Scene.
My final pageant in 2024 was Bluesheaven in Frederikshavn in Denmark. I heve attended the pageant the previous few years and I prefer it rather a lot. I photographed 13 live shows, and listed below are Ronnie Baker Brooks, Mr. Zipp doing a walkabout and Huge Daddy Wilson.
The remainder of November held a number of good live shows. John Grant, Tora Dahle Aagård, Jacob Collier, Dumdum Boys and Settle for at totally different venues in Oslo.
September began with Kvelertak at Sentrum Scene, Paal Flaata at Vålerenga Kirke, and my final live performance in 2024 was Seigmen at Sentrum Scene.
A lot of my live performance images in 2024 had been shot for Getty Photographs. You possibly can see all of them, plus images from earlier years right here.
