Usually many other countries than Spain are considered “jazz countries”. I have experienced several excellent musicians and bands in Andalucia in South Spain that have changed my perspective in a good way. One of these are Roberto Cantero from Malaga with his Quartet. (Photo above; Robert Cantero)
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Music Behind The Lens is Martine Bone’s video podcast where he talks to different concert photographers about different topics related to their work. Here is the episode where we talk about different aspects of our occupations.
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It is time to look back to which concerts and festivals I shot in 2025. I ended up with 12 festivals and all together 276 concerts from these festivals and from different venues. Here are the first batch of photos from the first half of the year. I have chosen the ones I like the most, not necessarily from the comcerts I liked the most. (Photo above: Guy Forsyth Band at the Gruene Hall in New Brunswick)
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In Part 1 I have posted photos from the concerts I photographed the first half year of 2025. Here are photos from the second half year. July is usually a slow month for concerts, but there are some big festivals that I usually don’t attend. But one festival is a must every year at the ene of July. (Photo above: The crowd at Kneecap’s concert at Øyafestivalen in Oslo.)
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The first half of 2024 was busy with seven festival and severaal separate concerts. For the second half of the year I attende nine more festivals and also several concerts, aneding with a total of 345 photographed concerts at festivals and other venues. Here are my favorite photos from the second half of 2024. (Photo above: Janelle Monáe at Øyafestivalen)
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2024 has again been an active year for me with several festivals of different genres, and also many concerts. Most of th festivals and concerts were in Norway, but I also attended a festival in Denmark, and my usual yearly Austin, Tx festival, SXSW. (Picture above: Madam Radar from Ray Benson’s Birthday Party during SXSW in Austin.)
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Today is Patti Smith’s birthday, Happy Birthday to her! She is one of the most fascinating artists iI know, and has been around on the music scene for more almost fifty years since her debut album Horses in 1975.
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Today is Marianne Faithfull’s birthday, and it is an occasion for looking back on her career that started almost 60 years ago in 1966. From there it was a bumpy road for her for several years. But after a dark period in the 70’s, she came back with the album Broken English, and we have seen a strong artist with a distinguished voice and live performance.
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Here is the second part of my personal favorite photos from 2023. They are not ranked, but all of them are special to me in one way or another. You will see 30 photos from different settings and genres. They may not be from the same genres, but they are all taken at a Norwegian festival or venues.
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2023 has been a special year for all of us. The continuing war in Ukraine and the atrocities in Gaza plus the clear signs of the climate crisis overshadows much of what happened during the year. But in spite of all this, there have been concerts and festivals that made it worthwhile to visit. Here are the first 30 of my favorite photos from 2023 – most of them shot for Getty Images.
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