West Beach Music Festival...

Last weekend, I photographed the West Beach Music Festival for the SB local favorite rag, The Santa Barbara Independent.

Click HERE to view the online gallery they posted... use the thumbnails to the right of the first picture to navigate through the images...

Willie Nelson & Ryan Bingham - SB Bowl...

Furthur...

Ten minute jams made the "First 3 Songs no Flash" rule for photography painless for this show...

Pheonix & Neon Indian - SB Bowl...

Neon Indian

Pheonix

It's that time of year again...

After it was nearly nipped in the bud... the twiins pulled a rabbit outta their hat and the West Beach Music Festival goes on. But it's actually more like the East Beach Music Festival this year and it will only be for two days instead of three, with a max capacity of eight thousand concert goers.

The nearly fourteen thousand people who showed up last year had some of the local business people, near the original location of the event, up in arms. This year, the event will move about a half mile east and be on the grass near the beach, instead of the sand.

None the less, the event hosts some pretty sweet bands and usually treats media like royalty... so I'm looking forward to shooting and seeing how things turn out.

Dead Confederate & Alberta Cross...

Club Mercy has been doing a damn good job of shaking things up in the Santa Barbara music scene lately. They have been promoting shows of bands I've never heard of, that always draw big crowds... ones I have heard of but never took the time to pay attention to (and wished I had)... and others that make me wonder how the hell they got such a big name to play such a small venue.

The Alberta Cross & Dead Confederate show, which took place the other night at club SOhO, was no exception and this old geezer (me) was stoked that he stayed up way passed his bed time.

Hats off to Jeffrey and the rest of the gang at Club Mercy!...

Dead Confederate
Alberta Cross

What I've been up to lately...

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Corrine Bailey Rae

Norah Jones
Tift Merritt

Ray LaMontagne
David Gray