Tuesday, October 28, 2008

first monday bluebird


Harry and I have been attending open mic at the Bluebird Cafe on the first Monday of each month for the past few months. We have heard some great songwriters and met some wonderful new friends. It all started the weekend of our Open House when we took my brother and sister-in-law, Michael Bowers and Siobhan Quinn to the Monday Open Mic to perform. We had such a great time taking photographs of the performing artists we decided to go back in September. We offered each performing songwriter two (2) free digital images for their personal and professional web sites. It was so well received by the artists that we went again in October with the same offer. We actually had people remember us from the previous two months, so we have included First Monday Bluebird in our business model!
We will continue to attend Open Mic on the first Monday of every month and offer each performing artist two (2) free digital images. We are so fortunate to live in such a richly talented area and have reaped so much enjoyment from the work of many independent artists. An evening of music in return for a few images seems like a great trade! Of course, Open Mic at the Bluebird usually sees between 35 to 45 performing artists, so there are a few images to process, but within each image lives a memory for us, for the artist and for the audience. It is a worthwhile effort for us.
If you are out and about on the first Monday of any given month, check out Open Mic at the Bluebird! We'll be there!

Peace and music,
Karan
P.S. More event galleries can be found here!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

awards!

Harry and I are honored to have been chosen for two awards in the Capture Music City book published by the Tennessean last week!

Harry's image (below) won Editor's Choice. It was taken this year during our participation in the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day march.


The image below of Brian Ashley Jones and Tisha Simeral, taken at the Lyrix cafe during songwriter's night in the summer of 2007, was awarded the People's Choice Award. The image is used as the full page chapter heading page for the Music chapter of the book, which is pretty sweet in itself since this is Music City!


We were fortunate to have seven additional images published as well.

Harry was able to attend the VIP party, participate in the book signing and accept both of our awards as I was out of town and unable to attend. I can't believe I missed my first book signing... Hopefully that will not be my first and last chance...

Many thanks to all who voted!

-Karan