Dgrin Mini-Challenge #271 - Music and Concerts
slpollett
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Doesn’t everyone love music? Maybe concerts aren’t your thing, but I’ll bet you have photos of street performers, musical instruments, or something that reminds you of music. For me, August is the time of year when high school and college marching bands start practicing for the new season. I do photography for one of our local high school bands, so music is definitely on my mind right now!
So for this mini, I'd like to see any examples of Music! This can be concerts, musical instruments, or anything that makes the viewer think of something musical such as their favorite song or musical artist. Here are some samples, but surely you all can do better than these! Might I say that it was really hard coming up with a good theme that hasn’t been done in a while. I hope that everyone enjoys this mini theme. I know I’m going to!
Girl with guitar
Drummer with high school band
More Marching Band
Joan Jett
Roger Daltrey, The Who
My daughter marching back in 2010
My daughter playing in the stands at a football game
Street Performer
Mini will run until **August 28, 2018 at 5pm, CDT (That’s about 3 weeks; I'll be busy with this year's band pics until then!!)
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A very unique challenge Sherry! Here is what I can come up with as I do not have many to choose from.
1- Giant Guitar
2- Theatrical singing (from the musical "The Drunkard" off Broadway production)
3- Horn composition
These are all perfect! I love them all.
I'm a little partial to the one with sheet music and the horn. Maybe because that's what my husband plays. 
Sherry
Three pictures from the same event. All bands from the area where I live. The name of the picture is the name of the band.
The light engineer during this event made life a hell for the photographers. As soon as one would lift his camera, he made it dark.
At one moment, one of the singers made a remark about it after standing in almost complete darkness for nearly a minute.
Nevertheless, we got some interesting shots.
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1. Musicians in Grenada
2. Local High School Marching Band
at the start of the Veterans Day Parade (which starts across the street from our house)
And the inky clouds,
Like funeral shrouds,
Sail over the midnight skies--
When the footpads quail
At the night-bird’s wail,
And black dogs bay at the moon,
Then is the spectre’s holiday--
Then is the ghost’s high noon!
Ha! Ha!
Then is the ghost’s high noon!
As the sob of the breeze
Sweeps over the trees
And the mists lie low on the fen,
From grey tomb-stones
Are gathered the bones
That once were women and men,
And away they go,
With a mop and a mow,
To the revel that ends too soon,
For cock crow limits our holiday--
The dead of the night’s high noon!
Ha! Ha!
The dead of the night’s high noon!
And then each ghost
With his ladye-toast
To their church yard beds take flight,
With a kiss, perhaps,
On her lantern chaps,
And a grisly grim, “good night!”
Till the welcome knell
Of the midnight bell
Rings forth its jolliest tune,
And ushers in our next high holiday--
The dead of the night’s high noon!
Ha! Ha!
The dead of the night’s high noon!
I had to dig a bit but I found tree entries, all of which are slightly unconventional.
1) Alphorn convention in Reit im Winkl, Germany
2) Washerwomen singing at the medieval fair in Nabburg, Germany
3) Musicians at midnight in Malaga. On a recent trip to Spain we were enjoying a late night schnapps in a cafe on the main square in Malaga. Suddenly a group of twelve men in traditional costumes gathered and began to serenade us with Spanish folk/flamenco songs. A crowd gathered and the musicians were totally enchanting and full of joy - many in the crowd sang along with some of the songs. On of those great unplanned moments that make a trip truly special.
Thanks Peter, Grandma, and Sara. These are wonderful! It's so hard to get halfway decent lighting at a concert. I have tried (and failed miserably) so many times. Yes, it is frustrating, but you have 3 nice ones! Grandma, I just love your third one. It is very creative and I love the narrative you posted with it. Sara, I especially like your third one as well. The story makes it so much better, too.
Something similar happened with us once time a long time ago. We were at a local restaurant for a co-worker's going away lunch. It happened to be a day or two before Valentine's Day. We were a large group of maybe 20-25 people, so we had a fairly large space in the restaurant taken. We were probably a little loud for the lunch crowd. I know we were doing a lot of laughing and reminiscing. There was a table of 4 men seated next to us (poor guys). We finished our lunches about the same time. The gentlemen got up and asked if they could sing to our group. They were a barbershop quartet who had been practicing that morning and then went to lunch together. They said we were having too much fun and they wanted in. They sang several songs to our group and of course the whole restaurant stopped to listen. It was great. That was before the age of cell phone cameras (heck, before the age of cell phones), and I didn't have a camera then either, so no pictures sad to say. Still, great memories. Your photo and story reminded me of that day, so thank you for that!
Sherry
Sherry, I love your barbershop quartet story!
1) Old Time Jam
2) Mardi Gras
3) Fightin' Texas Aggie Band
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Entries will be forthcoming.
number 1: Shola and Florian
number 2: Hurdy-Gurdy player
number 3: SX
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First--Mongoose330, that photo is amazing. Well done!
Okay. I have a few to share--by way of explanation before I post, I've directed and/or shot a lot of high school musicals over the last few years. So hopefully these shots might get a few songs stuck in your head! (If the photos don't meet the parameters of the contest, I'll understand.)
"Right here in River City/Trouble with a capital "T"/And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!" (Song: "Trouble" sung by Harold Hill in The Music Man)
"All's well that ends with me!" (Song: "Me" sung by Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.)
And one that was not directed by me, but by a dear friend. Just 'cause this is the one you're bound to hum all day...
"The sun will come up tomorrow!" (Song: "Tomorrow" sung by Annie from Annie. Director: A. Dermody)
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After seeing these entries... I got nothing!
@sarasphotos Enjoy the Augsburger Plärrer!
Ditto. About all I could find was a street performer with brandy snifters filled to varying levels with water, taken with my pocket camera. Humorous, but definitely not in the same league as the entries so far. I may keep looking but I don't expect much...
@BMW Kurt said:
Danke, Kurt!
Great theme & wonderful entries! Nice variety of subject matter - what a wonderful world of music!!
Stage 5 at the 2010 Walnut Valley Festival, late in the night
The Practice Session - one of my favorite DGrin challenges (Norman Rockwell), with my 2 college kids home, helping & humoring me
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Streets of Cape Town.
This was a commercial been filmed in Cape Town , i walked by , went up took the photo and walked away
There's still time to enter this mini, but you need to hurry!! Today is the last day--5 pm Central !! Already lots of great entries, but I still need to see YOURS!!
Sherry P.
Hi Sherry, thank you for a fun mini! Quickly adding a few images from our travels but please don't consider them when judging. (Still playing catch up from my Lyme disease and summer travels.) Thanks.
1) Musicians playing during the Rice Festival Parade in Arles, France
2) Band playing on Sunday morning near Abidjan, Ivory Coast
3) Buglers at Menin Gate honoring those who gave their lives during WWI in Belgium.
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This mini is now CLOSED. I will try to have comments and winners posted by tomorrow. (I'm not promising that I can narrow down my choices by tonight!)
Thanks to everyone who entered and those who posted photos for fun as well. You have made my selection very tough indeed!
Sherry P
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Thank you , appreciate the compliment ,I still have a lot to learn , but the fun is figuring it all out , You guys just make it easier