Happy Spring “ALM Fine Art And Photography” followers!! I hope that this new season has been treating you well!! So far, my spring adventures have been keeping me busy, now that the snow has melted and the warmer weather is starting to come back to Upstate NY!!
Since my last blog post, I’ve achieved some great things this spring. I had began to get myself back into journalism again. I wrote a review for both “Nippertown” and “TheSpot518” of the “Maroon 5 ft. Tinashe and R. City” performance at the Times Union Center that became published in both publications at the end of March. The review became #9 on Nippertown’s Top 10 reads during the week of March 24, 2017 on their blog, with my photo of Maroon 5 front man, Adam Levine, featured on that blog. I’m hoping to be able to publish another concert review for another event that I attended at the end of March, “Rocktopia”, at the Palace Theatre in Albany that I attended for the first time soon!! I also had an opportunity to participate in the 2017 Photo Regional Show at the Albany Center Gallery in a salon style exhibition. Unfortunately, none of my photos that I entered in the regional show made it past the first round of judging. I also participated in a group exhibition show and performance event at the Eden Café featuring guitarist, Randall Mauger and comedian, Ed Smyth as well towards the beginning of March.
I’m also continue to explore my passion for photography by doing my best to attend local community events and concerts when I can. I recently had some more photos published in a collaborative photo gallery spread inside “TheSpot518” with local concert photographer, Garret Mac Aoidh (GMac Photography) for the benefit event, “Love For Greg: Benefit Fundraiser For Greg Nash” at The Hollow Bar and Kitchen in Albany, NY, “4th Annual Dustin Mele Memorial Concert” at Revolution Hall, a few photographs that I’ve even shared on Instagram have been printed in the paper as well. I also had the honor to have a photo that I had taken of a local musician re-used for a concert advertisement for the band, “High Rollers”, who just had their performance at One Caroline St. Bistro this past Friday evening, as well as other photos that local bands had shared and used for their event postings on Facebook (Thank You “The Coveralls” and “Average Bear” for using and sharing my photos with your fans recently). I just received my ticket to attend and photo shoot, “Move Music Festival” on Thursday at Cohoes Music Hall and The Hangar On The Hudson. It’s going to be a busy week of neat photo shoots and other concert opportunities that I’ll attend in the Capital Region. Last month, I also took down my pop-up mini show at the Sycaway M&T Bank where I featured a few of my concert photographs that I took last year at the Brunswick Community Center of “The Lustre Kings”. I’m hoping to be able to showcase some more of my photographs at the bank again in the fall.
I’m happy and excited to announce my two upcoming exhibition shows and open mike jams that I’m going to be having at two new venues within the next few weeks. For the first time, I’m going to be participating in “First Friday Albany”, a monthly art, music and community event occurring in Albany during the First Friday of every month, at the Alacrity Frame Workshop, located in Albany, NY. It’ll take place on “Cinco De Mayo”, Friday, May 5, 2017 from 5-9:00 p.m. and it’s free to the public. It will be my first exhibition that I’ll have at the gallery. It’ll be on view until Wednesday, May 31, 2017. A majority of the work that you may have seen in “Modesti’s Photo Folk Art Experience *Plus” in January will be on view as part of the show.
My second exhibition and open mike jam, “Modesti’s Concert Photo Experience”, is going to take place Saturday, May 13, 2017 at the River Street Beat Shop in Troy, NY, as part of the Troy Waterfront Farmer’s Market. It’ll take place from 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. and it’s free to the public. This one day exhibition show is going to feature my concert photography that I had taken of local musicians/bands and any touring acts that I had an opportunity to capture. Any local musicians and bands are strongly encouraged to participate in the open mike jam that’ll be held during the opening. Anybody that’s interested in performing at the open mike jam can contact me or the owner of the River Street Beat Shop, Jimmy Barrett, for further details. This is also my first ever exhibition show I’ll have at the music shop.
Enclosed is an idea of the schedule that I have in mind for the Beat Shop open mike jam. Guests can have an opportunity to sign up for a time slot or join in during the free slots to perform a set of music. Here’s the times as follows. If anybody has any suggestions they would like to add or wish to participate in this event, please send me a private message online. Spread the word around to your fellow musicians and fans!!
11:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.: I’ll enter the store to setup my exhibit while musicians will come to setup their gear to perform their set or perform a sound check.
11:20-11:30 a.m.: Break/Gearing up for the musicians.
11:30-11:50 a.m.:
11:50 a.m. -12: 00 p.m.: Break/Setup for next Musician/Band
12:00-12:20 p.m.:
12:20-12:30 p.m.: Break/Setup for next Musician/Band
12:30- 12:50 p.m.: The Tyes Featuring Bob Gamache and Rudd Young, duo performance
12:50-1:00 p.m.: Break/Setup for next Musician/Band
1:00-1:20 p.m.:Randy Staats’ Performance Set
1:20-1:30 p.m.: Break/Setup for next Musician/Band
1:30-1:50 p.m.: Hanser (Hans S. Dirzuweit) performing solo, acoustic performance
1:50-2:00 p.m.: Break/Setup for Leslie Barkman’s performance set.
2:00-2:20 p.m.: Leslie Barkman performing at open mike, solo performance
2:20-2:30 p.m.: Break/Setup for final Band/Musician
2:30-2:50 p.m.: Randall Mauger, solo performance on guitar
2:50-3:00 p.m.: Performers can perform an encore song or begin taking down equipment, end of the exhibition show at 3:00 p.m.
A special thank you goes out to Brian Shea from Alacrity Frame Shop and Jimmy and Liam Barrett from the River Street Beat Shop for allowing me this wonderful opportunity to showcase and sell my visual work at your locations. I’m honored to be participate in these opportunities for the first time at these venues and I’m looking forward to participating in these events within the next few weeks. If you’re a music fan and a supporter of the visual arts, these two exhibition shows will be the perfect events to check out.
I hope to see you at my artist openings next month. Happy Spring and enjoy your week!! Stay tuned to my artist website and be sure to like my artist fan page on Facebook at “ALM Fine Art And Photography” to learn more about these exhibition shows and to inquire about any art or photography related projects. Thank You!!
(Photo of red-violet tulips seen in the “68th Annual Tulip Festival” at Washington Park, Albany, NY, Saturday, May 7, 2016 taken by Amy L. Modesti, with her Canon Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera. (c): Amy Modesti, 2016)
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