Isn’t facebook amazing?  Where else can someone find you that you haven’t heard from, seen or even possibly thought about for 30 years?  If you enter the high school you graduated from, you can bet they will find you.  That happened to us last year when we moved to Nashville.  We got back in touch with a girl that we went to school with all because of facebook and our new geographic location!  Turns out the Mel and her husband are totally involved in the arts.  Mel has a community theater and her husband Tom is a very accomplished percussionist that has played on a ton of artists records.

Last night Tom invited some of his friends to “jam” with him at a very cool “old school” theater in downtown Gallatin, TN.  This was a small, intimate venue and a really enjoyable evening.  The lighting was a little difficult, but I was able to get some nice images of most of the players.  I’ve got to say that these were made possible because of my Nikon D700′s ability to shoot at high ISO’s with very little noise.  These are all at 1,250 ISO hand held with the 70-200 2.8 VR lens.  I want to get the version II of this lens, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.  In the meantime, this is working just fine.

Here is Tom welcoming everyone and introducing the players

This guy is an absolute metronome!  I thoroughly enjoyed watching him play and learned  while I listened.  Tom  was the driving force behind the evening but he gave all the other players lots of time to do what they do…play!

I apologize that I don’t have these folks names with me right now, I will get them added later.

This dude was off the hook, check out this combo guitar/harp made by Gibson in the early 1900′s!  The harp added an incredible bass sound that was rich and solid.

Can you tell that he is having a blast?  He was all over this guitar!

This is Jay Brown and he is a singer/song writer that performed last night.

Tom was working this hand drum in a creative duet with the guitar player.  I wish you could have enjoyed what we did!  You may want to sign up for notifications on the Mel O Drama website.

It’s pouring rain here today and shows no sign of stopping.  What am I doing right now?  Working at the Tennessee Professional Photographers meeting in Murfreesboro.  I hope to see old friends, make some new ones and sell some photography gear!