Giles Hoover, Photographer

In keeping with the narrative: as mentioned last time, I rolled back into town — from a great weekend in South Carolina — just in time to catch the last performance of Bragg Jam. Sweet. Bragg Jam 2009 covered a bunch of venues and dozens if not hundreds of musicians, with an estimated 5,000 attendees [...]

Sorry for the quiet; been running, running in about fifteen directions the past few months — most of them not near the web site. More on that in a few weeks. Meanwhile…. Enjoyed the heck out of a session with the local band MagTard last week. Posted up a few photographs yesterday, but am only [...]

I’ve been out and about recently, but arrived back in town just in time to meet up with the friends that make up the band called Magnificent Bastard. Except that isn’t correct any more; there’s a new drummer, whom I didn’t know, and an “official” name change to go with that switch — to MagTard. [...]

…are not only wonderful people, they, together with Martha Kelly — Trish’s amazing Mom — hosted this week’s Cocktail Hour. As expected, it was fantastic. The happy couple: Miles and Trish (Enjoying their Cocktail Hour) Couldn’t stay the duration, alas, and can only look at a few of the photographs from tonight before getting back [...]

As my blog readers know, I’ve been having some equipment problems recently. For Independence Day, however, my camera raised a flag and celebrated the long-overdue Unity — out of 446 photographs Friday (taken in about three hours of straight shooting), I kept 309, starred 185, and multi-starred 90. Remarkable. More: The first four-star images in, [...]

Enjoyed the show tonight — and perhaps more importantly, came away with a few decent photos. My favorites: Magnificent Bastard, Onstage Dan, Emotional (Blur) Chris and Miles #1 Dan and Miles #1 Many thanks to Dan, Chris, Justin, and Miles for access — and a great performance — tonight. No bastards in my book, LOL! [...]