This isn’t about my most techically perfect photos, or the most sale-able, or the most viewed. Those lists would all look very different. These are my favorite concert photos I took this year. It’s an interesting question for me because I shot more this year for other people or with the intent to cover a show in a more traditional press photo sense. But those photos aren’t here.
If I had to pick 20 photos to remember my year in concerts by, it would be these 20.
1/7, The Tomahawks, Local 506
1/21, Maple Stave, DTFH Fest, Fullsteam
1/27, Tea & Tempests, Pinhook
2/5, HNMTF, WKNC Double Barrel, Kings
3/8, Motorco Garage
3/9, X-Ray Eyeballs, Pinhook
4/14, Pink Flag, Motorco
5/2, FKoN, Motorco
5/28, Red Collar, Casbah
6/4, Lurch, Save the Scrap Exchange, Casbah
6/17, Onward Soldiers, Motorco
7/6, HGTR, Motorco
7/10, Midtown Dickens, Pinhook
8/6, Red Collar, Motorco
9/9, Last Years Men, Hopscotch, Slim’s
9/10, Hopscotch, Raleigh City Plaza
10/25, Cave
11/3, Tayisha Busay, Pinhook
11/12, Bombadil, Cradle
12/8, Beirut, Cradle
Links to all year end coverage:
Year End Concert Stats
Top Ten Albums of 2011
Ten Favorite Shows of 2011
Great Moments of 2011
