Pygmalion Music Festival 2009

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The Antlers perform at the Canopy Club on Friday evening, the third day of the Pygmalion Music Festival

Last weekend I went to the Pygmalion Music Festival which is held every year in Urbana, Illinois. The festival was four days long, but I was only there for the weekend shows. Still, I caught some amazing stuff. On another note, I have started photographing (and maybe writing) for the Indiana Daily Student’s music blog, The Live Buzz. That’s how I got the press hookup for the festival. Hopefully I can help them cover more of the great shows that go on in Bloomington, since it is tough for me to do it all myself. They have some great writers and I look forward to doing more work for them. You can check out Katie’s post about the festival and my slideshow (since free wordpress won’t let me embed slideshows on here). The Antlers and Iron & Wine were the highlights of the weekend for me. Here are some of the pictures I took, and the rest are up on my Flickr.

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Peter Silberman of The Antlers

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Peter Silberman and drummer Michael Lerner share a special moment Friday evening at The Canopy Club

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Sam Beam of Iron & Wine talks to the audience before his performance Saturday night

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Sam Beam of Iron & Wine played a solo acoustic set Saturday evening at the Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois.

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Sam Beam plays to a sold-out audience Saturday evening at the Krannert Center

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Jona Bechtolt of YACHT likes to make triangles at the audience.

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The Hood Internet performing Saturday night at The Canopy Club

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A sweaty crowd dancing to The Hood Internet at The Canopy Club Saturday night

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30 seconds of The Canopy Club on Saturday night, the last night of the festival

No Deachunter Tour in Bloomington

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I went to the show, but I did not buy this butt-ugly shirt

So…………this happened a while ago (August 5). Now, I didn’t forget about it, I just forgot that I had the pictures. They were used in Katie’s show review on the Live Buzz Blog, then I sort of forgot that I had not posted them on my blog.

Sincerest apologies.

The show was awesome and I since I didn’t know I was going to be taking pictures I didn’t have a great position for most of the time, but I think they still turned out pretty well. Guitars and bodies were flying through the air. Yes, there was a tribal dance circle. Yes, we did run around outside the building. And yes, it was sweaty and awesome. Here you go:

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Dan Deacon

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No Age

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Deerhunter

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As always, the rest are up on my Flickr.