Monica McGivern-Creative Thinking & Artful Living: Orange Door and Record Store Day Recap 2011: South Florida Music Photographer

First off, congrats to the GIVERS who made it into the Bonnaroo line-up. Their infectious and upbeat tunes have cycled regularly on my "Monica Mix" CD's since I saw them play live at Propaganda last year. Just a few days after my wedding! Hadn't left for my honeymoon yet and Steev from theHoneyComb.com kept talking about this show so I had to go. So glad I did! Listen to "Up, Up, Up" while you check out a couple images from the Prop show:

Up Up Up by NYLONmag
The GIVERS on Fire!

Even the Dewars had to dance!!

If anyone would like to send me to take photographs of them plus all of the other bands live at Bonnaroo, I have the dates available. Just putting that out there...

Friday eve I caught the show at the Orange Door in Lake Park;
Love Handles kills it @ the Orange Door.

Love the Jameses!

I left around 1:30am before the Blank Dogs went on. I heard that's what a lot of people did. Hope they didn't take it personally. My excuse was that I was planning to catch them at their next gig, the Record Store Day celebration in Ft Lauderdale. Drove there early just in time to photograph the mad rush of people getting first grabs at new/limited releases.
Following Images Originally Shot for Broward Palm Beach New Times.

Upon my recommendation, this guy bought John Ralston's new album, Shadows of the Summertime. Very cool! The album and this guy ;)

Another cool person I met amongst many throughout the day is Phil, from Consequence of Sound. Photographed below, doing his share to document the day.

Then I had a brunch/coffee/nap/ice cream break before I went back to the store for the live music. Who said the Blank Dogs don't like photos?? They were very kind to let me do a mini-photoshoot before their set.
Don't Laugh!