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Saturday was “Phog Phest”, the musical celebration for the winner of CBC Radio 3′s Searchlight contest to determine the Best Live Music Venue in Canada.

Windsor’s Phog Lounge won the contest, putting our city on the musical world map!  I arrived to photograph the bands The Arkells, and Holy F#@$ (the headliner), and narrowly missed Windsor’s own Yellowwood.

Darren over at Photo404 has a great post about Yellowwood.  More pictures from Phog Phest below..

 

First of all, two interactive panoramas of the crowd:

The crowd during Holy F#@$!

Click for a fully immersive, zoomable, scrollable panorama.

The crowd during The Arkells.

Click for a fully immersive, zoomable, scrollable panorama.

The stage, under the warm July sun.

Arkells lead singer Max Kerman.

Arkells drummer Tim Oxford.

Guitars in front of Phog.

The streets of Windsor!

And the crowd thickens in anticipation for Holy F#@$!

Phog proprietors Tom Lucier and Frank Incitti are congratulated by CBC Radio 3′s Grant Lawrence.

Being awarded the trophy for Best Live Music Venue in Canada.

Cheers for Windsor!

And Holy F@#$! starts playing.

Press coverage.  Crustina (top) was photographing for CBC Radio 3′s flickr stream.

Holy F@#$’s drummer Matt Schulz.

Brian Borcherdt

Enjoying the tunes from afar.

It was an awesome celebration of Canadian (and local) musical talent, right here in Windsor.  Congratulations Phog, and way to go Windsor!

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