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Andrew Wyatt's path to the music world has been an improbable journey. Raised among the corn fields of Southern Virginia, he began his professional life following in his father's footsteps as a Southern Baptist preacher. After a chance opportunity to attend the annual Burning Man festival, his life abruptly jumped the tracks. Shortly thereafter, Andrew picked up a camera, donned his, now trademark, sequin Santa suit and began traveling the music festival circuit documenting the color and vitality of musicians and even more colorful fans around the country.
“I’ve never heard so many notes playing at once!” exclaimed a lanky festivarian draped in a tie-dye T-shirt, following the terrific main stage show of Joe Russo’s Almost Dead at the recent Arise Festival in Loveland, Colorado. Certainly,…
Tipper and Quixotic at Red Rocks Ampitheatre
Who would’ve thought. It would take the arrival a Brit with a blood sacrifice to dispel a month-long blanket of gunmetal grey skies, daily rainfall, and dispiriting gloom that settled into Colorado’s front range. The thought may seem a bit…
McDowell Mountain Music Festival in Phoenix, Arizona
To anyone inside the 53 square mile radius of the Denver International Airport, it was clear that we were going somewhere different. Everyone in an airport are coming and going from any number of locations around the world, but the arched…
Upstate Funk Heads West: Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad with Euforquestra
At one time I had a friend who exclaimed before each concert she attended, that each band she heard must pass what she called "the sweat test." That is to say, in order for her to feel satisfied with a band's performance she should walk…
Jeff Austin Band at the Fox Theatre
Like the in-laws’ hungry cat gnawing on the end of an electric cord of the family Christmas tree lights, Jeff Austin ravenously rips into the shiny surfaces of his bluegrass melodies till he and his audience are zapped with a thousand volts…
Photo Gallery: March Fourth Marching Band at the Fox Theater
“Holy Shit! Holy Shit!” That’s what the crowd at Boulder’s sold-out Fox Theater began chanting as the March Fourth Marching Band closed out their foot-stomping set of percussive funk and jazz tunes. Holy Shit, indeed. The Portland, Oregon…
Photo Gallery: String Cheese Incident New Years Eve Show at the 1st Bank Center
String Cheese Incident knows how to throw a New Years Eve party. For their third and final show at 1stBank Center in Broomfield, CO, the band delivered above and beyond with each successive set, and a New Years stunt heading into 2015 that…
Photo Gallery: Yonder Mountain String Band and Friends at the Boulder Theater
Yonder Mountain String Band packed the house in Boulder, and brought a few friends along for the ride. Per Live Music Blog, each night featured a different theme and a variety of guests: a three-set traditional show New Year’s Eve, a…
Photo Gallery: The Samples 25th Anniversary Reunion Show with Erin Sax at the Fillmore Auditorium,…
Photographer Andrew Wyatt revisits The Samples 25th anniversary show at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, CO.