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Live concert scene with a guitarist front and center, singer raising his fist, drummer behind, and colorful stage lights in the background.
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Live Music Photography

A curated archive of original live music photography by Zharmaine Boatman for The 824 Journal.

These photographs document the energy, emotion, and atmosphere of live music across Southern California. Captured during editorial coverage for The 824 Journal, each frame is part of our mission to preserve today’s culture for tomorrow’s history.

  • Live concert scene with a full band onstage under green, yellow, and red lights; audience cheering in the foreground as phones capture footage
  • Male guitarist with dreadlocks, denim jacket, singing into a microphone on a blue-lit stage with a red guitar.
  • Musician with dreadlocks sings into a microphone while playing a guitar on stage, with a large Stephen Marley drum backdrop behind him.
  • Male performer with dreadlocks on a dim stage, wearing a maroon shirt and white pants, singing or playing to a crowd; congas visible on the left.
  • Male singer on stage under red lighting, holding a microphone and performing live.
  • Live concert scene with a band performing on stage under bright spotlights, singer at center front, guitarist and drummer visible, and a cheering audience in the foreground.
  • Male performer singing into a handheld microphone on a colorful stage with neon-lit panels behind him and his reflection visible in mirrored surfaces.
  • Male performer with dreadlocks in a white shirt stands inside a glass booth on stage, holding a microphone as lights glow and fans raise phones in the crowd.
  • Musician with sunglasses and a full beard playing a bass guitar on stage, ear monitors visible in the ear.
  • Silhouette of a person in profile with a ponytail, holding a microphone against blue stage lighting.
  • Singer on stage holding a microphone, wearing a cap and dark hoodie, mid-performance with expressive gesture
  • Black-and-white photo of a man with long dreadlocks in a white shirt on stage, holding a microphone and looking down as he performs.
  • Black-and-white photo of a drummer wearing headphones, seated at a drum kit with a microphone in front and cymbals visible.
  • Male guitarist sings into a microphone on stage, wearing a denim jacket, with a red-lit backdrop and a keyboardist in the background.
  • Two guitarists performing on a dimly lit stage with a bright green neon backdrop; one wears a beanie and necklace, the other sunglasses and patterned strap on his guitar.
  • Guitarist with dreadlocks in a denim shirt smiling while playing a sunburst Gibson Les Paul on a stage with red lighting.
  • Live reggae band on stage performing to an audience with multiple musicians, guitars, keyboards, drums, and backlit backdrop projection behind them.
  • Singer front left with microphone on a brightly lit stage, drummer Stephen Marley in the center behind a drum kit, guitarist at left, and another performer in denim on the right; colorful LED backdrop fills the scene.
  • Live concert scene with a guitarist front and center, singer raising his fist, drummer behind, and colorful stage lights in the background.
  • Male singer with long dreadlocks holding a microphone close to his mouth during a live performance on a blue-lit stage.
  • Male musician with dreadlocks in a brown patterned shirt, mid-performance on stage beside conga drums, holding a microphone.
  • Male vocalist with braided hair singing into a microphone on stage during a live performance, drums in the background.
  • Male singer on stage, microphone in hand, arm raised in performance with a drummer and percussion instruments nearby.
  • Two male guitarists perform on stage, one in a beanie and the other in sunglasses, both playing electric guitars in a black-and-white shot.
  • Male performer kneels on a dark stage, microphone in hand, wearing a cap with a crown logo, with large teal neon letters in the background behind him.
  • Guitarist wearing sunglasses plays a sunburst electric guitar, close-up of hands on the fretboard with a patterned strap and silver chain necklace.
  • Male performer singing into a microphone on stage, wearing a brown patterned shirt with white trim and long dreadlocks framing his face.
  • Man in a color-block jacket stands inside a glass-walled doorway, looking toward the camera.
  • Two male guitarists playing electric guitars in a black-and-white photo, one wearing sunglasses and a decorative strap.
  • Silhouette of a singer on stage, holding a microphone and raising one arm against bright stage lights (black and white).
  • Singer performing on stage with a microphone, bathed in warm orange lights, wearing a color-block jacket; audience silhouettes in foreground.
  • Black-and-white photo of a bearded bassist with glasses playing a bass guitar on a concert stage.
  • Guitarist on stage wearing a black beanie, playing an electric guitar into a microphone with a blurred crowd in the background.
  • Two performers on a dark stage surrounded by a cheering crowd, fans raise phones to capture the moment as bright orange lights glow behind them.
  • Male singer with dreadlocks performing into a microphone on a dim stage with colorful backlights behind him.
  • Singer performing on stage with microphone under red lighting, crowd raising phones and hands in the foreground.
  • Black-and-white concert scene: performer on stage raises a smartphone toward the crowd while singing, fans hold up phones in the foreground.
  • Musician on stage facing a packed audience at night, left a drum kit, right a keyboard with sheet music, bright stage lights behind.
  • Drummer seen from behind on a blue-lit concert stage, surrounded by cymbals and drums at night.