INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA (January 4, 2022) – A new year always begets a nostalgic look back at the last, and 2021 actually looks pretty fun in the rearview here at Photographic Melodie. Check out Photographic Melodie’s top 10 concert reviews, interesting tidbits, and products of 2021, and share your favorites with me in the comments!
Top 10 Concert Reviews of 2021
*top 10 is based on views during 2021 not publish date
Sam’s Square Pie and Crush Entertainment Present Unbroken Chain – A Tribute to DJ Indiana Jones to benefit Gleaners Food Bank at The Vogue Theatre on Sunday, December 19, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Clave Caribe brought their amazingly vibrant Latin music fusions to Carnahan Hall for an electrifying evening on Sunday, May 30, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
The Monster Energy Outbreak Tour Presents Laine Hardy with Chris Bandi, Wyatt McCubbin, and Kylie Frey at The Vogue Theatre was an excellent night of down-home music on Thursday, October 28, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
The Ron Miner Memorial Fundraiser presented by Sun King and MOKB Presents was a beautiful celebratation of Ron “DJ Indiana Jones” Miner that benefited the Fight for Life Foundation on Friday, June 18, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Holliday Park & The Vogue Theatre welcomed the super talented Punch Brothers as part of their Rock the Ruins summer concert series on Saturday, June 5, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
The Glorious Sons treated The Vogue Theatre to an extraordinary show during The Unfinished Business Tour courtesy of Forty5 Presents on Sunday, December 12, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Your Mom Presents Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press was an extraordinary evening of sing-alongs and smiles at the sold out Hi-Fi Annex in Fountain Square on Saturday, June 23, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Chicago Farmer and The Fieldnotes delivered another phenomenal evening of music at Duke’s on Friday, July 9, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Tropidelic and Midwest Hype delivered an extraordinary evening of music at the HI-FI Annex courtesy of Sun King & MOKB Presents on Friday, May 28 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Uncle Kracker delivered a phenomenal performance to a packed house at 8 Seconds Saloon on Friday, October 8, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Top 10 Interesting Tidbits of 2021
*top 10 is based on views during 2021 not publish date
Dale Moore’s Corner Store is a beautiful new family owned treasure providing a much needed bit of everything from household goods to home cooking in Columbus, Indiana. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Thousands traveled from all over the world to attend Woodstock 1999 in New York, and then ultimately destroyed it. Those were the good old days. Photo creds Melodie Yvonne, Jeremy Harris, and Jason Byrum
Purdue Theatre’s production of Mother Courage and Her Children is an extraordinary saga interpreted by a talented cast that sheds much needed light on economic and social injustice. Show will livestream April 16 from the from the Nancy T. Hansen Theatre, and follow with multiple Digital Performances through April 18, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Purdue Theatre’s production of Nell Gwynn is a highly intriguing story expertly performed by an extraordinary cast. Show will livestream February 19, 2021 from the Nancy T. Hansen Theatre, and follow with multiple Digital Performances through February 21, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Visual Snow, the Film Grain Over the Universe
Vernie Long’s house is as beautiful as the lovely spring day in Lafayette, Indiana on April 15, 2017. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
Purdue Theatre’s production of Sweat by Lynn Nottage and directed by William P. Caise is a frighteningly accurate depiction of factory life in a post-industrial America brought to life by a brilliant cast on stage at the Nancy T. Hansen Theatre in Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts in West Lafayette, Indiana. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
The Legendary Legacy of Shannon Hoon
Photos & artwork courtesy of HU3M3N’s Facebook
Purdue Theatre’s production of In the Blood is a harrowing work of art brought to life by a phenomenal cast that truly pulls the audience into the heart wrenching performance. Show will livestream March 26 from the Mallett Theatre, and follow with multiple Digital Performances through March 28, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne
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Melodie Yvonne Ramey, owner, editor, & contributor at Photographic Melodie, grew up in the small southern Indiana town of North Vernon. She picked up her first camera at the young age of 5, and was immediately hooked. Every trip, even just to the local park, was turned into a fantasy scene of her own imagination that would later be turned into epic tales in word and photos.
Melodie spent her teen years learning from and mentoring under professionals such as Richard Young, John Sheckler, and The Grand Conundrum. She received an Associates of Applied Science in Visual Technologies majoring in Photography from Ivy Tech in 2002 after studying under acclaimed professors such as Hoosier photographer Darryl Jones, Jonathan Wilson, and many other masters in the field.
Melodie’s main focus has always been music photography. Growing up with photography and listening to amazing musicians inspired her dream to create visual images that made people feel the way they do when they hear the music. She wanted to help people SEE the music by capturing every magical moment of concerts that she could only dream about as she gazed into music magazines like Rolling Stone and Spin.
Melodie has done numerous jobs around the country ranging from working for bands to even being the official photographer on many southern Indiana Poker Runs. Her specialties are in nature, music, and candid event photography, as well as one of a kind photographic creations. Melodie published her first print book Photographic Memories: In the Beginning, a collection of poetry, in 2011, and has since published 2 more print works, Photographic Memories: Meet me in the Middle and Hoosier Heavens, her first photo book. Melodie currently acts as publisher, editor & lead contributor at Photographic Melodie and does freelance work with many other media outlets, venues, and artists.
Melodie says, “I started out with a Tweety bird camera and a dream and I never let go. I will always love photography and the vessel it has given me to share the images of my heart and mind with the world. I have found that every single person on this earth visualizes the world in very different ways. Some people are optimists, some are pessimists. Some people are daydreamers, and others keep their feet firmly planted on the ground. Photography allows me to show some of these different visualizations. It allows the rationalist to see that it’s okay to dream, it can show the monsters hidden in the dark, and it can show even the saddest of people that there is still joy in the world.”
