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MumboGumbo performing at Rektango ( a Friday evening summer open-air club in Salamanca Place, Hobart). Catch them if you can!  It’s a challenge to capture a live performance in a single photo. This was available light (shade, fortunately) and quite a cluttered stage and background. My key agenda was to get the whole band in the image - Each one of these musicians is individually hugely talented, but they are not a collection of 5 soloists. Their playing is tasteful, tight, syncopated and sometimes quite sparse. When solos occur they dazzle, but otherwise the players hold back to enable a fantastic R&B groove.