Tina Abbaszadeh
Music Photographer, Promoter, Interviewer, Emcee
Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tina feels very fortunate to have access to an abundance of live music and musicians. In 2011, her passion for live music was reignited as she enthusiastically began using her amateur photography & videography skills to document performances at local venues around the Bay Area. Soon after, at the request of some local musicians, she began to combine those skills, along with her natural eye for graphic arts to create promotional material for gig posters, CD jacket designs, video promos and digital art for single releases and Grammy consideration promos for artists such as 11 time Grammy winner Tony Lindsay, John Lee Hooker Jr., and Blues great Chris Cain.
Since then, her photographs have been used in national and international music publications, and she has the honor of being a photographer for Tower of Power.
She has expanded her involvement with the local music scene to include interviews of local & international musicians and emcee appearances.
Tina is passionate about creating awareness and promoting the local music scene via social media with her personal pages as well as her “Tina Time LIVE” livestream promos, and in 2015 she created the Facebook page “FIND MY GEAR CALIFORNIA” (1400+ members) to provide a centralized place for musicians to post about lost or stolen musical gear. Many of her photos are featured on her “Photo by Tina Abbaszadeh” FB page and earlier this year during the pandemic she collaborated with a friend on “TNT Collaborations” to jumpstart the opportunities for LIVE music gigs in outdoor settings while venues slowly reopened. She is also an admin on the social media pages for several touring musicians, band pages and local venues.
Tina created the promo poster for the 2020 Fundraiser for the West Coast Songwriters Association and was asked to be the emcee for the live streamed event.
Tina stays open to ways of using her varied skills to expand her reach within (and for) the San Francisco Bay Area music scene and beyond.