The Lent Festival in Maribor (June 21 to 29, 2024) is the largest open-air festival in Slovenia and, each year, attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the former European Capital of Culture. National and international artists from all musical genres perform on the large and small stages, which are strewn about the city center. In order to cover the stylistic diversity in terms of event technology, the organizers – together with the numerous local service providers – once again relied on a wide range of Cameo lights and a MAILA array system from LD Systems.
Main Stage
Top stars of the Slovenian and national music scene, including Magnifico and the vocal group Perpetuum Jazzile, performed on the Main Stage in the center of Maribor. For the lighting, lighting designer Matevz Giganovič relied on an almost identical set-up to the previous year: OPUS X Profile, OPUS H5 IP65 beam-spot-wash hybrid moving heads, EVOS W7 LED wash moving heads and the ZENIT W600 outdoor LED wash lights. New to the rig were the PIXBAR SMD IP G2 IP65 SMD LED bars, which were used in a vertical arrangement as front and effect lights and for pixel effects. “I was really impressed by the versatility of the PIXBAR SMD IP G2,” comments David Cvelbar, Lighting Designer at Magnifico. “Great colors, seamless chases, and extremely powerful.”
Večer Stage
Smaller festival stages – such as the Večer Stage – have to manage a special balancing act: maximum flexibility with little equipment and weight. “Artists from different genres play on the Večer Stage – from rock to pop to electronic music,” explains lighting designer Urban Kolarič. Here too, the PIXBAR series was able to prove its versatility: Kolarič arranged the Cameo PIXBAR 600 PRO RGBWA+UV LED bars as a central design element in the stage backdrop in four squares and used them for pixel and chase effects as well as blinders. As an eye-candy effect, further PIXBAR 600 PROs are used in a vertical arrangement on the front round arch truss. Kolarič lined up four EVOS W7 LED wash lights next to each other in the center of the back truss to illuminate the stage and artists in color, supplemented by the AURO SPOZ Z300 LED spot moving heads for gobo projections and mid-air effects.
Here’s a video about the Lent Festival from Cameo:
Further information from Cameo: cameolight.com
