This year’s edition of The Touring Career Workshop (TCW) wrapped up last week with a range of sessions and panels and an array of speakers. Here are some photos from the event with legendary Tour Manager, Marty Hom, and recording artist Keith Urban showed up to honor is longtime Tour Manager, Chuck Hull who was awarded the Sam “Old Skool” Harden Award.
Reflecting the intense emotions of Fous Chantants throughout the popular event was a bold and dynamic lighting design by Victor Lagiewski and Guillaume Fournier of Chromatik that featured 146 CHAUVET Professional projectors supplied by SGroup. Featured in the collection were Maverick Storm 2 and Rogue Outcast 1 BeamWashes, COLORado PXL Curve 12s, PXL Bar 16s, and Color STRIKE Ms.
Ayrton Diablo and Mistral lighting fixtures and an MDG Me1g high-output fog generator play key roles in The Legend of Luna, the immersive signature attraction which debuted at Great Wolf Lodge Perryville (Maryland) and will be included in all fourth generation Great Wolf Lodge locations.
Gamers visiting Arizona’s 98,000-square-foot Talking Stick Resort casino are enjoying an array of high-resolution displays which wrap around each zone to enhance the experience, with twelve Green Hippo Hippotizer Media Servers installed for video duty.
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The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre (Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski) is a Shakespearean theatre in the middle of the thriving industrial port city of Gdansk in Poland. Designed by Italian architect Renato Rizzi, it opened in 2014 and is built on the site of a 17th-century theatre, known as the Fencing School, where English travelling players once performed English Renaissance Theatre works.
On the first evening of Wacken Open Air, German medieval rockers In Extremo headlined on the Louder Stage. The band’s renowned Lighting Designer, Martin Heining, expanded his design especially for the Wacken show, by including 12 of the new high-performance Creos wash lights from by GLP, adding on to the already extensive festival design by LD Jerry Appelt.
In just three years, Constanta, Romania’s Beach Please has become the largest urban music festival in Europe drawing hip hop, pop, and electronic headliners. The 2024 show featured a lighting rig comprising 430 moving light fixtures. To match the colossal scale of the production, Stage and Lighting Designer Andrei Predut of APart Productions brought in 36 Claypaky Skylos.
Replicating the Hollywood Bowl at a modern indoor arena is a tall order, but Bobby Grey of Notan Creative LLC was more than up to the challenge recently when he was called upon to light Audacy’s superstar-studded ‘We Can Survive’ concert at New Jersey’s 18,000-capacity Prudential Center. Held annually in support of mental health advocacy, the event routinely features many of music’s biggest names.
Bandit Lites once again delivered an unforgettable experience at the 55th Annual Dove Awards, a night showcasing the power of live performance with a visually stunning lighting design. This year’s production, led by Lighting Designer Mark Carver, featured a carefully crafted system from Bandit Lites that combined technical precision with artistic creativity to elevate every moment of the show.
Rachael Bronstein, Principal of Life’s Jam, and PLSN Columnist, is hosting a FREE event just prior to the Touring Career Workshop in Nashville on Tuesday, November 12. Before everything kicks off, Rachael is hosting a special session from 2-4 p.m. where she will work together with attendees to build a personal spending plan for the upcoming year.
The Pink Carpet at RuPaul’s DragCon Los Angeles 2024 was live streamed using a Blackmagic Design live production workflow, including ATEM Television Studio 4K8 live production switcher and Blackmagic Web Presenter 4K streaming solution. The event became the most streamed original program on the WOW Presents Plus platform, a global hub for streaming the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” franchise.