Fans who turn out for the legendary Mexican rock/hip hop band Café Tacvba’s Niu Güeis tour can expect to see the kind of passionate, freewheeling performance that has made the quartet one of the most popular Latin artists of the past 25 years.
LAS VEGAS — For the 21st annual D.I.C.E (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Awards, honoring innovation in video gaming at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, LD Joshua Schultz worked with Andre Huff of Limelite Design on a lighting and video design controlled by an Avolites Arena console and two Ai R4 Media servers.
Creative passion doesn’t fade, it just keeps burning more brightly with every passing mile for Reggaeton legends Zion & Lennox.
The dynamic production design inside the upscale nightclub at the Bond now includes a high-resolution video experience with FLEXLite LED
MONTREAL — Solotech named Mickey Curbishley president of its U.S. Rental Division, effective June 3. Curbishley, most recently with Tait, also worked at PRG after joining that company in 1998 following PRG’s acquisition of Light and Sound Design (LSD). Curbishley will oversee Solotech’s rental operations in Las Vegas, Nashville, DeKalb/Chicago and a new location in the Los Angeles area. Solotech also named Martin Chouinard president of its rental division in Canada. Curbishley and Chouinard report to Solotech president/CEO Martin Tremblay.
DJ Jazzy Jeff’s resume speaks for itself – from his pioneering work with Will Smith as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (the winners of the first GRAMMY® for Best Rap Performance) to his later work fusing genres for neo-soul artists and beyond.
HARRISBURG, PA — With its 20-by-35-foot stage, spacious dance floor and national acts like Puddle of Mudd, Club XL has been bringing a new level of nightclub entertainment to Harrisburg, PA since it opened in mid-April. A power-packed lighting design by Mike Chappell and Erik Morra of LumenCUE adds to the venue’s drawing power. The designers make use of a light rig supplied by Assorted Studios that includes Chauvet Professional Maverick and Rogue fixtures.
The International Jazz Festival, now in its 8th edition, took as its setting the emblematic Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City.
LOS ANGELES – After 15 seasons on FOX, American Idol moved to ABC this year. The rig from the show’s longtime LD, Kieran Healy, included 50 Ayrton Ghibli LED spot luminaires. The fixtures, sourced via A.C.T Lighting, offer designers a factory-equipped framing system. Most of the fixtures (45) are used for performance lighting; five keylight and backlight the judges.
The term “president’s gala” may conjure up images of staid speeches and a formal dance, but nothing could be further from reality at Anderson University’s South Carolina School of the Arts.
Automation specialist and manufacturer Kinesys enjoyed one of its busiest and most successful Prolight+Sound exhibitions in Frankfurt to date.
NASHVILLE — Old Dominion’s Happy Endings world tour ran from Feb. 1-24 in North America before heading to the U.K. and Ireland and wrapping up with two dates in Australia in mid-March. The shows featured a lighting design by Travis Shirley that relied upon Elation Chorus Line 16 and Cuepix Blinder WW2 fixtures supplied by Nashville-based Morris.