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LD Eric Price Leans on All-Purpose Proteus Lucius™ for ‘Sad Summer’ Headliners Taking Back Sunday

LD Eric Price’s work for Taking Back Sunday during the ‘Sad Summer Festival’. Photo by @dobrockk

Lighting Designer Eric Price turned to Elation’s Proteus Lucius™ as the feature light of an all-purpose floor package for rock band Taking Back Sunday as they headlined the travelling Sad Summer Festival in the U.S. in July. Reminiscent of the legendary Warped Tour, the fourth incarnation of Sad Summer Festival ran coast to coast and featured a strong lineup of pop punk’s finest bands.Read More »LD Eric Price Leans on All-Purpose Proteus Lucius™ for ‘Sad Summer’ Headliners Taking Back Sunday

Creative BackStage and CHAUVET Professional Brighten Up Zona Music Festival

Rain can play havoc with any outdoor festival. That much is true, but in Phoenix AZ? The second driest city in the USA (only Las Vegas gets less precipitation), Phoenix has gone as long as 160 days without rain; that happened back in 1972. The organizers of the inaugural Zona Music festival had no such luck. On December 3, the day the festival opened, Mother Nature dropped .76 inches of rain down on the city, breaking a record that had stood for 115 years.Read More »Creative BackStage and CHAUVET Professional Brighten Up Zona Music Festival

PLSN Fall Product Guide

We take a look at a variety of new products being launched this fall from a range of manufacturers and distributors. This product guide includes new luminaires, control and distribution products, staging, trussing, video, special effects, and other production equipment.

Creative Backstage supported the Summers End Music Festival in Tempe, AZ

Summer Ends Music Festival Gets Creative BackStage Support

TEMPE, AZ – Creative BackStage finished off the Summers Ends Music Festival with a bang.  The festival ran from Sept. 24-27 and is one of the largest music festivals in the Phoenix/Tempe area. The featured act ending the four-day long festival was Kanye West, and with Kanye it has to be big.

Sun Valley Community Church has been relying on FOR-A switchers for SD and HD video production. The church campus in Tempe, AZ has been using FOR-A’s HVS-300HS since last fall.

Arizona Church Using FOR-A HD Video Switchers

CASA GRANDE, AZ – When Sun Valley Community Church, based here, made the jump from SD to HD production in its Gilbert, AZ campus three years ago, the church’s technical crew began using FOR-A’s HVS-300HS video switcher.  Last September, when the church was faced with the decision of purchasing a new switcher for its nearby location in Tempe, they opted for another FOR-A switcher– the HVS-XT100.