Country star Walker Hayes is out on his first headlining tour with a lighting package supplied by Bandit Lites. The viral ‘Fancy Like’ singer released… Read More »Bandit Lites is ‘Glad to Be Here’ with Walker Hayes and Darkroom Creative
After 122 shows over four years, the legendary rock band Kansas wrapped up the “Point of Know Return Anniversary Tour.” With fans still clamoring for the show to carry on, the band embarked on a tour celebrating their classic hits with a lighting system designed by Scott Pearson and provided by Bandit Lites.
Patrick Dierson and The Activity have been involved in the Made In America Festival in Philadelphia since 2014 and this year included Elation Professional Proteus™, Protron™ and Smarty™ luminaires as key elements of a lighting package supplied by 4Wall.
Bad Bunny enjoyed a celebrated sold-out tour earlier this year and is currently repeating the success, this time in stadiums across North and South America… Read More »Travis Shirley Thinks Outside the Box with Proteus Rayzor Blade on Bad Bunny ‘World’s Hottest Tour’
American pop rock band LANY recently wrapped their 34-city Summer Forever tour with a lighting system supplied by Bandit Lites. The band, named as an acronym for Los Angeles and New York, is comprised of the duo Paul Jason Klein and Jake Clifford Goss. LANY boasts four studio albums, several EPs, more than 3.5 billion song streams, and over 750 million video views.Read More »Lighting Designer Ben Gilbert Shines a Light on LANY
The show ¡Hasta que se nos hizo! was presented in June at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City where renowned Mexican singers Lucero and Manuel Mijares delighted the audience with a litany of hits from more than 40 years in the entertainment industry. Axel Rebollo, in charge of lighting and production design for the show, used Elation Professional’s 51,000-lumen Artiste Mondrian™ LED profile FX moving head, along with Chorus Line 16™ and Protron 3K Color™, to highlight the set. He ran the show using an NX2™ console by Obsidian Control Systems.Read More »LD Axel Rebollo Lights Mexican Singers Lucero and Mijares at Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional
A Collaboration between production companies Laserframe and Creative Sounds Veranstaltungstechnik recently supplied the lighting system for the second “Raw” stage at the Into The Madness Festival in Germany. The rig comprised almost exclusively ADJ fixtures including moving head beam and wash luminaires, LED blinders and the new multifunctional Jolt Bar FX LED units.
Donny Osmond recently completed his 100th solo residency show at Harrah’s Las Vegas beneath a rig with 140 Elation luminaires used as part of a lighting design by Tom Sutherland of DX7 Design. Osmond opened the show, “Donny,” last September, less than two years after he and his sister Marie Osmond ended their 11-year Vegas residency, and Osmond’s new solo show looks like it’s heading for another multi-year residency run.
Following a spring run of shows, Santana toured the U.S. from June 17 to Aug. 27 with opening act Earth, Wind & Fire. Santana’s “Miraculous Supernatural Tour” featured a lighting design by Michael Ledesma that included Elation Protron Eclypse hybrid LED luminaires and SEVEN Batten 14 LED strip lights. Both luminaires allowed for a full range of possibilities to complement the 75-year-old artist’s trademark guitar riffs with bright, vivid colors.
Mexican band Grupo Firme brought the party to U.S. stadiums this summer with their “Enfiestados y Amanecidos” tour, with 3G Productions supplying lighting, video, audio and rigging equipment. Production Designer Andy Ruiz and Lighting Designer/Tour Operator Arturo Sanchez added a festive touch with Elation Smarty Hybrid and Rayzor 760 moving lights along with Cuepix WW2 blinders.
Elation Professional is pleased to announce that Scandinavia’s leading distribution company for dynamic lighting, LiteNordic, will take over distribution of Elation Professional and Obsidian Control Systems products in Sweden, Norway and Denmark effective 15 September 2022.Read More »LiteNordic New Elation Distributor for Sweden, Norway and Denmark
The largest open-air concerts ever held in Munich, and the largest in Germany this year, took place at the Munich Exhibition Center in August with more than 300,000 fans total attending shows by Andreas Gabalier, Helene Fischer and Robbie Williams. Roland Greil lit the epic shows and massive 150-meter wide stage using a rig that included over 450 Elation Professional luminaires.