2022 Grammy-winning Dream Theater worked throughout the pandemic to create their newest album A View from the top of the World. In January 2022 they set off on their world tour named Top of the World Tour. The entire vision was created in their Dream Theater headquarters (DTHQ) in the U.S.Read More »Chroma-Q’s Color Force II 72 Used to Light the Stage for Dream Theater
Lighting and Production Designer Patrick Brannon talks about his approach to design, including for country superstar, and Grammy Award-winner Tim McGraw: “I like to just… Read More »Incorporating All You Learn in Your Design
Two Sundays in a row PRG supported two major music events with global audiences, The 65th Grammy Awards and the Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show. They shared with us the lighting teams and the gear that realized the two designs.
Dave Koz, the acclaimed chart-topping, GRAMMY®-nominated saxophonist kept the holiday tradition alive with his Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour. Bandit Lites provided the lighting system for the tour’s 25th anniversary, where Rick Braun, Peter White, Keiko Matsui, and Rebecca Jade joined Koz for an evening of holiday music and memories.Read More »Dave Koz & Friends Wrap Up Their 25th Anniversary Christmas Tour with Bandit Lites
The Latin Grammy winning artist, Colombian singer and songwriter Karol G, has been wowing her fans with her “$trip Love Tour” in 2022. PLSN got all the details of the visually stunning show speaking with the tour design team—Creative Director and Show Designer Travis Shirley of Blank Wall Creative, Lighting Designer/Programmer Chris Smith, and Lighting Director Ryan King.
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
For Burna Boy’s supercharged performance at the Curaçao Festival Center in late October, Massive Productions’ Ramon Ramiz stepped in as LD for the artist, lighting the Grammy-winning singer and his fans with the power of 90 Chauvet Professional fixtures from Massive Productions and its partner, Aruba Elite Productions.
The Gospel Music Association’s 53rd Annual GMA Dove Awards ceremony took place at Nashville’s sold-out Allen Arena on Oct. 18, and the taped show aired Oct. 21 on TBN. Along with the performances, the event named GRAMMY Award winner CeCe Winans Artist of the Year, and also honored Winans for Song of the Year for her No. 1 Billboard hit, “Believe for It.”
Read More »Bandit Lites Illuminates 53rd Annual GMA Dove Awards
Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys has embarked on her sixth concert tour playing 31 dates in North America and 21 in Europe on the Alicia + Keys… Read More »Ayrton Perseo Profiles Dominate Rig for ‘Alicia + Keys World Tour’
Back in 1959, a Dayton, Ohio man named Ermal Fraze forgot to bring his can opener to a family picnic. Desperate to enjoy his… Read More »Creative BackStage Calls on 112 Chauvet Professional Fixtures for Zedd at Canacopia
The metal bar structure that runs across the front of the stage on KoRn’s current tour with a light and video show run by Thomas… Read More »Thomas ‘Church’ Christmann Powers KoRn Tour with ChamSys MagicQ MQ500
To provide Grammy-winning hard rock band Halestorm with simple but impactful lighting for their 2022 U.S. tour, Bandit Lites deployed a dynamic rig using Martin… Read More »Halestorm Tear Through Summer Touring Season with Help of Martin Professional